There’s lads salivating at the thoughts of money making.
Id say the government are lining up licences for growers as we speak and will severely limit it to secure preferential profit making.
Would the regulation and legalisation of murder be a golden economic opportunity ?
Probably.
But guess what, we let morals decide over financial gain in situations like these.
Obviously. Oregon in the US has slightly more population than Ireland, they’re already in 100s of millions of tax revenue since legalisation.
I’m sure Ireland would be come a leader in this plant that thrives in Mediterranean and Caribbean climates.
It is alcohol and tobacco being legal that allows our massive tobacco and wine industries.
If we just taxed the weed could we park back the taxation on housing, and rent, and energy usage tariffs….have I left any other taxation induced social issues out?
Christ I wish they would just legalise it so I could stop reading the same fucking articles posted over and over here about it.
I’m going to go with no.
Golden economic opportunity gets heavily invested in at the start with everyone trying to grab a slice, before people start getting burned.
Just look at post milk quota market.
They are waiting to see how they hand the licences out to themselves and their pals.
Interesting to see the narrative evolve on this issue as the establishment types are being coaxed into accepting that legal weed isn’t the devil they were all told it was.
I mean hey, the Emerald Isle being full of Green, it’s got a great ring to it and would be a good tourist hub for it in terms of revenue.
It could be, but it won’t, because we’ll make a balls of it for fear of Vintners and aul wans and miss first mover advantage, before crawling around to the party after everyone else in Europe does it first so we look like backwards clowns, and then doing it the stupidest and most expensive way possible to make sure only the *right* people can profit.
I live in a legal state in the U.S. and we make tons of money off it.
“Sir, all attempts at containing the zombie hordes have failed . The military command is optimistic it can hold the current position for the moment, but it’s a matter of days before the city falls and the outbreak spreads, first across the entire country and then the world. What are your orders?”
“We should legalize cannabis, then use the revenue from the tax collected to tackle the problem.”
Yes
only for the money hoarders
On paper I think YES.
But then I worry our politicians will somehow screw it up and spend all the extra tax on one useless thing or spend carelessly elsewhere to win votes and just waste it all
Yes so they can tax it. Now everyone is using and they get 0 Euro for it.
Begorrah! Forty Shade’s of Green $$$
Yes, in that it could be legally sold, plus tax, and also yes because you could grow your own and pay pennies as a result
It worked for where I live. Portland, OR, U.S.
Don’t get me wrong the Government, State/Province, County will all take their cut, but it does create a lot of job opportunities. It cuts down on unnecessary fines & convictions for said people & areas involved. Nothing is perfect, but the legalization of consumable, regulated, legal, marijuana has been one of the smartest things we have done in a while.
Oh that’s a question! Mods remove this post immediately!!!
Yes it would be, Jesus fucking christ this country is a hole.
It would certainly increase the amount of times I travel down south by many times
Isn’t it mad how the comments here all pretty much say “Yes, but the government will fuck it up completely.”
Speaks volumes.
Canada legalised recreational cannabis in 2018/2019
Legal cannabis has added $43 Billion to Canada’s GDP and created 151,000 jobs.
I’d love to see how it would play out up here in the north, I think trying to take drugs out of the terrorists hands would spark an escalation of violence quicker than anything political. You also just know the government would charge €80 a gram and the black market just keeps ticking on anyway
Just seeing cannabis legalisation as a revenue opportunity for the state will result in expensive overtaxed “legal” cannabis and most of the business remaining on the black market.
A key part of legalisation also has to be permission to grow some plants of your own as in Oregon.
Makes a lot of sense economically and in many other ways.
Direct taxation and duty collected can be put in to supporting addiction services for people caught up in hard drugs.
Medically it will help cut down on painkillers and associated addiction from legal, medically prescribed drugs.
You cut off a significant amount of the income of organised crime and also allow gardai to focus on more important work.
You cut down on the backlog in the courts as well and allow the justice system to maybe operate in a more competent way.
Having regulated, licensed dispensaries in every town or city and you will increase gainful employment, reducing welfare costs and increasing taxation income. And would allow some of the vacant shop units in every Main Street in the country to be put to use, again increasing rates paid to local council coffers.
Makes sense on so many levels, that it is just a hysterical puritanical minority that would actually object to, it if the facts are properly laid out and examined.
It is a great opportunity but the shower in charge will find a way to fuck us, line their pockets and not improve this country just like everything else. That is, unless we hold them accountable.
Obviously. But not if u continually hit the snooze button and let every other country around u do it first. We have a unique opportunity being the only English speaking country in Europe..
Agriculture, tourism, VAT on sales etc. You’d think money talks, but not in the case of cannabis apparently.
Unless you have a lot of money handy if Ireland does go down the legal route the market will be dominated by the same guys who run the fruit and veg business here. They have the growing know-how and infrastructure in place. Just stop growing strawberries and move over to cannabis making the rich even richer. Sure you might have smaller operations but this is Ireland. The red tape will quickly make it so expensive and cumbersome that the big boys will have the area within a year making multimillion companies richer. It’s not that Irish bureaucracy is crooked just often takes the lazy option.
Why is this even a question.
It’s always going to be around, no matter what way it’s regulated, so why not regulate and tax it so that the government derive an income? It makes sense
Ireland does not have capacity for more tourism right now so no.
It would also remove power from drug dealers. Drug dealers tend to make teens do crimes to pay off their debt. It’s a win win for us, everyday people. I don’t smoke and don’t plan on it, I don’t drink either. It’s ridiculous to see alcohol is legal knowing how much damage it does every year to families and the health system yet weed is not legal.
Folk have been taking substances since the Year Dot & prohibition has been proving not to work !
It could potentially create an indigenous industry.
Setting up a commercial facility to grow won’t be cheap, it will be beyond a lot of people, I doubt there’s experience in creating indoor farms in Ireland. It would be a really energy intensive facility so expect complaints from environmentalists.
The alternative is importing cannabis, and there probably aren’t a whole lot of legal suppliers out there. Even so, I would guess they could undercut Irish growers on price.
Setting up the industry here won’t be that straight forward I think. It’s what should be done but I expect this government will to try appease everyone while pleasing no one and create something unworkable.
A better industry for Ireland is probably growing outdoor hemp. Easy win for a lot of farmers. It would however make growing recreational and medical grade cannabis harder.
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Yes
There’s lads salivating at the thoughts of money making.
Id say the government are lining up licences for growers as we speak and will severely limit it to secure preferential profit making.
Would the regulation and legalisation of murder be a golden economic opportunity ?
Probably.
But guess what, we let morals decide over financial gain in situations like these.
Obviously. Oregon in the US has slightly more population than Ireland, they’re already in 100s of millions of tax revenue since legalisation.
I’m sure Ireland would be come a leader in this plant that thrives in Mediterranean and Caribbean climates.
It is alcohol and tobacco being legal that allows our massive tobacco and wine industries.
If we just taxed the weed could we park back the taxation on housing, and rent, and energy usage tariffs….have I left any other taxation induced social issues out?
Christ I wish they would just legalise it so I could stop reading the same fucking articles posted over and over here about it.
I’m going to go with no.
Golden economic opportunity gets heavily invested in at the start with everyone trying to grab a slice, before people start getting burned.
Just look at post milk quota market.
They are waiting to see how they hand the licences out to themselves and their pals.
Interesting to see the narrative evolve on this issue as the establishment types are being coaxed into accepting that legal weed isn’t the devil they were all told it was.
I mean hey, the Emerald Isle being full of Green, it’s got a great ring to it and would be a good tourist hub for it in terms of revenue.
It could be, but it won’t, because we’ll make a balls of it for fear of Vintners and aul wans and miss first mover advantage, before crawling around to the party after everyone else in Europe does it first so we look like backwards clowns, and then doing it the stupidest and most expensive way possible to make sure only the *right* people can profit.
I live in a legal state in the U.S. and we make tons of money off it.
“Sir, all attempts at containing the zombie hordes have failed . The military command is optimistic it can hold the current position for the moment, but it’s a matter of days before the city falls and the outbreak spreads, first across the entire country and then the world. What are your orders?”
“We should legalize cannabis, then use the revenue from the tax collected to tackle the problem.”
Yes
only for the money hoarders
On paper I think YES.
But then I worry our politicians will somehow screw it up and spend all the extra tax on one useless thing or spend carelessly elsewhere to win votes and just waste it all
Yes so they can tax it. Now everyone is using and they get 0 Euro for it.
Begorrah! Forty Shade’s of Green $$$
Yes, in that it could be legally sold, plus tax, and also yes because you could grow your own and pay pennies as a result
It worked for where I live. Portland, OR, U.S.
Don’t get me wrong the Government, State/Province, County will all take their cut, but it does create a lot of job opportunities. It cuts down on unnecessary fines & convictions for said people & areas involved. Nothing is perfect, but the legalization of consumable, regulated, legal, marijuana has been one of the smartest things we have done in a while.
Oh that’s a question! Mods remove this post immediately!!!
Yes it would be, Jesus fucking christ this country is a hole.
It would certainly increase the amount of times I travel down south by many times
Isn’t it mad how the comments here all pretty much say “Yes, but the government will fuck it up completely.”
Speaks volumes.
Canada legalised recreational cannabis in 2018/2019
Legal cannabis has added $43 Billion to Canada’s GDP and created 151,000 jobs.
I’d love to see how it would play out up here in the north, I think trying to take drugs out of the terrorists hands would spark an escalation of violence quicker than anything political. You also just know the government would charge €80 a gram and the black market just keeps ticking on anyway
Just seeing cannabis legalisation as a revenue opportunity for the state will result in expensive overtaxed “legal” cannabis and most of the business remaining on the black market.
A key part of legalisation also has to be permission to grow some plants of your own as in Oregon.
Makes a lot of sense economically and in many other ways.
Direct taxation and duty collected can be put in to supporting addiction services for people caught up in hard drugs.
Medically it will help cut down on painkillers and associated addiction from legal, medically prescribed drugs.
You cut off a significant amount of the income of organised crime and also allow gardai to focus on more important work.
You cut down on the backlog in the courts as well and allow the justice system to maybe operate in a more competent way.
Having regulated, licensed dispensaries in every town or city and you will increase gainful employment, reducing welfare costs and increasing taxation income. And would allow some of the vacant shop units in every Main Street in the country to be put to use, again increasing rates paid to local council coffers.
Makes sense on so many levels, that it is just a hysterical puritanical minority that would actually object to, it if the facts are properly laid out and examined.
It is a great opportunity but the shower in charge will find a way to fuck us, line their pockets and not improve this country just like everything else. That is, unless we hold them accountable.
Obviously. But not if u continually hit the snooze button and let every other country around u do it first. We have a unique opportunity being the only English speaking country in Europe..
Agriculture, tourism, VAT on sales etc. You’d think money talks, but not in the case of cannabis apparently.
Unless you have a lot of money handy if Ireland does go down the legal route the market will be dominated by the same guys who run the fruit and veg business here. They have the growing know-how and infrastructure in place. Just stop growing strawberries and move over to cannabis making the rich even richer. Sure you might have smaller operations but this is Ireland. The red tape will quickly make it so expensive and cumbersome that the big boys will have the area within a year making multimillion companies richer. It’s not that Irish bureaucracy is crooked just often takes the lazy option.
Why is this even a question.
It’s always going to be around, no matter what way it’s regulated, so why not regulate and tax it so that the government derive an income? It makes sense
Ireland does not have capacity for more tourism right now so no.
It would also remove power from drug dealers. Drug dealers tend to make teens do crimes to pay off their debt. It’s a win win for us, everyday people. I don’t smoke and don’t plan on it, I don’t drink either. It’s ridiculous to see alcohol is legal knowing how much damage it does every year to families and the health system yet weed is not legal.
Folk have been taking substances since the Year Dot & prohibition has been proving not to work !
It could potentially create an indigenous industry.
Setting up a commercial facility to grow won’t be cheap, it will be beyond a lot of people, I doubt there’s experience in creating indoor farms in Ireland. It would be a really energy intensive facility so expect complaints from environmentalists.
The alternative is importing cannabis, and there probably aren’t a whole lot of legal suppliers out there. Even so, I would guess they could undercut Irish growers on price.
Setting up the industry here won’t be that straight forward I think. It’s what should be done but I expect this government will to try appease everyone while pleasing no one and create something unworkable.
A better industry for Ireland is probably growing outdoor hemp. Easy win for a lot of farmers. It would however make growing recreational and medical grade cannabis harder.
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Come and experience the vibrant and friendly atmosphere of Ireland while enjoying the freedom to smoke weed. Ireland is known for its stunning landscapes, rich culture, and warm hospitality, and now you can add getting high to the list of reasons to visit.
With a variety of high-quality cannabis strains available, you can choose the perfect one to suit your mood and taste. Whether you prefer a relaxing indica, a stimulating sativa, or a hybrid of the two, you’re sure to find something that hits the spot.
Imagine exploring the breathtaking countryside or historic city streets of Ireland while enjoying the benefits of legal cannabis. Relax and unwind with a joint in hand, or share a smoke with new friends in one of Ireland’s many welcoming pubs. No matter how you choose to enjoy your weed, you’re sure to create memories that will last a lifetime.
So why wait? Book your trip to Ireland today and experience the thrill of smoking green on the greenest Isle in the world.
What do they mean “could”? It fucking is.