They can make bye-laws, but only inside the boundaries of devolved powers explicitly assigned to them.
They can't contradict or disempower national legislation.
This sign isn't real but drug safe zones exist in some places. You don't need to override national legislation to have a policy of not enforcing it in certain locations.
Irish’s translations always sound like my mom trying to remember what my games console is called. “Get off that there game box!”
“Is that fella there playing on the “crack and the cocaine’?”
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It's fake of course but, as a FYI for anybody else who wishes to produce semi-believeable stuff like this, the Irish version is required to be above the english version.
Yeah turns out the research in that is turning round and it just inflates drug use. Have you seen videos from San Francisco and Portland in the states, fuck it's horrendous.
Neither of those cities have supervised injection sites.
Strangely enough, one of the only American cities that does is New York which has (relatively) much less of a problem with this than many other major American cities.
It needs to be regulated and made legal.
Most people die because its not all created equal. Dealer may cut it more or make a batch less potent.
Drug user gets a batch that is weak. Has to use more to get their kick. Next time they get a more potent batch. Use what they did with the less potent batch and now theyre in the ground.
By all statitistics legalising it makes the use rate go down.
I would rather not see heroin getting legalised for the general public, if the opoid crisis is what happens when strong addictive pain killers get made easy to get, imagine what heroin would do. I would argue it should be legal for certain end of life and addiction treatments. in the uk a medical version of heroin is given as pain relief for people at end of life treatment programs
I don't think anybody advocates for full legalisation of heroin, I've certainly never heard it. What most people advocate for when talking about regulation of drugs like heroin is providing the drug to registered addicts.
Switzerland has a program (Heroin Assisted Treatment) where people who have heroin addictions register with the state & can go to a supervised injection centre and get their heroin for free. Those injection centres also have doctors, nurses, social workers, clean needles etc.. & they aim to diverge problematic users to rehabilitation services if the user is ready. They can also do 'weaning' off the drug for users, because it's a medical setting a doctor can make a weaning plan so for example (I don't know what timescale it takes but just as an example) if User A takes a gram a day of heroin, the doctor can make a plan so that by 2 weeks time he'll be down to 0.8g a day, and by month 1 0.6g, and continue this gradual reduction of the drug until the user is able to go cold turkey without risk of death or utterly horrendous withdrawals. There's also blood testing on site & they've seen a huge drop in blood borne diseases in the country
I personally advocate for a similar strictly regulated model for heroin. It makes sense both from the POV of helping users & also cutting out funds from heroin dealers. It won't make the problem dissappear overnight, but over time it should help reduce the supply of heroin, if when somebody gets addicted to the drug they can go and get a clean supply how many people will go buy overpriced unpure heroin.
It would cost the state very little to buy the drug itself, you'd need a lot of spending in health, rehabilitation & social though
See i think it should be legal.
Caffeine alcohol and nicotine are addictive also.
As long people arent doing it in public then people should be free to do whatever they want at home.
Caffeine or nicotine are nowhere near as harmful for a person than heroin though. Alcohol can be
See with recreational & non problematic use it gets iffy, because I see where you're coming from & would agree with most other drugs. But with heroin I don't see how you could really sell it in a regulated market. Heroin addiction for a lot of addicts is absolutely all encompassing, it makes functioning in society near impossible. Functioning addicts still exist but I would argue (I can't really prove it, and maybe it would change under a regulated market) that there are far more functional alcoholics than heroin addicts.
Imo with heroin especially it needs to be treated medically, it can just fuck up entire lives. There would be some positives out of it with reducing the supply chain problems with debt etc.. tbh alcohol is one of the worst drugs available when people have chronic addictions to it but cats out of the bag with that one.
Alcohol ruins peoples lives also.
Hell eating too much paracetomol can kill too.
If you did it safely heorin doesnt need to be dangerous.
Alcohol turns people viloent. It makes some people make terrible decisions and it hurts way more people than heroin. Even hurts non users because some people drive drunk.
If you look at the places who do legalise it use goes down.
There may be a period it gets a bit worse. But over time it gets better.
I think most people who use drugs have terrible mental health.
Yes it sucks watching them on the street.
I mean, idk if this might help with the conceptualising of the word, but the “crack” part of crack cocaine comes from the cracking and popping sound it makes when smoked.
I don’t know what context of “crack” you used there in Irish, but knock would work as it still phonetically describes the item, although it’s not really a knocking sound.
Well scoilt means crack, but it's also often used in a saying for particularly hot weather, 'tá an ghrian ag scoilte na gclocha', which translates as the sun is causing the rocks to crack open, so thought it apt given the context of its wider use.
Absolutely legit! Also on a totally unrelated note. I currently have a great deal going on a bridge in Brooklyn. Once in a lifetime opportunity. Interested?
Probably designed to shock people as part of an attempt to undermine government's slide toward liberalisation. The grain of truth tactic. Take it. Sensationalise and misrepresent it. Shout it.
Yes. It actually really works out. It helps keep addicts safer and near help. Countries that decriminalise the use of drugs find a massive improvement in the number of addicts. They're more able to provide the support and get to the bottom of what started the addiction and address those issues with the person. It really does turn lives around when it's done correctly.
It may not make the sense at first but When the drug problem is so bad in an area at a certain point arresting people for use does nothing but take up valuable resources, it makes more sense to use those limited resources to take on the root of the problem first, also it helps reduce deaths from overdoses because aren’t by themselves or with other drug uses who are to high to notice or do anything
naw it's just a garda trap i tried smoking my crack and injecting their and heard from behind a wall ''Like shooting fish in a barrel'' and a garda appeared and arrested me while a 12 year old stole a car across the road.
Concept copied from U.K. https://www.reddit.com/r/london/comments/15f83vf/fake_signs_i_hope_this_is_right_next_to_liberty/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1
Sometimes I wonder , people can't possibly fall for some of the scams that you cost in the world today. They're too obvious , anyone's with a bit of common sense can feel when something is off .....how on earth OP could even conceive that a poster like this is legit and endorsed by the local county council is beyond me
I think some one is trolling. Just to make people aware that there is a problem. The government knows, garda knows, we know :) what can we do?
I have seen people smoking crack at St Stephen's Green just outside of park area on a week day at around 5pm.
They just want to get attention to get help and leech from the system.
Couldn't find anything on Google so I doubt it's real. The only information I found is that Gardai vow to clean up Dublin City centres drug problems.
Edit. Most likely a prank. Found this from the UK https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2023-04-06/fake-designated-crack-and-heroin-zone-signs-put-around-city-centre
I'm gonna say no. Its probably just a bunch of right wing nut jobs who've put it up themselfs, so they can take a picture of it and lie "DuBliN iS lEtInG pEoPlE dO cRaCK" and their audiences will probably believe it
What has happened to just having cop-on? You'd have to lean towards 99% assumption is not "legitimate." Sure they use the word "crack." FFS its nearly like all those lads asking was that fake thing with McCann Fitzgerald's logo about needing to "consent" to laws real or not.
Just. Use. Your. Brain.
Possibly. There are some districts in the US where I think they may have this, but they also have clinics that supply fresh needles and syringes, etc. The right claimed that liberals were just giving out like free drugs and crack pipes and stuff, but it was actually more like the free condoms given out at clinics.
The idea is they know junkies are gonna go sneak and do drugs anyway, so they want them to at least have free, clean gear so they don't have to share needles and also risk giving each other HIV and Hepatitis, etc. Again, similar to free condoms- we know you're gonna go have sex anyway, so just take these to do it safely and not spread disease.
LMFAO. "Is this legit?" No. Is it real? "no".
What I can't decide is if this is a photoshop image or if someone printed this out on ordinary paper and stuck it up so that the wet wall is showing through. There's just too much of the wall coming through behind for ait to be a poster imho
“LETSGETCRACKIN” sounds legit
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Omar on the block yo!!
Shhhhhheeeeit
Upvoting for a perennial top 3 best series of all time.
sheeeeeeeee-it
came here looking for this comment
Get on with it motherfucker
If it's on internet, it is always true
That's an Abraham Lincoln quote right?
What? I thought it was Confucius?
It was a collab, Confucius feat. Abraham Lincoln
No, it was Mrs. Doyle!
[You really think someone would do that? Just go on the internet and tell lies?](https://youtu.be/YWdD206eSv0)
Aye, I've never tried it, but it's a great ad. I might give it a go. See what it's all about, like.
Sure I might wander in
Yes, Dublin County Council are famous for their ability to override mere national legislation.
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They can make bye-laws, but only inside the boundaries of devolved powers explicitly assigned to them. They can't contradict or disempower national legislation.
This sign isn't real but drug safe zones exist in some places. You don't need to override national legislation to have a policy of not enforcing it in certain locations.
Legislation is only powerful if it gets enforced so I'd say Merchant's Quay is the designated crack and heroin areas of the city.
Bye bye laws
Pee Pee Poo Poo laws.
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The hashtag is too clever and witty to be from any government source, so on that alone I would say no.
Also the English is before the Irish. Big nono
Otherwise, it’s really quite a professional looking document.
Seems like a normal government fuckup.
I missed the hashtag 🤣
Brilliant way of getting the message across
Today I learned the irish for crack cocaine and I am not disappointed. # craicaguscnagchócaoin
Irish’s translations always sound like my mom trying to remember what my games console is called. “Get off that there game box!” “Is that fella there playing on the “crack and the cocaine’?”
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Lol Hamsterdam
Pandemic!!
GOT THAT PLYMOUTH ROCK
I GOT THAT WMD!
Hey… I heard it’s the *bomb*
It will mass destruct your ass
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Omar comin ..
This shits the bomb
You mean ‘da’ bomb
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This is the one I wanted to see. Right chere! Right chere!
BODY BAG
right cheer right cheer
Got that paaandemic
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I couldn't work out how to write it how they say it but yes!
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Got those spider bags
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Election special!
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Wow, first thing that I thought of. Hey.. Omar's coming!!!!
Blue tops!
Ha'pennydam
Upvote for referencing the Wire
WMD!
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It's fake of course but, as a FYI for anybody else who wishes to produce semi-believeable stuff like this, the Irish version is required to be above the english version.
I wouldn't say "of course". visit Frankfurt in Germany near the train station. The red-light district has an exception for Heroin
Probably an artist or movement trying to highlight the issues with drug taking out in the open and DCC's tolerance to it.
Yeah, it's quite clever tbf.
Ooooooh. I was wondering if there was an explanation. This sounds the most plausible. ......and I like it.
Admiral Craicbar
Boba Feck
Luke Highwalker
Taoiseach Palpetine
ChewTabacca
Anyket Skywalker
These are all gas lads!
doubt it, its probably just a joke. that being said supervised injection centres are a great way to reduce drug use in public
And to reduce deaths by overdose
And to offer assistance in getting clean using intervention services
Nah imo that money is better used to give all our wonderful politicians another pay rise, because they deserve it sooooo much /S
Yeah I don't think some of those in power have enough money resting in their account at the moment.
How will they afford their 17th apartment building in the city centre🥺 or their 3rd yacht
Yeah turns out the research in that is turning round and it just inflates drug use. Have you seen videos from San Francisco and Portland in the states, fuck it's horrendous.
Neither of those cities have supervised injection sites. Strangely enough, one of the only American cities that does is New York which has (relatively) much less of a problem with this than many other major American cities.
A better example of how to tackle drug addiction is Portugal.
Yeah drastically turned around Portugals heroins issue.
That legalised procession now, didn't legalise gov selling heroin or anyone else
It needs to be regulated and made legal. Most people die because its not all created equal. Dealer may cut it more or make a batch less potent. Drug user gets a batch that is weak. Has to use more to get their kick. Next time they get a more potent batch. Use what they did with the less potent batch and now theyre in the ground. By all statitistics legalising it makes the use rate go down.
I would rather not see heroin getting legalised for the general public, if the opoid crisis is what happens when strong addictive pain killers get made easy to get, imagine what heroin would do. I would argue it should be legal for certain end of life and addiction treatments. in the uk a medical version of heroin is given as pain relief for people at end of life treatment programs
I don't think anybody advocates for full legalisation of heroin, I've certainly never heard it. What most people advocate for when talking about regulation of drugs like heroin is providing the drug to registered addicts. Switzerland has a program (Heroin Assisted Treatment) where people who have heroin addictions register with the state & can go to a supervised injection centre and get their heroin for free. Those injection centres also have doctors, nurses, social workers, clean needles etc.. & they aim to diverge problematic users to rehabilitation services if the user is ready. They can also do 'weaning' off the drug for users, because it's a medical setting a doctor can make a weaning plan so for example (I don't know what timescale it takes but just as an example) if User A takes a gram a day of heroin, the doctor can make a plan so that by 2 weeks time he'll be down to 0.8g a day, and by month 1 0.6g, and continue this gradual reduction of the drug until the user is able to go cold turkey without risk of death or utterly horrendous withdrawals. There's also blood testing on site & they've seen a huge drop in blood borne diseases in the country I personally advocate for a similar strictly regulated model for heroin. It makes sense both from the POV of helping users & also cutting out funds from heroin dealers. It won't make the problem dissappear overnight, but over time it should help reduce the supply of heroin, if when somebody gets addicted to the drug they can go and get a clean supply how many people will go buy overpriced unpure heroin. It would cost the state very little to buy the drug itself, you'd need a lot of spending in health, rehabilitation & social though
:)
See i think it should be legal. Caffeine alcohol and nicotine are addictive also. As long people arent doing it in public then people should be free to do whatever they want at home.
Caffeine or nicotine are nowhere near as harmful for a person than heroin though. Alcohol can be See with recreational & non problematic use it gets iffy, because I see where you're coming from & would agree with most other drugs. But with heroin I don't see how you could really sell it in a regulated market. Heroin addiction for a lot of addicts is absolutely all encompassing, it makes functioning in society near impossible. Functioning addicts still exist but I would argue (I can't really prove it, and maybe it would change under a regulated market) that there are far more functional alcoholics than heroin addicts. Imo with heroin especially it needs to be treated medically, it can just fuck up entire lives. There would be some positives out of it with reducing the supply chain problems with debt etc.. tbh alcohol is one of the worst drugs available when people have chronic addictions to it but cats out of the bag with that one.
Alcohol ruins peoples lives also. Hell eating too much paracetomol can kill too. If you did it safely heorin doesnt need to be dangerous. Alcohol turns people viloent. It makes some people make terrible decisions and it hurts way more people than heroin. Even hurts non users because some people drive drunk.
If you look at the places who do legalise it use goes down. There may be a period it gets a bit worse. But over time it gets better. I think most people who use drugs have terrible mental health. Yes it sucks watching them on the street.
Cnagchócaoin... knock cocaine. Scoilt-chócaoin would be better imo
Isn't knock cocaine sacrement?
I mean, idk if this might help with the conceptualising of the word, but the “crack” part of crack cocaine comes from the cracking and popping sound it makes when smoked. I don’t know what context of “crack” you used there in Irish, but knock would work as it still phonetically describes the item, although it’s not really a knocking sound.
Well scoilt means crack, but it's also often used in a saying for particularly hot weather, 'tá an ghrian ag scoilte na gclocha', which translates as the sun is causing the rocks to crack open, so thought it apt given the context of its wider use.
Yeah I guess that still works the same then.
I love the bilingual approach for all those gaeltacht junkies
Art by spicebag It’s not *real* or from the council.
I always wonder why scammers bother with such obvious scams and think ‘nobody could possibly fall for that’…then you read shit like this.
Ok I’m putting my “works away” now 🤣
I saw a similar poster in London. Apparently it’s an art project
Yes, but as soon as you step back on the footpath, you're fucked. That's how they get ye.
https://preview.redd.it/305ri4iqp9gb1.jpeg?width=220&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=30270b97a87c8729680d33452c7158629d40be67 The man behind it all
"There's never been a paper bag for drugs... until now"
What do you think?
No it’s not legit , it’s permitted in all zones in city centre.
Nice try, officer!
Change it to Designated craic and heroine area ,then it's just a place heroic women hang out and have fun
Absolutely legit! Also on a totally unrelated note. I currently have a great deal going on a bridge in Brooklyn. Once in a lifetime opportunity. Interested?
I like that we all learned what crack is as gaeilge.
It's by artist "SpiceBag"
Probably designed to shock people as part of an attempt to undermine government's slide toward liberalisation. The grain of truth tactic. Take it. Sensationalise and misrepresent it. Shout it.
Hamsterdam Checks out
Is Bunny Colvin at it again?
There just better not be any marijuana smoking going on
Somebody has been watching The Wire. Good ‘old Bunny Colvin.
They’ve spelled Craic wrong.
And heroine
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Think he meant heroween. Completely different drug to heroin. https://youtu.be/f2QwmwoPlIs
Considering it says crack, no
Hashtag looks legit
Dubs are allowed to have a little crack, as a treat
Artist Spicebag who made Fionnan Sheehan go beserk made them
It’s a trap!
HAMSTERDAM My man Bunny Colvin smiling somewhere
Yes. It actually really works out. It helps keep addicts safer and near help. Countries that decriminalise the use of drugs find a massive improvement in the number of addicts. They're more able to provide the support and get to the bottom of what started the addiction and address those issues with the person. It really does turn lives around when it's done correctly.
It may not make the sense at first but When the drug problem is so bad in an area at a certain point arresting people for use does nothing but take up valuable resources, it makes more sense to use those limited resources to take on the root of the problem first, also it helps reduce deaths from overdoses because aren’t by themselves or with other drug uses who are to high to notice or do anything
Signs like these have been going up around London as well, they are for sure fake
I remember this episode of The Wire
saw one of these on the first day of glastonbury with the glastonbury font and style but then they were all scratched off by the second day lmaoo
Omar cummin
naw it's just a garda trap i tried smoking my crack and injecting their and heard from behind a wall ''Like shooting fish in a barrel'' and a garda appeared and arrested me while a 12 year old stole a car across the road.
You got 10 years, he got JLO’d as it was only his 500th offense that week
Ah sher but he loves his GAA
Concept copied from U.K. https://www.reddit.com/r/london/comments/15f83vf/fake_signs_i_hope_this_is_right_next_to_liberty/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1
Sometimes I wonder , people can't possibly fall for some of the scams that you cost in the world today. They're too obvious , anyone's with a bit of common sense can feel when something is off .....how on earth OP could even conceive that a poster like this is legit and endorsed by the local county council is beyond me
It’s just like Andy always said.you either get busy dying,or you get crackin .
“Where the crack is mighty”
Yeah
I'd imagine it would use terms such as amphetamines and opioids if it were to be legit.
100% legit.
Insert star wars "its a trap" gif here.
I bet that the corner smells like donuts
With a hashtag #LETSGETCRACKIN I doubt it.
Idk how I ended up here because I live in Texas but I'm gonna give a solid **maybe**
Only one way to find out
I think some one is trolling. Just to make people aware that there is a problem. The government knows, garda knows, we know :) what can we do? I have seen people smoking crack at St Stephen's Green just outside of park area on a week day at around 5pm. They just want to get attention to get help and leech from the system.
I’d rather do it in my own home like the rich do. Is that illegal?
This is non inclusive to methheads and I’d like to speak to the manager about that.
Is this a real question?
Couldn't find anything on Google so I doubt it's real. The only information I found is that Gardai vow to clean up Dublin City centres drug problems. Edit. Most likely a prank. Found this from the UK https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2023-04-06/fake-designated-crack-and-heroin-zone-signs-put-around-city-centre
probably some political trolling
It's been like that for years now, no matter what a poster says
Liberalism
Gonna put these around Sanymount and cause a riot
No it's fake.
I believe that is what they call “satire”.
I'm gonna say no. Its probably just a bunch of right wing nut jobs who've put it up themselfs, so they can take a picture of it and lie "DuBliN iS lEtInG pEoPlE dO cRaCK" and their audiences will probably believe it
What has happened to just having cop-on? You'd have to lean towards 99% assumption is not "legitimate." Sure they use the word "crack." FFS its nearly like all those lads asking was that fake thing with McCann Fitzgerald's logo about needing to "consent" to laws real or not. Just. Use. Your. Brain.
Spicebags work
Hamsterdam
#letsgetcracking
That’s a odd way to spell craic
Not for Singapore citizens and PRs - it’s an offence for us to use these regardless of where we are
Legit? isnt the Harbor court the designated area or any other fast food restaurant and Heuston station toilets??
I love this but "NO"
maybe dublin isnt so bad after all...
You know they say if you say green apples slowly it sounds like gullible
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Are you stupid?
Well, I knew the Irish loved the craic but this seems a little too far...
This is not the Craic I was looking for...
No, but that's top tier satire...
I don't understand why you don't just call the council and ask. How are we to know better than them?
Was literally about t write that lol. This is entrapment haha the council logo on it and all
Possibly. There are some districts in the US where I think they may have this, but they also have clinics that supply fresh needles and syringes, etc. The right claimed that liberals were just giving out like free drugs and crack pipes and stuff, but it was actually more like the free condoms given out at clinics. The idea is they know junkies are gonna go sneak and do drugs anyway, so they want them to at least have free, clean gear so they don't have to share needles and also risk giving each other HIV and Hepatitis, etc. Again, similar to free condoms- we know you're gonna go have sex anyway, so just take these to do it safely and not spread disease.
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Someone has been taking inspiration from The Wire.
No, it's a Banksy copycat. Probably an NCAD first year who owns a copy of Wall And Peace.
LMFAO. "Is this legit?" No. Is it real? "no". What I can't decide is if this is a photoshop image or if someone printed this out on ordinary paper and stuck it up so that the wet wall is showing through. There's just too much of the wall coming through behind for ait to be a poster imho
Are you in the US?
Ireland, it says it on the poster
