Social Welfare Services debating decriminalisation of certain drugs

According to a Times report  (17 March) , the foundation behind substance abuse agency Sedqa is not satisfied with the way addicts were being dealt with and that treating drug users as criminals was not conducive to the desired results.

Bugeja was reported as saying that the matter was still being discussed before a national direction on the topic could be drawn up.

Calls by Sedqa clinical director George Grima to for urgent discussions on drug decriminalisation last year were dismissed out of hand by government.

However, according to the report, Bugeja reopened the issue when answering questions during a report launch event.