Irish Mum Begs Health Minister: 'Legalise Cannabis Oil or My Daughter Will Die From Seizures'

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Ava, six, suffered from 20 seizures on Saturday and her mum Vera fears she won't survive that again.

A mother fears her daughter will die from multiple seizures if the Government does not make cannabis oil legal for medicinal use.

Mum-of-four Vera Twomey yesterday warned Health Minister Simon Harris he will have her “daughter’s death on his conscience” unless their is a change in legislation.

Her eldest child Ava, six, suffered 20 seizures on Saturday night and Vera claimed she has tried 11 different medicines on her but they have all failed.

She insisted cannabis oil – which is legal in parts of America but not here – would greatly help to calm her daughter’s chronic fits.

Vera told the Irish Mirror last night: “Twenty seizures in one day takes the whole life out of her for several days.

“After that many seizures in a day you’d be wondering will she...

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