Citywide Response to Recommendations by Citizens' Assembly

In the introduction to our submission to the Citizens’ Assembly, Citywide noted our history in Ireland of using moral judgement as a basis for shaping policy on key social issues, leading to blame, shame, stigma, and ultimately criminalisation and how we know that the negative impact of these punitive policies falls most on people experiencing poverty and/or on minority groups. In recent years, the work of Citizens’ Assemblies has played a key role in helping us as a society to move away from this type of moral judgement and the CA on Drugs provides us with an opportunity to do the same in relation to our policy on drugs.

So how has it done in relation to the 4 key actions set out in the Citywide submission?