Gino Kenny (Dublin Mid West, People Before Profit Alliance)
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Is Professor Smyth not of the opinion that what has happened in Portugal has saved lives and has brought people out of the criminal justice system? This system works. Decriminalisation only goes so far. I would be of the opinion that cannabis, in particular, needs to be regulated. It needs to be legalised and regulated. People stigmatise and put out this claptrap all the time saying that we have to accept the laws around drugs, which criminalise people, but does not work. If it does not work, then we have to do something different.