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Reminds me of the time a court ruling made hard drugs legal in Ireland. The legislature fixed the law in a matter of hours. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/
by smnrchrds 6y ago
Reminds me of the time a court ruling made hard drugs legal in Ireland. The legislature fixed the law in a matter of hours.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ireland-just-accidentally-legalised-ecstasy-ketamine-and-crystal-meth-10098612.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ireland-just...
- rsynnott 6y agoThat wasn’t on a constitutional issue, though. In 1992, the Irish Supreme Court found that there was a right to abortion where a person was suicidal (at the time abortion was generally illegal in Ireland), on a constitutional basis. The government attempted to amend the constitution by referendum to remove this, but that failed.
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