He WAS Superman!

I fell into that one. :dance:

I'm not so sure, I think it's different. People start on weed and find no problems/only benefits and it naturally leads them to wonder if other illegal drugs are also not all as bad as is made out, and if just tried every now and again won't have any real harmful effect. I've seen someone I know go from shying away from weed to being happy to try cocaine in just a few months, and I do think there is a progression.

Not that I'm using that as an argument against legalisation, I actually think that legalising it and allowing it to be distributed in a regulated and legal way would basically normalise it and not lead to any slippery slope of illegal drugs

I'd legalise morphine, heroin, cocaine, ecstasy, opium, the whole lot. Leave it up to the individual to decide. I'd only prohibit seriously dangerous drugs, ones that are just bad.

Far far more people die from legalised drugs like alcohol and tobacco than die of prohibited drugs.

And have it taxed to ****? Nah

Do you ****ng need drugs though
far too many people in this thread are acting like their lives depend on it for ****s sake, how about you just shut up and don't smoke it at all. I don't want more awful smelling freaks on my streets

I think the person you know is the exception not the rule.

There are millions of people who drink but are not alcoholics as is there are millions of people who smoke weed but feel no desire to start to inject themselves. I dont know anyone who has made that progression.

Even if its taxed it will still be cheaper than if its illegal.

No ... but that argument extends to so many recreational activities. No one needs to do anything but if that's what people want to do it's entirely their prerogative and if anything isn't needed it's their basic rights being revoked under the guise of 'morality'.

What's also grating is this misconception you seem to have about 'druggies' being smelly, psychotic freaks injecting needles at your local park, which is wrong. Certainly being high doesn't affect your cognitive abilities in the sense that you can still function totally normal as you usually would, so I'm not really sure what you're getting at with that one.

How many drug users do you know, actually? Because the majority of cannabis smokers at least are perfectly normal, functional members of society who enjoy the odd spliff from time to time, not spaced-out nutcases who do them 24/7.

It was recently brought up at the Dail over here and the people opposed to it were throwing out completely stupid facts from their arse that it made me almost feel good that my money is going to the drug trade and not them fools

You'll always have to fight conservative forces in Ireland. In the republic Of Ireland, there was a "Condom Train", famously back in the 1980's, where mostly women challenged the illegality of contraceptives, and went up to the North of Ireland to buy, legally, condoms and bring them back to Ireland and face the gauntlet of the customs and the Law. They made a big statement. But that was only a part of the picture of life in Ireland. You would not believe what outraged the public, and fell on the wrong side of the law only 30 years ago, and how much enlightment has been brought to the insular Irish.

Sex was a guilt ridden thing. It was only allowed within the parameters of marriage, and had to be for the sake of procreation. Masturbating was very frowned upon; biblically it was casting your seed on stoney ground. In my school, we only had a couple of teachers who weren't brothers or priests. I can never forget being coerced to make a confession to a priest. I'd been thought masturbation was wrong, but as a child it was also deeply secret and personal. I felt conflicted. To tell the truth to my confessor or keep it to myself. I kept it to myself, and jettisoned all respect in everything I'd been taught to believe in; Religion could go and fook itself! I gave up on it and never went back. This controlling force by which I held everything sacred could go to hell.