Ireland’s ecstasy loophole isn’t the first accidental legislation to be passed

Ireland briefly made the possession of ecstasy legal this week. But there are other laws that have slipped on to the books by mistakeFor one day only this week, Ireland legalised the possession of ecstasy. It wasn’t a bid by the Irish Tourist Board to snatch Vegas’s crown and re-brand the emerald isle as “The Party Capital of the World”, but rather a loophole mistake: a redrafting of the 1977 Misuse of Drugs Act was argued to be unconstitutional because both houses of the Irish parliamen