Malta’s Cannabis Reform Is Going Up In Smoke And ARUC’s Director Is Not Inspiring Confidence
I’m honestly not surprised at all. Was the Cannabis Reform just another “Blockchain Island” sham?
Malta’s Cannabis Reform Is Going Up In Smoke And ARUC’s Director Is Not Inspiring Confidence
I’m honestly not surprised at all. Was the Cannabis Reform just another “Blockchain Island” sham?
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This is how it happened in my home state. It takes a while but it seems like things are going well. Legalizing marijuana is such a good idea. Only good can come from this change.
Remember if nothing else you can grow at home and avoid shady dealers which benefits only criminals.
Labour only pushed this to get youth vote. They never really had any further plan after that.
>Was the Cannabis Reform just another “Blockchain Island” sham?
Yes, it was a ploy for votes. I’ve been saying this stuff for years – Labour does NOT care about the things it preaches. It does all of this for votes. Labour doesn’t care about being progressive, they only wish to portray that progressive image so that in international media our reputation gets out of the shitter a bit after **they** were the ones that fucked it up.
I pointed out a lot of the issues with the reform law in the past (I made those comments a while ago and can’t be assed to find them right now). Still, when it passed I saw brainless people slob the government’s cock and said “Issa ejjew nivvutawlom ta’ la ha jagħtuna l-ħaxixa u r-racetrack”. Well guess what if you voted for them on that premise, you are a smooth-brained moron.
I know groups who are trying to set-up cannabis associations. At each turn, they have been ghosted and stonewalled by Mariella Dimech and the Cannabis Authority, the best answers they’ve been given to their queries were vague as fuck and unhelpful. Just the fact alone that Dimech worked with Caritas for 21 years, and knowing how insanely anti-drug Caritas are (they do good work ta but they see something like cannabis use as equal to devil worship), should have been a bit of a red flag. I also know some workers within the Ministry for Home Affairs which the Authority is part of and what they’ve told me amounts to the Authority and the Parliamentary Secretariat of Reforms as being extremely incompetent and not providing a clear line of communication to the rest of the Ministry. Now I am just repeating what others told me so even I take that with a grain of salt, but I used to work with the government years ago and none of what they’re saying surprises me. People like to compare things to well-oiled machines. Let me tell you, the Maltese government is like a 1982 Honda that’s driven by a convicted abuser. It is a badly-oiled machine and it’s a miracle it barely runs and it would be a better use of everyone’s time and money if the whole thing were scrapped.
The fact that Mariella Dimech is paid €80,000 a year and has done absolutely **fuck all** in half of that year is disgraceful, shameful, disgusting and a waste of our tax money. She should either be removed or resign.
And you know what pisses me off? I work hard, I study, I get decent marks, I have a clean conduct, I never even got a parking ticket in my life. If I want do, I can go to the shop 2 corners away and buy as much chocolate and sweets to turn me into a diabetic, and buy hundreds of packets of cigarettes that will give me cancer and make my lungs collapse, and buy infinite bottles of alcohol that I can down and drink to give me alcohol poisoning – and there is not a single law limiting me from doing that (by the way important to note that alcohol and cigarettes **are** more physically addictive than cannabis). Similarly, there are no laws limiting how many liquor shops, smoke shops, pastizzeriji or fast food shops can open or where they can open. You could open 50 of each of those near a primary school and there is not a single law or government entity that would stop you, but clearly we need to protect children from cannabis associations by placing them 250m away. What also pisses me off is that you need a clean conduct to open a cannabis association. I completely understand that HOWEVER you do not need a clean conduct to open a tobacco shop, liquor shop, or to open a business near a school. Hell, there’s a relatively popular Maltese woman on TikTok who has a suspended sentence and drug charges and she was still able to open a babysitting business. I am sick and tired of the fact that even, though I would say most of the country is fine with smoking, there is still a powerful segment of idiots stuck in the 16th century that think that if someone likes me smokes cannabis that it is emblematic of societal collapse.
All I want to do is to be able to smoke cannabis in peace and buy good quality product that wouldn’t cost an arm and a leg. I do not want to give my money to scumbag Albanian gangsters that sell shit laced with chemicals that cause psychosis. Ideally I would buy from people who grow their own but unfortunately there aren’t enough growers to meet the demand, plus police are still raiding some people who import seeds (it’s not the first time I’ve heard of this happening in the past few months) because certain types of seeds are still illegal to import, because the law is vague as shit and does not clarify well and this useless Authority does not do their fucking jobs to clarify it. All I want is for those old assholes and these rich fucks in power to NOT see and treat me like a criminal because I smoke a plant that smells. I’d grow my own if it weren’t for the fact that my family, who are full of cigarette smokers and drinkers, would literally tear me to shreds and throw me out on the street if they knew I smoked cannabis. But it is completely socially acceptable for grandmother and mum to get drunk off whiskey and wine every week and for my dad to cough every minute after over 50 years of cigarette smoking. Imma allaħares inpejjep joint.
What a sick joke this nation is.
By placing someone who has previously headed the entity who has fought against cannabis tooth and nail for as long as it has existed, it begs the age old Maltese question… what did you pretend? (sic).
And yes, it was a ploy for votes.
It was for vote, thought was pretty obvious. Bet PN gutted they didn’t think of it first, their pathetic attempt at vote buying was to forgive parking tickets.
We are loosing all our identity. I know we are part of this World but this doesn’t mean that we have to make bold changes in our laws just to show bigger countries how special we are.
I don’t agree with cannabis law except for medical reasons. Nor with the divorce or other laws that have the potential of breaking up families.
It was a beautiful life as a child coming back from school and find my mum waiting for me with a cup of tea and the welcoming smell of her food as soon as I entered the main door.
Many children will never cherish such a beautiful memories. The parents usually work late till night and if they are lucky they can go to the Sunday mass together with their parents unless their parents aren’t divorced.
Imagine what is the mental impact of a child finding one of his parents blowing a straw of cannabis after a long day at work! Imagine that instead of finding their father they find their mothers’s finance sitting on daddy’s chair!
Imagine that all this is exactly the opposite of what they have just been thought to them at school an at the museum.
Hope that some politician with real b…s will revert all of this in the near future.
How exactly are the weed reform and blockchain comparable? I ask sincerely since they are two completely different things and I cannot fathom how one would correlate to the other. Also, the Maltese government is not known to be the fastest in the world, but finally things are moving with regards of the weed legislation. Finally, one can grow plants in their own home without fear of the draconian laws that we had in recent past. Even tough there is an argument that this was done to gain the youth vote in the recent and future elections, which I agree with, the average weed smoker now which includes people that need it for medical conditions, do not need to jump over endless hurdles to procure weed legally at an exorbitantly inflated rate.
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I don’t expect any improvement in the quality of life of the Maltese people with this so called ‘reform’.
No it’s not. The lawyers and the big business which has them on retainers are going fantastically well.
Blame anyone for being so dope as to think this was ever about some dope heads. If you are that stupid .. two options 1. Stop smoking and hope you get smarter 2. Smoke the crap out of your remaining brain cells and hope they don’t caught you!
The general population is so stupid anyways that stupidity is a virtue in Malta.
This person needs to understand that her duty is towards the electorate, and her _personal_ views do not mean crap.
If she is not able to deliver, either because of her beliefs or incompetence, then she needs to go. Period.
I think plenty of time passed and not enough results. Let’s not forget that apart from the legal use of cannabis, this reform also targets how this is acquired, in a safe, and controlled manner.
The fact that this is not yet delivered (can you name 1 “club” as they should be called?) is concerning, and if this individual thinks that the stalling is doing anything “good” all its doing is ensuring that people who already use cannabis are still using it, but purchasing it from questionable sources, of questionable safety while funding delinquents and criminals (unless you’re growing it yourself, of course).
Allowing drugs and the amount of cars on the island, it’s not going to end well.