# decriminalisation - Saturday 15 December, 2018
McMahon lost his brother John to a drug overdose in 2012.
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# decriminalisation - Monday 8 October, 2018
Reasonable threshold limits and supportive sanctions should form part of a decriminalisation process, a new study argues.
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Dr Nuno Capaz of the Lisbon Drug Addiction Dissuasion Commission gives his view on the drug policy debate.
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# decriminalisation - Friday 14 September, 2018
Levels of drug use in Ireland have increased in recent years.
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# decriminalisation - Saturday 23 June, 2018
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin thinks the move would save lives.
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# decriminalisation - Tuesday 19 June, 2018
A motion before the Dáil this evening will acknowledge the harm caused by historical criminal laws.
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# decriminalisation - Wednesday 13 June, 2018
After 40 years in the force, Jack Nolan said it would be difficult to claim there are less drugs available now.
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# decriminalisation - Tuesday 12 June, 2018
Ireland officially passed legislation which finally decriminalised homosexuality on 24 June 1993.
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# decriminalisation - Sunday 10 June, 2018
A town hall meeting will be held this week in Dublin on the subject of looking into a health-led approach towards drug use in Ireland.
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# decriminalisation - Monday 16 April, 2018
The party is proposing that criminal offences be removed for people possessing less than five grams of cannabis.
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# decriminalisation - Friday 1 December, 2017
A new working group has been formed to look into alternative approaches to the possession of drugs for personal use.
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# decriminalisation - Saturday 13 May, 2017
What’s the day-to-day experience like for people injecting drugs in the city?
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# decriminalisation - Monday 8 May, 2017
The idea of decriminalising drugs – once considered taboo – has been gaining support in recent years.
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I am delighted to see this government’s commitment to properly evaluate how decriminalisation could work in an Irish context, writes Dr John Collins.
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# decriminalisation - Monday 6 March, 2017
First time users will now be hit with a €255 fine instead of a conviction.
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# decriminalisation - Wednesday 3 August, 2016
US president has now commuted 562 sentences, more than the previous nine presidents combined.
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# decriminalisation - Friday 15 July, 2016
Major new study says jails hothouse infectious diseases, which are then passed on to the wider community.
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# decriminalisation - Sunday 27 March, 2016
The warning has come from the outgoing Drugs Minister Aodhán Ó Ríordáin.
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# decriminalisation - Saturday 13 February, 2016
Could Ireland go down the Portuguese route?
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# decriminalisation - Thursday 5 November, 2015
The government is considering decriminalising the possession of a small amount of drugs like heroin, cannabis and cocaine.
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# decriminalisation - Monday 2 November, 2015
The minister cited Portugal’s approach to drugs as a possible model for Ireland.
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# decriminalisation - Sunday 16 August, 2015
Help Not Harm wants Ireland to treat the issue of drugs as a health issue.
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# decriminalisation - Tuesday 11 August, 2015
An expert has proposed the controversial idea.
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# decriminalisation - Saturday 8 August, 2015
In the debate over criminalisation, sex workers’ voices are all too often drowned out.
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# decriminalisation - Wednesday 3 June, 2015
TDs are off to Portugal to find out.
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# decriminalisation - Sunday 19 January, 2014
Being a magazine vendor is, according to the owners, the “best alternative to (giving fellatio) on the street”.
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# decriminalisation - Sunday 27 October, 2013
Dr Cathal Ó Súilleabháin says decriminalisation would combat crime, make the drug safer and allow for research.
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# decriminalisation - Monday 24 June, 2013
Paul McGrath of Fine Gael at the time spoke against the bill and said he was concerned what impact it would have on society as a whole.
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Homosexuality was decriminalised twenty years ago today.
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It took a 16-year legal battle to remove the Victorian laws from Ireland’s statutebook which criminalised sexual acts between men.
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# decriminalisation - Monday 10 December, 2012
A new report by MPs wants drug laws overhauled – and retailers of ‘legal highs’ to be held liable for any harm the products cause.
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