Powder drugs involve *real* criminals. People growing cannabis are a soft target and help justify the budget allocated to ‘fighting the war on drugs’. Within 3 years it will be decriminalised and people will wonder what all the damn fuss was about.

Dead on, Steve. Can’t be arsed with serious crime..
“Quick! They’re all watching! We’d better solve *some* crime..”

Now renamed Carhigh.

Worst Weed Joke ever award

Shouldna gev it up then?

Boohoo.

Originally due to a propaganda campaign in America, championed by vested interests in the timber and synthetic fibre industries which were losing market share to hemp fibre..

Gateway drug theory has been demonstrated to be nonsense in jurasdictions where weed is legal..

The government quango, moral minority, prohibitionists figured that when prohibition was scrapped they better find a fresh boogie-man to justify their existence and budget; so they switched their burocratic machinery to weed.

It had the merit of being mostly the social lubricant of blacks and latinos so the white vociferous lobby said little, the major white smokers being them loonie jazz freaks.

And after WW II, when Uncle Sam farts, Europe and the planet goes down with cholera.

should be legalised period.

Hash went out with sunset fm mate.

We b on dat chronic now ma nikka.

Where did you get that figure from?

‘Based on a commonly-used estimation that the amount of drugs
seized in a given year is 10 per cent of the total amount imported,
using seizure data provided in the Annual Report of An Garda Síochána
2003 and price estimates supplied by the GNDU for 2003, an
approximate estimate of the total retail market value for the following
drugs in 2003 is made: cannabis resin €374 million; cannabis herb €4
million; heroin €54 million; cocaine €75 million; amphetamine €10
million; ecstasy €129 million; LSD €3,300.’

Connolly J (2005) The illicit drug market in Ireland. Overview 2.
Dublin: Health Research Board.

I’d go further..I’d make it obligatory…sprinkle it on the kids cornflakes…chill the global warming and all.

But Diageo would object. Kill their market in firewater and misery.

Never smoked it and never will.
But it’s time it’s legalised.
Drink does more harm to the individual and society.and that’s legal.
If its legalised it means money and resources would be better spent chasing the real problem.

The word is carious..check it.

No curious is correct.
Carious a dental reference to tooth decay or cavity..
Check that

Thats the dental connotation.

It means crumbling or decay of tooth or bone. It can also apply to body tissue.

It goes back through Latin and Greek to Sanskrit.

Decay was the root I was referring to. Its illegality signifies a decadence of intellect, making a Wilde ass, yet again, of the law.
I had already double-checked; out of curiosity.
The prosecution rests. This law is carious. As in precarious. And caries.

Guys!

Come on now, I’m gonna roll another joint and we can sort this out. As adults.

mmmkay?

@damien that’s just pure bull sh1t at best

Just had a read of that some turnaround all the same

Except An Garda haven’t got a blind notion of how to store quality bud correctly – would be a real anti-climax to have cannabis legalised + country flooded with mouldy bud…….

How can you distinguish?

I can’t, that’s the point. Is it parody or ignorant, controlling fundamentalists?

Apparently you cared enough to read it and comment on it….

Didn’t care to read just read the Headline. Just a genuine question that I thought Id ask.

It’s in the media all the time because its a war ! A war that is costing thousands of lives every year, it’s a war that has been raging for my entire lifetime and is being lost by the governments of the world on an epic scale. Nobody with any sense would want all drugs legalised but cannabis is relatively harmless unless abused, and even if abused it is impossible to overdose so it’s probably the safest drug on the planet . MDMA statistically is safer than horse riding according to the experts, so a regulated market to control quality would be better than the Russian roulette that’s going on at the moment. All hard drugs should remain illegal to sell or import but addicts should not be criminalised and the state should help them to kick the habit like in some European country’s where they actually give the addicts the heroin for free and incrementally get them off it. 50% reduction in heroin use in 10 years in Portugal and a massive drop in the spread of HIV. There are better alternatives that have been tried and tested and have yielded far better results than a failed Prohibitionist approach ever did. The USA has legalised cannabis in 2 states for recreational use, and I think it’s about 14 for medical use with more to follow. We should keep an eye on that and see how it works out for them with a view to doing the same here if it works out for them. something has to change if you can’t keep drugs out of jail what chance have you in a free society.

The term is “Drug Porn” – ABC News did a piece on it just before Christmas.

http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/News/analysis-drug-porn-exciting-anymore/story?id=18015892#.UOqYSqp2MUQ

You failed chemistry then, Tom?

Tom the tosser

Some of the comments here are testimony to your point.

Rory any evidence re mental health suggests that adolescents are the susceptible group. Legalising and controlling the drug while restricting it to over 18 would be sensible.
Patrick stop with the anti dope comments and put forward some arguments to back your opinions

Nonsense ! No real evidence to support that old chestnut. The facts are it may harm developing brains, so over 18 s are in no danger at all, and its the best argument for legalisation as drug dealers don’t ask for ID. as for triggering psychosis it’s 10 times more likely alcohol will trigger psychosis than cannabis . You also have to be a loaded gun before you start for it to trigger a breakdown.

John I accept that and in theory your idea has merit however in practice it would be akin to the drinking problem we have in this country in the sense that making it widely available makes it easier for adolescents to access. Saying that we restrict it to 18 is nonsense, it would be abused just like alcohol is. I’m all for suggestions that are realistic but people coming on here and suggesting that we decriminalise a known drug for the purpose of generating revenue for the country is twaddle

A drug dealer won’t say no to someone with money never mind their age. Prohibition did not work in the US as anyone who drank just became a criminal. I don’t think I know very many people who haven’t tried this drug. The economics is twaddle? Well the revenue we are missing out on is just going to criminals instead.

whereas alcohol, constantly grey skies, unemployment etc have no negative effect on mental health at all, eh?

Patrick,

Get a grip man. Move on, weed I harmless, like yourself god bless you.

I don’t even smoke it, it’s the part time alcoholic Ireland I’m worried about.

Keep livin the dream champ

Rory-if something has a bad effect then dont use it.Are we sheep?I never had any ill effects.

What ignorance where? Explain to me why you feel this drug should be illegal?

Ignorance? Check your mirror!

The only ignorance on display here is in the article itself. Young lads getting kicked to death on the streets yet idiots like you think the Gardai should be spending time and money on locating plants which cause very little harm and may in fact be extremely useful legal. Ignorance is the unwillingness to learn from experience – and you have displayed how ignorant you and our legislators are by fighting a war you can not possibly win. Dumb comment – and the funny thing is you think yourself righteous.

If you read Patrick carefully you’ll see he writes ‘..ignorance displayed here..’.
His statement is quite evidently self-referential.

And he notes that it is ‘not unusual’ for him to display ignorance.

He seems to be enjoying a seizure of some description.

laughed out loud…