Cocaine seizure - Dublin Port

A small bit naive to say weed isn't addictive.

Many people get addicted to it. You might try and isolate that to mean "weed on its own" isn't addictive, but that's not really a real world example. Plus although many more don't get technically addicted, they do have problems with its use (even if it's not an actual addiction).

I think they are both pretty terrible drugs in terms of harm. Those two plus alcohol really suck tbh.

bags of coke are miniscule in comparison, isnt pungent, easy to sell (too easy)

a few people will be murdered, and production will continue..... nothing to see here!

The value is something around €10m. A rounding error for those involved and won't be noticed.

I regretted replying once I seen who I was replying to.. but I had already written it so here we go..

Let me clarify, so there is no hedging :)

There are problems for many people with weed. To say they are addicted, not necessarily for all people in this category. On its own, many people say weed is not addictive (but of course it is and many people are addicted to it - Your sample size of one here didn't cover this). And when you step back a bit and consider why people use weed (or other substances for that matter) the concept of addiction becomes quite complex - something you of course allude to with your mental vs physical stuff.

So to be absolutely clear - weed is addictive its silly to say otherwise and on top of that for many people they have problems with it even if they themselves are not addictive.

Gardai said the €5 million Euro seizure will damage the pockets of the criminals this Christmas. The two million euro of cocaine will be destroyed by an incinerator in order to take it off the streets.

A spokesman for An Garda Siochana said they are pleased with the 500k seizure but it's a mere splash in the ocean of the illegal drugs being brought into the state on a weekly basis.

No I don't understand.

You said "Anyone who supports the war on drugs has even more blood on their hands".

Where's the blood?

Dissappointingly No arrests :(

having a couple of pure weed pipes a day is a great way to give up smoking tobacco too, once over the initial glum and withdrawal of nicotine after 2 months its easy to knock the pure weed pipe on the head if that's what you want.(so i've heard ! )

:) coke use is fairly widespread, id wager it’s in every pub in the country almost by now....

my local pub had to be swift to weed a certain element of aggressive coke dickhead out and had their security threatened in the process... a nice welcoming pub that began to get a bit out of hand on weekends at times as the ‘heads’ got barred from less salubrious establishments in the area. Security were visiting the bathrooms...as were Gardai who were doing the odd walk in / walk around ... the pub is owned by a well respected ex Garda and the other brother moves in political circles so there I’m sure was some influence in that I’d ‘guess’, but within weeks the coke users disappeared as fast as they arrived. I’m sure there would still be the odd one but tables of ‘heads’ is certainly a thing of the past..

Being a millionaire doesn't stop you being an asocial, aggressive twat on coke. And I'm fairly sure they all are.

Its a twats drug.

No it doesn't have to. Consent is not a defence against the statute of murder. You can tell me that you don't want to live any more and I can go to your house, and with your consent, shoot you in the head. I will still be found guilty of murder if it is proven that I did that.

As a recent well known example, Graham Dwyer allegedly murdered that poor lady with her consent.