Yeah it could only work if it was pan EU
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This Mafia lad in Sicily must have been greasing a multitude of paws.
He’s on the wanted list for 30 years and they magically locate him as he’s drawing his last breath in a clinic.
The Polizia must have Celtic genes - an innate inability to find their own arses with a mirror. The PM, Madame Melloni congratulating the plods on their terrific work.
It isn’t that simple.
Nowhere has properly legalised drugs, it’s highly likely that it will lead to far more people taking it and costing society in other ways- much like alcohol does.
Magical Thinking
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Exactly, are we going to legalise heroin?
Look at what opioids did in the US.
He was involved in a few billion euro business’s. All seems a bit odd.
His brother and sister were jailed in 2019.
Ecstasy is safer than alcohol.
Marijuana is legal in most of North America.
You can start with those two.
Drugs should be a public health issue and not a criminal issue. Criminalising them means that young lands from certain back grounds have a criminal record at 18 with the life changing consequences that brings. The war on drugs in America has been a complete failure.
I don’t see a load of lads heading out to start injecting heroin tomorrow just because it’s legal. The opioid issue in US is and was to a big extent due to lack of regulation.
Anyway we know cocaine and heroin won’t be legalised for many years , if ever . The stigma is too great.
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Okay so it’s legalise ecstasy and weed.
But the argument behind taxing it to make money and reduce criminality doesn’t actually hold. That’s been the case in the Netherlands and also the likes of Denver. Other dirty elements move in.
At the end of the day it’s all just a tradeoff. The War on Drugs isn’t a failure, it’s just a tradeoff.
Legalisation needs to be be pan European. Otherwise you end up with drug tourism which nobody wants.
The problem with the Netherlands and Denver isn’t drug tourism.
I’ve no idea what’s going on in Denver.
Rotterdam is the biggest port in Europe so it’s not surprising criminal gangs are using it to move illegal drugs.
There’s not much illegal booze sold in America since they got rid of prohibition.
The Mexican Cartels are all over the place in Denver. It’s very interesting what has happened.
To the point on prohibition, the point extends to other drugs. The end of prohibition hasn’t led to criminality reducing.
That’s a surprise
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Fella used to go out with Ireland’s Princess Diana
Surprise, Surprise, Paul Reynolds going with the pro-Garda/prosecution angle on todays proceedings in the Hutch trial.
Even the script read by Sharon Ni Vee-ole-awn to introduce the report seemed oddly enough framed…
…A meeting between Jonathan Dowdall and Gerard Hutch in a Dublin park in the days after a Kinahan cartel lieutenant was murdered, where Dowdall says Hutch admitted to the killing, COULD HAVE taken place a court heard today…
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All the evidence today proved it was unlikely to have happened as described by Dowdall, with the only evidence in his favour being his phone briefly pinged off a mast that could have been reached from the park.
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Whatever has happened to Paul Williams? Is he sick, retired or just lying low. It’s inconceivable that as this trial reaches its crescendo there isn’t a peep out of him. Perhaps he’s on the list of witnesses or something….
He’s still doing bits and pieces for the Indo. I’d say he’s a fella ravaged with the drink - his credibility is pretty much shot at this stage anyway
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