Earlier today.
At St Stephen’s Green, Dublin.
Florian Scheibein, Helena Mullin and Dan Kirby stage a protest to call on the Government and the public to support drug policy reform and the decriminalisation of drugs for personal use.
Members of Help Not Harm, Citywide, BeLonGTo Students for Sensible Drug Policy Ireland, NORML and International Nurses Society on Addictions took part in the protest.
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The guy with the glasses and beard doesn’t look like a poster boy for legalising drugs
Gard’s busted loads of people at Body & Soul. How can they live with themselves. I hope they don’t get convictions.
A load of lads got busted in tent beside us. They took everything they had. Luckily i had plenty of yokes to sell to them. I felt my good deed had been done.
Guards usually don’t arrest people for drugs at festivals unless they get caught with enough to constitute supply.
They just pocket he drugs and log ‘all’ of it in evidence.
Drugs are bad.
That’s about it as far as the government are concerned.
Prison, methadone and let people shoot up down lanes.
Thankfully drug addicts don’t live too long.
Walking from O’Connell Street through Summerhill Parade last week I was asked if I had
any blues & by another lad if there were any zimos around.
Must have been the 2 day growth & ’94 Air Max, musta been.
Are you the bozz bozz?
Not these days, though I could still recall a caned mobile # from a few years back
which he thumbed into his mobler, he looked like he was scaggn’ te fuc..
Would have got sorted before midday in any case, just lent a helping hand.
Drugs need ‘U’ to survive. Take the U out of drugs and what do you have? Drgs. And who the hell ever heard of anybody smoking off a drg?
You have any cake?
Obvious joke here about the clear dangers of drug use on prominent display, but have to agree that drug policies are deeply flawed worldwide and need a serious rethink.
Firstly, present drug policies finance criminality. Whether people are taking drugs socially or habitually, the current policies make all drugs illegal and therefore their sale gives money to criminals. The availability of money makes criminality an attractive proposition to those from poorer communities, funnelling money to the worst in society and to countries where a select few use it to solidify their position using effective slave labour to produce their product.
The majority of criminals in jail are there for drugs and the majority of police time and expense is spent tackling drugs and drug related crime, so a significant burden on the taxpayer.
Drugs take more from the parts of society where they are most endemic, making it harder from those from poorer backgrounds to break free, improve their communities, make a better life for themselves etc.
To make an extra buck, dealers adulterate their product with who knows what, and chemists tend not to be the most ethical or clean in their production.
Dealers have no qualms about selling to kids generating a constantly renewable stream of drug takers.
To help people off drugs is very difficult. It’s an underground activity, it’s hard to approach people about it, it’s hard to fund rehab, and even if rehabilitated, people are likely to return to their miserable environments that inspired them to take drugs in the first place.
So lets rethink… What about we start from teh basic premise that people will always take drugs. That is a fact, an unfortunate truth, but one none the less. What if we licensed the sale of all drugs and to get whatever drug you want you just need to go to a doctor and get a prescription for free.
The price can stay the same as the street price, and the massive mark up in selling drugs is no longer going to gangs, it’s going to government. So that’s one major element cut out, the criminals are now no longer in the loop. Their avenue of cash is cut off. They have no need to exist anymore. They actually can’t exist anymore. There is no place for street dealers either. the jails will empty. There will be no need to import drugs and policing costs will plummet and all that crime associated with drugs can be shifted elsewhere.
Also, the money now made from the sale of drugs can be used for the best possible rehab, to rebuild the parts worst affected by drugs and pumped into education and providing a real alternative and means of escape to people than taking drugs (this is exactly what happened with all the cash made from the sale of weed in Colorado).
The sale of drugs will also have much tighter controls. As street dealers won’t exist anymore and you have to go to a doctor to get a cert, age restrictions will mean kids will be a lot less likely to ever take a drug.
And finally drugs will also be safer and cleaner.
Well done for publicly associating your name with drugs. They’ll never work in this town again.
“BeLonGTo Students for Sensible Drug Policy Ireland”
What the everliving fupp.
I presumed there was a missing comma
If there’s one opinion I’d value more than Student’s on drug policy, it’s LGBT Student’s opinion on drug policy.
Sarah Murphy was supposed to show up but she was too busy gettin’ chonged out of it on YOKES.
Never change, Sarah Murphy.
As one of the most conservative countries in Europe, there is no way Ireland will be legalising/ implementing sensible drug policies. Ireland needs it more than most countires in Europe, but our politicians are spineless goons.
Also catching mostly adults taking drugs at a Music Festival is cynical and primarily a revenue raising exercise. If they want to tackle the most problematic drug dealing in the country they could arrest the Heroine dealers in the cities crap holes, but thats not as easy or pleasant as doing it at a festival.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_Portugal
Has worked a treat for them. They have focused on Rehabilitation instead of incarceration and the effects have been very positive by all accounts
TCD Senator Lynne “Rotten Borrough” Ruane support group.
Whats with the clown with the beard? It is 2016 not 2012.
Embarrassing