Don’t charge cannabis smokers : DPP

[GalwayFrancis]

Don’t charge cannabis smokers, DPP tells gardaí

By Cormac O’Keeffe and Mary Regan
CANNABIS users and other small-time offenders could receive a caution rather than a criminal conviction under a radical new scheme.

The Director of Public Prosecutions is understood to have advised the Garda Síochána that it doesn’t have to prosecute all minor offences and could caution offenders instead.

The scheme, full details of which have yet to emerge, has received an initial mixed response from people in drugs-related work.

The initiative, expected to be known as the Adult Cautioning Scheme, is based on the highly successful Juvenile Diversion Programme.

Conditions attached to the scheme include:

Offences must be relatively minor, such as public order offences or personal cannabis use cases.

[Raheny Red]

I think this one is for current affairs too much for Off Topic as it's really a serious topic!

[Lionel Ritchie]

I agree this should be in Current Affairs.

It was on the news last night that the powers that be are backing away from this in relation to possesion of Cannabis. Priceless.

We're going to continue criminalising teenagers and adults who are compliant with the law in all other aspects.

But sure so long as no-ne acknowledges the elephant in the living room we're grand sure.

Meanwhile, cnuts who deserve linching for illegal dumping will get a €127 in the poorbox and told not to do it again.