Mr. Eugene Lennon:

I will comment on licensing and whether it would be possible to cover more than one patient. In our view, the patients to which the licence refers would have to be named if there were more than one patient. The reason is that possession of a schedule one drug is illegal for an individual. The licences we have dealt with thus far have been for an applicant to prescribe, possess, administer, etc., and it names the patient for whom the cannabis based treatment will be prescribed. This provides protection for the patient because there are normally legal consequences for those who are found to be in possession of cannabis. We need to name the individual patient or patients to whom the licence refers.