Fair to say our image as a country is taking a hammering over the past while
RTE could never
Ireland’s drug problems are mostly socio-economic problems. The middle class do most of the drugs, the working class face most of the consequences.
Great little country to do business in
The people who argue against having a military capable of policing our skies and our coastline effectively would have you believe “NATO something something conscription” but in the facts on the ground are, we have an open coastline which is an invitation to the cartels to land their shite on our island but, nobody really gives AF because its “scumbags” in Darndale who are victimised.
Its not “community consent” for refugee centers we should be talking about but rather why our state isn’t on a **war** footing with the cartels.
– Legalise soft drugs
– Expand treatments
– Decriminialise hard drugs
– Spend that 3 billion a year on air and costal defense
– Build that super-prison and lock the dealers up for a long, long time
“It’ll be grand” NO IT FUCKING WON’T YOU **DOPE**
Though that would be worse to be honest. You’d find something similar in any city.
I’m not Irish. I do not want to get into politics. But after living here for 3 yrs now, I can tell you that as long as there is no control over renting and living conditions, no limitation to betting establishments and a real politic over alcohol, this situation is going to get worse. Gardae needs a lot of investment and young criminals need to be punished for real.
People are blaming economic classes and historically racial classes for this but to be honest the one thing drugs don’t do is discriminate.
It can’t be tracked to bull or bear markets either because drug use has always been steadily climbing and the drug economy just adjusts its prices based on demand like any other market.
It’s the social reasons why drugs are rampant what else would compel people to snort things up there nose or take tablets but the social atmosphere I mean you wouldn’t do it if everyone of your friends thought it was disgusting but if all your friends are doing it of course you are going to be more inclined to “take a line”.
I don’t believe in the decriminalisation because all you have to do is look at places that have done that and they’ve turned into the open air equivalent of a dirty pub toilet.
People look at smoking cigarettes now the way they used to look at drugs , why can’t we do that?
Other countries are also looking into Ireland’s abysmal treatment of animals, great PR for Ireland on all fronts
Great report
My heart goes out to the all of these community and outreach workers pouring the hearts and time into this issue, when it ultimately gets undone or blocked by absolute fucking dopes in power like our previous Health Minister https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Feighan who introduces alcohol MUP and, when presented with literal stacks of reserach on the benefits of decriminalisation, dismisses it as “just your opinion”
Pissing in the sea when these are the backwards gobsites making decisions at top level
Add the immigration issue and we might ourselves in a scenario where there is not enough cocaine for everybody.
I left Ireland 7 years ago when I was in my mid 20’s. When I lived there, I used to go out with my friends nearly every week. We drank, we got drunk, smoked a joint now and then, and took ecstasy at a few music festivals. But none of us had ever even *seen* cocaine. If someone had offered it to us, we would have looked at them like they were a junky. It just wasn’t normal. Most of that group also left Ireland over the years, but when I’m home and go out with the ones that stayed, they’re doing coke so casually it’s insane. It makes Ireland feel foreign to me, like I don’t know the place anymore.
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Fair to say our image as a country is taking a hammering over the past while
RTE could never
Ireland’s drug problems are mostly socio-economic problems. The middle class do most of the drugs, the working class face most of the consequences.
Great little country to do business in
The people who argue against having a military capable of policing our skies and our coastline effectively would have you believe “NATO something something conscription” but in the facts on the ground are, we have an open coastline which is an invitation to the cartels to land their shite on our island but, nobody really gives AF because its “scumbags” in Darndale who are victimised.
Its not “community consent” for refugee centers we should be talking about but rather why our state isn’t on a **war** footing with the cartels.
– Legalise soft drugs
– Expand treatments
– Decriminialise hard drugs
– Spend that 3 billion a year on air and costal defense
– Build that super-prison and lock the dealers up for a long, long time
“It’ll be grand” NO IT FUCKING WON’T YOU **DOPE**
Though that would be worse to be honest. You’d find something similar in any city.
I’m not Irish. I do not want to get into politics. But after living here for 3 yrs now, I can tell you that as long as there is no control over renting and living conditions, no limitation to betting establishments and a real politic over alcohol, this situation is going to get worse. Gardae needs a lot of investment and young criminals need to be punished for real.
People are blaming economic classes and historically racial classes for this but to be honest the one thing drugs don’t do is discriminate.
It can’t be tracked to bull or bear markets either because drug use has always been steadily climbing and the drug economy just adjusts its prices based on demand like any other market.
It’s the social reasons why drugs are rampant what else would compel people to snort things up there nose or take tablets but the social atmosphere I mean you wouldn’t do it if everyone of your friends thought it was disgusting but if all your friends are doing it of course you are going to be more inclined to “take a line”.
I don’t believe in the decriminalisation because all you have to do is look at places that have done that and they’ve turned into the open air equivalent of a dirty pub toilet.
People look at smoking cigarettes now the way they used to look at drugs , why can’t we do that?
Other countries are also looking into Ireland’s abysmal treatment of animals, great PR for Ireland on all fronts
Great report
My heart goes out to the all of these community and outreach workers pouring the hearts and time into this issue, when it ultimately gets undone or blocked by absolute fucking dopes in power like our previous Health Minister https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Feighan who introduces alcohol MUP and, when presented with literal stacks of reserach on the benefits of decriminalisation, dismisses it as “just your opinion”
Pissing in the sea when these are the backwards gobsites making decisions at top level
Add the immigration issue and we might ourselves in a scenario where there is not enough cocaine for everybody.
I left Ireland 7 years ago when I was in my mid 20’s. When I lived there, I used to go out with my friends nearly every week. We drank, we got drunk, smoked a joint now and then, and took ecstasy at a few music festivals. But none of us had ever even *seen* cocaine. If someone had offered it to us, we would have looked at them like they were a junky. It just wasn’t normal. Most of that group also left Ireland over the years, but when I’m home and go out with the ones that stayed, they’re doing coke so casually it’s insane. It makes Ireland feel foreign to me, like I don’t know the place anymore.