Posted on ROI-Legalise list:
As you may have read in yesterday's (Saturday) Irish Times, the Department of Tourism, Sport and Recreation is currently: "initiating a review of the National Drugs Strategy with a view to having a new policy agreed and in place by the end of 2000. This review, which will involve a nation-wide consultation process, will take account of the measures being undertaken to tackle drug misuse and the adequacy of these responses in the light of emerging trends in drug misuse nationally, with a view to making recommendations to Government on future drugs policy during 2000."
http://www.irlgov.ie/tourism-sport/dev/whatwedo/drugsstrategy/wwd_ds_review.htm
Regional Consultations are being held this month (June 2000) in
Cork
(last Friday)
Kilkenny
Monday 12th
Galway
Thursday 15th
Limerick
Friday 16th
Dublin
Monday 19th (East Coast Area & South Western Area Health Board areas),
Athlone
Thursday 22nd
Sligo
Friday 23rd
Dublin
Monday 26th (Northern Area Health Board and North Eastern Health Board
areas)
Interested groups and individuals may make submissions to any of the
consultations (details on the website).
Individuals may also attend any of the consultations, by using the booking form, which is available for download from the site in rich text format (.rtf - so no worries about word macros).
I can mail an attachment with a copy of the booking form to anyone who has difficulty downloading it from the site.
Also, if the above URL doesn't come out in a 'clickable' format when
you
receive this mail, try going into the site through: http://www.irlgov.ie/tourism-sport/dev/home2.htm
and clicking on the "Review of National Drugs Strategy" link near the
bottom right of the page. Alternatively, go to the Irish Government's home
site at: http://www.irlgov.ie/
clicking on "Government Departments" and then on "Tourism, Sport &
Recreation".