Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 12 July 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Sanctions for the Possession of Certain Amounts of Drugs for Personal Use: Discussion
Dr. Nuno Capaz:
Addiction is not just psychological. There are many factors. It is economic, social and psychological. It is also chemical. It is not just because one criminalises a substance that addiction will go away. Otherwise we would not be here and the prohibitionist system would have been working for the past 100 years. I guess we all agree that it is not working. That is why we are all sitting here discussing this.
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