THE CO-FOUNDER of former social networking site Bebo has launched a campaign to decriminalise the personal use and possession of drugs in the country.
Help Not Harm was launched by the Students for Sensible Drug Policy Ireland (SSDP) alongside Bebo cofounder Paul Birch.
His involvement comes after he set up CISTA, a pro-drug reform party in the UK, earlier this year and after and after SSDP got in touch, they decided that there was “space for a new organisation with a new focus in Ireland.”
Speaking to TheJournal.ie, Birch said that one of the biggest obstacles facing this campaign is politicians themselves who are more willing to “sweep it under the carpet and pretend it isn’t an issue for people”, when criminalisation isn’t working.
Source: Quinton O'Reilly, The Journal, 16/08/2015
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