Onus on Oireachtas to implement assembly's call to 'decriminalise' drug possession

Assembly chair Paul Reid suggested the legal changes required could be a question for the Attorney General. Picture: Sam Boal/RollingNews.ie

The Oireachtas has the "responsibility" to find a legal mechanism to implement a landmark recommendation from the Citizens’ Assembly on Drugs — that possession of drugs for personal use should be “effectively” decriminalised.

The assembly could not come up with the legal means to implement the recommendation, saying there were “legal and constitutional” issues involved and that it was the job of the Oireachtas to untangle them.