Nicola Tallent

It's a... Gateway drug.

Gateway drug.

And they say that so many people have problems.

Most of those people with those strong voices are working in...

healthcare rehabilitation, where people have ended up with proper addictive problems.

They've come into kind of residential care.

Like they're representing a very tiny proportion of users of drugs.

But it's extraordinary.

Like, I mean, you only have to walk through Dublin.

Like, I mean, the city's all over the world like it, but there's just a bang of weed the whole way along the pavement, isn't it?

No.

Anyway, it is what it is.

Okay.

Now, we just want to move to a story about another hapless thief who was trying to, you know, scratch an itch, went in to steal some booze and ended up...

Like, let's have a little bit of compassion here.

What happened to him?

He's had a bad day.

Well exactly He got jailed He got a one month prison sentence God's sake Yeah So Now he has a lot of convictions How much did that cost the taxpayer to put that poor guy into a prison cell for whatever A month One month he wouldn't have served a month

And it was a... This is the sort of stuff that's stupid.

If this guy has a proper addiction problem, why are we putting him through the justice system really at all?