Patients who are prescribed medical cannabis products will no longer need to travel to the Netherlands to collect their medication, the Minister for Health has confirmed.
Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, patients or their relatives had to travel to the Netherlands to collect their medical cannabis prescriptions.
Dutch authorities allow the filling of individual prescriptions from EU states. A delivery service to Ireland to assist patients of licensed clinicians in obtaining their prescribed cannabis products was established last April on a temporary basis due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
This will now be made permanent, Stephen Donnelly revealed today. The minister said: "Many patients and their families have shared stories with both me and