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Ireland to Decriminalize Pot and Other Contraband Substances
By Maureen Meehan
As part of Ireland’s so-called “radical cultural shift,” the country intends to decriminalize pot, heroin and cocaine.
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, Minister of Ireland’s National Drugs Strategy (NDS), also announced that drug users in Ireland will be able to use medically supervised injecting rooms in cities such as Dublin, starting next year.
Ó Ríordáin said attitudes about drugs need to move away from shaming addicts to helping them by bringing compassion to the issue and removing it from the criminal justice system. The key to this, he said, would be to prevent drug addicts from ending up with criminal convictions.
“I am firmly of the view that there needs to be a cultural shift in how we regard substance misuse if we are to break this cycle and make a serious attempt to tackle drug and alcohol addiction,” Ó Ríordáin told the Irish Times.
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