,  's Health Minister, introduced emergency legislation in the lower house of the Irish parliament yesterday evening, to negate the legal loophole created by a decision from 's Court of Appeal that morning. Various hard drugs — including , , and — were rendered legal, following the law governing their prohibition being found to be unconstitutional. Ecstasy is among the drugs temporarily legal in Ireland The drug possession case of Stanislav Bederev led to the legal loophole; his lawyers arguing the 2010 addition of several drugs to the country's controlled substances list, governed by the , was unlawful. They contended it was unconstitutional to add these substances to the list without consulting the  — i.e., parliament.
, Ireland 's Health Minister, introduced emergency legislation in the lower house of the Irish parliament yesterday evening, to negate the legal loophole created by a decision from 's Court of Appeal that morning. Various hard drugs — including , ecstasy, and magic mushrooms — were rendered legal, following the law governing their prohibition being found to be unconstitutional. Ecstasy is among the drugs temporarily legal in Ireland The drug possession case of Stanislav Bederev led to the legal loophole; his lawyers arguing the 2010 addition of several drugs to the country's controlled substances list, governed by the , was unlawful. They contended it was unconstitutional to add these substances to the list without consulting the Oireachtas — i.e., parliament.
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