28 thoughts on “De Saturday Papers

    1. Wayne.F

      Well according to Al Jazera last night, (stuck in a hotel abroad) they are reporting a similar story that supermarkets are running low on most stock

    2. dereviled

      Supermarkets only have a couple of days worth of any product. Most have centralised warehouses and send out lorries each day with fresh produce and re-stock.

  1. Son of Fr. Fintan Stack

    F The Independent, Walter, look at The Examiner;
    ‘Public To Have Say On Legality Of Drugs’.
    .
    -Since when do the people who take drugs have any insight into drug-use?
    Dem lads are off their heads!

    The politicians should be telling us what to do, not the junkies.

    Political Correctness gone mad Stu!

  2. Drogg

    Why are they giving the public a say in decriminalisation of drugs? Should they not be giving the public an option to legalise some drugs and then we can cut out criminality all together and tax the sale of substances like cannabis and use the money to pay for healthcare and water.

    1. dereviled

      Water treatment is not free and we have to upgrade an antiquated supply system. Besides, what else can we offer the IMF? A deal’s a deal or we turn off the ATMs.
      I’m not sure tax from alcohol and tobacco covers treatment let alone lost productivity.
      I think we do a ridiculous amount of drugs that have no oversight. Other countries take a different approach.
      Criminals gonna crim, but that’s a discussion for another day.
      Apropos of nothing: new Spanish law.
      http://www.thelocal.es/20150701/the-ten-most-repressive-aspects-of-spains-new-gag-law

      1. Drogg

        In the first 3 months of cannabis legalisation, Colorado raised 30million on tax and that doesn’t include the massive savings in law enforcement from not having to chase down stoners and cutting back on the millions spent on sending stoners to jail. Economically it makes more sense to legalise then to decriminalise. Unfortunately no one in this government can look at it economically all they will be going on about is stoners on our streets.

      2. Drogg

        Also dereviled we are badly managing our resources adding another tax is not the solution, all it is doing is lining the pockets of employees of another quango. So adding a tax on legalised cannabis makes sense.

  3. Ah Yeah, ahyeah

    @ Drogg;

    ‘Altogether’ is one word.
    Your misuse of the word, (splitting it into two), seems to imply that I and many others are compliant with your ideals. We aren’t.

    We should be ‘all together’.
    We never will be, so STFU.

  4. Sinabhfuil

    The Case for Prescription Heroin http://health.spectator.co.uk/the-case-for-prescription-heroin/ (an interesting recent piece from the British conservative magazine The Spectator)

    Quote: So Dr Marks watched as, every Thursday, a slew of addicts came into the clinic and received their heroin prescriptions. They were, he recalls, ‘maybe a few dozen lads, the occasional girl, who came and got their tot of junk… Railwaymen, bargemen, all walks of life really.’

    Except the research found something very different. Newcombe found that none of the addicts had the HIV virus, even though Liverpool was a port city where you would expect it to be rife. Indeed, none of them had the usual problems found among addicts: overdoses, abscesses, disease. They mostly had regular jobs and led normal lives.

    The first people to notice an effect [of an expanded prescription heroin system] were the local police. Inspector Michael Lofts studied 142 heroin and cocaine addicts in the area, and he found there was a 93 per cent drop in theft and burglary. ‘You could see them transform in front of your own eyes,’ Lofts told a newspaper, amazed. ‘They came in in outrageous condition, stealing daily to pay for illegal drugs; and became, most of them, very amiable, reasonable law-abiding people.’ He said elsewhere: ‘Since the clinics opened, the street heroin dealer has slowly but surely abandoned the streets of Warrington and Widnes.’

    1. Sinabhfuil

      Sorry, that should have “snip” between the unrelated paragraphs, but the lesser-than and greater-than marks around it made the world disappear.

  5. Ciarán Masterson

    Why is it that the front page of the Saturday edition of the Indo is posted on this site but the weekday edition’s front page isn’t?

  6. Kieran NYC

    Look. Portugal’s drugs policy works.

    For the love of gawd, can’t we just for ONCE copy something that works instead of some half-baked, reinventing the wheel, Irish solution for an Irish problem BS that never works?!

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