losthorizon wrote: » I think his slaves planted and grew it though
Doc wrote: » I believe the restricted production of hemp should be allowed for industrial purposes. .
Mike 1972 wrote: » Mark200 wrote: » I've tried it (legally) but I'd be against the decriminalization.. So basically what youre saying is that youre a hypocrite ?
Mark200 wrote: » I've tried it (legally) but I'd be against the decriminalization..
Mark200 wrote: » At one instance, I got offered illegal drugs 3-4 times in a 5 minute walk. My friend was also seriously threatened in that same journey. Me being able to try it does not make me a hypocrite for realising it would make Ireland a worse country to live in.
Mark200 wrote: » So basically what you're saying is that you can't understand a very simple concept? It's funny the ridiculous arguments that some people come out with. If I had said I hadn't tried it but wouldn't support decriminalization, I would have gotten a "so you're judging something without trying it??" I'll try to put it on simple terms for you. I'll use alcohol as a comparison. I would support a ban on alcohol if a ban would be possible (which its not). Why? Well because according to this morning's metro, 2000 hospital beds every night are taken up for alcohol related reasons. Alcohol cost the health care system €1.2bn in 2007. In the same year, alcohol-related crime cost €1.19bn. I'm capable of having a social drinks without taking up a hospital bed or committing a crime. In fact, most people are. But that doesn't make it hypocritical to believe that this country would be better off if alcohol could successfully be banned. Likewise with marijuana. I may be capable of trying it responsibly, but that doesn't make me a hypocrite for thinking that Ireland's laws are better the way they are. Some people like to bring up the idea of freedoms. But to go back again to alcohol, if someone gets drunk and commits a crime where I'm the victim, then that infringes MY rights. If some drunk idiot takes up a hospital bed when it could have been used for me, then that infringes MY rights. The vast majority of crime is committed by drunk people. Me being able to control myself with alcohol does not make me a hypocrite for thinking a ban would be best. Likewise with Marijuana. I've been to Amsterdam. It is not a safe place. At one instance, I got offered illegal drugs 3-4 times in a 5 minute walk. My friend was also seriously threatened in that same journey. Me being able to try it does not make me a hypocrite for realising it would make Ireland a worse country to live in. Simple enough for you?
Mark200 wrote: » I'll try to put it on simple terms for you. I'll use alcohol as a comparison. I would support a ban on alcohol if a ban would be possible (which its not). Why? Well because according to this morning's metro, 2000 hospital beds every night are taken up for alcohol related reasons. Alcohol cost the health care system €1.2bn in 2007. In the same year, alcohol-related crime cost €1.19bn.
I'm capable of having a social drinks without taking up a hospital bed or committing a crime. In fact, most people are. But that doesn't make it hypocritical to believe that this country would be better off if alcohol could successfully be banned.
Likewise with Marijuana. I've been to Amsterdam. It is not a safe place. At one instance, I got offered illegal drugs 3-4 times in a 5 minute walk. My friend was also seriously threatened in that same journey. Me being able to try it does not make me a hypocrite for realising it would make Ireland a worse country to live in.
GV2012 wrote: » hardly, the yanks have the good chemicals petented since 2003!! :eek:http://www.safeaccessnow.org/punbb/viewtopic.php?id=2084 run from the cure ; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0psJhQHk_GI and if ya don't believe Rick Simpson then check this 5 minute video showing GW Pharmacy producing the very same oil that would cost you €500 per month to buy from them if and when the Irish "government" are ready to grant a licence for it here!!!!!!!!!! Grow your own and **** the begrudgers!!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jkp2mXlb6oI
jimpump wrote: » Every drug should be legal including heroin,MDMA,crack etc.
mikom wrote: » He grew it all over the country, man. He had people growin' it all over the country, you know. The whole country back then was gettin' high. Lemme tell you, man, 'cause he knew he was onto somethin', man. He knew that it would be a good cash crop for the southern states, man, so he grew fields of it, man. But you know what? Behind every good man there is a woman, and that woman was Martha Washington, man, and everyday George would come home, she would have a big fat bowl waiting for him, man, when he come in the door, man, she was a hip, hip, hip lady, man.
I_AmThe_Walrus wrote: » This issue must be openly debated using only the facts. Groundless claims, meaningless statistics, and exaggerated scare stories that have been peddled by politicians and prohibitionists. ANNUAL DEATHS CAUSED BY DRUGS. TOBACCO …………………… 400,000 ALCOHOL …………………… 100,000 ALL LEGAL DRUGS ……… 20,000 ALL ILLEGAL DRUGS ……15,000 CAFFEINE ……………………. 2,000 ASPIRIN ……………………… 500 MARIJUANA …………………. 0 —————————————-
Reality_Check1 wrote: » I don't think people realise that people who end up on hard drugs or as complete wasters were likely to do so anyway. The fact that they used marijuana at some stage in their life shouldnt be seen as the sole reason (or any reason for that matter) that they turned out the way they did
crazy cabbage wrote: » +1 idiots = idiots wasters = wasters cannabis changes nothing
kevin keating wrote: » Legalize it,tax it,open cafes,head shops,pot bakeries,medical marijuana dispensaries,help people,create tourism. the list goes on. unlike alcohol,marijuana calms,medicates,feeds animals(hemp) and certainly its not for kids.but seriously,being sensible about it the benefits to individuals ans society far out weigh and negatives.......common sense please.
mikom wrote: » One minute in........... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz_h4OeoScs . .
The unnamed Garda has invited users of the website Reddit to ‘ask me anything’, as part of the site’s popular AMA series. All we know is that this officer works in the southern region of the country and that he/she is in their forties. They’ve been writing under the username Magnum_ip. And what about legalising cannabis? The Garda said that he/she would: legalise immediately, regulate quality, tax proceeds, f**k up organised crime, end recession. http://www.thescore.ie/garda-ask-me-anything-reddit-anonymous-599271-Sep2012/
legalise immediately, regulate quality, tax proceeds, f**k up organised crime, end recession.
Desprez and McAllister first published a paper about the finding in 2007. Since then, their team has found that CBD works both in the lab and in animals. And now, they've found even more good news. "We started by researching breast cancer," said Desprez. "But now we've found that Cannabidiol works with many kinds of aggressive cancers--brain, prostate--any kind in which these high levels of ID-1 are present." Desprez hopes that clinical trials will begin immediately. "We've found no toxicity in the animals we've tested, and Cannabidiol is already used in humans for a variety of other ailments," he said. Indeed, the compound is used to relieve anxiety and nausea, and, since it is non-psychoactive, does not cause the "high" associated with THC.
Blackhorse Slim wrote: » Because it doesn't have powerful lobby groups backing it like alcohol and tobacco do.
Pottler wrote: » Yet. Come back in ten years, things will have changed much like they are slowly changing in the US - it will be sold and taxed like any other commodity. That's my guess anyway. Eventually even the dumbest Govt. gets tired of trying to enforce the unenforceable and just taxes it instead.
2218219 wrote: » The higher the demand and attention to legalize Marijuana makes it less likely to become legalized? Its not like it does much for people who work or have a family anyway, did you ever hear of a parent or a person with a Job smoking weed?
