Drugs

The Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use, which last year recommended the decriminalisation of possessing drugs for personal use, is to publish its final report this afternoon. The ...

Forensic Science Ireland (FSI) has reported a significant increase in the success rate of matching "unknown crime stains" from crime scenes to samples on the national DNA ...

The number of drug-related deaths in Northern Ireland has almost trebled in the past decade, according to a new study from Queen’s University Belfast. The research, led by ...

Possessing drugs for personal use should cease to be a criminal offence in Ireland, the Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use has recommended. The sixth and final meeting ...

Five alternative approaches to drugs laws were presented to members of the citizens' assembly on drug use on the weekend, involving dissuasion, diversion, depenalisation, decriminalisation and legislation. ...

An Garda Síochána sent delegations to Switzerland and France to help develop its approach to policing Ireland's first medically supervised injection facility (MSIF) for drug users. Injection ...

Prison leavers with a history of drug abuse will be provided with access to Naloxone under a new initiative aimed at preventing opioid overdoses during their ...

A District Court judge has objected to any attempt to legalise cannabis in Ireland. Judge Desmond Zaidan pointed out that some states, including the Netherlands, had actually ...

Singapore has executed a man convicted of trafficking a kilogram of cannabis despite international pleas for clemency. Tangaraju Suppiah, 46, was hanged at Changi Prison at dawn on ...

Northern Ireland’s Court of Appeal has determined that a 12-year sentence in relation to cultivating cannabis was not excessive, given the scope and value of the operation, ...

Incremental reforms to drugs laws in Ireland have arguably resulted in "little or no practical change" and there is a "lack of political will to implement more ...

A citizens' assembly on drugs use is to be asked to consider how the harmful impacts of illicit drugs can be "significantly reduced", including through legislative change. ...

Ireland should decriminalise the possession of drugs for personal consumption as part of a shift towards a "health-led" approach to drug use and misuse, the Oireachtas justice ...

President Joe Biden has announced plans to pardon thousands of people with federal convictions for simple possession of cannabis in what is seen as a step towards ...

The Oireachtas justice committee will this afternoon hear evidence on alternatives to criminal sanctions for the possession of small amounts of illegal drugs for personal use. The ...