Decriminalising drugs won’t work due to ‘criminal lunatics’, Citizens’ Assembly hears

 Decriminalising drugs won’t work due to ‘criminal lunatics’, Citizens’ Assembly hears

Former head of the Garda drugs squad Michael O’Sullivan says ‘fear’ of gardaí and the courts are needed to keep people ‘straight’

The Portuguese model of decriminalising drugs for personal use would not work in Ireland because the State is dealing with criminal lunatics who are completely different from those in Portugal, forme…