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We're loaded with cocaine

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  • #32
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    hgfj wrote: »
    What's the average price for a gram of coke these days?
    About 60-80 where I am (Berlin)

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



  • #33
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 9,005 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    the dark phantom wrote: »
    How any guard especially a Chief Supt can think Cocaine use is more problematic than Heroin use is beyond me.

    I'd disagree. You have methadone for heroin. With coke, there's no maintainance. But in reality, drug abuse is a medical/societal issue rather than an criminal problem. Alcohol is a menace as well. It's about support services as well. I'm a psych pharmacist if that means anything.


  • #34
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    Our Gardai will now start wearing pastel suits and drive confiscated supercars.


  • #35
    Gimme A Pound
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,482 ✭✭✭Gimme A Pound


    retalivity wrote: »
    Is it really?

    Maybe I am completely out of the loop or in different circles, but I am a 35yo male living in Dublin, and I do not know anyone of my friends or colleagues that use it, or at least are public about it.

    So is it widely used but discreetly, or am I the anomaly?
    I'd say regular use of it is most commonplace among under 30s. Older than that and it's more of a special occasion thing.

    I think a big part of the problem is combining it with booze.


  • #36
    Blueshoe
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,957 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    But from the deep web. Same price but quality is way higher. Postman drops into your door


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  • #37
    SouthDublin6w
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 203 ✭✭SouthDublin6w


    Blueshoe wrote: »
    But from the deep web. Same price but quality is way higher. Postman drops into your door

    Only thing dropping into your door is the Kevin street drug squad.


  • #38
    rob316
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,702 ✭✭✭✭rob316


    It's absolutely huge, I could have a gram to my door in ten mins it's as easy to get as going to the off licence. It's still crazy expensive though in comparison to other countries. 100 a gram here, about 50 in Spain.

    I was in the 3 arena for a show recently the amount of lads queuing for the cubicles was unreal. They all weren't queuing to take a **** you can be sure.

    Sniff sniff


  • #39
    Blueshoe
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,957 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    SouthDublin6w wrote: »
    Only thing dropping into your door is the Kevin street drug squad.

    How wrong you are. I laughed a little.


  • #40
    El Tarangu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,649 ✭✭✭El Tarangu


    Stoner wrote: »
    Plus guys are killing each other to control the market

    This would be the main ethical consideration against doing cocaine for me: the fact that loads of innocent people are being murdered in drug wars in south and central America in the trade of the stuff. Plus the environmental impact.

    For those that still fancy a blast, ketamine is the less anti-social option: most of the ketamine in Ireland is medical-grade, sourced through official channels (albeit in dodgy ways). So rather than funding gangsters in Dublin and drug murders in Juarez, you're just helping out some vet who has made some poor some poor life choices...


  • #41
    gogo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,452 ✭✭✭gogo


    Had a great chat with the 18yr old nephew about this.. it wasn’t a thing when I was that age, well it was bit very far away from my reality.

    We are from a wealthy enough town, the kids have money in their back pockets. My nephew told me coke is the same as drink to his friends. He admitting trying it and not liking it, his circle of friends has split down the middle over it.. those that do and those that don’t.

    He is in leaving cert, two of his class mates have been shipped off after Christmas for ‘interventions’
    ....
    Half the class take downers to make it into school and uppers to keep them awake during class.. get half right by Monday evening and start all over again Friday evening.

    One of his friends was setting up for professional golf.. he hasn’t played since last year now, can’t commit to the early starts.. he has spent his college fund and more, his parents are unaware, children allowance has always been in his name as savings.. remember these are wealthy families.. their kids will do the right thing and no issue having the allowance mandated to little Jonny’s account for college’

    Trust me if it’s like this in my sleepy town everywhere else must be as bad surely. My nephew is great, too fond of the girls to be bothered with it but Christ it’s hard not to worry about him and his friends when it’s in a plate like this in front of them. I’m no prude, tried a lot in my day but coke was always a step too far..


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  • #42
    SouthDublin6w
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 203 ✭✭SouthDublin6w


    Blueshoe wrote: »
    How wrong you are. I laughed a little.

    Well you’d wanna talk to the lads who bought the grenades from pimlico or your man who bought the gun from blanch. Oh wait you can’t they are in portlaoise prison


  • #43
    SouthDublin6w
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 203 ✭✭SouthDublin6w


    gogo wrote: »
    Had a great chat with the 18yr old nephew about this.. it wasn’t a thing when I was that age, well it was bit very far away from my reality.

    We are from a wealthy enough town, the kids have money in their back pockets. My nephew told me coke is the same as drink to his friends. He admitting trying it and not liking it, his circle of friends has split down the middle over it.. those that do and those that don’t.

    He is in leaving cert, two of his class mates have been shipped off after Christmas for ‘interventions’
    ....
    Half the class take downers to make it into school and uppers to keep them awake during class.. get half right by Monday evening and start all over again Friday evening.

    One of his friends was setting up for professional golf.. he hasn’t played since last year now, can’t commit to the early starts.. he has spent his college fund and more, his parents are unaware, children allowance has always been in his name as savings.. remember these are wealthy families.. their kids will do the right thing and no issue having the allowance mandated to little Jonny’s account for college’

    Trust me if it’s like this in my sleepy town everywhere else must be as bad surely. My nephew is great, too fond of the girls to be bothered with it but Christ it’s hard not to worry about him and his friends when it’s in a plate like this in front of them. I’m no prude, tried a lot in my day but coke was always a step too far..

    In Dublin he’d be even more popular with the girls if he had a bag.


  • #44
    Blueshoe
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,957 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    SouthDublin6w wrote: »
    Well you’d wanna talk to the lads who bought the grenades from pimlico or your man who bought the gun from blanch. Oh wait you can’t they are in portlaoise prison

    What! Totally different things.
    Don't overestimate the abilities of the Garda or customs.

    Sure if the place is flooded with cocaine how is it getting in? We don't produce it in Ireland. Nor do we make guns. Yet they are here.
    Silly individual


  • #45
    SouthDublin6w
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 203 ✭✭SouthDublin6w


    Blueshoe wrote: »
    What! Totally different things.
    Don't overestimate the abilities of the Garda or customs.

    Sure if the place is flooded with cocaine how is it getting in? We don't produce it in Ireland. Nor do we make guns. Yet they are here.
    Silly individual


    Hang on a second you think the supply of cocaine is through the dark web your on ****ing serious drugs if you think that.

    I’d say it’s more got to do with the tankers floating into cork, and you call me silly.

    Someone call the hospital a patient has his phone.


  • #46
    Blueshoe
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    SouthDublin6w wrote: »
    Hang on a second you think the supply of cocaine is through the dark web your on ****ing serious drugs if you think that.

    I’d say it’s more got to do with the tankers floating into cork, and you call me silly.

    Someone call the hospital a patient has his phone.

    No I'm saying if enough cocaine and drugs to feed the country can come through checkpoints and port security then don't think it's too difficult to get a small bit through the post. Do you realise how much mail goes through sorting centres everyday.

    Packages are probably profiled due to the senders address and the look of the package. But people don't buy from the Netherlands or Peru.
    This is going on years in many many countries.


  • #47
    Gorgeousgeorge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,087 ✭✭✭Gorgeousgeorge


    I always knew it was about never bothered me each to their own an that until i was on a stag recently and 80% of the lads on it were flat out like henry hoovers for the weekend. A straightener they called it!

    To be fair it seemed to take them out of the drunken stooper and put a gallop in their step for the weekend.


  • #48
    Bigmac1euro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,591 ✭✭✭Bigmac1euro


    It’s rife, every cubicle you go into spot the baggy shoved down the back of the cistern or behind the toilet on the ground.


  • #49
    El_Bee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 933 ✭✭✭El_Bee


    retalivity wrote: »
    Is it really?

    Maybe I am completely out of the loop or in different circles, but I am a 35yo male living in Dublin, and I do not know anyone of my friends or colleagues that use it, or at least are public about it.

    So is it widely used but discreetly, or am I the anomaly?


    Well my experience has been the opposite unfortunately, the vast majority of people I know are perfectly fine with a doing a few bumps/lines on a night out, but then I do live in a ****hole. Also and this is of course merely rumour and tattle but the great and good are apparently powdering their noses in large numbers, famous sports stars, tv hosts ,and politicians all (allegedly) putting money in the pockets of violent drug dealers :(


  • #50
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,798 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    If it makes people feel good, let them. Their body, their choice. The whole "it funds criminality" thing is a total red herring since it's only because of the moronic policy of prohibition that there's any link at all between organised crime and recreational drugs.


  • #51
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,787 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    gogo wrote: »
    Had a great chat with the 18yr old nephew about this.. it wasn’t a thing when I was that age, well it was bit very far away from my reality.

    We are from a wealthy enough town, the kids have money in their back pockets. My nephew told me coke is the same as drink to his friends. He admitting trying it and not liking it, his circle of friends has split down the middle over it.. those that do and those that don’t.

    He is in leaving cert, two of his class mates have been shipped off after Christmas for ‘interventions’
    ....
    Half the class take downers to make it into school and uppers to keep them awake during class.. get half right by Monday evening and start all over again Friday evening.

    One of his friends was setting up for professional golf.. he hasn’t played since last year now, can’t commit to the early starts.. he has spent his college fund and more, his parents are unaware, children allowance has always been in his name as savings.. remember these are wealthy families.. their kids will do the right thing and no issue having the allowance mandated to little Jonny’s account for college’

    Trust me if it’s like this in my sleepy town everywhere else must be as bad surely. My nephew is great, too fond of the girls to be bothered with it but Christ it’s hard not to worry about him and his friends when it’s in a plate like this in front of them. I’m no prude, tried a lot in my day but coke was always a step too far..

    That's extraordinary. Especially it being common knowledge what the golfer is doing, but his parents not knowing. And the school should be doing something about rife drug taking amongst students. Schools have policies on drug taking.


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  • #52
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    SouthDublin6w wrote: »
    Blueshoe wrote: »
    But from the deep web. Same price but quality is way higher. Postman drops into your door

    Only thing dropping into your door is the Kevin street drug squad.
    They have to prove HE bought it!

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



  • #53
    Collie D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,586 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    hatrickpatrick wrote: »
    If it makes people feel good, let them. Their body, their choice. The whole "it funds criminality" thing is a total red herring since it's only because of the moronic policy of prohibition that there's any link at all between organised crime and recreational drugs.

    To an extent I agree. What someone wants to do is their own business once it doesn’t harm anyone else. And no, prohibition clearly doesn’t work and should be looked at.

    But that’s the situation we have in the here and now and buying coke will only result in some pretty vile people profiting. What anyone thinks should be legal has no bearing on that.


  • #54
    SouthDublin6w
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    Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »
    They have to prove HE bought it!

    Once he signs for a controlled delivery he is arrested and charged


  • #55
    SouthDublin6w
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 203 ✭✭SouthDublin6w


    Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »
    They have to prove HE bought it!

    https://www.google.ie/amp/s/amp.irishexaminer.com/ireland/jail-for-man-who-ordered-dark-net-grenades-464133.html


  • #56
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,798 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    Collie D wrote: »
    To an extent I agree. What someone wants to do is their own business once it doesn’t harm anyone else. And no, prohibition clearly doesn’t work and should be looked at.

    But that’s the situation we have in the here and now and buying coke will only result in some pretty vile people profiting. What anyone thinks should be legal has no bearing on that.

    It does, though. By refusing to allow that to force people to bow to prohibition, the message government should take is "the crime thing is your fault because your policy is wildly unpopular, but you refuse to change it. Do your job and listen to the public".


  • #57
    sabat
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,895 ✭✭✭sabat


    is_that_so wrote: »
    A whole lot of "normal" people see nothing wrong with an occasional line or two but they wouldn't ever go near needles.

    I knew a coke dealer back in the day who gave it up after he did an early morning delivery to a session and the guy buying it rolled up his sleeve to shoot it up.


  • #58
    Blueshoe
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,957 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    SouthDublin6w wrote: »
    https://www.google.ie/amp/s/amp.irishexaminer.com/ireland/jail-for-man-who-ordered-dark-net-grenades-464133.html

    Those are grenades not 100 euro worth of cocaine.


  • #59
    coastwatch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 912 ✭✭✭coastwatch


    Can you tell by their behaviour/ look, if someone in a pub(or anywhere) has snorted?

    Mixing alcohol and coke can be leathal (produces cocaethylene). Thats a bigger health risk than either alone.

    I was told by a doorman that if he barred suspected coke users, the pub/ dance venue would be empty


  • #60
    SouthDublin6w
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 203 ✭✭SouthDublin6w


    Blueshoe wrote: »
    Those are grenades not 100 euro worth of cocaine.

    It’s irrelvant, everything is monitored and if you think the Darkweb isn’t or VPns are safe have a chat with your man who set the Silk Road up he’s doing life without parole


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  • #61
    Always Tired
    Closed Accounts Posts: 945 ✭✭✭Always Tired


    sabat wrote: »
    I knew a coke dealer back in the day who gave it up after he did an early morning delivery to a session and the guy buying it rolled up his sleeve to shoot it up.

    Did he think people were putting it into the back of the fridge to get rid of foul odors?


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