Prohibition of cannabis & other drugs in Ireland is handing immense amounts of power to OCGs who in turn use this revenue to fund more harmful criminal activity
You know who doesn’t own a gun? Anyone I’ve ever bought cannabis off in a legal market like Canada. Get these guns off the streets and do away with prohibition
A positive THC test at the roadside doesn't diagnose impairment and yet drivers are losing their licences for cannabis use that may have been days old or longer.
All this @DrugWipeUK making a profit while incriminating cannabis consumers! #EndProhibition#CannabisReformIreland
While the UN is engaged in its #WarOnDrugs which drives organised crime, narco states and deforestation it's also trying to tackle the climate crisis. The UN is causing the problem while trying to solve it. #drugspolicynovaramedia.com/2022/11/07/t…
Doing this ALWAYS results in minorities and those from a deprived background being prosecuted at higher rates than the rest of the population.
Good news for middle class people, but if you're a traveller or you grew up in the wrong block of flats you'll face a judge.
“Drugs are horrific. There is nothing recreational about them. I have never taken them and will be incredibly tough on anyone who does.”
@RishiSunak#hypocrite
I feel perfectly safe walking up & down O’Connell Street. @PaulKehoeTD is just a thin skinned snowflake who wants Dublin to be his SafeSpace™️ coz he’s a blow in.
I call on the Irish Government to follow suit
Too many lives have been harmed, we know better in 2022. We need a commitment to a better future.
Who is with me ?
#CannabisReformIreland#Decrim
End prohibition disempower them all. It will not do away with crime completely as that is an issue of capitalism. Give young people an opportunity to start cannabis businesses put those skills to use for their future not someone else's past :)
It's deeply ironic how the secretive, dishonest anti-#cannabis lobbving by @BobbySmyth4 and his accomplices is now using hyperbole around 'Big Tobacco' when their motivation is all about securing the power that self-serving clinicians have over 'Big Pharma'.
When Portugal #decriminalised all drugs in 2001 - 4 years after the Good Friday Agreement - the move away from criminal approach to drugs to all a health lead approach cut down on drug deaths and blood borne virues.
On a pension - worse off
On a SW payment - worse off
Precarious employment - worse off
Minimum wage worker - worse off
Median wage worker - worse off
Average wage worker - worse off
Top 10% - better off
Top 1% - way better off
Top 0.01% - Creaming it.
#Budget23
The overdose crisis is a contamination crisis.
The contamination crisis is a quality control crisis.
The quality control crisis is a predictable outcome of prohibiting a drug.
If we want to solve the overdose crisis, we have to address prohibition.