Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said that 'the public are ahead of the politicians' on contentious issues like drugs and abortion
TAOISEACH LEO VARADKAR has said that he doesn’t have a view on the legalisation of cannabis, but will instead allow the public to have a say through the upcoming Citizens’ Assembly on drug policy.
“I haven’t formed a view on it and obviously don’t want to, kind of, prejudice what the Citizens’ Assembly might come up with,” Varadkar said. Varadkar added that with the completion of two other Citizens’ Assemblies – on biodiversity and reform of local government in Dublin – gave space for one on drug policy.“The kind of citizens assembly in the pipeline is one on drugs policy and they’ll have a chance to consider it.”
“In the regulation would be a concept of actually having a commercial product and having the product available, which can be monitored, managed, licenced, weighed, tested for compliance, for safety, for content in a way that it clearly is not at the moment,” Lawless said.
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