I left my attic door open for the last few nights to leave heat up to the pipes to stop them freezing I was the only roof in the estate not frozen waiting anxiously for the helicopter to make it to kerry l

The sunny southeast eh!!

Think of the negatives around cannabis prohibition,I’m my opinion they are all because of its illegality.can we start the discussion yet ,if we are even thinking of entertaining ludicrous ideas like a revision of drink driving limits upward ,then I feel all the people who enjoy cannabis or use it for its medicinal qualities deserve equal time to discuss its legalization.were all adults her.

Execution at dawn. It’s the only way to keep or children safe from this harmless shrubbery.

This abomination must be stopped. There’s nothing so revolting as seeing people high on weed: calm, personable, open-minded, non-violent, happy, natural, human, non-competitive, etc. It makes me sick just to think about it. C’mon the guards.

The ball is well and truly rolling towards legalisation in many US states. Our government should be trying to get ahead of the curve in Europe and start to seriously discuss alternatives to the current situation. I’d bet that if a referendum was held tomorrow on the legalisation of cannabis it would pass.

Not sure how many families have been destroyed by an abusive pothead beating his wife, but, I would bet my bottom dollar that there are 1000’s more families ripped apart by alcoholism than by cannabis consumption!! I honestly can not name one family that has been DIRECTLY broken up by cannabis alone. I’m sure that we can ALL can name one or two abusive and aggressive drunks that have been responsible for espousal/child abuse which has DESTROYED their families!! This usually results in having adverse effects on their children for decades, and in some cases a lifetime after the fact!! I mean can anyone REALLY think of a pothead (who has consumed ONLY cannabis) who goes home after smoking pot and beats their wife and kids?? I think that I can name MANY drunks who drink and go home and abuse their families everyday!! Just saying…..

Now, that’s unfortunate.

Farmer arrested for growing and selling a plant. Madness.

There must be no other crime happening in the country that the gardai can afford to spend their time chasing after a substance about as harmful as a pint of Guinness.

Does anyone have a comprehensive breakdown of how the police come up with “street value” prices? Genuinely asking as for ages – and maybe still – the press offfice was using the “street price” of €10 for an ecstasy pills when the actual street price was half that.

And given the large sums involved, including those resulting from criminalisation, is it not about time we had a sensible conversation about legalising/decriminalizing the plant?

Waste of police time and taxpayer’s money. The only reason this is still illegal is that it would put half the vintners out of business.

Big deal, just legalise it. Spend my tax money on something more worthy will ‘ya.

Leave them alone.

One of these days we will let people be responsible for their own bodies

Criminals will always exploit ill thought out and logically dubious laws. I think that our descendants will scratch their heads and wonder why we outlawed this particular herbal medicine. The more effective and valuable this natural medicine appears to be, the more the resistance from some quarters seems to increase. Ignorance and a false morality are at the heart of this issue. Money too. To fight a so called war against horticulture, herbs and health, is just ludicrous. Demonising people who use a naturally occurring medicine ,tells a person that they are living in an unnatural and potentially dangerous environment.

Yet another waste of the precious Garda resources which could be used detecting harder drugs such as heroin, cocaine ect. Time to legislate and decriminalise.

@I Am D Best there is no doubt cannabis can bring about psychosis and paranoia as you say. However shouldn’t we the people be given the right to choose how we treat our bodies? Your main argument here is that it ‘messes people up’, and it has messed up a lot of people up however I believe they have the right to choose to do so, even with all the government warnings people still choose to mess themselves up. I respect your opinion as I believe you are free to express it, what I can’t understand is how you can sit there and tell me not to harm my body, I have every right to choose how to spend my evenings after work aslong as I don’t affect anyone else, I pay tax I don’t steal or hurt anyone else. The same can be said for smokers, they no it can make the impotent cause cancer and numerous other diseases but hey still choose to smoke. People drink alcohol every weekend and cause an untold amount of trouble, they know it can kill you. Both these things are harmful yet they are accepted, what’s the difference with cannabis?

If you advocate that weed should remain illegal then surely you would like to criminalise tobacco, alcohol as well as the likes of Xanax and diazapan, can you imagine the drug squad kicking in the door and arresting people for having a bottle of bud and a fag? People have been smoking for hundreds if not thousands of years, cannabis seeds have been found in shamans groves dated from 2000+ years ago and we made it this far. Do you really think that if marijuana was legalised tomorrow everyone would go out and smoke it, of course not people are rational some like it some don’t, not everyone drinks but some people do and we don’t persecute them for drinking. Look at the Netherlands, beautiful country, and guess what? it’s not falling down, as a social experiment it has proven that a country in the modern era can thrive even when cannabis Is decriminalised.

There’s demand it’s cheap to make and sells for a lot of money, we already produce famous alcohol brands ie Jameson, why not weed? Please try and open your mind and see that these drug busts aren’t going to disappear, people will continue to harvest this plant aslong as there is demand, perhaps it would be better if we didn’t have to go through dealers that could be selling hard drugs but to a local pub/cafe setting. It only seems logical that if these people won’t stop growing this no matter what then why continue to lockup an endless list of people. Why not introduce regulation, at least on a trial basis and start treating it as a medical problem like we do with alcoholics and smokers, instead of being locked up we could provide education and let people chide in relation to how they treat their bodies.

#breakthetaboo the war on drugs has failed

Just legalise it, sure think of the tax revenue!

Strawberry flavour cannabis! Dragons den cud b on de cards

Not that I’m in drug trade, but Garda cannabis seizures and their street value estimates are laughable. Garda press release / divide by 5 or even 10 = real street value those people could get from it.

slaughter of the innocent’s..

In the us a $ 1,000 thermal imaging camera will spot a home lit up like a Christmas tree in August! Then they get a warrant for electrical usage. Case closed! Very simple

In fairness to the guards they are on the ball lately with all these drug finds,makes you wonder though the amount that is still going undetected

Should have known by the red thumbs…..show a Cannabis plant and the crusties come out in force!!!

Unbelievable how many people are in here advocating and supporting criminal behaviour and breaking the law; don’t say you’re not because this IS illegal.