Gino Kenny (Dublin Mid West, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I cannot control perception but that is the reality and it is what our Bill says. Section 32 sets out the requirement for a recommendation by a registered medical practitioner and states:

Cannabis for medicinal use may only be sold on the certification of a registered medical practitioner, on a form approved by the Authority, that the patient has a condition for which a trial of cannabis or cannabis-based product is a reasonable course of treatment to improve the symptoms or course of the condition.