Decriminalisation or legalisation won’t actually affect usage numbers.
It will however defund criminals, increase tax revenue & increase safety.
Everybody knows that this current situation is stupid. Catch up with the legislation all ready.
Really glad this has been proposed, hopefully it’ll be backed and pushed through in a matter of months not years.
It’s happening isn’t it? I actually can’t believe it
Won’t happen till an election is coming up so FF/FG can bring it in and be heroes
Why do we need a citizens assembly when a committee has done this work and international best practice supports the committee findings?
Seems like they just want to kick the can down the road
It feels like the first domino’s has certainly started to fall on reform. Still a bit away but 5 years ago this committee said nothing needed to change & now its recommending change. It’s still a while to go but honestly does feel the winds of change are certainly blowing!
I’ll be off to Dr Quirkeys in O
‘Connells street to get my fix…..
I’ve said it a thousand times before, but it constantly bears repeating, especially with the amount of national dialogue we’re bound to have on this topic over the next few years:
Yes, cannabis can do your head in. Yes, that’s a side of it that should be taken seriously. But controlling the sale and supply of the drug *helps* with this as I – like a lot of other people from my generation now – would *much* rather walk into a dispensary and get something nice and pleasant with a decent CBD content included rather than a lot of the go to strains vendors on the island will sell now which are often absolute 0 to 100 mong potions where the cannabinoid ratio is such that even if you’re only smoking a tiny amount, the base character of the high will not suit a lot of people.
That’s without even getting into edibles, vapes, infusions etc which often use the cheaper, more potent and easier to produce and smuggle mg to mg synthetic cannabinoids.
Honestly, if coffeeshops were a thing here, I’d be the guy going in getting absolute cabbage off the menu. And I love my dope.
Drugs committee recommends – Government says na.
About time
Fix the drug driving laws too while you’re at it.
Now that the Americans have done it …
The joint committee
Legalisation is going to be so critical here, people not getting slapped with fines for possession is fine and all, but the real issue is the revenue that the black (now grey) market funnels into criminal enterprises. Cultivation is a good start, but we really need to nail down the distribution aspect too, or else the same dodgy dealers will be making profits for god knows who…
Every serious drug committee ever had recommended the same fuckin thing.
Throw in some sort of “influence” like a church, or a police union or a pharma / tobacco lobby and somehow those ones see it differently.
Even the UN looked into it and recommended decriminalisation and regulation.
Honestly, the last decade in Ireland has highlighted that positive (imo) legislative changes are possible and made possible through groundswell and organization by citizen’s groups like this.
This definitely feels like previous successful campaigns where public opinion leads public action which influences political opinion and finally political action.
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A plant being illegal is fucking stupid.
Decriminalisation or legalisation won’t actually affect usage numbers.
It will however defund criminals, increase tax revenue & increase safety.
Everybody knows that this current situation is stupid. Catch up with the legislation all ready.
Really glad this has been proposed, hopefully it’ll be backed and pushed through in a matter of months not years.
It’s happening isn’t it? I actually can’t believe it
Won’t happen till an election is coming up so FF/FG can bring it in and be heroes
Why do we need a citizens assembly when a committee has done this work and international best practice supports the committee findings?
Seems like they just want to kick the can down the road
It feels like the first domino’s has certainly started to fall on reform. Still a bit away but 5 years ago this committee said nothing needed to change & now its recommending change. It’s still a while to go but honestly does feel the winds of change are certainly blowing!
I’ll be off to Dr Quirkeys in O
‘Connells street to get my fix…..
I’ve said it a thousand times before, but it constantly bears repeating, especially with the amount of national dialogue we’re bound to have on this topic over the next few years:
Yes, cannabis can do your head in. Yes, that’s a side of it that should be taken seriously. But controlling the sale and supply of the drug *helps* with this as I – like a lot of other people from my generation now – would *much* rather walk into a dispensary and get something nice and pleasant with a decent CBD content included rather than a lot of the go to strains vendors on the island will sell now which are often absolute 0 to 100 mong potions where the cannabinoid ratio is such that even if you’re only smoking a tiny amount, the base character of the high will not suit a lot of people.
That’s without even getting into edibles, vapes, infusions etc which often use the cheaper, more potent and easier to produce and smuggle mg to mg synthetic cannabinoids.
Honestly, if coffeeshops were a thing here, I’d be the guy going in getting absolute cabbage off the menu. And I love my dope.
Drugs committee recommends – Government says na.
About time
Fix the drug driving laws too while you’re at it.
Now that the Americans have done it …
The joint committee
Legalisation is going to be so critical here, people not getting slapped with fines for possession is fine and all, but the real issue is the revenue that the black (now grey) market funnels into criminal enterprises. Cultivation is a good start, but we really need to nail down the distribution aspect too, or else the same dodgy dealers will be making profits for god knows who…
Every serious drug committee ever had recommended the same fuckin thing.
Throw in some sort of “influence” like a church, or a police union or a pharma / tobacco lobby and somehow those ones see it differently.
Even the UN looked into it and recommended decriminalisation and regulation.
Honestly, the last decade in Ireland has highlighted that positive (imo) legislative changes are possible and made possible through groundswell and organization by citizen’s groups like this.
This definitely feels like previous successful campaigns where public opinion leads public action which influences political opinion and finally political action.
A fact-checked debate about legal weed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TPaCsQVwA8
So like… has anyone though of the poor stretchy lads selling. This must be horrible for small sneeky business 😫
Legalization and the tax boom across Ireland would be huge almost instantly.
Tax it. Educate people on the dangers. Let them make the choice.
Fingers crossed, it’s insane it’s still illegal.