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Scary Éire 1993/94 in the Rock Garden, Dublin. . .

Don’t arrest teens for smoking cannabis at gigs, urges agency
from www.breakingnews.ie

Teenagers caught with cannabis at outdoor concerts like Oxegen should not be arrested, a Catholic anti-drugs agency said today.

Crosscare, which runs counselling programmes in the Dublin Archdiocese, said dozens of music fans come looking for help every year to avoid court penalties. Up to 400 people were arrested for minor drugs offences at events like Oxegen and Electric Picnic last year. Crosscare co-ordinator Michael McDonagh said concerts should set up “counselling tents” for offenders rather than being arrested by gardaí and processed through the courts.

“Our time is being wasted every year by mostly Leaving Cert students who don’t have an addiction problem but have been arrested for a smoking a joint. Their solicitor sends them to us so they can avoid big fines or suspended prison sentences when they go into court or a judge refers them to us. But our resources would be much better utilised in helping people who have serious problems with drugs or alcohol rather than school leavers having a joint.”

The radical proposal is contained in a new report, Court-Appointed Drug Education: The Perspective of the Voluntary Sector, being published by Crosscare on Friday. However Mr McDonagh insisted he wasn’t calling for the legalisation of cannabis for personal use. Crosscare said it aims to stop meeting individuals referred by courts for drug education. The report was conducted at some of last year’s major music festivals where up to 400 people were arrested for minor drug offences.

“Gardaí should caution the individual and request that they go to a designated area, to be set up at concerts in an effort to help educate young people about drugs. “The counselling tents suggested by Crosscare could be manned by gardaí or juvenile liaison officers,” Mr McDonagh said.

Just stumbled across this blog - Derelict Dublin - which I hadn’t seen before. Nothing amazing in the way of “urban exploration” but if you’re familiar with the city it may be of interest.

Do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?

“If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa. Most of us would see the dancer turning anti-clockwise though you can try to focus and change the direction; see if you can do it…”

More useless info here.

Already facing enough problems with the wild fires that have swept California, the state’s governor Arnold Schwarzenegger may have stepped into a new row by claiming that marijuana is not a drug. In an interview with GQ magazine, the Hollywood star turned governor of California insisted: “I didn’t take any drugs.”

The interviewer, former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan, put it to the star that he had admitted smoking marijuana in the past. In Pumping Iron, the bodybuilding documentary which launched his career 30 years ago, he was shown taking a drag on a spliff.

“That is not a drug. It’s a leaf,” said Austrian-born Mr Schwarzenegger, 60. “My drug was pumping iron, trust me,” he added.

When George Butler’s critically acclaimed 1977 documentary Pumping Iron was re-released in 2002, before Mr Schwarzenegger ran for governor of California, he was unconcerned by the scene showing him smoking marijuana, saying - in a pointed reference to former US president Bill Clinton who claimed never to have inhaled: “I did smoke a joint and I did inhale. The bottom line is that’s what it was in the Seventies, that’s what I did. I have never touched it since.” Mr Schwarzenegger said that it was not necessarily a matter of public interest whether politicians had taken class-A drugs.

He said: “What would you rather have? A politician taking the stuff and not saying, but making the best decisions and improving things? Or a politician who names the drugs he or she has taken but makes lousy decisions for the country?”

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