I agree completely, now back to Battlefield 3 on a Friday night, no need for alcohol for me to relax on the weekend!

Nenagh, Nenagh, Nenagh….

To legalise cannabis would be like opening yet ANOTHER portal in Irish society through which Satan could work his way into the minds of our youth!

Mairead. That is hillarious. I think Satan should work his way into our minds. He seems a lot more fun than Jesus.

Legalise
Regulate
Tax.

Mairead, it’s time to come back to the real world.

Isn’t the cannabis plant part of God’s creation? Why would he decide to create a portal for Satan to weasel his way into the minds of young people? Or was it that he lost his concentration for a while? Seems a bit of a novice’s error to me.

legalise it but dont tax or regulate it… its a plant ! regulations and tax’s wont change how its used or have any changes to safety

oliver stone made an interesting point that one of the main groups lobbying against cannabis legalisation in california state were the prison guard union..his argument being they feared they wud have less inmates and ultimately less/no work if legalised..

It’s ridiculous keeping this medicine in the hands of criminals and drug dealers. The cost of policing this non-toxic plant matter is ridiculous aswell as keeping the safer alternatives to alcohol, cigarettes and caffeine the only option for adults to use. This spills out clogging up the emergency services time and money. There is no known dosage of cannabis that is lethal because no one has ever died from it’s use in thousands of years.

Think if you could legally grow a number of plants say 8-10 you’d be giving people the ability for economic freedom, the result could well be a drop in dole numbers aswell as the complimentary shops and services that come along with this plant.

Fill our empty run-down desolate streets with culture and music like they should be!

Finally anyone who is sick or knows someone who is sick should read and watch these and then pass on the information…

http://www.cannabisscience.com/news-a-media/breaking-news.html
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=cannabis+cancer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0psJhQHk_GI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tghUh4ubbg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIyjK–8pG4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Pl-B581jms&feature=player_embedded#!

Actually the drug can cause harm for example while it can suppress the growth of some tumors it actually helps other types to grow faster. Not to mention the fact that it slows reactions speeds and has been known to be a mild hallucinogenic drug. Plenty of research has shown that it can be detrimental to your health. Just 3 Cannabis joints are as harmful to your lungs as 20 cigarettes. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2419713.stm

So instead of buying into the propaganda o people like Zoltar why don’y YOU read into BOTH sides of the argument.

First read this…
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/25/AR2006052501729.html
a little more up to date article than your link.

Then you can watch brain cancer being extracted through the use of cannabinoids out of this mans skull
http://cannabisscience.com/download/patientthree_july302012_update8.pdf
if you like

and finally if someone’s sensible enough to care about their lungs they can use a vaporizer. it’s their choice

Can’t believe someone disliked this.

Yeah three big cheers for the Gardai for arresting someone for having a plant.

The Gardai did their job and like it or lump it the drug is illegal and rightly so, last thing we need is idiots using it whilst driving….in fairness its bad enough with people drinking and we have enough HSE costs with smoking also so why introduce another drug which a small minority in Ireland think is ok.

People shouldn’t use cannabis and drive. Totally agreed.
And people who take a drink shouldn’t drive either because they are a danger to others.
Is guinness or whiskey being pulled from all the shelves. No? I wonder why not. Who decided that?
If someone decides to use cannabis for their own personal use and is of no danger to anyone else then the Govt as a public body has no authority to interfere with the private affairs of any Irish Man or Woman.

When has smoking weed ever caused anybody misery? Those darn potheads they keep playing pink floyd too loud, watching 80′s sci fi and they keep eating all my hot and spicy doritos!
Now alcohol ,that is a real scourge on humanity. I have never heard of anybody smash up a bus shelter, get in a fight or throw up i the street if they have been smoking a bit a weed. Cannabis is like Alcohol. Some people can’t handle it well and act like an idiot, and like alcohol it should only be taken in moderation. If you want to tackle Ireland’s alcohol problem, Legalise cannabis. Its a drug that does far less social harm than alcohol
The Gardai can’t afford to waste their resources on things like these.There are real crimes to be solved

If you’re talking about the 5-10% of people that might have an issue with cannabis you’re being blind, these are most likely unhappy people that could be addicted to anything, they should be helped not criminalized. Alot of people treat their alcoholism with cannabis as it’s physically non addictive. The misery and violence comes from the hand of authority in dealing with these harsh laws .

Examples in other countries show a drastic drop in hard drug use when decriminalized / legalized.

TLDR

TL:DR

That’s an essay not a comment.

To be honest I didn’t expect much.

People go, “Oh it should be legalised”, but when they’re asked how exactly it should be done all you get is flippancy. I’m generally all for flippancy, but if you really cared about it happening you wouldn’t be flippant.

@Damocles,
I think the general consensus here on The Journal is that all these raids are a waste of Garda resources.
When people say legalise it, I believe they really mean decriminalise it (or at least decriminalise it).
There’s no need to suggest how it actually should be done. All we need to do is draw on the experience of other countries (several of which are EU countries) that have already done so.
Here’s a map of interest:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:World-cannabis-laws.png

I didn’t imagine any of the potheads would have the attention span to read that Damocles.

Very good point though, where do you begin and who do you go about it?

A rational place to begin would be an informed recognition that not all cannabis smokers: a) are permanently stoned, or b) suffer from a lack of attention span. Just as all drinkers are not alcoholics or slobbering eejits.
How (not “who”) you go about it, is by legalising a modest level of personal home-grown possession, as several other countries already do.