This week we heard about a possible plan to decriminalise possession of small quantities of drugs including heroin, cocaine and cannabis for personal use. Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Minister for Health Simon Harris both support such a move, which would put Ireland on par with countries such as Portugal which decriminalised such possession some years ago.
For someone such as me, in the Generation Y or millennial category, the plan is sending the wrong message to a generation that already feels it is acceptable to engage in high levels of recreational drug abuse.
"Millennials are already a generation that knows no boundaries"
We feel it’s acceptable to pass out at a music festival from too much alcohol and a combination of pills, and we feel it’s acceptable to engage in sexual behaviour in front of a group of strangers and vomit into the hands of a member of An Garda Síochána while they attempt to help us up.
Source: Sean Dunne, The Irish Times, 19/07/17
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