Cocaine Destroying Rural Ireland

Nobody said that.

The point stands. İt's not an unbiased selection.

For a lad who uses, and advocates for drugs, you seem to live a sheltered life, parents have been paying off drug debts for years, as far back as the Celtic tiger times, I know people who used their SSIA savings back in the day to get dealers off their kids backs.

Some on here would have you believe cocaine is as harmless as a bag of smarties

Yeah, great.

Gang violence is a result of prohibition. If you support that failed, expensive and ineffective policy, then you should ask yourself why, instead of judging coke-users on their so-called lack of morality. We used to judge single women badly who wanted to have a different type of fun/enjoyment (sexual). Contraception and homosexuality were illegal. That has changed now, do you not think it's time to try a new approach with cocaine? Btw alcohol kills far more people than any illegal drug but I don't believe that should be banned.

Ffs.

Smarties are worse for health than cocaine....what a gobsh1te view that is.

good man - obviously break time in the mental hospital when you typed that little Pearl of wisdom.

I just did. It said for emergency room visits alcohol was involved for 39.33%, cocaine 4.71% in 2021. It also said for preventable hospital admissions they seemed to be all legal drugs, warfarin, insulin, benzodiazepines etc. Criminal justice? that's because it's illegal, we spend (waste) millions on police, courts, prison, why. It has hardly been a success, they say about 10% of illegal drugs are intercepted, when I went to school that was a massive fail in an exam. Robberies? we both know many millionaires who have taken coke. The actor Robin Williams said "Cocaine is God's way of saying you're making too much money" but a lot of working class people enjoy a few lines without having to resort to theft.

That is some hysterical nonsense. Wow.

The cocaine built Miami but it has destroyed Moycullen.

Sorry, just to be clear. Are you saying it's good the court rejected his plea of cannabis induced psychosis?

They didn't. He was found guilty of manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility.

He also had a history of telling his friends "he’d like to throw Ms McMonagle in front of a bus and that he wished to strangle her."

This is very much an outlier case. This is not typical of cannabis users, even very serious users. It's obvious the cannabis didn't help, but there was something else going on inside his head.

My argument for legalisation is so the cannabis can be labelled correctly so you can decide what strength you wish to ingest. If alcohol was illegal, it would make sense for bootleggers to make higher percentage booze (smaller bottle sizes, less chance of getting caught.) If booze was ever banned, you wouldn't be able to buy a beer at 4%, but you would easily get a spirit like whiskey or poitin at 40%. It's very much the same way in the drug trade. One reason weed is getting ridiculously stronger (and too strong for many) is that it makes financial sense to a dealer to have very strong weed at a higher price.

Counties most affected were Dublin, Cork, Wicklow and Limerick. Counties with large urban or suburban areas. It doesn’t specify whether these people live in urban areas i.e cities, towns or villages or in suburban areas.

No, it just means the Law is an Ass, as a famous writer said many years ago.