The Day Ireland Accidentally Legalised Drugs

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A day of all drugs being legal isn't the purge, that's a binge.

I think I'm going to move to Ireland❤

Here in America they’ll plant drugs on you during a traffic stop just to have an excuse to arrest you. Because prison is a for-profit industry here 😉

"Over here, throwing someone in jail for smoking a joint or taking ecstasy doesn't really help anybody, so… it's not that common." Retributive "justice" over victimless crimes doesn't help anybody anywhere, but the American law/incarceration/economic/health systems don't really care about this woke "helping" nonsense you're babbling on about

I am so pleased to say that I have been able to buy my "smoke" at the corner store where I get my gas and candy.
Thank God for Justice Clarence Thomas.

As far as I can remember it, although people had a bit of notice that the head~shops were closing down (Mostly on account of the efforts of Mary Harney, then leader of the now defunct Progressive Democrats party), this 24 hour drug amnesty passed pretty much unnoticed and unremarked – by design, for the most part, so far as I can gather. I'm sure there must have been people in the legal community who knew that the enactment of the new bill meant that there would necessarily by a period of statutory limbo, but if there were, they kept schtumm. Given that this 24 hours of 'drugs anarchy' would only apply to possession for personal use, and at that, only to certain particular drugs (assuming the video is correct, and I've no reason to doubt it), I should think the whole thing was rather moot in any case. It wasn't as if you could just decide that you could make hay while the sun was shining, dig up that stash from waste ground near Clondalkin and have someone drive it down to Limerick (say…) Not like if caught you could just pull out your 'Get out of gaol free' card! On the other hand, your street level addict or user wasn't going to change his or her habits either, in honour of the day that was in it. I can't remember what was said about where Heroin and Crack came in relation to all this, but taking a Meth user (admittedly a relatively rare breed in Ireland); it's not exactly as if they honour the law the other 365 days of the year, and conversely, as alluded to in the video, it's not as if you're suddenly and out of the blue going to get a ying to try hard drugs, just because you have this brief 24 hour window where the law will allow it!
I don't know the details, but this all reminds me of how, for a few months in the Noughties, handguns (as in, revolvers and 'self~loading' pistols) became legal here, Ireland being known for its extremely restrictive firearms legislation, which, effectively and afaik, only allow break~top shotguns, small calibre (except for deer hunting) rimfire rifles, and, I think, single shot target pistols. We don't even allow air pistols, and definitely not crossbows. I'm not even sure if starting pistols or Very (flare) pistols are allowed!! When I say 'legal', that still meant subject to the usual regulations with respect to Garda (police) vetting, usually membership of a club, possession of a gun safe, and so on. You couldn't just want a gun on a whim, either… Well, you could 'want' all you liked, I suppose, but you weren't getting one unless it was for sporting use, or vermin control. 'Self Protection' was not a valid reason for needing a firearm, and if anything, would see your application rejected straight out of hand!
I suppose this business about guns is a bit of a tangent, really, but one will see how, given the severity of our firearms laws, to be suddenly allowed own a hangun was kind of a big deal; however, just like with the inadvertent, or better to say, perhaps, unavoidable drugs amnesty, the pistol window passed almost completely unnoticed and unavailed of. I think that, in fact, there may have been no 'almost' about it, and it was only afterwards that legal experts realized that a loophole had even existed, for a period of some months.
I should say, I'm no expert whatsoever in this field, but for what it's worth and as far as I understand, there is only one 'handgun' (don't know if it's a revolver or a semi~auto) held legally here in private hands. (Whose, I have no idea.) That said, I do remember this café and late night shop near Cork's bus station, which, being near the docks to boot, was a bit of a red~light area. This was in the '80's, I should clarify, when there was still active shipping activity in the city, upstream. Anyway, they used to keep a revolver hanging by its trigger~guard from a nail behind the counter. I remember it hanging there, all black, shiny and sinister, like a scorpion, concentrating minds and all ready to 'repel boarders'… Now logic, in retrospect, should dictate that the gun must have been a replica (now illegal in its own right), or at the very least, empty, or only charged with blanks. I definitely had the conviction at the time though (and still do, looking back) that this piece was 'all business'. Maybe I had an overly dramatic imagination, but I definitely felt like this thing had a body count associated with it! Not those of stick~up guys who'd pushed their luck, I don't think, but very likely it was a veteran of the War of Independence, or the Civil War that followed, as they so often do. Probably it at one time belonged to the 'Old' IRA, or maybe their 'ops', the RIC, British Army, or the notorious and hated 'Black & Tans'. (While I kind of vaguely remember it as one of those snub~nose 'detective special' jobs, when I actually stop and think about it, I seem to recall it was actually more like one of those Webley break~top pieces). On paper, the gun (if real) ought to have been extremely illegal, but existing out in the open, as it did, and so near to the city's then Garda HQ at Union Quay, it had to have had some kind of unofficial sanction, at the very least. One thing, at any rate, was for damn sure – anytime I ever went in the place, for a polystyrene cup of nasty takeaway coffee, maybe, or a pouch of tobacco, I never once thought about _doing a jumpover'… Or if I did, it was because of the gun telepathically beaming treacherous dark thoughts at me, like Clint 'Dirty Harry' Eastwood — "Do you feel lucky, Punk? Well – do ya?!", in the same way that when you're near the edge of a cliff you can almost feel the abyss pulling at you! Anyway, sorry, wandered off the point a bit, there!

Legal highs should have never been legalized they don't mimic at all

what is badger yapping about

One fir the algo.

0:07 dude add a TW first, some people are afriad of the word L@W

A drug user in court: Judge I was caught with heroin when drugs were legal!

Judge: you were spotted and arrested at 12:05 a.m. how the fuck would you have them at 12:05 if you didn't have them at 11:55 the day prior??

Druggy: well I don't know and you don't have any proof that I did

"I'm not legally literate", bro you guys got laws over that shit? Do ya need a license to be considered literate? Maybe you meant you are illiterate on legalities…but I mean, your original statement seems even more justified, now just with more meta.

"How many people can say they took LSD legally?"
US sweating in MK Ultra

how has gooberment not caught up

This is random as hell but I just realized you look exactly like my brother Austin and it's kind of shocking, lol. Also, I'm Irish as well so it makes sense.

It’s still illegal if you don’t get caught; you just don’t get punished if you don’t get caught. But, 20 years doing criminal defense work as an attorney in the U.S. has taught me, eventually everyone gets caught if they just keep on doing it.

The comparison of America's prison system to Ireland's law enforcement makes me want to move to Ireland. I'm a law-abiding citizen, but I've been arrested four times! The first time when I was 12!!! For picking up construction marker flags!! Sure, it's a no-no, but I didn't even know what the flags were for; and I was *arrested*!

America isn't trying to help anyone, they arrest for straight up cash to feed thf machine

The closing of headshops sucks. But I can't get mad at banning legal highs. Most of them are awful for you, and you are basically a guinea pig for some unknown chemical.