The upcoming drug reform is being based on a false premise as personal drug users are never sent to prison, former judge Joseph Galea Debono told Times of Malta.

“Drug users aren’t sent to prison, this is a misnomer. They are given a slap on the wrist, perhaps a conditional discharge and a fine but certainly not prison.

“I don’t understand what all this hullaballoo is about,” he said adding that the same was true of repeat offenders.

The retired judge was reacting to Prime Minister Joseph Muscat’s statement that the current system of sending drug users to prison was “failing our youths”.

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