Cannabis to be legalised 😁!

Was in New York recently. Smell of pot everywhere was stomach churning.

Most shocking thing about this is to discover some people still call it "pot"

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Have you been around Dublin recently? I’m surprised at how open and brazen people are with smoking joints in public.

I can’t wait till it’s legal and easily got . Sitting around all day doing F all isn’t great for the appetite , plus it’s brilliant for spasms and pain . I tried CBD oil and it’s completely useless.

If they price legal weed out of the market , what’s to be expected . This nanny country will tax it out of all people. While giving themselves dail pay rises

Is it legal ? Plus to do it right you need lights and heat. Tell me more 😷

Where do you buy the finished product online ?

Silly move. Lots of studies reveal that smoking cannabis regularly increases a persons risk of developing lung problems, certain cancers and other health problems….so whatever impact that may have on the German health system which is btw a system rated amongst the best in the world… top 4 im reading…. Adding it here to Ireland with our problems…. ? Nahhh , keep it banned, sorry… 😉

You’re completely right. The future is edibles.

Alcohol and cigarettes are causing huge health and mental issues. Do we want to add to this with weed as well? The dangers cannabis causes especially for young people is always downplayed by those who want cannabis legalised for their own selfish reasons.

No it’s not.

I have never met someone pro legislation that wants cannabis available to teenagers.

Most want it for adults over 21, as the brain is still forming in your late teens and I’m pretty sure it’s been shown that cannabis damages brains that are still forming.

Regulating it won’t guarantee it, but it should make it harder for teens to get their hands on it than it is at present.

I completely disagree

That's fine.

But when I'm walking down the street and I get the bang of that stuff, it usually turns out that two seconds later I see where it's coming from and they're generally not lads I want to go near. Most people don't go around on the street puffing on that junk during the day and in some cases, it's all day. Folk like that are best avoided.

I’ve seen first hand the damage that cannabis can inflict on young people so you won’t find any arguments here on that score.

This debate has similarities to the abortion/same sex referenda. There will be people using fear as a deterrent but let’s wait and see what the reality holds. Cannabis has been prohibited for over 100 years by vested interests in the pharma/alcohol industries. Maybe they have selfish reasons too.

I live in Dublin, close to town. Goth kids in Temple Bar notwithstanding, by and large the people puffing away are not people you want to approach.

Trust me.

You're comparing people wanting to smoke weed anytime they want to a woman's autonomy over their own bodies or people being allowed to get married? This is the type of attitude I was talking about. You know of the dangers of cannabis but you don't care as long as you get to light up.

I haven't smoked in years but when I did, I grew. You can buy a small grow tent and the setup you need in Ireland. There's sites online that do it. lots of gardening centers will sell most of the stuff you need. A small tent will have space for 1-2 plants. when you include all the potting stuff and lights you're talking about 200-300 euro depending on how much you want to spend. You can order the seeds online from Amsterdam. You can get plants that are a higher yield and get 50 grams of bud per plant. And you can grow a couple of times a year. Or there's some plants which have lower yields that can bud in about 60ish days so you can even have up to 5-6 harvests a year.

As for how you do it all, there's loads of guides online.

I'd recommend anyone in ireland who's a regular smoker to grow their own and cut out the dealers. Although most low level dealers are nice people who just sell for a bit of extra money, you're still giving money to the higher up's who are scum. If you have to smoke, growing your own is the most ethical way to do it.

The German legislation change - as currently proposed - is not as reasonable as it appears from the outside.

The Greens came in all guns blazing during election campaign and are now dragging their feet and in tandem with their coalition partners seem to be getting sucked into the ever present German overregulation madness.

Limits, restrictions exceptions, so many plants at home, taxes, this and that.

In the end after two years nothing has actually happened yet and one of the main goals - taking load of the criminal/justice system - seems to be turned into the opposite. Expect to have your home raided to ensure you dont have 4 plants instead of the allowed 3. :/

When I was in San Francisco I smelled more weed than i did in Amsterdam. It's everywhere.

What are the negatives? Weed is incredibly easy to get. I can walk around Dublin and smell it already. People are getting stoned everywhere. It's in every part of the country and everyone would know someone who could get it for them.

A benefit is to take the biggest illegal drug out of the hands of criminals. Yes, you can tax it too. In many jurisdictions it's generated loads of money. You regulate the growing which means that you get safer product. You can limit the strength.

And here's a big benefit, you don't make criminals out of people who just want to get stoned and relax.

You seem to just dislike people who smoke weed. You even referred to them as junkies. And you don't want to be around them. Does not liking an activity mean it should be illegal. If you don't like drunk people walking down the street, should alcohol be illegal?

Can you back up any of the negatives of legalisation with actual stats? Weed has been legalised in many jurisdictions. You should be able to demonstrate how it's negatively affected societies there.