Watch how Citizens’ Assembly on Drugs members react after senior Garda urged them to maintain the current Irish status quo, as it is ‘better than most’ in the world.
Watch how Citizens’ Assembly on Drugs members react after senior Garda urged them to maintain the current Irish status quo, as it is ‘better than most’ in the world.
by u/youbigfatmess in ireland
by youbigfatmess
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The Assembly is currently live streaming.
This weekend’s round of meetings are probably some of the most robust with a swathe of law enforcement and criminal justice representatives making pleas to avoid decriminalisation, and legalisation.
Members don’t seem to be too convinced, but we will see.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLkDi5KV78c](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLkDi5KV78c) watch it live here.
Which one was the Garda?
It’s actually laughable
That garda came across fairly bad to me throughout. Seemed very unprepared for his presentation and Completely dismissive of any change to policy. Seems like it didn’t go over well with the Citizens
Guards are living with their heads up their arses and eyeing up overtime.
At least status quo knew 3 chords the guards seem to only know 1.
Strange when ressources are scarce, prisons are full, suspended sentences aplenty, and organized crime is profiteering from the situation. If you add other countries moving away from the full war on drugs, it doesn’t make sense. But after seeing garda at a party after a big gang profile was released everything can look suspicious unfortunately
It’s hilarious that the cops are the most incompetent of all government employees
I do hope [retired Superintendent John Murphy](https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/ex-garda-jailed-six-years-28152171) will be addressing the Citizens Assembly. Maybe they can video call him in his cell in Portlaoise?
Ireland needs to get its shit together on drug policy. Cannabis should be a human right and the other harder drugs should be decriminalised and people should be treated for it rather than criminalised
This is the weird thing to me, the status quo isn’t going fine and never has. We could give them fucking tanks and machine guns, x-ray machining every package coming in and they would still be cocaine on the streets or weed grown. For every 10 foot wall is an 11 foot ladder.
But even if they were saying why change it, at least change it for the good of drug users themselves. I’d much prefer a safe usage approach and treating addiction than criminalising people who need help.
Oh and aside from that just even asking for money in general like does she mean give them a pay increase or does she mean investment into enforcement. If it’s a pay increase actually I’d probably be even on board but that won’t fix the drug issue.
Fucking hell this made me very angry.
Let it go to public vote then and see how the ‘status quo’ holds up.
Prohibition does not work it only causes more problems and more dangerous products to appear. The rest of the world has woken up to freeing weed from the shackles, hell even Thailand has legal weed now. If the government takes the comments of this stone aged Garda seriously then all hope is lost.
Ah yeah the status quo of criminalising users and upholding the profitable business of organised crime. Do they not see that this war was never going to be won or do they just like doing the easy work of catching people with a small amount of recreational substances