Don't partake myself and have no issue with people using it themselves, as long as they don't get behind the wheel or something.
Treat it like alcohol. Legalise the sale and consumption in licensed establishments and allow people to consume in private homes.
Likewise, if you can't crack open a can of cider while walking down the street, maybe consumption of cannabis should also be restricted outside.
Imagine being able to nip in on your way home from work, catch up with the lads, hit a few pipes and administer the appetite stimulator and home for dinner. Take a few space cakes and a sixteenth of Banana Donkeyfucker #8 (or whatever those crazy kids at the farm have come up with ) home for the missus.
>As it should be, don't look for trouble don't get any,
Not quite. You don't need to be looking for trouble, you can just be sitting an a tram on your way home from the club and overzealous cops can board with a sniffer dog, and you're getting a hefty fine.
Unfortunately the middle ground between club and home presents an opportunity for cops with an axe to grind to harass and punish users with the process. Germany has mitigated this by allowing possession of a fair amount for personal consumption.
Yeah the German model should be rolled out across Europe, it would save so much police, court and jail time for such harmless, comparitively, activity.
I'm with the krauts on that one too, the financial burden on the state alone for trying to control and prosecute for possession is ridiculous, waste of time and money, especially compared to the glaring cost of alcohol and the social and physical damage it causes every year
I know yeah, doesn't overly bother me as someone who grew up when smoking in hospitals was kosher, nearly a blast of nostalgia, and nobody forced you to go to the smoking area, I know the smell comes in with them but I say he has not farted in the pub may throw the first stone
It's not super easy to find them, I once got a card for a club in Barcelona and I walked passed thale place like 4 times it was literally just a random door on a street with no apparent signage.
Not sure but it was a pretty small place, an area where you make an account and get little gym fob thingy then you go upstairs to a small lounge where there was the cashier counter and a menu... a snooker table and probably a foostable... Maybe even darts? A couch or two and a handful of tables.
It was pretty small and cramped. Probably it would be called cozy on TripAdvisor.
I, as a tourist had no trouble gaining membership to a cannabis club in Barcelona last year :) I have a feeling it’s only a problem if you act/look like a dickhead tbh
It varies from club to club. There are plenty that want a locals only policy, because they're social clubs and places flooded with tourists are shit places for locals to socialise.
Other clubs are more tourist facing, so they're happy to sign up tourists, whether they act/look like a dickhead or not. Those clubs want that tourist money, they don't care if you're a dickhead if they can sell them magical unicorn piss fed holistic organic Cali Cali Cali bud for €28 a gram.
Agreed, it should be treated very similarly to alcohol in my opinion.
I have zero issue with people using as it's their personal choice, but I have to say I personally really hate the smell of it and it'd be nice not to smell it constantly when walking down the street.
I get that. For me weed smells like cat piss crossed with sour milk. It’s so off putting. I’m fine legalising it if people want to smoke it’s ok with me, but I’d prefer designated areas to try and contain the smell.
Has it changed a lot in recent years? The smell I mean. When I was a student back in the day, I used to find the smell of it kind of pleasant, like you might with a turf fire. These days it's absolutely vile, or at least anything I smell on the street is.
Depends on the strain. I mean it’s literally a flower. Some smell very chemically and pungent but some can be quite floral and fruity. It depends what they’ve been crossed with and what terpenes are in there.
Same here. Used to like the smell of the stuff around back in my day. I thought there was a Youth epidemic of terrible personal hygeine the last few years with the bang of terrible strong BO I was getting off every second teenager I walked past, served etc. Turns out that whatever strains they are smoking nowadays smells like strong BO to my nostrils
I love the smell of it, but it is very strong and I don't think it should be wafted around publicly, especially around children. Decriminalisation with cafés/clubs would give people safe spaces and remove so much revenue from criminal enterprises. I don't think people who don't want to smell it or have their clothes smell of it should be subjected to it.
Covid has kind of changed how drinking outside is viewed IMO. Massive plus as Ireland is one of the best countries for a walk and a pint.
As long as you clean up after yourself, are respectful of children and not blasting music nobody gives a shit
When it became legal in Toronto it was heavily regulted by the government. The prices were high compared to street dealers. At first the smokers complained but the convenience of it won out.
Weed is shockingly cheap at the source. Most of the cost is added to cover the risk of importing it illegally and the risk of carrying quantity and selling it illegally.
The government would have to be trying really, really hard to mess it up for them to be unable to compete with black market dealers.
Even if they somehow manage to only reach parity with the black market, not having to deal with dodgy dealers and questionable quality would be incentive enough for most people to use legal taxable sources.
Really depends on how many of the old suits get fucked out in the next election, Germany is supposed to be the country to follow and their new laws are brilliant. I'm going to ask everyone of them that come to the door and if they say no it'll be a no from me too, now is the time for pressure
As someone who lived there in many states for a very long time, this is not universally true, varied state-by-state, and is vastly overblown. The average middle aged white collar worker who wants to unwind at the end of the day or the granny who wants to relieve her pain aren’t hitting up Instagram to buy from the local shady dealers. Legalisation instead gives them and others access to a safe product in a safe environment with taxes being taken in at high rates.
Restricting drinking in public isn’t a national law. Some towns/cities have bye-laws and guards can confiscate if you’re deemed a danger to the public but in a lot of places it’s perfectly fine to open a can on the street.
I think the bigger topic is limiting smoking anything in public spaces in urban areas, but that’d go down like a lead balloon..
In Canada there’s no smoking areas in any businesses or bars etc even for cigarettes you have to go outside, but you can smoke wherever you like once you’re out on the street
You do see signs everywhere saying how it’s illegal to smoke within 6 metres of a door (pretty impossible on a lot of streets) and then you have busybody urban Canadian wankers walking up to you and treating you as if you just slapped their mother.
>Likewise, if you can't crack open a can of cider while walking down the street, maybe consumption of cannabis should also be restricted outside.
Yes, people should have to smoke in behind bushes like teenagers drinking cider.
It's a great irritation when you being the kids to the park and there's someone outside the playground smoking a joint. I've seen/smelled people smoking it in the zoo and at a Santa experience - seriously anti social behaviour. Someone quietly enjoying a can of Rosie's Dew would be preferable.
There are benches and open spaces. It's not the playground that's appealing, it's just that playgrounds of some sort are in most public parks, and guards won't be hanging around there.
Often it's just because it's the only place where they can sit and have a chat. Most parks have benches but you'd fit four max on them and you're all facing away from each other
The rubbish from the teenagers in the closest playground to me went down when they put in picnic benches and another one went down when some trees by the river were cleared and they could go down and sit on some fallen trunks in a circle
They still left rubbish behind them, but it's an improvement from the playground being full of it
The trouble lies in trying to test for cannabis, i can ace any sobriety test shortly after consumption, due to a high tolerance, a different individual may fail. There are more wrinkles to this, but the idea will take some time to gain traction on the island if I had to guess.
Agree with everything you've said. Shouldn't really be a walking down the street habit but can't see the sense in it being illegal anymore either. I used to smoke years ago but don't anymore. I've no problem with it though.
>Likewise, if you can't crack open a can of cider while walking down the street, maybe consumption of cannabis should also be restricted outside.
Drink famously causes a whole heap of antisocial behaviour. I think cannabis shouldn't be banned off the street just to achieve a parity with alcohol that doesn't make sense.
TBH there's a little part of me that thinks smoking in general should be....nothing worse then walking out of a store into a face full of smoke...or walking behind someone smoking...and I used to be a smoker.
Was watching an English motorway police show and they pulled someone and did a drug test and arrested him as he had a smoke of weed 3 days ago, apparently they check if it's in your system as it can last a week!
I assume the answer drawn in the article is yes. My wife always laughs when she sees me do a kinda sniff around town 😂
Crazy how common it is and smell it all the time
A years back, my wife and I were in Amsterdam and walking around shops. I stopped and sniffed and said, "Do you smell that?" and she rolled her eyes and said, "We're in Amsterdam, you're going to be smelling weed everywhere."
I said, "No, not that I smell Lush," and then we turn a corner and down there street there's a Lush right there. 😆
Went to Dublin city for the first time in ages. As soon as i left the car park, it stank of weed. From the spire to Grafton Street, i could smell it everywhere.
Drug law in this country needs a complete overhaul; the drugs are bad m'kay approach really does seem to work about as well as alcohol prohibition did in the US. Legalising and taxing drugs to help deal with the issues they all bring makes much more sense than pretending that drugs aren't available here. It baffles me why our government turns away such a massive way to bring in more tax, they seem to love that.
>It baffles me why our government turns away such a massive way to bring in more tax, they seem to love that.
They only care about re-election really (tax take benefits voters not them specifically directly) and don't view it as a big vote winner...would actually probably loose a bunch of older voters as a result.
Anyone who has been to the likes of New York will understand the real issue with the smell. It's everywhere and for people who don't smoke, it's a stink. All the time and around loads of streets. People will compare it to alcohol but if someone walks past you on the street having a drink at 9 am, the smell of that beer alone doesn't consume areas of the entire street.
Unlike cigarette smoke, weed seems to linger or something.
This will be an unpopular opinion on this sub but for me, I have no issue with weed itself per se. Once it complies with existing smoking legislation (no indoors, work places etc) and not done in public places where others have to be subjected to the odour.
When you're a non smoker, being unexpectedly subjected to a cloud of cigarette smoke early in the morning is awful. But the same for weed smoke at the same time in the same way is stomach wrenching.
I grew up in a smoking household and smoked myself since I was 15. I never knew what not smoking smells like. When I switched to electric, after 3 months or so, for the first time I walked past someone coming to the office from the smoking balcony and thought "Oh my god, did I smell like this to people for over 20 years?".
So, btw, if you're a smoker and have trouble getting a date with a non-smoker and you're reading this, stop smoking. Trust me, you're not that repulsive (probably), it's the smokes.
>When you're a non smoker, being unexpectedly subjected to a cloud of cigarette smoke early in the morning is awful. But the same for weed smoke at the same time in the same way is stomach wrenching.
Well in Ireland I think most people mix their weed with tobacco.
It’s not odd, it’s sad- in the same way somebody needing to start their day with a drink is to be pitied, somebody who has to have a joint to wake up has a problem.
I think so. No smoke is produced. Pretty sure current legislation is clear it only applies to tobacco so current legislation probably allows for smoking but I'm against that myself
It probably isn't a great idea to hinge a business model on something legislators and the EU have no great positions on. You could be operating an entirely illegal service at the drop of a hat.
No joke, New York basically smells of weed now. Personally I love the smell, it but can see why people dont. The smoke from joints and bowls seems to linger, the vapes not so much.
I went to NYC in 2010 and didn’t smell weed once, loved it, happy days.
Went again in 2022 and I can’t remember going anywhere that didn’t smell of weed, literally. On every street and Avenue, every subway station, parks, everywhere. Then there was people selling it on every corner. It turned the experience to shit for me.
To be honest, I hadn't even thought of odour/smell being a consideration when it comes to the conversation about weed consumption in public. Maybe I likened it to normal smoking.
But having experienced it in NY, it gave me a whole new perspective and I now think it's probably one of the most important considerations to be taken when or if a change in legislation is managed.
Yeah 100%. I personally don’t care if people want to use it. I personally don’t smoke at all, but it doesn’t affect me if others choose to. But I don’t want to walk everywhere into clouds of it and my clothes smell of it.
There were people sat on street corners with a stool and tray on top with spliffs rolled up to sell. There was a huge shop called ‘Weed World’ not far from Macy’s which had parasols out the front and benches for people to smoke. It’s just changed the ambience for me. Being in a safety critical job as well, I didn’t want to smell of it.
I agree with you.
Lived in Dublin until last year, same as yourself I don't have a problem with the idea, but the reek of it is pervasive, it completely dominates the smell of an area.
Where we lived that at least meant we weren't smelling piss from the night before.
A bigger issue is Dublin City Council need to get the finger out and clean the streets more, get bins emptied before gulls tear them open and make a meaningful effort to present the city as a better place and a place worth improving. It's a total kip.
Yeah, I don't care at all if someone smokes weed, but Jesus, it has the most fucking disgusting smell. Hope it doesn't become normalised to the point where everywhere smells like shit all the time.
It just smells like a herb. I’m far more concerned about diesel and particle pollution from chimneys that actually kills 2300+ per year, and actually smells Disgusting.
The two are mutually exclusive. There's nothing wrong with being concerned about fossil fuels.
It doesn't mean we also have to be subjected to the stink of weed because that's the preference of the people who decide to smoke it. If people want to consume it, it should be in a way that doesn't impact others
I agree 100%, if people want to have a joint go ahead (making it your whole personality is another story) but I have definitely noticed the smell in public more regularly. Couple of weeks ago the whole bottom floor of the multi storey carpark at the square in Tallaght stank of it and I couldn't breathe.
>Unlike cigarette smoke, weed seems to linger or something.
Have you never encountered a home, a hotel room, a car or bus, or even a person's clothes where you can smell the stench of cigarettes long after they've smoked...?
Yeah, I've had this exact issue recently. Certain rooms would be stinking for ages, mainly those with pipework, our small gas room was awful for it because of neighbours smoking it. I don't mind people smoking it, used to as well years back but the smell can be pretty disgusting. Depending on downstairs neighbours the smell can linger for ages and the shared hallway was even worse. I'd like to see it legalised but I think it should be for specific areas only and home use. Not sure how apartment blocks should handle it as I think there should be things done to minimise the smells getting out even beyond just weed smell, but that probably comes down to the construction of the block more than anything.
Illegal drug completely out competing legal drug in our cities. Prohibition clearly is not working at all
Giving people places to consume cannabis would have a huge effect on it's open consumption on the street
"Expert" Dr Bobby Smyth claims no one has been imprisoned for personal amounts of cannabis in decades but what about this from last year. 3 months inprison for €20 worth of cannabis
https://www.offalyexpress.ie/news/home/1192337/jail-sentence-for-man-caught-with-20-cannabis-in-the-midlands.html
Here's some more examples
4 months for 17g of cannabis
https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/s/1YjBqM4CZh
9 months for what is also described as a small amount
https://www.leinsterleader.ie/news/home/1451157/kildare-town-man-jailed-by-naas-district-court-judge-over-simple-drug-possession-offence.html
Here's Dr Smyth calling the people who disagree with him fools.
https://twitter.com/BobbySmyth4/status/1775923214918512698?t=Ef7MLgpZY_QGc6DdRNt23A&s=19
He's also compared medical cannabis (which has recently been proven to be effective for numerous conditions by irish researchers) to Crystal healing. This man is clearly very biased against cannabis. I don't understand why he gets so much airtime
People have houses.
Amsterdam has smoke Cafes and ive been there and seen the sane Irish lads that walk around crowds in ireland smoking Js so it over there too.
99% dont care about people smoking weed as long as its not ignorant. The ignorant people will do it the same way even with somewhere to smoke it.
In Ireland people does not have houses, they used to have rooms and now the lucky ones have a bed in a shared room.
Housemates or roommates may have an issue or even be calling garda depending on how prude they are.
Be realistic.
People will start to fuck in the street because no privacy allowed in this country anymore.
As someone who's lived in Dublin city centre for a good while I can confirm that people already fuck in the street.
Literally every weekend you'll see it.
Here's what happened to some pensioners who decided to grow and consume cannabis in their own homes
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/courtandcrime/arid-41273680.html
https://m.sundayworld.com/crime/courts/unrepentant-hippie-pensioner-vows-to-keep-growing-weed-after-latest-brush-with-law/a1991154866.html
https://www.echolive.ie/corknews/arid-41006771.html
https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/off-the-grid-pensioner-73-receives-suspended-sentence-for-growing-cannabis-plants-1392417.html
https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/irish-pensioner-caught-growing-cannabis-28530274
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/courtandcrime/arid-41357203.html
Horrendous journalism.
Let's go interview an easily led Moore Street trader, a restaurant owner on Merrion Row and an anti-cannabis professor who says an ex-alcoholic having to see pubs on every corner isn't as bad as a an ex-cannabis smoker who has to smell it occasionally.
Smelling things is worse than seeing things for ex-addicts it seems. Christ above.
As an ex heavy weed smoker, I have to admit the smell is terrible.
You're a big cigarette smoker and you get on a train, maybe one or two people beside you gets the smell. Someone has been having a bit of a weed session? Half the train carriage gets the smell.
When I smoked I never noticed this, only when I stopped did I realise how pervasive and pungent the smell really is, even from just smoking a joint or two
I don't disagree with your main point. However, smell is found to bring back stronger memories and emotions than sight, so that professor isn't technically wrong on that.
4/5 young lads about 16/17 in Tara street station yesterday around 6 o clock and you could smell it from down the road 😂 People don’t seem to really care anymore can’t imagine anyone moved them.
I must be the most naive person on this but I wouldn't even know where to start to look if I wanted to get some cannabis or cocaine. Every other day I hear how cocaine especially is in every single village and town in the country but yet I haven't seen any.
For full disclosure I don't get out that much - married (M39) with 2 kiddos - I get out once a month for a pint if I'm lucky so maybe I just live a very sheltered life.
u/JealousInevitable544 makes a great point in my opinion - regulate it and see how it goes. Can't be any worse than it is now?
It's who you know. If you didn't grow up with it or are regularly in places where it is heavily consumed your not going to see it. You won't just be offered it by random people in the pub
Not a clue I’m afraid, I’m from England but Reddit these days is shit and will keep showing you a sub if you ever comment on it.
Same applies for the UK though, should be legal worldwide IMO. Tobacco is far more harmful yet legal, governments shouldn’t be allowed to tell me what poisons I’m allowed to consume and which I’m not.
As a non-smoker, I just wish people would be more courteous in public and not blow smoke in your face while on the street. Not just weed smokers obviously but it's increasingly so, even if anecdotal.
Ive noticed its more vapes than anything. Theyll vape anywhere including on buses and trains, inside hospital buildings, and in college. Its horrific but they don't see it as "bad" because it doesnt have their definition of a bad smell
Honestly this need to just be made legal. It's beyond stupid how up in arms people are over this but it's everyone's own personal choices that make a difference
I regularly pass two coffee trucks close to building sites and there is always a smell of it.
Lads are driving to work, operating machinery and generally in a safety controlled environment and they are using.
I'm an anti prohibition but I think this is unacceptable.
By all means smoke at home at night and at the weekend, but bringing it to work where they could be a risk to themselves or others is poor form.
just fyi. Freshly ground coffee beans can have a very similar aroma to cannabis due to similar terpenes(I think) in both. Its very possible you're just smelling that.
Often seen construction workers smoking a joint on their way to work in the morning, and whilst waiting for Luas'. Whether those specific people will be on a machine is another question, but it defo ain't coffee beans....
Smell of it is fucking disgusting. I’m in favour of legalising it but we would need some smoking ban in outdoor public spaces in denser areas or smoke feee zones.
Absolutely agree, was in NYC recently for the Mayo match and the smell of it is inescapable there. I have no problem with legalisation but I don't think everyone should be exposed to it 24/7. Keep smoking restricted to coffee shops and private dwellings.
In fairness, in an extremely densely populated city like New York where the vast majority of people live in apartments, it makes sense to have people smoking out on the street rather than in their homes as the smell would stink up people's entire buildings whereas at least it dissipates out on the street.
>I have no problem with legalisation but I don't think everyone should be exposed to it 24/7
Well then you do, because that'll be the reality if it's legalised. People will walk around smoking everywhere, all of the time.
Legalize and the smell of cannabis will be much nicer (better flower) and it will also be much easier for people to opt for vape pens or edibles which can reduce the overall smell.
I remember smoking a big fat joint on the liffey boardwalk in Dublin , suddenly 5 junkies appeared behind me , lured by the smell , I couldn't believe it , ended up just giving them the whole thing since they ganged up on me like fucking seaguls when they see you holding fish n chips , those fking flying rats are everywhere
this is part of why I eat my weed and not smoke it. the hassle from other people by smoking it is insane. I live on estate with a bunch of other people and if I even look high people ask me for a blunt 🙄
I don’t really care what other people do but it is a pretty foul stench. I do reckon legalise it to free up police time & make money off something that’s literally impossible to stop at this point. Treat it like alcohol.
Here it is again. r/ireland whinging about a puff of weed smoke passing their olfactories for all of a second when they walk past someone smoking a joint. Then when it's pointed out that they already have to put up with the smell of exhaust fumes, takeaway, dog shit, piss, and body odour, the response is always "Well those are legal"...
It really is incredible how much of a slam dunk the government have the opportunity to take and yet won't.
Legalise it, tax it and profit, a win for the public as less paranoia around the effects of being caught, more in depth clinical studies can be carried out in the interest of public health, with more knowledge it'll stop being such a boogeyman in the media and can be integrated into medicinal services as an option for pain management, a huge win for the government based on the millions upon millions in tax it would bring in and a win for the gardaí as it would free them up with less time spent on arresting people enjoying a plant to spend doing sweet fuck all else as per usual
Weed smells awesome. We need it everywhere, all day and all night. If you can freely go around worshipping a god that doesn't exist, drinking yourself into oblivion, smoking 15 packs of Benson a day, become a politician and rob or take bribes all day, drive your car when you're still half asleep or hungover then why can't I smoke some weed(that our Irish god created..) and relax a little or unwind. I'm not out robbing car stereos or stabbing the innocent. I'm at home drooling on the wife. And it's fuckin awesome. So many whingers and bad vibes surrounding weed, we have bigger problems to worry about as a nation like how corrupt and useless our leaders are and how we have alot of mentally deranged idiots here who are leaning towards fascism. Can't even provide a few roofs for the homeless. It's a fuckin joke. But they send 8 beefed up gardai to kick doors down and intimidate people over a half gram of hashish. Ruining peoples future over something so benign. It's legal in my shed anyway...
It won't happen here for another decade or until our British overlords do it first.
I got another 400 grams of hemp seized yesterday. Its like being refused to get served non alcoholic beer ffs.
Im never going to be able to kick tobacco.
Give Herbakko a look. Helped me kick tobacco completely, which I also realised was a major driver in how many joints I'd smoke in a day. I've gone from 8-10 tobacco joints in a day to 1 herbakko joint in an evening. That 1 also gets me properly blazed as opposed to this horrible, shite haze that the tobacco joints left me in. Absolute life changer.
Definitely better weed than junkie alcoholic harassing you every second in Ireland. Used to live in cork, disgusted by the alcohol abuse and people harassing with any bullshit.
Ban alcohol, legalize weed. Welcome to a better world.
I prefer when it smells of cannabis over when it smells of piss. We need more people smoking on Sunday mornings in strategic places.
For people saying smoke at home, most people does not have homes, they have a room or a bed in a shared room
I think to be honest that shagging in the street would be more common if it did not rain as often as it does an the weather was warmer.
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Yes, this is true. The vapour dissapates rapidly. The issue I feel is people smoking it with tobacco, which is not healthy at all. I actually feel sick at the thought of it. Tobacco absolutely reeks when combined.
I will not tolerate the smell of cigarettes, car exhausts, stale piss and take-aways being covered up with the smell of a combusted plant.
What is going on in this country? Drug addled maniacs with their laughter and insane desire for chocolate.
Lots of people literally do need it as soon as they roll out of bed. Some people even need it *just* to get out of bed. Cannabis is also medicinal and not everyone is using it just to get high.
Don't partake myself and have no issue with people using it themselves, as long as they don't get behind the wheel or something. Treat it like alcohol. Legalise the sale and consumption in licensed establishments and allow people to consume in private homes. Likewise, if you can't crack open a can of cider while walking down the street, maybe consumption of cannabis should also be restricted outside.
They’ve had huge success with that in Spain. Cannabis clubs everywhere.
Such a good culture, removes the criminal aspect and frees up so much police time
Imagine being able to nip in on your way home from work, catch up with the lads, hit a few pipes and administer the appetite stimulator and home for dinner. Take a few space cakes and a sixteenth of Banana Donkeyfucker #8 (or whatever those crazy kids at the farm have come up with ) home for the missus.
Well whats for dinner then, can't be filling myself up on space cakes and Bannna Donkeyfucker #8.
No true, the clubs are tolerated, you can smoke at home or at the club. Just don’t get caught in between.
As it should be, don't look for trouble don't get any, I'm all for respecting people's choices and their rights to not have to smell others choices
>As it should be, don't look for trouble don't get any, Not quite. You don't need to be looking for trouble, you can just be sitting an a tram on your way home from the club and overzealous cops can board with a sniffer dog, and you're getting a hefty fine. Unfortunately the middle ground between club and home presents an opportunity for cops with an axe to grind to harass and punish users with the process. Germany has mitigated this by allowing possession of a fair amount for personal consumption.
Yeah the German model should be rolled out across Europe, it would save so much police, court and jail time for such harmless, comparitively, activity.
Germany wanted to go further and legalise the sale in shops, EU legislation stopped them from doing so..
I'm with the krauts on that one too, the financial burden on the state alone for trying to control and prosecute for possession is ridiculous, waste of time and money, especially compared to the glaring cost of alcohol and the social and physical damage it causes every year
Have you ever been to a pub? Since the smoking ban you have to smell others choices frequently…
I know yeah, doesn't overly bother me as someone who grew up when smoking in hospitals was kosher, nearly a blast of nostalgia, and nobody forced you to go to the smoking area, I know the smell comes in with them but I say he has not farted in the pub may throw the first stone
Oh jesus, I was talking about others dinner choices with the constant farting
Wait, its legal in Spain? I was just in Salou and I had no idea.
It's not super easy to find them, I once got a card for a club in Barcelona and I walked passed thale place like 4 times it was literally just a random door on a street with no apparent signage.
Choko?
Not sure but it was a pretty small place, an area where you make an account and get little gym fob thingy then you go upstairs to a small lounge where there was the cashier counter and a menu... a snooker table and probably a foostable... Maybe even darts? A couch or two and a handful of tables. It was pretty small and cramped. Probably it would be called cozy on TripAdvisor.
I rented an Airbnb in Madrid once on a fourth floor apartment. Opened the door to the balcony only to see a load of cannabis plants growing there
it's legal to grow 2 plants on your property but it's illegal for it to be growing in public view. They are the only restrictions.
It’s a grey area afaik, basically you can home grow and buy in clubs, kinda like the Netherlands
Google cannabis clubs and go check them out. They're a great invention..
It's legal in your house or in a cannibis club, not legal on the streets. The clubs can be very iffy about letting a tourist join.
I, as a tourist had no trouble gaining membership to a cannabis club in Barcelona last year :) I have a feeling it’s only a problem if you act/look like a dickhead tbh
It varies from club to club. There are plenty that want a locals only policy, because they're social clubs and places flooded with tourists are shit places for locals to socialise. Other clubs are more tourist facing, so they're happy to sign up tourists, whether they act/look like a dickhead or not. Those clubs want that tourist money, they don't care if you're a dickhead if they can sell them magical unicorn piss fed holistic organic Cali Cali Cali bud for €28 a gram.
Sensible approach
Agreed, it should be treated very similarly to alcohol in my opinion. I have zero issue with people using as it's their personal choice, but I have to say I personally really hate the smell of it and it'd be nice not to smell it constantly when walking down the street.
Same. I don’t care about people using it but the smell is just awful.
It's like petrol, some people love the smell and some people can't stand it. Me myself think it's what God's vagina would smell like
I get that. For me weed smells like cat piss crossed with sour milk. It’s so off putting. I’m fine legalising it if people want to smoke it’s ok with me, but I’d prefer designated areas to try and contain the smell.
And thats probably just regular strains not the real stinking ones like "Cat Piss" or "Dead Cat" etc lol
😂
Has it changed a lot in recent years? The smell I mean. When I was a student back in the day, I used to find the smell of it kind of pleasant, like you might with a turf fire. These days it's absolutely vile, or at least anything I smell on the street is.
Depends on the strain. I mean it’s literally a flower. Some smell very chemically and pungent but some can be quite floral and fruity. It depends what they’ve been crossed with and what terpenes are in there.
Those are vapes I'd say They make me sick to my stomach sometimes
They're awful, hate smelling them first thing in the morning.
Same here. Used to like the smell of the stuff around back in my day. I thought there was a Youth epidemic of terrible personal hygeine the last few years with the bang of terrible strong BO I was getting off every second teenager I walked past, served etc. Turns out that whatever strains they are smoking nowadays smells like strong BO to my nostrils
Go to new York and you'll be put off by it, I reckon. It's so over powering everywhere you are in the main tourist spots anyways
Funny, I've the same experience. Loved the smell of it 15 years ago, turns my stomach now. It's not vapes either.
Same with the smell of beers for non drinkers. It's rank.
I’m not fond of it, but it is less imposing I think.
I love the smell of it, but it is very strong and I don't think it should be wafted around publicly, especially around children. Decriminalisation with cafés/clubs would give people safe spaces and remove so much revenue from criminal enterprises. I don't think people who don't want to smell it or have their clothes smell of it should be subjected to it.
I have no issue with people drinking outside as long as they can behave themselves and clean up after themselves.
Covid has kind of changed how drinking outside is viewed IMO. Massive plus as Ireland is one of the best countries for a walk and a pint. As long as you clean up after yourself, are respectful of children and not blasting music nobody gives a shit
My only concern is the government will go twattish, tax it ridiculously and the dealers will be cheaper so nothing will really change on that front.
When it became legal in Toronto it was heavily regulted by the government. The prices were high compared to street dealers. At first the smokers complained but the convenience of it won out.
Weed is shockingly cheap at the source. Most of the cost is added to cover the risk of importing it illegally and the risk of carrying quantity and selling it illegally. The government would have to be trying really, really hard to mess it up for them to be unable to compete with black market dealers. Even if they somehow manage to only reach parity with the black market, not having to deal with dodgy dealers and questionable quality would be incentive enough for most people to use legal taxable sources.
I'd agree with you in any other country, but it's Ireland, the government will try to reinvent the wheel and fuck it up completely as per usual
They'll do the usual thing of sticking "Eir" onto it.... it'll be called "eiribis" . Ah who am I kidding it'll still be illegal here in 30 years.
Really depends on how many of the old suits get fucked out in the next election, Germany is supposed to be the country to follow and their new laws are brilliant. I'm going to ask everyone of them that come to the door and if they say no it'll be a no from me too, now is the time for pressure
And yet that's exactly what's happening in the USA.
As someone who lived there in many states for a very long time, this is not universally true, varied state-by-state, and is vastly overblown. The average middle aged white collar worker who wants to unwind at the end of the day or the granny who wants to relieve her pain aren’t hitting up Instagram to buy from the local shady dealers. Legalisation instead gives them and others access to a safe product in a safe environment with taxes being taken in at high rates.
Even if they do tax the shit out of it, if it's legal to grow then people can grow their own
Convenience, choice and quality would beat price for the majority. Think paying for Netflix vs free Piratebay.
I would simply grow my own (which I currently already do) but I wouldn't have to be paranoid about getting raided
Restricting drinking in public isn’t a national law. Some towns/cities have bye-laws and guards can confiscate if you’re deemed a danger to the public but in a lot of places it’s perfectly fine to open a can on the street. I think the bigger topic is limiting smoking anything in public spaces in urban areas, but that’d go down like a lead balloon..
In Canada there’s no smoking areas in any businesses or bars etc even for cigarettes you have to go outside, but you can smoke wherever you like once you’re out on the street
Ontario’s rollout was a great example of how not to do it from a business perspective though
You do see signs everywhere saying how it’s illegal to smoke within 6 metres of a door (pretty impossible on a lot of streets) and then you have busybody urban Canadian wankers walking up to you and treating you as if you just slapped their mother.
>Likewise, if you can't crack open a can of cider while walking down the street, maybe consumption of cannabis should also be restricted outside. Yes, people should have to smoke in behind bushes like teenagers drinking cider.
It's a great irritation when you being the kids to the park and there's someone outside the playground smoking a joint. I've seen/smelled people smoking it in the zoo and at a Santa experience - seriously anti social behaviour. Someone quietly enjoying a can of Rosie's Dew would be preferable.
I don't understand why children's playgrounds seem to be such a popular spot for scumbags to go for smokes and cans.
There are benches and open spaces. It's not the playground that's appealing, it's just that playgrounds of some sort are in most public parks, and guards won't be hanging around there.
Usually the only place with any shelter either
Often it's just because it's the only place where they can sit and have a chat. Most parks have benches but you'd fit four max on them and you're all facing away from each other The rubbish from the teenagers in the closest playground to me went down when they put in picnic benches and another one went down when some trees by the river were cleared and they could go down and sit on some fallen trunks in a circle They still left rubbish behind them, but it's an improvement from the playground being full of it
The trouble lies in trying to test for cannabis, i can ace any sobriety test shortly after consumption, due to a high tolerance, a different individual may fail. There are more wrinkles to this, but the idea will take some time to gain traction on the island if I had to guess.
Agree with everything you've said. Shouldn't really be a walking down the street habit but can't see the sense in it being illegal anymore either. I used to smoke years ago but don't anymore. I've no problem with it though.
>Likewise, if you can't crack open a can of cider while walking down the street, maybe consumption of cannabis should also be restricted outside. Drink famously causes a whole heap of antisocial behaviour. I think cannabis shouldn't be banned off the street just to achieve a parity with alcohol that doesn't make sense.
TBH there's a little part of me that thinks smoking in general should be....nothing worse then walking out of a store into a face full of smoke...or walking behind someone smoking...and I used to be a smoker.
You would ban it for everyone to save yourself from an uncommon inconvenience?
Reasonable.
Was watching an English motorway police show and they pulled someone and did a drug test and arrested him as he had a smoke of weed 3 days ago, apparently they check if it's in your system as it can last a week!
I assume the answer drawn in the article is yes. My wife always laughs when she sees me do a kinda sniff around town 😂 Crazy how common it is and smell it all the time
A years back, my wife and I were in Amsterdam and walking around shops. I stopped and sniffed and said, "Do you smell that?" and she rolled her eyes and said, "We're in Amsterdam, you're going to be smelling weed everywhere." I said, "No, not that I smell Lush," and then we turn a corner and down there street there's a Lush right there. 😆
Far more offensive and overpowering smells coming out of those shops than all the lads going around smoking joints 😆
Love the smell you get off Lush in the IJ passage of Amsterdam Centraal
Wtf is a lush?
They make those [fizzy bath balls and soaps and all that kind of stuff](https://www.lush.com/uk/en).
Went to Dublin city for the first time in ages. As soon as i left the car park, it stank of weed. From the spire to Grafton Street, i could smell it everywhere.
Ah stop. Sure the amount of people I see smoking joints in a car is mind blowing.
Beats the smell of piss in Dublin city center anyway
Drug law in this country needs a complete overhaul; the drugs are bad m'kay approach really does seem to work about as well as alcohol prohibition did in the US. Legalising and taxing drugs to help deal with the issues they all bring makes much more sense than pretending that drugs aren't available here. It baffles me why our government turns away such a massive way to bring in more tax, they seem to love that.
>It baffles me why our government turns away such a massive way to bring in more tax, they seem to love that. They only care about re-election really (tax take benefits voters not them specifically directly) and don't view it as a big vote winner...would actually probably loose a bunch of older voters as a result.
I don't disagree, there's a reason I prefer direct democracy; no system is perfect though I suppose.
as an irish person who live in Canada and works in the industry, I can tell you more cannabis and less alcohol is the future.
More peaceful, less crime, cleaner streets. I'd take the smell of weed over the smell of alcos piss any day of the week
Anyone who has been to the likes of New York will understand the real issue with the smell. It's everywhere and for people who don't smoke, it's a stink. All the time and around loads of streets. People will compare it to alcohol but if someone walks past you on the street having a drink at 9 am, the smell of that beer alone doesn't consume areas of the entire street. Unlike cigarette smoke, weed seems to linger or something. This will be an unpopular opinion on this sub but for me, I have no issue with weed itself per se. Once it complies with existing smoking legislation (no indoors, work places etc) and not done in public places where others have to be subjected to the odour.
Or getting on a bus at 8am for work. It makes me want to gag that early in the morning
When you're a non smoker, being unexpectedly subjected to a cloud of cigarette smoke early in the morning is awful. But the same for weed smoke at the same time in the same way is stomach wrenching.
I grew up in a smoking household and smoked myself since I was 15. I never knew what not smoking smells like. When I switched to electric, after 3 months or so, for the first time I walked past someone coming to the office from the smoking balcony and thought "Oh my god, did I smell like this to people for over 20 years?". So, btw, if you're a smoker and have trouble getting a date with a non-smoker and you're reading this, stop smoking. Trust me, you're not that repulsive (probably), it's the smokes.
>When you're a non smoker, being unexpectedly subjected to a cloud of cigarette smoke early in the morning is awful. But the same for weed smoke at the same time in the same way is stomach wrenching. Well in Ireland I think most people mix their weed with tobacco.
It's odd to me that anyone would be up that early smoking it...how to kill your day.
It’s not odd, it’s sad- in the same way somebody needing to start their day with a drink is to be pitied, somebody who has to have a joint to wake up has a problem.
Open vape lounges. Normalise dry herbs vaporisers as a harm reduction initiative Keep public consumption illegal
Would vape lounges be compliant with existing legislation for smoking indoors?
I think so. No smoke is produced. Pretty sure current legislation is clear it only applies to tobacco so current legislation probably allows for smoking but I'm against that myself
It probably isn't a great idea to hinge a business model on something legislators and the EU have no great positions on. You could be operating an entirely illegal service at the drop of a hat.
No joke, New York basically smells of weed now. Personally I love the smell, it but can see why people dont. The smoke from joints and bowls seems to linger, the vapes not so much.
I went to NYC in 2010 and didn’t smell weed once, loved it, happy days. Went again in 2022 and I can’t remember going anywhere that didn’t smell of weed, literally. On every street and Avenue, every subway station, parks, everywhere. Then there was people selling it on every corner. It turned the experience to shit for me.
To be honest, I hadn't even thought of odour/smell being a consideration when it comes to the conversation about weed consumption in public. Maybe I likened it to normal smoking. But having experienced it in NY, it gave me a whole new perspective and I now think it's probably one of the most important considerations to be taken when or if a change in legislation is managed.
Yeah 100%. I personally don’t care if people want to use it. I personally don’t smoke at all, but it doesn’t affect me if others choose to. But I don’t want to walk everywhere into clouds of it and my clothes smell of it. There were people sat on street corners with a stool and tray on top with spliffs rolled up to sell. There was a huge shop called ‘Weed World’ not far from Macy’s which had parasols out the front and benches for people to smoke. It’s just changed the ambience for me. Being in a safety critical job as well, I didn’t want to smell of it.
I agree with you. Lived in Dublin until last year, same as yourself I don't have a problem with the idea, but the reek of it is pervasive, it completely dominates the smell of an area. Where we lived that at least meant we weren't smelling piss from the night before. A bigger issue is Dublin City Council need to get the finger out and clean the streets more, get bins emptied before gulls tear them open and make a meaningful effort to present the city as a better place and a place worth improving. It's a total kip.
It’s honestly the worst smell.
Yeah, I don't care at all if someone smokes weed, but Jesus, it has the most fucking disgusting smell. Hope it doesn't become normalised to the point where everywhere smells like shit all the time.
Have been to a few cities in the US recently, New York, Boston etc. Everywhere absolutely stinks of weed, you can't escape the smell.
I was in Vegas recently and it was like this walking down the strip, it's pungent
Yes, NYC fully reeks of weed EVERYWHERE. Even on the subway/bus, you can smell the stale stench off people's clothes.
It just smells like a herb. I’m far more concerned about diesel and particle pollution from chimneys that actually kills 2300+ per year, and actually smells Disgusting.
The two are mutually exclusive. There's nothing wrong with being concerned about fossil fuels. It doesn't mean we also have to be subjected to the stink of weed because that's the preference of the people who decide to smoke it. If people want to consume it, it should be in a way that doesn't impact others
I agree 100%, if people want to have a joint go ahead (making it your whole personality is another story) but I have definitely noticed the smell in public more regularly. Couple of weeks ago the whole bottom floor of the multi storey carpark at the square in Tallaght stank of it and I couldn't breathe.
>Unlike cigarette smoke, weed seems to linger or something. Have you never encountered a home, a hotel room, a car or bus, or even a person's clothes where you can smell the stench of cigarettes long after they've smoked...?
Yeah, especially back in the days before the smoking ban. I worked in it so I'll never forget. But I'm talking about the smell outside.
Yep and god help you if you live in an apartment. They stink because of it.
Yeah, I've had this exact issue recently. Certain rooms would be stinking for ages, mainly those with pipework, our small gas room was awful for it because of neighbours smoking it. I don't mind people smoking it, used to as well years back but the smell can be pretty disgusting. Depending on downstairs neighbours the smell can linger for ages and the shared hallway was even worse. I'd like to see it legalised but I think it should be for specific areas only and home use. Not sure how apartment blocks should handle it as I think there should be things done to minimise the smells getting out even beyond just weed smell, but that probably comes down to the construction of the block more than anything.
Illegal drug completely out competing legal drug in our cities. Prohibition clearly is not working at all Giving people places to consume cannabis would have a huge effect on it's open consumption on the street "Expert" Dr Bobby Smyth claims no one has been imprisoned for personal amounts of cannabis in decades but what about this from last year. 3 months inprison for €20 worth of cannabis https://www.offalyexpress.ie/news/home/1192337/jail-sentence-for-man-caught-with-20-cannabis-in-the-midlands.html Here's some more examples 4 months for 17g of cannabis https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/s/1YjBqM4CZh 9 months for what is also described as a small amount https://www.leinsterleader.ie/news/home/1451157/kildare-town-man-jailed-by-naas-district-court-judge-over-simple-drug-possession-offence.html Here's Dr Smyth calling the people who disagree with him fools. https://twitter.com/BobbySmyth4/status/1775923214918512698?t=Ef7MLgpZY_QGc6DdRNt23A&s=19 He's also compared medical cannabis (which has recently been proven to be effective for numerous conditions by irish researchers) to Crystal healing. This man is clearly very biased against cannabis. I don't understand why he gets so much airtime
People have houses. Amsterdam has smoke Cafes and ive been there and seen the sane Irish lads that walk around crowds in ireland smoking Js so it over there too. 99% dont care about people smoking weed as long as its not ignorant. The ignorant people will do it the same way even with somewhere to smoke it.
In Ireland people does not have houses, they used to have rooms and now the lucky ones have a bed in a shared room. Housemates or roommates may have an issue or even be calling garda depending on how prude they are. Be realistic. People will start to fuck in the street because no privacy allowed in this country anymore.
As someone who's lived in Dublin city centre for a good while I can confirm that people already fuck in the street. Literally every weekend you'll see it.
Oof well, you just made my point for me, is sad tho
Here's what happened to some pensioners who decided to grow and consume cannabis in their own homes https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/courtandcrime/arid-41273680.html https://m.sundayworld.com/crime/courts/unrepentant-hippie-pensioner-vows-to-keep-growing-weed-after-latest-brush-with-law/a1991154866.html https://www.echolive.ie/corknews/arid-41006771.html https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/off-the-grid-pensioner-73-receives-suspended-sentence-for-growing-cannabis-plants-1392417.html https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/irish-pensioner-caught-growing-cannabis-28530274 https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/courtandcrime/arid-41357203.html
Horrendous journalism. Let's go interview an easily led Moore Street trader, a restaurant owner on Merrion Row and an anti-cannabis professor who says an ex-alcoholic having to see pubs on every corner isn't as bad as a an ex-cannabis smoker who has to smell it occasionally. Smelling things is worse than seeing things for ex-addicts it seems. Christ above.
As an ex heavy weed smoker, I have to admit the smell is terrible. You're a big cigarette smoker and you get on a train, maybe one or two people beside you gets the smell. Someone has been having a bit of a weed session? Half the train carriage gets the smell. When I smoked I never noticed this, only when I stopped did I realise how pervasive and pungent the smell really is, even from just smoking a joint or two
I think that's more they have a 50 bag gooched rather than just smoked 😂
I don't disagree with your main point. However, smell is found to bring back stronger memories and emotions than sight, so that professor isn't technically wrong on that.
Except an alcoholic and someone who used to smoke weed aren't remotely comparable.
Edibles.
4/5 young lads about 16/17 in Tara street station yesterday around 6 o clock and you could smell it from down the road 😂 People don’t seem to really care anymore can’t imagine anyone moved them.
I love the smell of weed, super pro legalisation. But not everyone does and it’s nice to be nice lads…
I don't smoke it but don't mind the smell tbh
Yes. I smelled it a lot in Iceland and now that I’m in Italy I smell it a lot as well.
Dublin - the smell of weed and piss 👌🤣
I must be the most naive person on this but I wouldn't even know where to start to look if I wanted to get some cannabis or cocaine. Every other day I hear how cocaine especially is in every single village and town in the country but yet I haven't seen any. For full disclosure I don't get out that much - married (M39) with 2 kiddos - I get out once a month for a pint if I'm lucky so maybe I just live a very sheltered life. u/JealousInevitable544 makes a great point in my opinion - regulate it and see how it goes. Can't be any worse than it is now?
It's who you know. If you didn't grow up with it or are regularly in places where it is heavily consumed your not going to see it. You won't just be offered it by random people in the pub
Odds are you know someone who can get you both without any great difficulty.
You have a normal life and actual worries I’m sure so the nonsense this sub posts doesn’t really apply to you lmao
Out once a month for a pint. Do you leave the house other than this?
Make them use dry herb vaporizers and there will be less smell
If cannabis was legalised people would have easier access to other ways of consuming such as edibles and vapes.
Do they put a lot of people in jail for it in Ireland? Or do the police not really care
Yes they do still
Not a clue I’m afraid, I’m from England but Reddit these days is shit and will keep showing you a sub if you ever comment on it. Same applies for the UK though, should be legal worldwide IMO. Tobacco is far more harmful yet legal, governments shouldn’t be allowed to tell me what poisons I’m allowed to consume and which I’m not.
My area stinks of weed. So does half of Dublin City.
As a non-smoker, I just wish people would be more courteous in public and not blow smoke in your face while on the street. Not just weed smokers obviously but it's increasingly so, even if anecdotal.
Ive noticed its more vapes than anything. Theyll vape anywhere including on buses and trains, inside hospital buildings, and in college. Its horrific but they don't see it as "bad" because it doesnt have their definition of a bad smell
Honestly this need to just be made legal. It's beyond stupid how up in arms people are over this but it's everyone's own personal choices that make a difference
I regularly pass two coffee trucks close to building sites and there is always a smell of it. Lads are driving to work, operating machinery and generally in a safety controlled environment and they are using. I'm an anti prohibition but I think this is unacceptable. By all means smoke at home at night and at the weekend, but bringing it to work where they could be a risk to themselves or others is poor form.
just fyi. Freshly ground coffee beans can have a very similar aroma to cannabis due to similar terpenes(I think) in both. Its very possible you're just smelling that.
Often seen construction workers smoking a joint on their way to work in the morning, and whilst waiting for Luas'. Whether those specific people will be on a machine is another question, but it defo ain't coffee beans....
No clue what kind of weed your smoking, or coffee your grinding
Smell of it is fucking disgusting. I’m in favour of legalising it but we would need some smoking ban in outdoor public spaces in denser areas or smoke feee zones.
Absolutely agree, was in NYC recently for the Mayo match and the smell of it is inescapable there. I have no problem with legalisation but I don't think everyone should be exposed to it 24/7. Keep smoking restricted to coffee shops and private dwellings.
In fairness, in an extremely densely populated city like New York where the vast majority of people live in apartments, it makes sense to have people smoking out on the street rather than in their homes as the smell would stink up people's entire buildings whereas at least it dissipates out on the street.
>I have no problem with legalisation but I don't think everyone should be exposed to it 24/7 Well then you do, because that'll be the reality if it's legalised. People will walk around smoking everywhere, all of the time.
Legalize and the smell of cannabis will be much nicer (better flower) and it will also be much easier for people to opt for vape pens or edibles which can reduce the overall smell.
I remember smoking a big fat joint on the liffey boardwalk in Dublin , suddenly 5 junkies appeared behind me , lured by the smell , I couldn't believe it , ended up just giving them the whole thing since they ganged up on me like fucking seaguls when they see you holding fish n chips , those fking flying rats are everywhere
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this is part of why I eat my weed and not smoke it. the hassle from other people by smoking it is insane. I live on estate with a bunch of other people and if I even look high people ask me for a blunt 🙄
I have noticed an uptick of the smell in recent years and when it's carried by a light breeze it definitely replaces the smell of smoke.
I don’t really care what other people do but it is a pretty foul stench. I do reckon legalise it to free up police time & make money off something that’s literally impossible to stop at this point. Treat it like alcohol.
Hopefully, yes.
Love how people are talking about the smell.. would rather smell herb than alcohol & piss 🤢
Why are you pretending it's either or?
You can’t smell alcohol that someone is drinking outside a pub though. However you can definitely smell what someone is smoking
Good. The smell of peace.
Here it is again. r/ireland whinging about a puff of weed smoke passing their olfactories for all of a second when they walk past someone smoking a joint. Then when it's pointed out that they already have to put up with the smell of exhaust fumes, takeaway, dog shit, piss, and body odour, the response is always "Well those are legal"...
Who is defending exhaust fumes and dog shit?
I know which I would prefer lol
Hopefully not. Gross.
Cannabis should be legalise and I don't smoke it.
It really is incredible how much of a slam dunk the government have the opportunity to take and yet won't. Legalise it, tax it and profit, a win for the public as less paranoia around the effects of being caught, more in depth clinical studies can be carried out in the interest of public health, with more knowledge it'll stop being such a boogeyman in the media and can be integrated into medicinal services as an option for pain management, a huge win for the government based on the millions upon millions in tax it would bring in and a win for the gardaí as it would free them up with less time spent on arresting people enjoying a plant to spend doing sweet fuck all else as per usual
Weed smells awesome. We need it everywhere, all day and all night. If you can freely go around worshipping a god that doesn't exist, drinking yourself into oblivion, smoking 15 packs of Benson a day, become a politician and rob or take bribes all day, drive your car when you're still half asleep or hungover then why can't I smoke some weed(that our Irish god created..) and relax a little or unwind. I'm not out robbing car stereos or stabbing the innocent. I'm at home drooling on the wife. And it's fuckin awesome. So many whingers and bad vibes surrounding weed, we have bigger problems to worry about as a nation like how corrupt and useless our leaders are and how we have alot of mentally deranged idiots here who are leaning towards fascism. Can't even provide a few roofs for the homeless. It's a fuckin joke. But they send 8 beefed up gardai to kick doors down and intimidate people over a half gram of hashish. Ruining peoples future over something so benign. It's legal in my shed anyway...
It won't happen here for another decade or until our British overlords do it first. I got another 400 grams of hemp seized yesterday. Its like being refused to get served non alcoholic beer ffs. Im never going to be able to kick tobacco.
Give Herbakko a look. Helped me kick tobacco completely, which I also realised was a major driver in how many joints I'd smoke in a day. I've gone from 8-10 tobacco joints in a day to 1 herbakko joint in an evening. That 1 also gets me properly blazed as opposed to this horrible, shite haze that the tobacco joints left me in. Absolute life changer.
Definitely better weed than junkie alcoholic harassing you every second in Ireland. Used to live in cork, disgusted by the alcohol abuse and people harassing with any bullshit. Ban alcohol, legalize weed. Welcome to a better world.
Nope. Just the smell of bullshit when someone's looking to point their finger at something.
Legalise and regulate this relatively harmless plant. At least if regulated discussions about things like where it is allowed to be smoked can be had.
Yes, yes it is… legalise it immediately you fucking weapons!!!
Good Or are ye partial to the aroma of fags, piss and cars?
All of it is disgusting. Why are you acting the weirdo for?
I prefer when it smells of cannabis over when it smells of piss. We need more people smoking on Sunday mornings in strategic places. For people saying smoke at home, most people does not have homes, they have a room or a bed in a shared room I think to be honest that shagging in the street would be more common if it did not rain as often as it does an the weather was warmer.
There is a difference between the smell of a nice bud and some crappy skunk. I hate the stench of skunks but love the smell of nice buds.
I'm sure theyd rather they were smoking nice buds as well 🤣
We should start a movement for accessible quality bud for all
I hope so. It’s a lovely smell in comparison.
Love the smell of hash even more.
Yea the smell can be bad. But is it any worse than walking through a town on a cold night in the winter. Where chimney smoke is everywhere?
This is a good thing.
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Yes, this is true. The vapour dissapates rapidly. The issue I feel is people smoking it with tobacco, which is not healthy at all. I actually feel sick at the thought of it. Tobacco absolutely reeks when combined.
I will not tolerate the smell of cigarettes, car exhausts, stale piss and take-aways being covered up with the smell of a combusted plant. What is going on in this country? Drug addled maniacs with their laughter and insane desire for chocolate.
All over the place in the morning, clearly a lot of people out there with issues if they need to be smoking it as soon as they roll out of bed.
Very ignorant comment.
Lots of people literally do need it as soon as they roll out of bed. Some people even need it *just* to get out of bed. Cannabis is also medicinal and not everyone is using it just to get high.
I hope so. It’s a lovely smell in comparison.
Yes Kent it is
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