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From Irish Times
The Government looked at legalising heroin in 2001, a former junior minister has claimed.
Eoin Ryan MEP told The Irish Times that he and Government officials visited Holland and Switzerland between 2001 and 2002 where heroin is dispensed to addicts for self-injection in designated clinics.
Mr Ryan was minister of state with responsibility for the National Drugs Strategy from 2000 to 2002.
“We looked at it to see how the heroin issue was being dealt with in Europe but in the event we came to the conclusion that legalisation was a very drastic step.”
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Keynote speaker at the conference - Rethinking The War on Drugs - was Jerry Cameron, a former chief of police in the US. He said the law enforcement approach to the war on drugs had been “a disaster”.
No party in the state is likely to legalise drugs. Pat Rabbitee speaking to IE.POD said he wouldn’t be in favour. So what does everyone think. Legalise or not.
Check out this DocuDrama from the BBC If Drugs were Legalised.
I know I will get killed for it, but I won’t run about the place screaming and pulling my hair out if a government were to advocate legalised prescription of drugs like heroin to people were prepared to go on a register of addicts and engage in sheltered treatment while availing of the prescription. 80% plus of crime that impacts the general public is not allow drug related but related to the fact that there is enormous profit in drugs and that is a direct result of they being illegal, muggings, burglaries, gangland shootings and the result of the profit in the illegal trade.
However, the fly in the ointment is that we couldn’t do this alone. Most countries would have to move together on the issue.
I think we should have a proper debate about why we have made drugs illegal in the first place.
that should read ‘not alone drug related’ rather than ‘not allow drug related’.
Making drugs illegal is retarded. I’d make an argument, but apparently if the likes of McDowell is anyone to go by, logical argument is not necessary when formularing drugs policy.