Seanad debates
Tuesday, 26 May 2015
National Drugs Strategy: Statements
2:30 pm
James Heffernan (Labour) | Oireachtas source
A debate on more lenient drug policies based on speculation and fear-mongering rather than empirical evidence is not positive. In Portugal, a standard-bearer when it comes to drugs policy, decriminalisation has not increased drug use. Anyone who analyses Portugal’s ten-year experiment in decriminalisation would learn much, as well as from policy in Colorado and other states or countries.
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