Items tagged with ireland
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| Funding to residential drug treatment should increase as alternative to custody, says assembly [22.10.2023] | The Government of Ireland should increase funding to residential drug treatment facilities to provide an alternative to custodial sentences for convi ... |
| Roll up, roll up: capitalism will drive cannabis legalisation in Ireland [23.08.2019] | It is inevitable that cannabis will be legalised in Ireland in the coming years. It may take five years or even longer for the prohibition to be full ... |
| Those caught with drugs won't face criminal conviction until third offence under radical 'three-strike' plan [02.08.2019] | A 'three-strike' plan that will see people caught with small amounts of illegal drugs avoid criminal conviction on the first and second occasion but ... |
| Drug laws on possession: several countries are revisiting them and these are their options [02.08.2019] | Many countries are changing the way they approach people who use drugs. The Irish government has just announced possible alternatives to criminalisat ... |
| Proposals to liberalise cannabis laws expected before Cabinet [21.05.2019] | The plans envisage a move to providing drug counselling, addiction treatment and other health interventions for many users found in possession of sma ... |
| Decriminalisation of all drugs for personal use considered [18.04.2017] | The decriminalisation of all drugs, including heroin, cocaine and cannabis, for personal use is one of the policy options outlined in the forthcoming ... |
| Plan to open injection facility in Dublin for drug users [07.02.2017] | The Government will discuss legislation which would exempt drug users from prosecution if found with certain illegal drugs in a supervised injection ... |
| Blanket ban on legal highs in England and Wales to begin on 26 May [05.05.2016] | The delayed blanket ban on legal highs in England and Wales is to come into force on 26 May, the Home Office has confirmed. The introduction of the P ... |
| Government approves pilot scheme for drug injection facility in Dublin [14.12.2015] | The cabinet has approved a pilot scheme for a medically supervised drug injection facility in Dublin. The facility was proposed by Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, ... |
| Heroin addiction: How to smack it down [06.11.2015] | Ireland would establish "medically supervised injecting facilities" where heroin addicts can take their drugs, using clean equipment, under doctors’ ... |
| Public to have say on legality of drugs [03.07.2015] | The Irish public is being invited to have a say in what is thought to be the country’s first official examination of the decriminalisation of drugs f ... |
| Minister wants to see supervised 'injection centres' for addicts [07.05.2015] | Drugs Minister Aodhan O'Riordain from Ireland has said he wants to see legislation introducing injection centres for addicts before the next election ... |
| The judge who allowed ecstasy and ketamine to be legalised explains why he did it [09.03.2015] | Judge Gerard Hogan made an unexpected decision to allow for the possession of some drugs in a ruling on an appeal with the backing of two of his judi ... |
| Flanagan backs sale of cannabis [23.10.2013] | Irish independent MP Luke Flanagan, who has published a Bill to regulate cannabis and allow its sale for medicinal and recreational use, claimed it c ... |
| Decriminalise heroin and cocaine says Belfast drugs worker [14.02.2013] | One of Northern Ireland's most senior drugs workers has said that class A drugs like heroin should be decriminalised, regulated and made available on ... |
| Minister considers Portuguese drugs strategy [04.11.2011] | Junior Health Minister Roisin Shortall, who is in charge of Ireland’s drugs strategy, said she had an "open mind" in relation to Portugal’s model. Sh ... |
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