Ten minute text poll result – 61% said yes that cannabis should be legalised and controlled with 39% saying no @talktojoe1850
— Liveline (@Liveline_RTE) November 25, 2015
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Won’t someone think of the children?
well, we can think of the nodgers, and the pinners.
Which is the typical Nancy Grace horsesh*t response.
Once California passes the initiative next year, the entire west coast of America will have legalised pot. In which case the Federal Government will realise the jig is finally up and remove cannabis from being a schedule 1 drug under the Controlled Substances Act. The net result will be that other countries will quickly join Uruguay and make pot legal. At this point its not a question of if, but when.
As the saying goes, you can only delay the inevitable… But of course where there will always be redneck politicians who want to delay it, bearing in mind that Mississippi remained a dry state after prohibition ended in 1933 until 1966. But then they were always dumb and slow down there (a bit like Cork!)
Holy Jayzus. If Joe Duffy listeners are backing it, it’s only a matter of time. Bleedin’ sick of having to pay €50 for 3 and a half measly grammes as well.
That’s a batter of cash for your ganj’. So much for deflation!
Seriously, it’s ridiculous. Back in 08 you could get a quarter ounce for 70 to 80 quid. Then 50 bags started appearing and within in a year, it was all you could get. It’s almost like dealers were organised. Almost.
Smash the cartels!
*Tamps resin into bong* Deplorable stuff, Moyest! *Rips bong-load, falls off sofa, eats own weight in Tesco tortilla chips*
Care for a brownies Neilo?
where did you leave your keys?
€90 for 6
Hah!
@meadowlark: wouldn’t mind! May your giving hand never wither
Well. Haven’t you just made my day! You aul softie!
You really shouldn’t be funding criminals Moyest.
Good thing I’m not then. Maybe if the government were to do the sensible thing here and legalise it, nobody would be “funding criminals” because they want to burn a leaf and inhale the fumes.
If you’re purchasing an illegal drug then you clearly are.
Regardless of the merits or otherwise of legalising the trade, it’s currently illegal and dominated by criminals. Campaign for legalisation all you like, but don’t put money in criminal’s pockets.
Nothing clear about it. What’s a criminal? Someone who breaks the law? Well then I’m a criminal for jaywalking across Dame Street a couple of hours ago, and I probably put more lives at risk than some scrote who grows a few plants in his shed and sells off the buds from it. If the trade is legalised, then the money no longer goes to “criminals” so you should really be campaigning for legalisation yourself. You’re not going to stop people wanting weed.
So because you don’t think something should be a crime, it isn’t.? Nice one Moyest.
Also jay walking isn’t a crime in Ireland.
Is anyone who breaks the law a criminal in your eyes, yes or no?
Yes, of course.
Especially one who does so habitually.
Yes it is newsjustin.
Road Traffic (Traffic & Parking) Regulations 1997 section 46 governs the rules for pedestrians crossing roads. Loopholes (which I believe are still open) mean nobody has been fined for jaywalking but it is illegal.
So you thought gay people were criminals in 1992 and then in 1993 you decided they weren’t?
Thanks Repro!
Yes Moyest, they were, of course, criminals in the eyes of the state. Whether you or I believed they weren’t or shouldn’t be doesn’t matter.
I’m asking what *you* believe. You made a *moral* statement when you said I *shouldn’t* be giving money to “criminals”. So what is *your* definition of a criminal? Would you have told me I shouldn’t lend my gay housemate any money if it was 1992?
The biggest troll there is, Moyest…. getting his arze handed to him.
Criminal
To be fair, Moyest, I’d only waste it on Kylie albums and poppers.
I don’t know what giving a gay person a loan has to do with it.
Stop giving money to criminals because you have a craving Moyezt, and trying to dress it up as a human rights issue.
Newsjustin is correct. Grow it yourself and cut out the middleman.
It’s very simple Justin. You said I shouldn’t give money to criminals. You said you would regard gay people as criminals if it was 1992, thus, by your retarded logic, you think I should not give money to someone if they were gay. I should’ve expected you weren’t bright enough to understand.
Ah, I see. You chose to understand my comment on “giving money to criminals” as giving any money to anyone, for any reason who’d committed any crime.
I’ll be clearer for you Moyest, and others in your position.
Please stop supporting the illegal drugs trade and the criminals that control it, often through violence, by paying them your money in return for their illegal drugs. It’s a scumbag, antisocial and selfish thing to do.
@Moyest Are you not afraid of breaking the law? I mean, were you ever afraid to break the law in this regard?
Bloody governments shouldn’t be funding criminals by making them the sole source and quality control for recreational drugs.
Rubbish. The “the government are making me do it” is not an excuse for any reasonable person to choose to willingly support criminals.
But a good chunk of the government are criminals..
It’s beyond time we had a vote on the issue!
I think the auld Abortion situation is up first, but this is as obvious as marriage equality. Now that that’s legal, the black market in gay marriage certs has disappeared over night!
Couldn’t they just roll them out at the same time… like they do with lots of referendum issues… like kid presidents.
BRING IT !
Think of the money saved up and down the country.
Think of the young people, no longer getting tarnished ‘criminals’ for having a bit o’ doob.
BRING IT!
Bring what?
Not sure.
Is it tea yet?
It might be.
I’d murder a pack o’ crisps and a pack of shortcake biscuits now.
Why did you have to mention tea?
Who mentioned?
You did.
That’d be yourself then.
Yes.
So, shut the fupp up then and make me a sandwich.
Agreed!
We don’t need a vote. Not everything requires a vote.
No political party in this country is going to legalise weed. Too fearful of losing they’re voting base. So yes! we need a vote, It’s the only way it’ll happen.
If Joe Duffy’s blue rinse brigade are two thirds in favour of it, the parties probably shouldn’t be too worried about that.
You’d think. However, our politicians will be scared because, whilst, on the one hand they’re doing the right thing by listening to public opinion they can be seen (though I don’t subscribe to this) as being unprincipled because they’re changing from a position – Drugs are bad m’kay – they’ve held for yonks…
We’d need a political party who want their voting base to be pot smokers.. Ming Flanagan and Mick Wallace for starters maybe a few Sein Feiners..
The Pot Party. This is a party political podcast on behalf of the pot party.. say that 10 times..
You’re getting decriminalisation of personal supply soon enough – great job too.
Absolutely agree 100%
So people at home today listening to Joe Duffy want to legalize weed, eh yeah….
Joe Duffy will sort out this mess. He fixes Ireland on a regular basis. “Talk te Joeeee!”
If they decriminalized weed in Ireland we would have less criminal gangs. It makes sense.
but there would have to be a very thorough educational campaign run throughout all schools in the country to educate teens against using weed while their brains are still developing, because it can do serious damage and ruin young minds. The age of 20 or 21 is a safe probably. And that super Skunk stuff in th UK is just mental, wrong, and dangerous. How do they stop that from becoming common?
Usually in the past when weed came up, he’d just call it ‘drugs’, and then the conversation would jump to heroin and junkies in town and then an old lady would call in telling everyone about her dead son and that would be the end of the conversation. Lowest common denominator tabloid crap.
Must give it a listen to see if he’s really changed.
I wasn’t being entirely sincere about Joe Duffy there ha ha. Its good that there’s a proper conversation about it though. The “Gateway drug” is always brought up by some muppet. Alchohol is a gateway drug ye pinheads!
Haha yes. But if Joe said DRUGS ARE BAD, there’s no way 61% of his mouth-breathing minions would disagree with him.
It will be “Joe for President”. I am taking bets.
I realise I’m talking to a pack of pot heads, but it’s not completely harmless.
I recall an interview with Bryan Dobson with Journalist Patrick Cockburn.
Patrick’s son developed schizophrenia in his late teens or early twenties and I recall him saying he thought it was down to his son’s heavy marjuana smoking.
If there’s a predisposition to it, marjuana will bring it on.. teenagers developing brains are particularly vulnerable.
Here’s the interview –
http://www.rte.ie/news/player/one-to-one/2011/1107/
It is damaging to young minds. I’ve seen that too. But that’s down to education just like alcohol.
And here’s also an article on what Patrick was referring to –
http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/teens-who-smoke-pot-at-risk-for-later-schizophrenia-psychosis-201103071676
Knowing my luck theyll legalise it right around the time i end up with copd or chronic emphyema
Anyone worried about Multinationals getting their hands on the product?