Friends,

Here’s the link to the Citywide Submission to the Citizens’ Assembly on Drug Use:  https://www.citywide.ie/assets/files/pdf/citywide_submission_citizens_assembly_on_drug_use.pdf?issuusl=ignore (attached as a PDF too).

 

We have called for the following key areas for action:

  1. Re-establish a Combat Poverty Agency independent of government and empowered to hold government to account.
  2. End criminalisation of people who use drugs.
  3. Invest in an independent Community Development programme to support and underpin a central role for community voices in decision-making structures.
  4. Open up a discussion about the impacts on our communities of the current legal framework under which drugs are controlled and whether it is fit for purpose.

 

Many thanks to all of you who attended our Assembly consultation meetings, it really helped us in developing the submission.  We have set up a page on our website with information about the CA including links to the videos of assembly meetings etc.  On this page we can also upload your projects’  submissions if you wish to share them.  https://www.citywide.ie/news/citizensassembly.html