Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 11 July 2024
Committee on Drugs Use
Decriminalisation, Depenalisation, Diversion and Legalisation: Discussion (Resumed)
9:30 am
Mr. António Manuel Leitão da Silva:
No, it is probably my poor English. I said that it is not possible to have written in the identification, the ID, the amount of drugs any drug user takes daily. It is because the law we have from 1996 established the amount of drugs people can take with them for consumption during a ten-day period. The figures from drug consumption facilities show there are people whose average daily consumption is eight times per day and goes as high as 20 times per day. That means other things because probably the quality of drugs is quite low right now, especially cocaine and even crack cocaine.