Fun fact magic mushrooms were only made illegal in Ireland around the mid 2000s. They had a problem in the legislation that mushrooms in general were considered produce so there were people selling them normally until the gov caught on for whatever reason. The story that I heard but I’m not sure if it is real was that a lad jumped off a roof after taking magic mushrooms and that’s when they closed the loophole.
I always remember the rubberbandits being live on the radio that evening on MDMA. Chatting about why it should be legalised forever, they were very happy as you can imagine
Twas a great day, I think 🤔
March 10, 2015. A Tuesday.
Irish politicians do something right.
It was an accident.
Only good things politicians do and it’s a fucking accident
If you’re the kind of person who was waiting for ecstasy to become legal before you tried it, then your probably not the kind of person who is going to enjoy ecstasy
Funny how it took a few hours for emergency legislation for drugs to be passed but it took decades before they did anything about priests fucking us.
We used to be a country. A proper country
This is what happens when we copy and paste our legislation from the UK. Their Parliament likes to delegate broad legislative authority to their Privy Council. Our Oireachtas is constitutionally barred from doing the same, except in very tightly-constrained grants of power, limited to filling in the details without making policy choices.
This case was an instance of the government overreaching and causing a meaningful dispute among judges as to whether the constraints were tight enough to be constitutionally permitted.
I so remember that!
One UK headline said ‘Irish Es are smiling’ and I have to give it to them, it was pretty funny.
One UK headline said ‘Irish Es are smiling’ and I have to give it to them, it was pretty funny.
Remind me again how legalisation “isn’t compatible with our legal system”?
I was just too young to not get to a head shop…
They didnt accidently legalise it. It turns out that they were never illegal
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Proof that it can be easily achieved.
I mean… accidentally?? HOW
Fun fact magic mushrooms were only made illegal in Ireland around the mid 2000s. They had a problem in the legislation that mushrooms in general were considered produce so there were people selling them normally until the gov caught on for whatever reason. The story that I heard but I’m not sure if it is real was that a lad jumped off a roof after taking magic mushrooms and that’s when they closed the loophole.
I always remember the rubberbandits being live on the radio that evening on MDMA. Chatting about why it should be legalised forever, they were very happy as you can imagine
Twas a great day, I think 🤔
March 10, 2015. A Tuesday.
Irish politicians do something right.
It was an accident.
Only good things politicians do and it’s a fucking accident
If you’re the kind of person who was waiting for ecstasy to become legal before you tried it, then your probably not the kind of person who is going to enjoy ecstasy
Funny how it took a few hours for emergency legislation for drugs to be passed but it took decades before they did anything about priests fucking us.
We used to be a country. A proper country
This is what happens when we copy and paste our legislation from the UK. Their Parliament likes to delegate broad legislative authority to their Privy Council. Our Oireachtas is constitutionally barred from doing the same, except in very tightly-constrained grants of power, limited to filling in the details without making policy choices.
This case was an instance of the government overreaching and causing a meaningful dispute among judges as to whether the constraints were tight enough to be constitutionally permitted.
I so remember that!
One UK headline said ‘Irish Es are smiling’ and I have to give it to them, it was pretty funny.
One UK headline said ‘Irish Es are smiling’ and I have to give it to them, it was pretty funny.
Remind me again how legalisation “isn’t compatible with our legal system”?
I was just too young to not get to a head shop…
They didnt accidently legalise it. It turns out that they were never illegal