Drug organisations urge Govt to stop criminalising personal drug use

The Government has been urged not to accept any proposals from a high-level committee that would continue to criminalise the possession of drugs for personal use.

CityWide, a national network of drug organisations, said that it would be a “shame” if Irish society continued criminalising people for what was a health and social problem. Its coordinator Anna Quigley was responding to reports in yesterday’s Irish Examiner that the State working group examining drug possession laws was thought to be favouring a diversion scheme.