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
James Lawless (Kildare North, Fianna Fail)
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To what extent is it an accident of history? At one stage, opium dens were popular in polite society and cocaine, according to Sherlock Holmes, was frequently used in Baker Street and other places. Maybe there were economic, trade or political reasons that some substances were bad and some were not.