Values of today that will be embarrassing/outmoded in 30 years time

Tha Gopher wrote: »

Think of the amount of countries between here and Afghanistan that want to get their hands on that soap.


The Irish government will all but win its war on cannabis primarily due to our geographical position.

Yeah so they can let a kilo of smoke go to the Iranians for next to nothing or they can transport it all the way to Ireland and get top dollar. Which do you think they'd do? And besides theres more than enough to go around in Afghanistan, Nepal, northern India, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Philipinnes, Indonesia. Theres simply no lack of the stuff in the world and there no stopping people getting it here. Only 10% of what is coming in is getting caught by the cops, even they acknowledge that.

The Irish govt. is losing the 'war on cannabis' primarily by our geographical position. Go figure, less than 10 boats in the Navy, over 1000 miles of convoluted coastline with hundreds of bays and inlets. Ive sailed to Ireland from England on a yacht before and trust me, for all the attention customs paid us we could have had the whole galley stuffed with dope and they'd have been none the wiser. Smuggling by water to Ireland is as easy as taking candy off a baby my friend and the fact you think otherwise just goes to show your total lack of knowledge on this topic.

Take the ongoing case in Cork for example. The boys on that boat had 420m euro worth of cocaine on them. The only reason they got caught was because one of the muppets put diesel into the petrol engine of the rib they were using to get it onshore. ( Bet he'll be popular in prison:-). The cops admitted they came across it by total fluke when people reported bags of coke washing up on the beach. They knew nothing of it, nor did the Navy or Customs and Excise.Now lets contrast this 420m euro worth of charlie with the statistics you linked to. In the whole of 2007 they hauled a total of 120m euro of coke. So in other words in one single haul which happened by total fluke they got nearly three times the amount than the whole year of 2007.
And you say the Guards are winning the war on drugs? When they dont even know about a cargo coming in that is worth nearly half a billion? Codswallop !

Tha Gopher wrote: »

Cannabis legalisation.

Cannabis, IMO, will be virtually unobtainable within 10 years. The Morrocans are determined to destroy it in their country and re having great success. People will simply not bother buying the rubbish weed being sold here, and the trade will simply die out. That is why the whole "drug prohbition doesnt work" mantra always makes me laugh. It didnt work for years, but the efforts of the Morrocans and increased security at the ports means it is working.

30 years from now there will be a generation who never smoked it more than a handful of rare times someone brought some from abroad (which, again, will go down- the Dutch will eventually ban it), and dont particularly care if its legal or not.

Ahh now Gopher are you trying to deliver some slick handed post modern irony by throwing that post out there or are you just being silly, it's the silly thing isn't it?

I realise I'm late to the party here and that a good few people have already responded with pretty much all that needed to be said but I just have to have my say (its a compulsion).

Apart from everything else thats been said, (maybe this has been said aswell, I'm not sure, I only scanned over the responses) but how by any stretch of the imagination do you think this cannabis free Ireland is going to exist in 30 years when I (or anyone else that wants to) could grow 3 plants (which if I desired could produce hundreds of seeds between them or be used to clone dozens of plants) on my kitchen window cill (sill, cill, sil?, anyone want to help me out with that word, cheers) which would produce about 8 or 9 ounces between them in under three months, requiring only tap water muck and a few plant pots? Or if my little heart desired could plant 60 plants in the dublin mountains (or a specially lit apartment somewhere) producing hundreds of ounces. Stop being silly.

Mr Crystal wrote: »

Cant ye open another thread to discuss this?

The thread title is 'Values of today that will be embarrassing/outmoded in 30 years time' not 'My opinion on drugs'

+1, and clothes. I'm betting the young wans in 30 years will be wearing a g-string and a couple of egg cups, partly because of global warming and partly because thats how things are going.

Sorta leaves a bittersweet taste in the mouth ha.

/ durty oul man ftw

i just hope there'll be noone going round with trackie bottoms tucked into socks and a mullet haircut as they will have all been culled long ago in the great scummer cull of 2012