Should legalise it in the most economically deprived counties and drive tourism there that way…turn Longford into Nimbin
Longford has already been designated for a large flood plain for the country. We’ll need to find somewhere else. I nominate Stradbally.
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I think they’ve already tried that with Athlone
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Recreational use legalised in California, Massachusetts, and Nevada. Medicinal use in Florida, North Dakota, and Arkansas. Huge news any other day.
Wasn’t there also a vote somewhere to erradicate, keep and or speed up the death penalty. I think it was Texas
California, the voted to speed it up is winning currently but a long way to go yet.
Also
Approved: Oklahoma passed a measure to reaffirm the state’s commitment to the death penalty after the state attorney general suspended executions last year.
Question 776, known as the Allow Any Execution Method, protects the death penalty in the constitution, blocking it from being declared cruel or unusual punishment.
Approved: Nebraska voters passed an unusual ballot measure to reinstate the death penalty after state lawmakers repealed it in 2015. The vote is a big loss for opponents of capital punishment given that Nebraska was the first conservative state to repeal the death penalty in more than 40 years.
Good news for the working classes as well
Minimum wage
Approved: Arizona became the first state to raise the minimum wage on Tuesday night, with a Proposition 206 victory, raising the rate to $12 an hour by 2020. The measure also requires employers to provide paid sick time to workers.
Approved: Washington state’s proposal to raise the minimum wage to $13.50 an hour was also successful on Tuesday.
Approved: Colorado voters also approved a measure to increase the minimum wage to $12 an hour by 2020, which some studies suggest will boost incomes for 20% of households in the state.
Approved: Maine’s minimum wage increase proposal was another victory on Tuesday, solidifying a successful night for the Fight for $15 labor movement that has fought to make salary improvements for low-wage workers a national issue. Maine’s Question 4 also calls for $12 by 2020.
Rejected: South Dakota was an outlier this year with a referendum on whether to lower the minimum wage for workers younger than 18. But residents voted against the state’s Referred Law 20, which would have exempted youth from South Dakota’s new minimum wage, increased to $8.50 in 2014.
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Other initiatives
California’s Proposition 60 mandates that pornography performers wear condoms during film shoots. Performers oppose the measure, arguing that industry testing protocols are effective.
#pray for @carryharry
Gardaí have seized nearly two TONNES of herbal cannabis at Dublin Port, with a street value of €37.5 MILLION
Somebody is about to leave home and never return…
If it was exactly two tonnes itd work out at like €585 an ounce. Since it’s not even two tonnes @carryharry would I be right in saying The Guards are seriously overpaying for their weed?
Just goes to show you how much of it is coming in. That won’t even put a dent in supply like. Think of the tax we could be taking on it
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1800 kilos apparently…it should be legalised and taxed to fuck like cigarettes and drink.
Riiclous really.
Easily half a billion a years worth of tax to be made on it I’d say, before any tourism benefit etc. Think of what we could waste that on. A monorail perhaps?
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North Link distributor road would do me 
It should be though seriously…drink does far more harm then a few joints.
Probably 3m wholesale?
Still enough to cause someone a bit of bother I’d say.
Someone gonna get a “kick in the hole” over this loss !!!
Or buried in a hole…they all sing like canarys in that business once they’re caught.
Question of who gets em first .
The quality of the product hasn’t been mentioned here, the weight to price calculations mean very little until that’s factored in, but of course the police calculate in the maximum Street price per sixteenth, the old ten spot.