Ireland’s cannabis market the ‘Wild West’, with ‘dizzying array’ of synthetic drugs for sale

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41459704.html

Posted by gig1922

9 Comments

  1. If only there was a way to regulate a safer alternative to mitigate the issue. We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas!

  2. It is time to **LEGALISE AND** ***REGULATE*** at the very minimum the cannabis market in this country.

    We can do it the same way we’ve done cigarettes.

    Legal, with warnings all over them, no labels, taxed to bejaysus.

    But letting a completely unregulated market operate like this is objectively fucking crazy.

    It **HAS** to stop.

    We have TDs and Senators, political SPADs doing coke in Leinster house while throwing shapes about being tough on drugs.

    The emperor has no fucking clothes !

    Our main political parties don’t have the bollix or the imagination to tackle this. Vote for small “fringe” whatever the fuck you like – but parties that have some kind of realistic stance on this.

    Prohibition has **failed** is failing, will continue to fail.

    Legalise, tax, information campaigns, take back control from the Kinihans.

  3. No-Question-8503 on

    HHC is just going to breed a whole new generation of mental illness. For context I use medical cannabis with quite strong THC content. I’m prescribed for pain relief Synthetic drugs are for eejits. Remember the head shops and what they done for the mental health of the customers they supplied. Mephodrone was the kids cocaine of choice. Worked with a guy who done it to excess every weekend. By Tuesday you could smell it coming from his pores. Last I heard he had been signed in by family for his own safety.

  4. Did they not learn anything from the days of the headshops? Vendors will pick anything from under the kitchen sink and use that to make an effect similar to being high.

    Instead of just THC, which can be distilled from a marijuana plant and used in a variety of ways this is what we’re left with. An unregulated legal and incredibly unsafe plethora of shite substitutes.

    They’re running out of excuses, if you’re already making mock substitutes just go the whole way already and be done with it.

  5. So out of touch, forget about the cannabis, the problem in Ireland is nitrous oxide and has been for ages now. You can even get flavored gas now, kids be putting down their vapes and picking up some blueberry mango nitrous these days instead. Nothing better for a growing teenager than starving their brain of oxygen.