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Should cannabis be legalized and regulated

Smartypants89 · 2017-09-11 17:10:39

I dont use cannabis myself but the way things are going on the streets with all these shootings would we be better of legalizing it and regulating it therefore taking the money out of the criminals hands. Prohibition didn't work in America just made more work for police not to mention the crap that the bootleggers were…

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11-09-2017 6:10pm

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Smartypants89

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I dont use cannabis myself but the way things are going on the streets with all these shootings would we be better of legalizing it and regulating it therefore taking the money out of the criminals hands. Prohibition didn't work in America just made more work for police not to mention the crap that the bootleggers were trying to sell as alcohol poisoning the people. These big gangsters like kinahan and others have been created threw prohibition supply and demand.

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#2 11-09-2017 6:12pm
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Has to be worth a try, prohibition has failed.

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#3 11-09-2017 6:25pm
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I was going to write a long treatise on this but no point as it will be gone soon.

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#4 11-09-2017 6:32pm
Smartypants89

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Graham Young Shrewdness wrote: »

I was going to write a long treatise on this but no point as it will be gone soon.

Why will it be gone soon is discussion not up to your standards?

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#5 11-09-2017 6:43pm
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Maybe admin won't be happy smartypants

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#6 11-09-2017 6:46pm
Smartypants89

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mark085 wrote: »

Maybe admin won't be happy smartypants

Maybe so but I don't see anything wrong with people voicing there opinion.

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#7 11-09-2017 6:47pm
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I wouldn't stop at cannabis. You can see open dealing in Dublin of everything. It goes on, it's not stopped by the guards, so it's effectively legal in some sense, so why not take it all out of scummers hands?

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#8 11-09-2017 6:48pm
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There's already a thread discussing all of this..

http://touch.boards.ie/thread/2057662352/1

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#9 11-09-2017 6:49pm
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Smartypants89 wrote: »

Maybe so but I don't see anything wrong with people voicing there opinion.

It never seemed to work for you before though.

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#10 11-09-2017 6:52pm
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Graham Young Shrewdness wrote: »

It never seemed to work for you before though.

What never seemed to work before?

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#11 11-09-2017 6:53pm
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This isn't a Consumer Issue. I suggest posting in the ongoing AH thread

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057662352

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