Rory Fellows

It's not in itself a particularly attractive drug.

It has its, you know, it's a sort of way of switching off the day.

That's about it.

It's a complete zombie state for as long as it lasts.

And a great deal of the

The issues that emanate from people taking things like heroin is it's a way of surviving a penniless existence or a miserable existence of one kind or another.

And we're putting money into the hands of people whose interest is, for instance, the cannabis that I was smoking in 1960s, whatever it was.

was a completely different thing to what you can find now, what they call it, skunk or something.

They're very, very powerful cannabis.

I mean, I had a smoke of it years ago.

Well, I mean, you're not wrong, of course.

This is not really an Irish issue.

This is an international issue.

And if you're going to legalise and bond it and all the rest of it, then you have to look to those

originators of the product so I mean I I have a Brazilian friend who's absolutely horrified about the way that Europeans use cocaine when they are more than happy just to chew a leaf and the results of which are quite different they don't go to again the

As I say, as with cannabis, as with all of these things, the efforts made by criminals is to make these things as powerful and as addictive as they can.

And this whole sort of, you know, the supposed circular route by which you start with.

a smoke of hashish and you end up taking heroin.

This is not a route that is followed by many because we know that there are absolutely multi-millions of people who smoke cannabis.