Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 29 May 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Developments in Mental Health Services: Discussion
Dr. Susan Finnerty:
I do not think cannabis is a treatment for mental illness. I have no expertise at all in any of the other illnesses for which cannabis has been suggested or linked with so I could not answer the Deputy's question. All that I know is that there is an association between cannabis and serious mental illness which is why we need to be very wary of decriminalising it.