Ireland Points the Way Toward Common Sense Drug Abuse Policy

Salinsky wrote:Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, who is set to announce the radical move in a speech to the London School of Economics on Monday, told The Irish Times that medically supervised injection rooms "will happen next year." His address he will also outline plans to decriminalise the possession of small amounts of drugs, including heroin, cocaine and cannabis, for personal use, as part of a "radical cultural shift" in the approach to drug addiction. "I am firmly of the view that there needs to be a cultural shift in how we regard substance misuse if we are to break this cycle and make a serious attempt to tackle drug and alcohol addiction," said Mr Ó Ríordáin. He added that compassion had to be brought to the issue, and that as far as possible drug addiction should be removed from the criminal justice system.

The Minister’s address comes in the wake of leaked report from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime indicating it will call for the decriminalisation of consumption of drugs on public health and human rights grounds. Mr Ó Ríordáin says the heads of a new Misuse of Drugs Bill are being drawn up which will “unblock” the legislative obstacles to opening injection rooms.

Mr Ó Ríordáin said he wanted to remove the "stigma" from drug addiction and the key to this will be preventing, as much as possible, those caught up in addiction ending up with criminal convictions. He added that the "shame" that dominates the discourse around drug use "disrupts the capacity of families and individuals" to seek help…This will be a wider discussion under the next government but once people get their head around the argument, about what decriminalisation actually means, that policy won't be about the drug but about the individual. Then regardless of the drug the individual needs an intervention and society will be saying, 'the substance is illegal, but you are not a criminal for taking it'."

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/injection-rooms-for-addicts-to-open-next-year-in-drug-law-change-says-minister-1.2413509

Markle wrote:

Salinsky wrote:Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, who is set to announce the radical move in a speech to the London School of Economics on Monday, told The Irish Times that medically supervised injection rooms "will happen next year." His address he will also outline plans to decriminalise the possession of small amounts of drugs, including heroin, cocaine and cannabis, for personal use, as part of a "radical cultural shift" in the approach to drug addiction. "I am firmly of the view that there needs to be a cultural shift in how we regard substance misuse if we are to break this cycle and make a serious attempt to tackle drug and alcohol addiction," said Mr Ó Ríordáin. He added that compassion had to be brought to the issue, and that as far as possible drug addiction should be removed from the criminal justice system.

The Minister’s address comes in the wake of leaked report from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime indicating it will call for the decriminalisation of consumption of drugs on public health and human rights grounds. Mr Ó Ríordáin says the heads of a new Misuse of Drugs Bill are being drawn up which will “unblock” the legislative obstacles to opening injection rooms.

Mr Ó Ríordáin said he wanted to remove the "stigma" from drug addiction and the key to this will be preventing, as much as possible, those caught up in addiction ending up with criminal convictions. He added that the "shame" that dominates the discourse around drug use "disrupts the capacity of families and individuals" to seek help…This will be a wider discussion under the next government but once people get their head around the argument, about what decriminalisation actually means, that policy won't be about the drug but about the individual. Then regardless of the drug the individual needs an intervention and society will be saying, 'the substance is illegal, but you are not a criminal for taking it'."

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/injection-rooms-for-addicts-to-open-next-year-in-drug-law-change-says-minister-1.2413509

Once again, Salinsky goes out of his way to prove that Progressives are not only uninformed but go out of their demonstrate their ignorance of drug laws in the U.S..

Salinsky, have you heard of Drug Courts?

What percentage of criminals are in Federal Prisons due to simple possess of drugs?

Wordslinger wrote:

Markle wrote:

Salinsky wrote:Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, who is set to announce the radical move in a speech to the London School of Economics on Monday, told The Irish Times that medically supervised injection rooms "will happen next year." His address he will also outline plans to decriminalise the possession of small amounts of drugs, including heroin, cocaine and cannabis, for personal use, as part of a "radical cultural shift" in the approach to drug addiction. "I am firmly of the view that there needs to be a cultural shift in how we regard substance misuse if we are to break this cycle and make a serious attempt to tackle drug and alcohol addiction," said Mr Ó Ríordáin. He added that compassion had to be brought to the issue, and that as far as possible drug addiction should be removed from the criminal justice system.

The Minister’s address comes in the wake of leaked report from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime indicating it will call for the decriminalisation of consumption of drugs on public health and human rights grounds. Mr Ó Ríordáin says the heads of a new Misuse of Drugs Bill are being drawn up which will “unblock” the legislative obstacles to opening injection rooms.

Mr Ó Ríordáin said he wanted to remove the "stigma" from drug addiction and the key to this will be preventing, as much as possible, those caught up in addiction ending up with criminal convictions. He added that the "shame" that dominates the discourse around drug use "disrupts the capacity of families and individuals" to seek help…This will be a wider discussion under the next government but once people get their head around the argument, about what decriminalisation actually means, that policy won't be about the drug but about the individual. Then regardless of the drug the individual needs an intervention and society will be saying, 'the substance is illegal, but you are not a criminal for taking it'."

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/injection-rooms-for-addicts-to-open-next-year-in-drug-law-change-says-minister-1.2413509

Once again, Salinsky goes out of his way to prove that Progressives are not only uninformed but go out of their demonstrate their ignorance of drug laws in the U.S..

Salinsky, have you heard of Drug Courts?

What percentage of criminals are in Federal Prisons due to simple possess of drugs?

Answer:  Too Many.  

Salinsky wrote:Ol' Man Markle is still all in with the War on Drugs.

Here ya go, Ol' Man Markle ....



.... your drug of choice.

Bob wrote:Markle,

Unless the laws were written by Bill O'Reilly,  I would want to think that hardly anybody is serving a prison term for possessing a token amount of marijuana.
I don't think that's a felony much of anywhere anymore and people don't normally go to prison for a misdemeanor.  But not being an expert on the marijuana laws and Kates Law like only you are,  correct me if I'm wrong.

But buddyro people ARE in prison for possessing larger amounts of marijuana even if they only have it for themselves.

But that's not even the point.  The point is NOBODY is in doing time in prison for possessing alcohol.  The reason for that is it was already tried and all it did was give birth to organized crime and murderous gangsters and hoodlums.  It didn't stop people from drinking.
Same as the Prohibition on marijuana has done.  It's time to repeal that Prohibition altogether for the same reason.

Markle wrote:FACTS about the number of prisoners incarcerated in Federal Prisons for simple drug possession.  Wild eyed Progressives, such as Bernie Sanders say our prisons are filled with people guilty of simple possession of marijuana.  Thus proving he is just a typical, old white guy with no current...or decades old information.

A bipartisan failure in talking about prisons and the ‘war on drugs’

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In 2014, there were 1.56 million prisoners in federal and state prisons. The rate of imprisonment is actually at its lowest rate in a decade, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Of the inmates, more than 50 percent were convicted of violent offenses, while only 15.7 percent were incarcerated on drug charges. (Just 3.6 percent were in prison for drug possession, while 12.1 percent were jailed for trafficking or other serious drug offenses.)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/11/05/a-bipartisan-failure-in-talking-about-prisons-and-the-war-on-drugs/

TEOTWAWKI wrote:

Markle wrote:FACTS about the number of prisoners incarcerated in Federal Prisons for simple drug possession.  Wild eyed Progressives, such as Bernie Sanders say our prisons are filled with people guilty of simple possession of marijuana.  Thus proving he is just a typical, old white guy with no current...or decades old information.

A bipartisan failure in talking about prisons and the ‘war on drugs’

[...]

In 2014, there were 1.56 million prisoners in federal and state prisons. The rate of imprisonment is actually at its lowest rate in a decade, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Of the inmates, more than 50 percent were convicted of violent offenses, while only 15.7 percent were incarcerated on drug charges. (Just 3.6 percent were in prison for drug possession, while 12.1 percent were jailed for trafficking or other serious drug offenses.)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/11/05/a-bipartisan-failure-in-talking-about-prisons-and-the-war-on-drugs/

That's still 54,000 people in jail for possession...

Wordslinger wrote:

... nobody should be in prison for possession of narcotics.  Nobody.

Legalize drugs and end the war on drugs with a big win.  Without the profits, there's no incentive for drug crime.

Treat addicts as medical problems, nor as criminals.