Mr. Paul Reid:

We were clear, and it is described in our report and statements, that decriminalisation is a paradigm shift to take it out of a criminal system and put it into a health system and to be health-led. It is not a hybrid system. We are not saying it is a bit of both. We are saying it is a fundamental shift out of a criminal system and into a health-led approach. To substantiate that or make that work, supports will be needed in terms of dissuasion and diversion. Quite rightly, not everybody needs diversion. Somebody might not have a problem and they do not have to be diverted off somewhere else. We were very clear it is a paradigm shift out of a route to market that is currently a criminal system to a health system and to take the stigmatisation out of it. People will be dealt with in a fundamentally different way.