Someone should write them weekly, Irish laws are disgrace, people get done for smoking days before.
Not being high, just having metabolites in body that can be detected for months.
If same laws were used on alcohol, every cunt be off road for life with DUI.
I think this alk goes back to church and medieval times, having control on masses is the biggest tool and power, Vs free choice.
Then again it’s hard to discuss drugs, as many carry addiction, side effects, as some might say sure you can still abuse anything that’s available, but difference being allowing drugs in, means chances increase, but at the same time, if you can grow your own drugs, it isn’t a drug anymore, rather something videly available, that becomes ordinary, but seems most countries opt to just profit from it, then allow people cultivate it themselves, to keep up the demand.
Well said.
Personally I’m not a fan, but I also think it should be legalised not just decriminalised.
We would free resources and we all know Gardai is needed elsewhere as there are much bigger issues to be addressed than drugs use, especially cannabis. Plus we would have a great source of revenue for the government, which could be pumped into our medical system.
My experience: I voted to legalise cannabis in the state I lived in in the US. After legalisation it has become completely normalised to go down to the shop and purchase something to smoke or edibles the odd weekend.
On the whole I can’t recommend enough legalising cannabis here also.
With the media being this slow to coming into 1990, legalization is still a long way away.
Can’t wait for the articles in ten years telling us a perpetual housing disaster perhaps isn’t the best idea, maybe, but it remains to be seen over the next ten years.
They could just decriminalize it today, it won’t even have an impact on the funding that goes to armed criminal gangs they are so fond of. They get to give the impression they are decent people while also being able to go full on war on drugs and pissing away our tax on militarizing the police.
Very fleshed out and well written
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It makes me so angry to see the drugs gangs getting this money and leading young people astray into serious criminal activities.
The benefits to those who need it should be enough to pass it in govt nevermind the increase in economic activity that would come from legalisation.
any fiscal conservative should be pro legalization, its saves the taxpayer money, generates new tax revenue and it even creates jobs.
It’s some incredible arrogance and stupidity to have a state who thinks that criminalisation of recreational drugs will ever work for the better in our society. I don’t like the idea of drug addicts either, but walk down the Liffey and it’s abundantly clear that whatever the strategy is supposed to be, it’s utterly failed. I would like to see a whole rethink on the approach as prohibition has been shown to never work.
What I think could be a solution is to put the sale of drugs under state control. For those who want to buy legal drugs, they could simply get a prescription or licence from their local pharmacy or GP. The license would carry a small fee and would need to be vetted against an ID, but there would be an almost no questions asked policy. Then drugs would be obtainable in some dispensary for less then the street price.
The sale of all drugs could be ringfenced and pumped into both social infrastructure (prevention) and rehab programs (cure).
This would also have multiple knock on effects
* Criminal gangs dependent on the sale if drugs would have their cash supply cut overnight
* Police would not waste time and money to fight drug crime, and prisons would empty
* Addiction could start to be treated as a health condition rather than a criminal state and addicts would have access to safe clean drugs, and would also be accessible to both health monitoring and targeting with rehab programs
* Kids would have no access to drugs
* Due to the small hurdle, only those most invested would end up taking harder drugs
* The money from the sale of drugs would be held back to help those most at risk of addiction, rather then funnelling it out of our country and into the hands of overseas drug lords.
This would not be an ideal solution, but it would at least be rational. The more of the same approach to criminalisation of drug use is never going to work and will always be doomed to failure.
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Yes. Legalising weed is common feckin sense. The sooner it’s done, the better.
Garda resources being used to solve a problem that Garda enforcement causes, just turn a blind eye and overtime let legislation fill in the blanks, politically unpalatable to reform for FFG at the moment, practical policing would go a long way
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Well duh
Someone should write them weekly, Irish laws are disgrace, people get done for smoking days before.
Not being high, just having metabolites in body that can be detected for months.
If same laws were used on alcohol, every cunt be off road for life with DUI.
I think this alk goes back to church and medieval times, having control on masses is the biggest tool and power, Vs free choice.
Then again it’s hard to discuss drugs, as many carry addiction, side effects, as some might say sure you can still abuse anything that’s available, but difference being allowing drugs in, means chances increase, but at the same time, if you can grow your own drugs, it isn’t a drug anymore, rather something videly available, that becomes ordinary, but seems most countries opt to just profit from it, then allow people cultivate it themselves, to keep up the demand.
Well said.
Personally I’m not a fan, but I also think it should be legalised not just decriminalised.
We would free resources and we all know Gardai is needed elsewhere as there are much bigger issues to be addressed than drugs use, especially cannabis. Plus we would have a great source of revenue for the government, which could be pumped into our medical system.
My experience: I voted to legalise cannabis in the state I lived in in the US. After legalisation it has become completely normalised to go down to the shop and purchase something to smoke or edibles the odd weekend.
On the whole I can’t recommend enough legalising cannabis here also.
With the media being this slow to coming into 1990, legalization is still a long way away.
Can’t wait for the articles in ten years telling us a perpetual housing disaster perhaps isn’t the best idea, maybe, but it remains to be seen over the next ten years.
They could just decriminalize it today, it won’t even have an impact on the funding that goes to armed criminal gangs they are so fond of. They get to give the impression they are decent people while also being able to go full on war on drugs and pissing away our tax on militarizing the police.
Very fleshed out and well written
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It makes me so angry to see the drugs gangs getting this money and leading young people astray into serious criminal activities.
The benefits to those who need it should be enough to pass it in govt nevermind the increase in economic activity that would come from legalisation.
any fiscal conservative should be pro legalization, its saves the taxpayer money, generates new tax revenue and it even creates jobs.
It’s some incredible arrogance and stupidity to have a state who thinks that criminalisation of recreational drugs will ever work for the better in our society. I don’t like the idea of drug addicts either, but walk down the Liffey and it’s abundantly clear that whatever the strategy is supposed to be, it’s utterly failed. I would like to see a whole rethink on the approach as prohibition has been shown to never work.
What I think could be a solution is to put the sale of drugs under state control. For those who want to buy legal drugs, they could simply get a prescription or licence from their local pharmacy or GP. The license would carry a small fee and would need to be vetted against an ID, but there would be an almost no questions asked policy. Then drugs would be obtainable in some dispensary for less then the street price.
The sale of all drugs could be ringfenced and pumped into both social infrastructure (prevention) and rehab programs (cure).
This would also have multiple knock on effects
* Criminal gangs dependent on the sale if drugs would have their cash supply cut overnight
* Police would not waste time and money to fight drug crime, and prisons would empty
* Addiction could start to be treated as a health condition rather than a criminal state and addicts would have access to safe clean drugs, and would also be accessible to both health monitoring and targeting with rehab programs
* Kids would have no access to drugs
* Due to the small hurdle, only those most invested would end up taking harder drugs
* The money from the sale of drugs would be held back to help those most at risk of addiction, rather then funnelling it out of our country and into the hands of overseas drug lords.
This would not be an ideal solution, but it would at least be rational. The more of the same approach to criminalisation of drug use is never going to work and will always be doomed to failure.
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Yes. Legalising weed is common feckin sense. The sooner it’s done, the better.
Garda resources being used to solve a problem that Garda enforcement causes, just turn a blind eye and overtime let legislation fill in the blanks, politically unpalatable to reform for FFG at the moment, practical policing would go a long way