GRA welcome move on ‘curse of drugs’

Anything that can deal with the “curse of drugs” is to be welcomed, general secretary of the Garda Representative Association, PJ Stone, said yesterday.

He was commenting on Minister Aodhán Ó Riordáin’s plans to introduce new laws decriminalising drugs.

The minister of state, who has responsibility for drugs’ strategy, wants to change the law so people caught with drugs for personal use only will not face prosecution.