Citizens' Assembly recommends change in laws criminalising drug possession for personal use

Assembly chairman Paul Reid said assembly members would have to decide if they wanted 'evolution or revolution' in relation to drug laws, or if they wanted to keep the 'status quo',
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The Citizens’ Assembly on Drugs has recommended that Ireland’s current laws criminalising people caught in possession of drugs for personal use be changed.

The members have just voted against keeping the “status quo”, ie, retaining the current legislation criminalising drug possession.