Lynn Ruane on the new Drugs Policy Podcast: ‘Drugs and Ireland: The Citizens Assembly’ [Link in comments]

Lynn Ruane on the new Drugs Policy Podcast: ‘Drugs and Ireland: The Citizens Assembly’ [Link in comments] from ireland

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  4. It’s amazing how far we have come with technical advancements as a society.

    If you read carefully through the comments here, you can see the trash taking out itself.

    Fair play to Senator Ruane.

  5. I’m sure there’s been some changes and amendments to the drugs act since 1970 (well I’d hope so anyway), but it’s also worrying that the main piece of legislation is probably still much the same in a world that’s so drastically drastically different.

  6. The stigma around it now, was invented because it is illegal. Being illegal is bad enough for Christian guilt.

  7. I’ll be honest I don’t know how I feel about drugs being legalised/decriminalised I don’t even drink or smoke so personally I can’t give an opinion 100% but I can atleast ask for someone to tell me the positive reasons as to why their should be change

    And even though I don’t take drugs or have ever even tried them I do believe/hope microdosing can become a thing to help mental health

    P.S I wouldn’t mind experiencing shrooms but have no interest in weed atleast not smoking it edibles maybe idk

  8. Does anyone who’s watched the whole thing know if she backs any actual policy changes?

    We’ve had a bit of a plague over the last few years of politicians saying vague things almost no one disagrees with like ‘we need to treat this as a health issue, not a crime issue’ or ‘the current laws are clearly outdated’. However, they refuse to back any actual policy changes like discriminating simple possession or legalising weed, that might actually improve the situation.

    Things aren’t going to change for the better if our politicians are too cowardly to back any changes that might be unpopular with some.

  12. I often hear people bring up talking points like “so can people just get high and drive then if it’s legal?” and I don’t understand why people ask questions like that that already have answers.

    I don’t think anyone is saying that decriminalising will allow people to drive under the influence of drugs, are they? I mean alcohol is legal and you’re not allowed to drive drunk. Why would it be any different for any other drug? Canada, for example, legalised cannabis, but impaired driving laws apply just as much to it as to alcohol.

    Ireland has a bad habit of debating issues as if they’ve never happened before anywhere else. Same thing happened during the marriage referendum – all these weird scenarios came up about people marrying their siblings and weird stuff like that, when lots of countries already had same-sex marriage with absolutely no ill-effects on society.

    The same thing applies to decriminalising drugs – Irish people talk about it like it’s never been done before, asking all these “but what should we do about X” questions, when the answers are already there in other countries.

  13. Well , what you see throughout the years is that all drugs are bad and illegal and will kill you. Then human curiosity hits at some point and maybe you try weed or coke or whatever. Then you realise that the feeling can be good bad or amazing. To quote trainspotting we ain’t stupid.

    So everything you were told about drugs was a lie from the government to ur own parents and teachers. It’s kept illegal and unchecked and addiction and other bad things happen.

    Prohibition doesn’t work.

  15. Drugs need to be decriminalised so we can use them safely and without putting our money into the hands of dealers. Go into a cafe and buy drugs in Amsterdam and you know it’s going to be safe and no vulnerable addict is getting the legs broke or their mothers home smashed up because they can’t keep up their repayments. Dealers are scum who exploit the vulnerable and are a pox on our cities. Let parents talk to their kids about drugs the way they talk to them about alcohol – use it wisely or you’ll have to deal with the consequences. Legal drugs are better for everyone than the situation we have now.

  16. Since the US started legalising and making medical cannabis available, the importation of cannabis has dropped dramatically over the last few years.

    Since 2017 they have seen a drop of 63.7% of people trafficking cannabis into the states.

    They literally took the money out of criminal hands.

    But they fucked up, the pharmaceutical industry pushed doctors to prescribe more and more opioids….so the following has happened:

    Stage 1: People being prescribed opioids with little to no aftercare

    Stage 2: People run out of a prescription of opioids, start doing Heroin.

    Stage 3: Heroin starts killing people, Cartels begin to manufacture fentanyl, it’s so strong that only a small amount has to be smuggled into the states to make millions of tablets.

    Stage 4: Cartel literally make blister packs for the fentanyl tablets they create. So people can continue the opioid addiction and don’t have to touch “dirty” heroin and needles.

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