From the article heading this is so true. How many have been guilty of calling people in town “druggies”, “junkies” and other demeaning names but when John from Killiney is hitting the bag every weekend and then it creeps into his daily life its “ah poor John”
The sheer amount of cannabis smokers that have been convicted while not under the influence during their road side testing is insane.
If alcohol was tested the same way mouth wash would fail you. Young professionals fresh out of colleges.
The middle class do most of the drugs. The working and underclass face most of the consequences
My everyday cannabis use has forced me to educate myself (mostly certs applicable to my industry)and find a higher paying job. Now I can comfortably afford my weekly quarter. You won’t read these stories in the paper.
People often equate shitty living conditions with a person’s drug use and do not think that drug use could be a coping mechanism for the shitty living conditions.
In the small town that I’m from in the west of Ireland basically everyone uses coke. Dealers come from all walks of life but the dealers whose Daddy owns a local business never seem to get into trouble (even if caught by the gardai), but the dealers from the “rough” areas do.
Am I the only one who doesn’t know where to buy drugs ?
Coke has become the new green, up north. Was out in portrush to see the bikes and there were folk at it all over the show. Young wans, aul Upper class wans, wans at the pub.
It’s easier to get coke than anything else in this country right now and it’s a worrying thing
I remember at college studying physio, one of the lecturers did a lot of volunteer work with drug addicts, especially the homeless. Then went on to say about how it was an opportunity to help those in need.
One of the students got on her high horse and said “why should you help them when they wont help themselves? It was their choice to do drugs” and so forth.
The lecturer said “I spent one night on the streets with these people, let me tell you, if that was my life I’d be doing drugs too.”
The other side however is when a well educated young person centres their entire life around the bag at the weekend. It’s happened to far too many of my friends, they are functioning drug addicts. They are absolutely well within their rights to do so, but the impact it has on their life is amazing. One friend used to love surfing with me at the weekends. Now? Couldn’t make time for it. Weekend is the time for sneachta.
Drug dealers make most of their income off middle class people, the socio economic issues and anti social behaviour is outsourced back into working class areas.
Irish people like to think of themselves as a country of do-gooders, always willing to help those in need around the world. But apparently this doesn’t apply to the millions of people whose lives are miserable because the drug cartels have too much power. By buying that white shite you are funding the slaughter of innocent people. And that’s not to mention the lives that are being destroyed in our own country because of these rotten drugs.
I got caught with 20 grams of cocaine by the Guards. The guards were taking it very seriously, but once I mentioned I was from Killiney they quickly changed their attitude. “Dont be doing it all at once” they joked as they dropped me home. When my family and neighbours saw me being dropped off by the guards they arranged an impromptu garden party for me. Needless to say, by the small hours, we ended up doing all 20 grams after all.
Because people from marginalised communities are usually taken to court for a small amount of personal use drugs, people from affluent communities very rarely are taken to court.
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From the article heading this is so true. How many have been guilty of calling people in town “druggies”, “junkies” and other demeaning names but when John from Killiney is hitting the bag every weekend and then it creeps into his daily life its “ah poor John”
The sheer amount of cannabis smokers that have been convicted while not under the influence during their road side testing is insane.
If alcohol was tested the same way mouth wash would fail you. Young professionals fresh out of colleges.
The middle class do most of the drugs. The working and underclass face most of the consequences
My everyday cannabis use has forced me to educate myself (mostly certs applicable to my industry)and find a higher paying job. Now I can comfortably afford my weekly quarter. You won’t read these stories in the paper.
People often equate shitty living conditions with a person’s drug use and do not think that drug use could be a coping mechanism for the shitty living conditions.
In the small town that I’m from in the west of Ireland basically everyone uses coke. Dealers come from all walks of life but the dealers whose Daddy owns a local business never seem to get into trouble (even if caught by the gardai), but the dealers from the “rough” areas do.
Am I the only one who doesn’t know where to buy drugs ?
Coke has become the new green, up north. Was out in portrush to see the bikes and there were folk at it all over the show. Young wans, aul Upper class wans, wans at the pub.
It’s easier to get coke than anything else in this country right now and it’s a worrying thing
I remember at college studying physio, one of the lecturers did a lot of volunteer work with drug addicts, especially the homeless. Then went on to say about how it was an opportunity to help those in need.
One of the students got on her high horse and said “why should you help them when they wont help themselves? It was their choice to do drugs” and so forth.
The lecturer said “I spent one night on the streets with these people, let me tell you, if that was my life I’d be doing drugs too.”
The other side however is when a well educated young person centres their entire life around the bag at the weekend. It’s happened to far too many of my friends, they are functioning drug addicts. They are absolutely well within their rights to do so, but the impact it has on their life is amazing. One friend used to love surfing with me at the weekends. Now? Couldn’t make time for it. Weekend is the time for sneachta.
Drug dealers make most of their income off middle class people, the socio economic issues and anti social behaviour is outsourced back into working class areas.
Irish people like to think of themselves as a country of do-gooders, always willing to help those in need around the world. But apparently this doesn’t apply to the millions of people whose lives are miserable because the drug cartels have too much power. By buying that white shite you are funding the slaughter of innocent people. And that’s not to mention the lives that are being destroyed in our own country because of these rotten drugs.
I got caught with 20 grams of cocaine by the Guards. The guards were taking it very seriously, but once I mentioned I was from Killiney they quickly changed their attitude. “Dont be doing it all at once” they joked as they dropped me home. When my family and neighbours saw me being dropped off by the guards they arranged an impromptu garden party for me. Needless to say, by the small hours, we ended up doing all 20 grams after all.
Because people from marginalised communities are usually taken to court for a small amount of personal use drugs, people from affluent communities very rarely are taken to court.