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How much would Cocaine cost if it was fully legal ?

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  • #62
    PokeHerKing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,037 ✭✭✭PokeHerKing


    Obviously it would need to be worldwide for it to work properly. If Ireland legalised cocaine it doesn't remove the illegality of world supply. So criminality would still be heavily involved.

    It would put all the criminals out of jobs but the reason it's not legalised world wide is it would put the legal professions out of jobs as well.



  • #63
    highdef
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,524 ✭✭✭highdef


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121542016#Comment_121542016

    We should legalise all the other popular drugs as well and not just pick and choose some of them.....very discriminatory. Heroine would be a very popular one, apparently that gives users a great hit. I've taken neither Cocaine nor Heroine (or any other "hard" drug) but from some of the comments here, Cocaine seems to be similar to having an alcoholic beverage or two. Sure what harm could it do? Less calories than alcohol as well. We can all get drunk on cocaine and be physically fit. What could possibly go wrong???



  • #64
    PokeHerKing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,037 ✭✭✭PokeHerKing


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121546574#Comment_121546574

    Cocaine and heroin might as well be legal. They're readily available at all hours day and night. Legalising it completely might actually make it slightly harder to get due to workers rights 😂

    If you don't drink do you worry about what goes on in pubs? No.

    Be the same for cocaine/heroin. If you're not a user it doesn't affect you. Same as current situation.



  • #65
    highdef
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,524 ✭✭✭highdef


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121546591#Comment_121546591

    I've seen the effects that cocaine has had on people. I can comfortably say that people who are "coked off their heads" are not the most pleasant to deal with in a social setting so a non-user, it does affect me from time to time.



  • #66
    PokeHerKing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,037 ✭✭✭PokeHerKing


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121546642#Comment_121546642

    I'm an infrequent user of cocaine and I would say drunks are much worse to deal with on average.

    Regardless. It doesn't change the fact. You're experiencing it anyway. So legalise/regulate it and you at least wipe out the criminality associated with supplying it.

    In my mind its an open goal for society. The only people who see the downside are the people profiting from the continued illegality ie dealers and legal professionals.



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  • #67
    Big Gerry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 902 ✭✭✭Big Gerry


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121542684#Comment_121542684


    Not if it was dirt cheap like a similar price to washing powder.



  • #68
    Big Gerry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 902 ✭✭✭Big Gerry


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121544500#Comment_121544500


    It would be so cheap that you could run your washing machine on pure cocaine.



  • #69
    Big Gerry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 902 ✭✭✭Big Gerry


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121544625#Comment_121544625


    I doubt people would want to buy black market cocaine if they had the option of buying pharma grade cocaine which has being through proper quality control.



  • #70
    Big Gerry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 902 ✭✭✭Big Gerry


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121546531#Comment_121546531

    Marijuana is just a plant but cocaine can be cut with god knows what.



  • #71
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 38,384 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121542179#Comment_121542179

    This country is well and truly fúcked if politicians start thinking that the shytehawks who phone into Liveline are somehow representative of public opinion. People who literally have nothing better to do on a weekday afternoon.

    These AAI morons and the idiot politicians in thrall to them have made alcohol expensive and hard to get which only makes taking drugs more attractive, teenagers will always be trying to get out of their bin on something (car parks everywhere are full of empty nitrous oxide cans), drink isn't harm-free but it's less harmful than most.

    I'm partial to your abracadabra,

    I'm raptured by the joy of it all.



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  • #72
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,383 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    People wouldn't trust the Goverment to supply cocaine. It would be laced with Covid vaccines, and those micro dots that get into your brain.

    But to be fair to Tescos and in all honesty, I am sure that I may have read somewhere that they want to get into the cocaine business. Ordinary Irish People find it impossible to buy alcohol in Tescos now because of the AI. And those that can get it have to pay twenty eight Euros or something like that. Cocaine would take up far less space.



  • #73
    Tomaldo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 726 ✭✭✭Tomaldo


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121544795#Comment_121544795child rape involves a non-consenting victim, taking cocaine is totally consensual. Also people get enjoyment from coke, no kid enjoys being raped. Apart from being illegal, there is no comparison between the two.



  • #74
    Tomaldo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 726 ✭✭✭Tomaldo


    "Target the users" According to Drugs.ie, 8% of the population have used it in their lifetime, about 400,000, 2% in the past year, over 100,000. We don't have enough Garda, court or prison resources. Non-runner, the war is very far from being won. Where will the money come from to implement your suggestion



  • #75
    con747
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123649772#Comment_123649772

    You do know you replied to a banned poster in a 2 year old thread I hope.

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  • #76
    Tomaldo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 726 ✭✭✭Tomaldo


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123649810#Comment_123649810

    no, what was he/she banned for? I was just challenging the opinion, other posters agreed with it. Anyway, texters to Pat Kenny the other day were suggesting something similar, I despair.



  • #77
    con747
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123649812#Comment_123649812

    I have no idea! I was just letting you know!

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  • #78
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 22,488 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    Sounds grand



  • #79
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,522 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    shaming shame, generally doesnt resolve shame! we need to start moving towards a more legalised approach, to truly try resolve the issues that lead to addiction, shame being the main one!



  • #80
    Hasbaralies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9 ✭Hasbaralies


    Maybe link the price of a line/bump to the price of a pint of guiness?



  • #81
    highdef
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,524 ✭✭✭highdef


    How was AI stopped adults from buying alcohol in Tesco? I've not encountered any AI issues that stopped me from doing so.



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  • #82
    jamieon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 143 ✭✭jamieon


    I am sure there are a few junkies on the boards that could enlighten you



  • #83
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,894 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    'bout tree fiddy



  • #84
    Larbre34
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,191 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123650231#Comment_123650231

    No, we don't. We need to start putting a boot on the throat of everyone from grower to user, insofar as that is possible.

    Why should the rest of society bear the cost of people's weakness and self-indulgence?

    And before you ask, yes, I do feel the same about smokers, alcoholics and bloaters.

    Your failings are not everyone else's problem.



  • #85
    BP_RS3813
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 660 ✭✭✭BP_RS3813


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123660723#Comment_123660723

    The issue is some people feel they have a right to take whatever sh*t they feel like. I feel the exact same way as you.

    Its not that hard to never touch drugs. Its simple - don't even look at them. Stop trying them just because you want to experiment or some sh*t.

    Also most humans act contradictory to what they should be doing. We all know smoking is bad yet people do for some god forsaken reason. Look at Rodrigo Duterte who was president in the Philippines - your one who had 30,000 people killed(I think that was the roughly estimated amount?) etc. People still did drugs knowing that the police would drag you out back and shoot you in the head for just being associated with drugs whether they could prove it or not.

    I'd just prefer banning things entirely. Even if we legalised cocaine and made it so unaffordable that people would damage themselves financially to keep the habit up. Look at smoking in Ireland.



  • #86
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,277 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123660604#Comment_123660604

    + VAT

    Not your ornery onager



  • #87
    Tomaldo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 726 ✭✭✭Tomaldo


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123660723#Comment_123660723

    Yes we do.The Citizens Assembly recommended decriminalisation for personal use and it was endorsed by a Dail committee. The Government hasn't acted on this advice, yet, but I doubt they'll implement your unattainable, unaffordable and puritanical suggestion. It's a non-runner for financial reasons. Think of the costs, extra gardai/court resources and prison spaces. Also many cocaine users are high-achieving, self-made millionaires, they haven't exactly been failures nor would they require taxpayers' money if a minority of them required help.



  • #88
    PokeHerKing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,037 ✭✭✭PokeHerKing


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123660796#Comment_123660796

    So you admit people continue to use drugs even under fear of being dragged out back and shot but still think we should continue the criminalised route?

    Is that not an oxymoron?



  • #89
    PokeHerKing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,037 ✭✭✭PokeHerKing


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123660723#Comment_123660723

    Why should people who enjoy a tipple or a bump pay the cost for the small percent that become an issue?

    Criminalistion has failed. It enriches cartels and legal professionals. Thats the cost to society.



  • #90
    BP_RS3813
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 660 ✭✭✭BP_RS3813


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123664690#Comment_123664690

    No its not and my example was to point out how humans are stupid, illogical creatures. Logic would say dont go near the substance that you've been taught from a young age is bad and will have consequences if you try it.

    Its really not that hard - don't smoke, take drugs etc.

    Curiosity killed the cat.



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  • #91
    Man Vs ManUre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,816 ✭✭✭Man Vs ManUre


    I love Coke and drink 2 cans a day. It’s worth paying the price for real deal, as the Lidl Fenway Cola just tastes weird. Sure it’s full of sugar and makes a bit giggly and gives me man boobs, but it’s just so yummy. In Mexico everyone is crazy for fizzy drinks and most people are flabby.



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