Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 27 June 2024

Committee on Drugs Use

Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation of Drugs: Discussion

9:30 am

Photo of Michael McNamaraMichael McNamara (Clare, Independent)
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If Professor Stevens takes the view, as he has argued cogently, that there is a large market in drugs and that it is simply there whether we choose to acknowledge the reality or not, should that be legalised and controlled in the way legal drugs are, or should it continue to be proscribed and outside of the reach of the State?