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The scourge of Drugs

Ive seen the amount of alcohol consumed and or ones addiction to alcohol quoted in pleas for mitigation
Mitigation isn't a defence though, it only applies after a guilty plea.

It's also generally not well received.
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"Mitigating Factor: The defense will use the fact that the client was intoxicated to argue that the offense was out of character, or that the client lacked the specific intent required for certain serious charges"
Mitigation, not defence.
 
100% - People in New York, Chicago and Toronto (I haven't been to Colorado) walking (or worse - driving) around out of their heads going about their daily lives and jobs.

I was in New York at the start of June. Weed has been legal there for a while now. They are "dispensaries" everywhere with people patronising them like you would a corner shop. Not just weed either - gummies, oils i.e. "easier" ways to consume the stuff. And I mean everywhere - there is a huge cannabis shop in Times Square right next to the big theatres and shops. It has completely changed certain areas in the barely 18 month since I was last there.

All of this legal product is weapons grade ganja. I was never much of a hash smoker when I was a young fella - I always preferred the drink (still do) but a friend of mine who was a seasoned sinsemilla somnambulist told me that the shit you can buy legally in the US now is "So strong that you'd need to know what you're at before buying and rolling. Some of it is too strong. Pick the wrong thing and your day is over."

I am not fully opposed to the decriminalisation of weed but we here in Ireland will not or, perhaps, cannot adhere to either the legal or social parameters and we will end up with people getting behind the wheel of a car stoned out of their gourd.
The Irish have always had to be best in class and will on this front too (Class A). That clown Gannon will be advocating for the need for an even more "healthcare-based" approach to Ireland's spiralling drug problems in five years time and the Taoiseach of the day will agree. Utterly irresponsible from the Irish establishment.
 
The Irish have always had to be best in class and will on this front too (Class A). That clown Gannon will be advocating for the need for an even more "healthcare-based" approach to Ireland's spiralling drug problems in five years time and the Taoiseach of the day will agree. Utterly irresponsible from the Irish establishment.

I still can't get over the laissez-faire attitude to ALL drugs, but the need to clamp down on the sale of aerosol cans. It's through the looking-glass stuff.
 
The only thing I'd say in extension is if you're not controlling supply you're feeding human trafficking and organised crime

Handy few grow houses in the midlands for weed. create a few jobs for the IFA

contract out the harder drugs to one of the pharma companies like the NHS used to do in the 60s

Control through state owned "offies" like the scandis do with booze.

Better to mitigate the worst parts of the supply than pretend it won't happen if we wish it to
Exactly EG, exactly.

The War on Drugs is lost. It was never winnable anyway. The Kinihans might be on the run, but theres no doubt a other gang already taking their place like there was when.Gilligan and Co were put away.

I'm not saying legalising drugs is a panacea for it either, but giving people a criminal record for having small amounts of drugs is no bloody good either.
 
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