Another head shop burned down?

MaybeLogic wrote: »

Frederick Street's just a few hundred yards away, no?

Yeah having a look at that picture, looks to be the one on Frederick street, when ye turn right of Dorset street towards O'Connell street.

Not that Ive ever visted a head shop

if its true then obviously dealers are targetting them.

This whole affair is a shocking miscarriage of justice perpetrated in no small part by various Irish media establishments. Whether you support headshops or not, we should all be very concerned at such a brazen attack on individual liberty. Here we have productive, tax paying citizens being physically attacked at the behest of dogmatic moralists and murderous crime gangs all the while the government stands by and promises to join in the assault by June.

Ask yourselves why the state has to "protect" its citizens from these headshops? What happened to personal responsibility? Why should it be anyone else's concern if John from Mullingar buys some party pills? If he hasn't hurt anyone else the risk he takes should be entirely his own. How can we consider ourselves a truly free nation when the government refuses to allow people to take responsibility for their own actions, insofar as they affect themselves?

It may seem a petty rant to some but this whole situation, Joe Duffy, Mary Harney, vigilantes, illegal drug dealers, is symptomatic of a much greater and more nefarious malady in this country. I'm not sure about other young people but my disillusionment with this 'nanny' aspect of Irish culture and the future of our limp and capitulating political establishment is very rapidly approaching its peak.

Hopeless might be the word I'm looking for.

f0ggy92 wrote: »

what i cant understand is how the good people of dublin are so willing to stand up against legal drug stores but are unwilling to stand agaoinst the drug selling scum in our community at least with head shops there are age restrictions

Head shop owners are less likely to shoot back!

This is getting serious - a good ol' fashioned witch hunt.

Which group do people think is mainly responsible - worried Talk To Joe parents or drug dealers? Or both?

As for the parents - I had a conversation with my Mam about this at the weekend. She was saying that all she knew about legal drugs was the stories of parents calling the Whine Line and talking about how their children had gone to head shops and come home delirious. This is, however, the only information most parents have to go on. I gave her a bit of balance on the subject.

Also - my brother was at a talk in the Abbey a few days ago. Someone was talking (this is third-hand information and may not be accurate) about the increase in suicide rates in Ireland, and said that is "must be those head shops".

The ignorance out there is unbelievable. The government/media should provide more balanced information- but that'd be asking people to think for themselves, wouldn't it?

Drugs are bad, m'kay.