Cocaine Destroying Rural Ireland

I have absolutely no need to answer any of your questions. The bald fact of the matter is that cocaine is illegal for a reason. Alcohol is a restricted substance whether you like it or not and peoples lives are destroyed by people becoming addicted to both substances again, whether you like it or not. If you don't like the fact that cocaine is illegal, go nag your local TD. It's a poison. It doesn't bring any benefits to society. Alcohol is again restricted. Where you can buy it, who you can buy it from. You have to be 18 at a minimum to buy it. The list goes on. Again, if you don't like those restrictions, go nag your local TD

You don't have to agree with what I am saying and frankly I don't care if you do or not. Whether you agree with me or not will not change the fact that cocaine is an illegal poison and rightly so. Alcohol is restricted in terms of its production and sale in this country. As I said above, if you want any of these things changed, go nag your local TD. Whether you agree with me or not is irrelevant.

There's nothing stopping me going out and buying 50 litres and whiskey and drinking it all. Whisht with the "restricted substance".

You tarred everyone who likes a drink with the same brush when you made these posts:

You are very clearly implying that everyone who has one pint after work are going to be addicted to alcohol. Which of course, is utter tosh.

Can you name ONE community in Ireland that has been destroyed by cocaine, I'd like to google it. I believe people in affluent areas like Foxrock and D4 enjoy a few lines, the last time I looked they were the most expensive places in Ireland to buy a property. I'm from a council estate and I know several people from there who took it, hasn't destroyed that area either. Coke is not like a tsunami, earthquake or the the Luftwaffe, which are capable of destruction. It's an animate substance, you can choose to use or refuse.

Arsenic and cyanide are types of poison, cocaine is NOT. Otherwise Elton John, Eric Clapton and Ringo Starr would all be dead. They took lots of it decades ago and are still alive, well into their old age. If you check dictionary.com you won't see the word poison or poisonous in its definition.

You do seem quite animated by the subject. I don't have to share anything with you. Cocaine is illegal and it's use is illegal. It's a poison, that's good enough for me. As I said above, if you have an issue with that take it up with your local TD. Maybe he or she will advocate on your behalf.

They won't get much respite from it in oz. Everyone is on it based on my experience over here.

I'm glad you agreed, unlike the other poster (who said they don't have to share anything with me) that communities are NOT destroyed by cocaine. A google search said 7 out of 100 people (in Ireland) aged between 15 and 64 have tried it at some stage. Nearly 3% between the ages of 15 and 34 used it over the past year. I glanced at the recent Opinion Polls for Voters' concerns in the upcoming elections, their main problems were Housing, Cost of Living, Refugees etc. Coke didn't seem be near the top of the charts.

50% of young people in villages are on cocaine weekly?

Where did you get this statistic?

“cocaine has become a public health emergency that shows no sign of abating,” Gara says. “This is a drug that has somehow managed to keep its reputation as benign, even glamorous, but causes huge and fast addiction problems. Health issues that lead from heavy use are myriad, including strokes, heart palpitations, key arteries in the brain can blow.

There are many new users in their 50s and 60s – people who have never taken drugs before – who are suffering serious health problems as a result. And across the board we’re seeing devastating mental health impacts including depressive disorders, anxiety disorders and psychosis.”

it’s unfair and illegal competition though.

I think that’s the point the poster was making.

What about all the people that got hooked on opiates after being prescribed them for pain? Serious problem in the US. How did they chose the addiction?

You've spent a lot if time whitling down your argument to a very basic premise that is worlds away from your original standpoint, one that is extremly passive and that no one actually disagrees with you.

Not changed, whittled down. You're no longer spouting the "all drug consumers are addicts regardless if the legality of the drug" line because you know it's fallacy and your only point now is that "cocaine is illegal" - and we already knew that.

I'm not sure what kind of axe you're trying to grind and trying to put words in my mouth won't aid your cause. I'm not entirely sure why you care what my stance is on a given topic and frankly I don't care. The bald truth is that cocaine and other illegal drugs are illegal for a reason. In terms of alcohol, I have seen too many lives destroyed by alcoholism. Where it literally started with one drink in the evening after work. So, have a nice day.