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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Misguided liberal views
Dear Editor
Just to thank Cllr Flanagan for his letter of March 2nd.
Again we see the misguided liberal principle that young Roscommon people can do whatever they wish as long as it does not harm others.
The opportunity cost to Roscommon is that youths should be allowed continue taking mind-altering substances that can lead them to a plethora of unpredictable and dangerous behaviour, which puts everyone else at risk in the daily life in Roscommon.
On the internet you have the mass production of the most pernicious disinformation possible, sadly Cllr Flanagan has been sucked in by non-peer reviewed scientific articles to form a logic of his misguided views.
The role of law has always been to protect young people from self-imposed damage.
Local government has a responsibility to research the dangers of drug practices and substances and in essence constrain the freedoms of young people of Roscommon for their own safety.
Hence the reason head shops need to be regulated/banned ASAP, although currently very legal in Roscommon.
Despite cannabis being a harmful substance, which causes brain damage and short-term memory loss, Cllr Flanagan is penciled in to be Roscommon’s first citizen and Lord Mayor, regrettable.
It would be morally wrong for politicians, parents, grandparents of the county to sit back and do nothing if this Cllr ‘Ming’ continues to have no insight and fails to appreciate the very appalling futile suffering and wasteful human painful existence, that the slippery slope of drug use can very very quickly lead young people of Roscommon to...
Is Mise Le Meas
Ger O’Brien
3 The Plains
Ballinagare
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