Dispatches heared from teenagers and pre-teens whose friends have been brutally murdered and who now live in fear for their own lives. The film examined the increasingly deadly weapons being used by teenagers such as submachine guns - indiscriminate weapons that can fire 1,000 rounds a minute and which claimed three lives last year.

Meanwhile, in a situation which shows the Republic of Ireland leads the way in European harm reduction policies, doctors at the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI) have called on the Irish Government to implement a radical overhaul of the sale of alcohol in Ireland.

The Faculty of Public Health Medicine at the RCPI has communicated its concern at what it terms "The degree of alcohol related illness and death in Ireland," to Minister for Justice Brian Lenihan.

According to reports the communication read, "With 88 per cent of public order offences related to alcohol, 34 per cent of marital breakdowns citing alcohol as the main cause of breakdown, 38 per cent of road deaths being alcohol related and one in every eight patients attending A&E as a result of an alcohol related injury, the time to take major action has long since passed."

With the United Kingdom fast approaching 9000 alcohol related death's per year surely its time to government reprioritised its public health policy with a view to curbing this climb, and stopped or at least changed the priority on the futile cannabis witch hunt.