Interesting. They’ll most likely deny it on the back of the Drugs Committee, as the report isn’t finished yet.
Labour’s bringing a motion to decriminalise personal drug possession and expand safe consumption spaces. Sounds good… except it’s a private-members motion, meaning it’s almost guaranteed to go nowhere. Timing’s odd too after Ireland’s first supervised injecting centre opened in Dec 2024 and with Citizens’ Assembly recommendations only due in 2026. Is this a real push for drug policy reform, or just Labour grabbing headlines with an issue they know won’t pass?
It’ll go nowhere, but it’s a good idea to show voters the inaction of govt. while they’re already besieged with bad public opinion.
Fine Gael, led by Simon Harris, are the only party that supports criminalising drug users
I feel like we should.try make it more focused. Try just legalise personal canabis use first.
All I want is my hash
Would be brain-dead not to pass this motion and just decriminalize, how many otherwise decent, ordinary, hard working people have some Bullshit conviction following them around because some Garda S&S’d them and found a measly few grams of Cannabis.
Decriminalization is not a successful strategy. None of the implementations has a high conversion rate from addicted to drug free. Instead, a small circle of people continue to use drugs. They might succumb to death. Arrest used to be a way to bring persons to treatment and remove the immediate access to drugs.
It’s a horrific way to live. No one should be endorsing these proposals.
Spoke to Marie Sherlock on the doorstep about that.
Glad to see her follow through.
If you legalise possession, then you have to legalise sale as well. Otherwise you create an absurd contradiction in the law. A lot of people seem to live in a sort of Alice in Wonderland fairytale in which drug dealers are menacing villains but drug users are innocent victims. As the former President of Colombia put it aptly, you cannot possibly hope to interdict supply while doing nothing to interdict demand.
In any case, aside from the reasons other commenters have already given, this cannot become law for the simple reason that Ireland is a signatory to international treaties which bind it to keeping laws against drugs on its statute books.
Won’t happen until the UK does it.
Unfortunately this is how the Irish government has always operated.
At the end of the day, this is a non-issue compared to some much bigger problems
I just want to be able to have a joint in the comfort and privacy of my own home without having to worry about checkpoints, nosy neighbours etc. I’m a grown woman for christs sake
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Interesting. They’ll most likely deny it on the back of the Drugs Committee, as the report isn’t finished yet.
Labour’s bringing a motion to decriminalise personal drug possession and expand safe consumption spaces. Sounds good… except it’s a private-members motion, meaning it’s almost guaranteed to go nowhere. Timing’s odd too after Ireland’s first supervised injecting centre opened in Dec 2024 and with Citizens’ Assembly recommendations only due in 2026. Is this a real push for drug policy reform, or just Labour grabbing headlines with an issue they know won’t pass?
It’ll go nowhere, but it’s a good idea to show voters the inaction of govt. while they’re already besieged with bad public opinion.
Fine Gael, led by Simon Harris, are the only party that supports criminalising drug users
I feel like we should.try make it more focused. Try just legalise personal canabis use first.
All I want is my hash
Would be brain-dead not to pass this motion and just decriminalize, how many otherwise decent, ordinary, hard working people have some Bullshit conviction following them around because some Garda S&S’d them and found a measly few grams of Cannabis.
Decriminalization is not a successful strategy. None of the implementations has a high conversion rate from addicted to drug free. Instead, a small circle of people continue to use drugs. They might succumb to death. Arrest used to be a way to bring persons to treatment and remove the immediate access to drugs.
It’s a horrific way to live. No one should be endorsing these proposals.
Spoke to Marie Sherlock on the doorstep about that.
Glad to see her follow through.
If you legalise possession, then you have to legalise sale as well. Otherwise you create an absurd contradiction in the law. A lot of people seem to live in a sort of Alice in Wonderland fairytale in which drug dealers are menacing villains but drug users are innocent victims. As the former President of Colombia put it aptly, you cannot possibly hope to interdict supply while doing nothing to interdict demand.
In any case, aside from the reasons other commenters have already given, this cannot become law for the simple reason that Ireland is a signatory to international treaties which bind it to keeping laws against drugs on its statute books.
Won’t happen until the UK does it.
Unfortunately this is how the Irish government has always operated.
At the end of the day, this is a non-issue compared to some much bigger problems
I just want to be able to have a joint in the comfort and privacy of my own home without having to worry about checkpoints, nosy neighbours etc. I’m a grown woman for christs sake
make yokes legal again!
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