>Solicitor explained Castlebar man John Maughan (48) had difficulties with alcohol and found cannabis helps him live a better life
>John Maughan (48) of Moneen Campsite, Moneen, Castlebar, pleaded guilty to the possession of €46.40 worth of cannabis
>The judge fined Mr Maughan €500.
🙁 this legitimately made me sad. Guy trying to better himself gets dragged down for no good reason.
Also the guard weighing this as 2.23g is pathetic
Horrific way to treat a man who uses cannabis on a personal basis for perfectly valid reasons.
This law has to change.
I’m so sick of this bullshit. I smoke for similar reasons. I’m fairly certain if I couldn’t smoke I would have killed myself by now but instead I just have a smoke and try forget about how shit life is and try get on with it. Load of ballox so it is. Any rational person who’s had both (alcohol and weed) for a regular time will tell you alcohol causes more harm, between mood swings and violence. Can’t remember ever meeting a violent stoner.
Pathetic.
Yet another reason FFG is a disgrace.
A true health led approach in action. The Citizen’s Assembly was told by multiple “experts” that this type of case doesn’t happen in Ireland.
What a waste of everyone’s time and money. I thought they had adopted a health led approach to small quantities?
Yet the lads in masks harassing a politician and stopping cars yesterday get nothing.
Coming up to an election surely a commitment to a common sense approach to small quantities and spending money and time tacking actual damaging crime would win votes?
Ireland is fucking barbaric in its views and approach to cannabis… we as a people should look back on the Garda and government of this time as being the criminals who deny us this plant
Health led approach me arse. The Gardai are the biggest obstacle we have
First time I smoked weed I thought ‘you’ve got to be fucking kidding me. Drink is legal and this isn’t?’ The law is a joke. I understand other stuff as you don’t want your bus driver on coke or acid. But in my opinion the tobacco and alcohol lobby’s are calling the shots regarding weed.
How do they keep a straight face while doing this to grown adults, it’s beyond embarrassing. Sadly I feel Ireland will be the very last holdout in terms of legalisation.
This country has a wildly antiquated outlook on cannabis. I started smoking in my early 20s because of severe mental health issues including suicidal impulses. It gave me a way to manage my headspace and quiet things down when I felt I was losing control.
I smoked for the better part of a decade until I realised I didn’t need the crutch anymore and quit cold turkey about six months ago. I’m not going to pretend it’s a perfect solution and I wish I could have afforded therapy at the time instead (therapy works out a lot more expensive than how much I smoked). I don’t regret it for a moment and I know I probably wouldn’t be here if I hadn’t had it as a cope.
Like I mean, the man isn’t wrong!
Coming from Vancouver, a city which has decriminalized drug use in small amounts, I can unequivocally state that drugs such as: Cannabis, MDMA, Mushrooms aren’t much of an issue if any (unless tainted obviously)
The real problems come from: fentanyl, crack, Cocaine, Meth, heroin, Alcohol.
no we cant have any of that. we need the irish to stay in a perpetually c-nty mood
Addiction is the problem. People develop addictive behaviors. Trading one drug for another isn’t the core problem it’s breaking the cycle of addiction.
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>Solicitor explained Castlebar man John Maughan (48) had difficulties with alcohol and found cannabis helps him live a better life
>John Maughan (48) of Moneen Campsite, Moneen, Castlebar, pleaded guilty to the possession of €46.40 worth of cannabis
>The judge fined Mr Maughan €500.
🙁 this legitimately made me sad. Guy trying to better himself gets dragged down for no good reason.
Also the guard weighing this as 2.23g is pathetic
Horrific way to treat a man who uses cannabis on a personal basis for perfectly valid reasons.
This law has to change.
I’m so sick of this bullshit. I smoke for similar reasons. I’m fairly certain if I couldn’t smoke I would have killed myself by now but instead I just have a smoke and try forget about how shit life is and try get on with it. Load of ballox so it is. Any rational person who’s had both (alcohol and weed) for a regular time will tell you alcohol causes more harm, between mood swings and violence. Can’t remember ever meeting a violent stoner.
Pathetic.
Yet another reason FFG is a disgrace.
A true health led approach in action. The Citizen’s Assembly was told by multiple “experts” that this type of case doesn’t happen in Ireland.
What a waste of everyone’s time and money. I thought they had adopted a health led approach to small quantities?
Yet the lads in masks harassing a politician and stopping cars yesterday get nothing.
Coming up to an election surely a commitment to a common sense approach to small quantities and spending money and time tacking actual damaging crime would win votes?
Ireland is fucking barbaric in its views and approach to cannabis… we as a people should look back on the Garda and government of this time as being the criminals who deny us this plant
Health led approach me arse. The Gardai are the biggest obstacle we have
First time I smoked weed I thought ‘you’ve got to be fucking kidding me. Drink is legal and this isn’t?’ The law is a joke. I understand other stuff as you don’t want your bus driver on coke or acid. But in my opinion the tobacco and alcohol lobby’s are calling the shots regarding weed.
How do they keep a straight face while doing this to grown adults, it’s beyond embarrassing. Sadly I feel Ireland will be the very last holdout in terms of legalisation.
This country has a wildly antiquated outlook on cannabis. I started smoking in my early 20s because of severe mental health issues including suicidal impulses. It gave me a way to manage my headspace and quiet things down when I felt I was losing control.
I smoked for the better part of a decade until I realised I didn’t need the crutch anymore and quit cold turkey about six months ago. I’m not going to pretend it’s a perfect solution and I wish I could have afforded therapy at the time instead (therapy works out a lot more expensive than how much I smoked). I don’t regret it for a moment and I know I probably wouldn’t be here if I hadn’t had it as a cope.
Like I mean, the man isn’t wrong!
Coming from Vancouver, a city which has decriminalized drug use in small amounts, I can unequivocally state that drugs such as: Cannabis, MDMA, Mushrooms aren’t much of an issue if any (unless tainted obviously)
The real problems come from: fentanyl, crack, Cocaine, Meth, heroin, Alcohol.
no we cant have any of that. we need the irish to stay in a perpetually c-nty mood
Addiction is the problem. People develop addictive behaviors. Trading one drug for another isn’t the core problem it’s breaking the cycle of addiction.