There’s drugs everywhere. Be it heroin on the street, lads smoking joints or people in doing coke in their local pub. It’s everywhere. They need to decriminalise it now
No, it’s acknowledging that we have a problem that would then be moved from being a criminal issue to a public health issue.
They were mostly written in the 1970s, so at the time there wasn’t a major drug problem.
Decriminalisation ultimately leading to legalisation makes the most sense, but the hot takes are dismally mediocre.
Glad to see this becoming more of a talking point. Needs to be a health issue rather than a criminal issue immediately.
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I can already imagine these “off-licence style outlets” popping up. Loads of lads will be updating their CVs citing experience in the sector and Canada Goose will be a mandatory uniform, just with a name badge.
Literally seeing aul lads railing lines on the table in the local is fucking mental.
Has the price of cocaine dropped or is it all just shite?
Was never my thing but lads 20 years ago would spend 300+ quid on a night out easily.
Buy a 100 quids worth, drink about 15 pints, pay into shitty nightclubs, drink a load of vodka red bulls and then wonder why they’d no money and no coke Saturday morning.
Build more effective rehabs. With the widespread use of crack cocaine in the country, that drug can change a lot about the level of safety one is used to in a country.
Head up the own arse routine really isnt helping in fairness, we did give it a good try for several decades, no shame in admitting defeat
Legalise weed, tax it and it’ll bring so much money to the country. Gangs will still profit from it but I’d reckon the vast majority of people would rather pay slightly more for 100% pure legal weed than the shite street stuff that we get now.
We should also decriminalise all other drugs and start treating people with addictions as actual people rather than criminals. It makes so much sense so I don’t understand why we wouldn’t be able to do it
It’s taken them long enough, but a welcome change indeed!
It is amazing to me that we have not done so already. I have been in favour of legalisation for over 30 years. People with issues need medical help and assistance not criminal records. The profits that the Government would reap is almost justification in itself. The majority will be grand.
The ones who need help get help
Problem solved
They won’t be getting my vote regardless, but this seems to be reverberating down the ranks of FF. Early days, but a mega development if so (and its worth noting they’re the party of farmers, while both weed and maybe even more relevantly hemp can be quite profitable crops). Its definitely a very promising development.
The Drugs in Ireland podcast is worth a listen. It’s produced by FF but gets some great speakers on who lay out a healthcare based approach rather than the failing war on drugs approach.
Give it’s listen
This is a subject to be handle by a progressive government not FFG/DUP dinosaurs. To them the best solution is what the Tories did to the UK, setting up a private company with exclusive rights and pretending its legal.
The government has failed so absolutely on this front for so many decades it seems like they want well funded armed gangs more than they want a decent society.
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There’s drugs everywhere. Be it heroin on the street, lads smoking joints or people in doing coke in their local pub. It’s everywhere. They need to decriminalise it now
No, it’s acknowledging that we have a problem that would then be moved from being a criminal issue to a public health issue.
They were mostly written in the 1970s, so at the time there wasn’t a major drug problem.
Decriminalisation ultimately leading to legalisation makes the most sense, but the hot takes are dismally mediocre.
Glad to see this becoming more of a talking point. Needs to be a health issue rather than a criminal issue immediately.
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I can already imagine these “off-licence style outlets” popping up. Loads of lads will be updating their CVs citing experience in the sector and Canada Goose will be a mandatory uniform, just with a name badge.
Literally seeing aul lads railing lines on the table in the local is fucking mental.
Has the price of cocaine dropped or is it all just shite?
Was never my thing but lads 20 years ago would spend 300+ quid on a night out easily.
Buy a 100 quids worth, drink about 15 pints, pay into shitty nightclubs, drink a load of vodka red bulls and then wonder why they’d no money and no coke Saturday morning.
Build more effective rehabs. With the widespread use of crack cocaine in the country, that drug can change a lot about the level of safety one is used to in a country.
Head up the own arse routine really isnt helping in fairness, we did give it a good try for several decades, no shame in admitting defeat
Legalise weed, tax it and it’ll bring so much money to the country. Gangs will still profit from it but I’d reckon the vast majority of people would rather pay slightly more for 100% pure legal weed than the shite street stuff that we get now.
We should also decriminalise all other drugs and start treating people with addictions as actual people rather than criminals. It makes so much sense so I don’t understand why we wouldn’t be able to do it
It’s taken them long enough, but a welcome change indeed!
It is amazing to me that we have not done so already. I have been in favour of legalisation for over 30 years. People with issues need medical help and assistance not criminal records. The profits that the Government would reap is almost justification in itself. The majority will be grand.
The ones who need help get help
Problem solved
They won’t be getting my vote regardless, but this seems to be reverberating down the ranks of FF. Early days, but a mega development if so (and its worth noting they’re the party of farmers, while both weed and maybe even more relevantly hemp can be quite profitable crops). Its definitely a very promising development.
The Drugs in Ireland podcast is worth a listen. It’s produced by FF but gets some great speakers on who lay out a healthcare based approach rather than the failing war on drugs approach.
Give it’s listen
This is a subject to be handle by a progressive government not FFG/DUP dinosaurs. To them the best solution is what the Tories did to the UK, setting up a private company with exclusive rights and pretending its legal.
The government has failed so absolutely on this front for so many decades it seems like they want well funded armed gangs more than they want a decent society.