Belfast's pro-abortion Lord Mayor now wants Northern Ireland to legalise cannabis and help drug addicts to inject heroin.
In an interview with Hot Press, a Dublin-based politics-and-music magazine, Micky Murray called for a more ‘liberal’ approach to illegal drugs in the Province.
Last month, Murray’s fellow Alliance Party member Naomi Long, Northern Ireland’s Justice Minister, promoted drug consumption rooms during a visit to a homelessness charity.
Murray, who admits to having smoked cannabis, believes that the way drugs and addiction are dealt with in the UK “is really behind the times”.
He repeats the unfounded claim that schizophrenia-inducing marijuana isn’t particularly harmful, and that legalising it would generate income for the authorities through taxation.
The Mayor, installed in June 2024, also said: “We need to look at things like safer injection spaces”. The Alliance Party has repeatedly called for a UK-wide change in the law to allow the opening of facilities where addicts can inject illegals drugs without fear of arrest.