Matt Shanahan (Waterford, Independent)
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I might rephrase it. If, on the one hand, society wants to have some control of the expanding use of drugs but, on the other, we decriminalise and take away a sanction we have in the system at the moment, whereby everybody who is illegally supplying drugs will know there is going to be more drug use in this country over time, and if we do not have measures to try to prevent that, are we not accepting this kind of growing consumption of drugs throughout society over a period? It will mean we can control neither the supply nor the taking of drugs.