Oireachtas committee calls for decriminalisation of drug possession

'Ireland must face its fear about drugs' vice-chair Mary Fitzpatrick told the committee

With cross-party support, the Oireachtas committee on drugs use called for the offence of possession — for all drugs — to be removed from the statute book. Picture: iStock

Ireland needs to take its head “out of the sand” about the drugs crisis and decriminalise the personal possession of drugs, an Oireachtas committee has said.

With cross-party support, the Oireachtas drugs committee called for the offence of possession — for all drugs — to be removed from the statute book.