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How long before Marijuana will be legalised?

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  • 23-04-2018 12:07AM
    #1
    OU812
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,114 ✭✭✭


    Obviously, a referendum isn't necessary, but with the likely outcome of this referendum repealing the 8th amendment & making Abortion legal in Ireland & considering we've legalised same-sex marriage, is there any harm in legalising weed?

    When you consider the medical & social benefits, reducing crime statistics & increasing tax take, wouldn't the sensible option be to legalise it & take advantage of the benefits?

    According to the Washington Post, in states where it's been legalised, teen usage hasn't increased, violent crimes have reduced & tax take has increased.

    Would you vote to legalize marijuana? 11 votes

    Yes
    0% 0 votes
    No
    100% 11 votes


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    #2
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,596 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    Far too much influence from big pharma for it ever to be legalized in this country.


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    #3
    Rikand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 20,987 ✭✭✭✭Rikand


    42.0 years


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    Muahahaha
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    About 18-24 months after the UK legalises it


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    #5
    thebull85
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    I reckon be another 20 years minimum before its legalised in the UK, so 25-30 years here.


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    henryforde80
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    When Snoop Dogg runs for Taoiseach.


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    Arghus
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    20 years.

    And depending on how stoned you are that could feel like like anything from 25 to 50 years.


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    #8
    pleas advice
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    Rikand wrote: »
    42.0 years

    on the 4th of octendecimber


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    #9
    NIMAN
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    You should have grown out of the urge by the time its legalised.

    Don't be an old stoner, its not a good look.


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    #10
    Pac1Man
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    Don't know but I'm fast running out of pain pills here and wouldn't mind sampling some brownies with black coffee on a Saturday morning.


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    fleet
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    Muahahaha wrote: »
    About 18-24 months after the UK legalises it

    This, and virtually unmodified except for any bits thst look complicated. Like virtually all our law, still apeing the mainland.


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    posturingpat
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    Pac1Man wrote: »
    Don't know but I'm fast running out of pain pills here and wouldn't mind sampling some brownies with black coffee on a Saturday morning.

    Hemp oil can now be bought in lots of Pharmacies contrary to popular belief. Check out a few and have a chat with them.


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    #13
    Ahhhh for forks sake!
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 143 ✭✭Ahhhh for forks sake!


    The Vintners will never allow it to be legalised for recreational use.


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    facehugger99
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    We effectively had legalised drug use when those smart shops were going - only took a couple of outraged old biddys phoning Joe Duffy to have them all closed at the stroke of a pen.

    I reckon another 20-30 years.


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    SEPT 23 1989
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    facehugger99 wrote: »
    We effectively had legalised drug use when those smart shops were going - only took a couple of outraged old biddys phoning Joe Duffy to have them all closed at the stroke of a pen.

    I reckon another 20-30 years.

    I think it had more to do with people jumping out of windows and trying to cut their eyes out while out of their heads

    Terrible things those aul drugs

    Pint when your ready there please


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    #16
    6541
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    Very soon, governments are realizing that it is possible to raise loads of tax on it.


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    [Deleted User]
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    I reckon in the next 10 years but I guarantee the government will make a balls of it and award the first licences to huge pharmaceutical companies instead of trying to encourage small indigenous start ups.


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    #18
    [Deleted User]
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    Vote for the Greens at the next election, they want an Amsterdam type set up and have made it part of their election manifesto.


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    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    jh79 wrote: »
    Vote for the Greens at the next election, they want an Amsterdam type set up and have made it part of their election manifesto.

    They also want open door immigration, so no.


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    #20
    [Deleted User]
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    We were talking about this subject 30 years ago. It seemed like a pipe dream (pardon the pun) at the time.

    It's looking like it will be available medically in the next few years. I still think that we are years maybe decades away from be legal to have it to be get stoned


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    #21
    wexie
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    jh79 wrote: »
    Vote for the Greens at the next election, they want an Amsterdam type set up and have made it part of their election manifesto.
    Richard Hillman wrote: »
    They also want open door immigration, so no.


    Be a half decent movieplot in stoned terrorists...

    Kinda like 4 Lions meets Cheech and Chong :D


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    #22
    Kimbot
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    Anyone see Netflix US twitter post on 4/20?

    Read something like this "We have disabled the Are you still watching feature, we know your too high to respond today" haha


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    #23
    Mossy Monk
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    With all the tax money that will be earned I'd say it will be legalised within 10 years.


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    #24
    Wanderer78
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    Legalise the lot, moving on....


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    #25
    Ahhhh for forks sake!
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 143 ✭✭Ahhhh for forks sake!


    Why is the stuff even illegal? I was having a conversation in work the other day and non one could see the logic.

    All of the responses were along the lines of “sure cannabis makes you high, getting high is bad”, when I asked them why it’s bad, they just keep going around in a circular argument.

    I asked them if they drink, most replied “yes”.

    Hypocrisy.


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    #26
    JohnnyFlash
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    My sister works as a psychiatrist nurse. Says the weed lads are smoking these days is very dangerous. Nothing like the stuff of old. Extremely strong and cheap. There’s a huge rise in the amount of them presenting to mental health services with severe psychosis and paranoid delusions.


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    #27
    CruelCoin
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    We've gone from forced labour camps for single mothers to gay marriage and soon abortion, in what? 30 years?

    At that rate, this will up for debate and voting sometime in the early 2020s.


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    #28
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Never mind marijuana - when will LSD become legal?!

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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    #29
    Kimbot
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    Ahhhh for forks sake! wrote: »
    Why is the stuff even illegal? I was having a conversation in work the other day and non one could see the logic.

    All of the responses were along the lines of “sure cannabis makes you high, getting high is bad”, when I asked them why it’s bad, they just keep going around in a circular argument.

    I asked them if they drink, most replied “yes”.

    Hypocrisy.

    I believe it was first made illegal when there was talk of hemp replacing cotton as the main item used to make clothing. All those cotton plantations would have been left to rot if hemp got in so it was made illegal. Or so some stories go :D


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    Franz Von Peppercorn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,070 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn


    Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »
    Never mind marijuana - when will LSD become legal?!

    Nevah


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    #31
    Kimbot
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    Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »
    Nevah

    What you on about Willis...... Its legal to take in After Hours or didnt you hear? :pac:


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