Judge sees up to five people openly smoking cannabis on his daily walk in UCC area

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  1. Yes and if you closed the pubs for good you would see a lot more people drinking on the streets. Safe consumption spaces for everything are necessary not just alcohol.

  2. The fact the Judge can say that shows how widespread the use is and means it will be legalised sooner rather than later.

  3. Used it daily up until about two years ago. Used to openly smoke when going for a walk/walking my dog. Hard to charge you for just smoking a joint.

  4. *As they go off to court to give major offenses(rpe, murder, burglary) a limp handed sentence.

    But “oh my word look at that total eyesore!”

  5. I dont even smoke it anymore. One of the best things about legalization is vapes and edibles, not dirty aul spiffs full of tobacco.

  6. Meanwhile , Five stoned college students see a judge walking around their college campus and are not sure if it’s real or not

  7. American here: where do you guys get your cannabis from? Like is it grown in the country or is it shipped in? I was curious when I saw younger people openly smoking it in Dublin near the Temple Bar.

  8. The dude had a full time job and didn’t seem to have had any other issues with the law. I hope his life wasn’t affected too badly just for smokin a joint.

  9. “A district court judge detects an average of three to five people openly smoking cannabis on the streets when he goes for a 20-minute walk in the UCC area or around Cork City”

    Only crime here is the pathetic length of his walks. You’re not going to break any pedometers with twenty minutes!

  10. Returning to the issue of smoking cannabis on the street, Judge Roberts said to the defendant at the end of the case, “You are 36 — come on.”

    Hahaha

  11. Just back from Barcelona and I would love their system here. You join a club, you can then purchase the cannabis and safely consume it in the club! It’s discreet, not in anyone’s face& no paranoia!

    I just hope one day we get are shit together! My home is once Germany legalise it then most other countries will follow suit!

  12. I’m a toker daily and I think its ridiculous how the “LAW” carry on, Thursday afternoon I was working in the centre of town down a bi-lane that’s used by pedestrians! Over the past 3years we’ve worked in the area, from 12:45 daily as the schools get lunch a gang of local shitstains start to openly roll and smoke splifs, I’m also local so i know who the scum are,

    I’ve observed the same thing for the past three years daily, and then they are back in the evenings too – these are the dregs of society, often over hear them taking about thieving and they usually arrive on a different bike or e-scooter thing every other day. The best part is this particular lane only has two small points of access at either end, one so small only one person can exit at a time, if you had a gardashitinthecornee at the smaller end and a patrol car come up the other end – there’s no way out! you could nab each and everyone of them. Over the past 3-4years I’ve seen the cops on the lane twice, both times they were little fresh recruits just strolling the town on Xmas week. Businesses and occupants of the lane regularly ring about what’s going on but the cops never show, and the vermin are back the next afternoon

    And then there’s a privileged arsehole judge! who has the gall to be whingeing about students who are trying to better themselves! Having a smoke while not bothering anyone. Judge? …… judge me ballsack ya useless fool!

  13. Is there anybody here who has kind of a love/hate relationship with cannabis(as a drug) but has a great love for the actual smell?

    I passed a disreputable-looking guy smoking a joint on Merchant’s Quay about a year ago and I was expecting to get a whiff of tobacco(the smell of which I dislike greatly) but instead got this beautiful aroma of cannabis. It was really pleasant.

  14. Lucky they weren’t looking at child porn like that judge who was never punished. Or running over a woman in the street like that TD who never got punished. Or all those clergy asaaaaaaaghhhhhhhhh

  15. Judge realising law is an ass?

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    Legalise it folks.

    Ive been a paramedic for MANY years now and I’ve had one (ONE!) case involving use of cannabis.

    That was a fella having a greenie for the first time and panicking. He didnt even go to hospital.

  16. Smoke away..its a fucking plant

    Alcohol is actual poison

    But in the eyes of the law the plant is the bad guy..absolute joke

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