In 2015, Ireland will move towards decriminalizing substances including heroin, cocaine and cannabis. The program will also create designated rooms in Dublin where heroin users can inject themselves. Proponents of legalisation argue that instead of shaming addicts, Ireland’s drug policy should focus on treating them. Opponents argue that legalization program encourages widespread drug use.
53% Yes |
47% No |
42% Yes |
36% No |
9% Yes, for most but not all drugs |
7% No, but decriminalise drugs that offer medicinal benefits such as marijuana |
1% Yes, and retroactively reduce sentences for those already serving time |
2% No, but increase funding for addiction prevention and rehabilitation |
1% No, and increase punishment for drug dealers |
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1% No, we should pass tougher drug laws |
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@9JPSTLG2mos2MO
Yes, I don't agree with the legalisation of drugs but the legalisation of safe drugs will save many lives.
@9JJWFYQ 3mos3MO
decrinimalise the likes of marijuana, reduce/release those already serving time (depending on the crime), and decrimialise it followed by class A abuse, meanwhile decriminalise class A amongst those in treatment.
@ISIDEWITH3mos3MO
Yes to some drugs with medicinal benefits like merijuana and fund education of harm reduction and rehabilitation
@8X7SVXK2yrs2Y
Yes, but heavily regulate it and fund more rehabilitation and addiction prevention
@Adamjnr3yrs3Y
Yes, and support increased funding for addiction prevention, treatments, and rehabilitation,
Offer beef farmers growing rights first to reduce the national herd.
Only drugs that offer medicinal benefits, at least in the short-term, the war on drugs has failed and there's huge money to be made (drug seizure departments can continue to jail people who sell while evading taxes(import)).
Keep anti doping rules in sport ,no need to encourage top class sports people to take drugs for the competitive advantage.
@8VJT56Q3yrs3Y
Not to fully decriminalize drug use focus more on drug prevention and drug rehabilitation and to punish to dealers more
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Ecuador's president has ordered that criminal gangs be "neutralized" after days of violence culminated in an attack on a television studio.Masked gunmen broke into public television channel TC's live studio during a broadcast, forcing staff to the floor.Police made 13 arrests following the attack, which injured two employees.At least 10 people have been killed since a 60-day state of emergency began in Ecuador on Monday.The emergency was declared after a notorious gangster vanished from his prison cell. It is unclear whether the incident at the TV studio in Guayaquil was related to the disappearance from a prison in the same city of the boss of the Choneros gang, Adolfo Macías Villamar, or Fito as he is better known.President Noboa said on Tuesday that an "internal armed conflict" now existed in the country and he was mobilising the armed forces to carry out "military operations to neutralise" what he called "transnational organised crime, terrorist organisations and belligerent non-state actors"
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From a thriving fentanyl business with Mexican cartels, to connections in illegal marijuana busts across the nation, alarms are being raised about Beijing's fingerprints being found on the US drug addiction crisis.The Drug Enforcement Administration has substantial evidence dating back a decade of Beijing’s role in flooding U.S. citieswith a wide range of addictive and harmful drugs.“I'm just saying that from a strategic plan of the CCP, it's a brilliant concept that if we can get into America and sell this very pure marijuana and destroy Americans' brains, so then they go to pills and other drugs, that's a brilliant, unrestricted warfare,” former DEA Chief of Special Operations Derek Maltz Sr. told Just the News on Wednesday.“When you look at the Chinese Communist Party. And you look at the role of China and their criminal networks in the overall drug crisis in America – because people are not connecting the dots – this is way bigger than just a bunch of, you know, illegally selling marijuana up in Maine. First of all, it's all over the country. It's not just Maine, Oklahoma, Oregon, Washington State, California. And, you know, all different states,” Maltz said during a wide-ranging interview on the John Solomon Reports podcast.
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