Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 20 June 2024
Committee on Drugs Use
Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health
9:30 am
Mr. Ben Ryan:
The state of Oregon is moving in the opposite direction. Canada is considering moving back as well. There are steps being taken by some where they have seen unintended consequences. For example, as regards cannabis production and the Mexican cartels, what the Garda has been hearing from its contacts in the Drug Enforcement Administration in the US is that the cartels are still producing large volumes of it. The people who can afford to go to licensed premises to purchase cannabis are people who are more affluent. The drugs gangs are still targeting people in American inner cities and still supplying them, so they are still involved in-----
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