Cormac O'Keeffe: Forcing a square peg into the round hole of Irish drug laws

There is a long road ahead in political circles in implementing drug law changes, writes Security Correspondent Cormac O'Keeffe

The Citizens’ Assembly on Drugs Use concluded possession of drugs for personal use should remain illegal, but that it should be decriminalised. Picture: Maxwell’s

As the expression goes, square pegs do not fit into round holes.

But this is something like what the Oireachtas and the Government is being asked to do.