Drug taking on the streets - how can this be resolved?

sporina

Apologies if there is a thread on this already but with the search function not working I can't find one..

So I live in Cork City and sick of seeing people openly taking drugs on the streets in the middle of the day...

Are the government doing anything about this? The cops? Something must be done for so many reasons... most of all kids should not have to see this..

Thoughts people?

Witcher

Cops?

Have I been transported to New York?

Agent Coulson

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igCorcaigh

Are you talking about heroin consumption?

I'm of the opinion that safe heroin should be provided to registered addicts in a clinical environment. Perhaps these people have no home to go and consume? Our drug laws are woefully inadequate and out of date, but this discussion has been had many times.

I personally haven't come across this in the city.

2021 and still not a single safe injection facility anywhere in the country is a disgrace.

High Court threw out Merchants Quay planning permission in the summer as the local school objected to it claiming, irrationally, that it would exacerbate the drug problem in the area.

That's what we're up against in this country. Backwards thinking.

Fandymo

I'd get banned if I said what should happen to them. Too many bleeding hearts around nowadays to do anything about them.

sporina

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117872952#Comment_117872952

I assume so.. was walking thru St Peter and Paul Pl a few days ago - eve - and a gang wer heating something up on tinfoil - heroin or crack - where ever.. and was walking up Widderling's lane a few hrs ago and 3 lads wer panned out on the steps - and there was a smell.. not booze..

And have seen lots of other activity but you get the picture

85603

Create a credible threat of it being confiscated, and on very loose terms.

Any even remote belief in the mind of a junkie that someone could take their precious will have them hiding better than anne frank.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117872821#Comment_117872821

Really?

lol

That's the part of the story you take issue with?

corner of hells

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117873285#Comment_117873285

Are you sure they weren't cooking a chicken ?

Collie D

On a slightly related note is the weed today a lot stronger? I can smell the stuff long before I see the smoker. Haven’t smoked in years and reckon whatever the young lads are smoking these days would put me in a coma.

Pauliedragon

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117873413#Comment_117873413

Funny u say that. I used to smoke daily until about 15 years ago (all hash then) had a bit a couple of times with a old friend I've been catching up with lately. 2 drags I couldn't speak properly for half an hr. Felt like a zombie.

On point get the injection rooms going worked wonders in Sydney when I was there.

Richard Hillman

I would not like a safe injecting facility in my community, therefore I would not support inpinging it on another area.

Atlantic Dawn

There's ex heroin adicts on methadone for 20 plus years, a complete soft touch treatment which isn't resolving the problem. I'd see them at first light in the city centre awaiting collection of their methadone, such a complete waste of a human life.

retalivity

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117873025#Comment_117873025

Ridiculous to plan to put an injection clinic in the middle of a city, next to a school in the first place.

Stick it down the docks or in the middle of an industrial estate, away from the general public who have to engage with these wasters daily.

cnocbui

legalise them and provide places for their consumption. I believe the latter at least is what the Swiss did to get it out of view in public parks.

For Forks Sake

Less streets. Problem solved/

Pauliedragon

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117873567#Comment_117873567

I get ur point but the options basically are they shoot up on the street in the middle of the city or out of the way in a safe room. Which is better? I'm in Cork I know where OP is talking about as does everybody else who visits the city regularly. The gards obviously don't care as they must know aswell. Get them off the street into a room it cleans the street up and they can get the help they need if it's set up properly. I'm repeating myself but I've seen first hand how effective it can be.

ro_chez

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117873481#Comment_117873481

That's because you were smoking soap bar daily pal, full of plastic and all sorts of adulterants, ubiquitous in the late 90's and early thousands but the only high you were getting with that **** was from solvents.

Thank god we have proper cannabis as the norm these days

Lewis_Benson

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058208213/drug-taking-on-the-streets-how-can-this-be-resolved

Snipers on the roof tops.

Cleanup crews going round in vans to collect the bodies...

Jequ0n

God forbid children saw anything that might scare them. Best to keep them locked away at home forever, wrapped in bubble wrap with a titanium helmet on.

corner of hells

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117875512#Comment_117875512

Is it possible you've been taking drugs.

chicorytip

We do not need state sponsored shooting galleries.

cnocbui

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117879001#Comment_117879001

Then the streets it is.

BobHopeless

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117873255#Comment_117873255

You'll have the same view of middle and upper class people snorting coke at house parties of course.

Fandymo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117879804#Comment_117879804

Why would I? The topic is JUNKIES, ON THE STREETS. I’ve yet to have a middle or upper class person threaten to stab me with a rolled up €50 because I wouldn’t give them money. Or panned out on the street unconscious.

Dyr

Maybe put a shooting up room in a secure facility where junkies can be kept safe and sound and the rest of us can get on with our lives