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GARDAÍ HAVE SEIZED an estimated €80,000 worth of cannabis plants in a raid on a property in Killarney.
A man in his 20s was arrested at the scene.
He is currently being held at Killarney Garda Station under Section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act.
A number of plants and related drug paraphernalia were seized in the operation.
The planned search took place in the Muckross area yesteday evening, and was carried out by the area’s District Drug Unit who were assisted by a dog unit.
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Government pissing into the wind again. Sure it’s a lot of money out of some gangsters pocket. However the people buying it will just get it somewhere else. There will come a day when it’s legalized and we’ll wonder why why spent so much money trying to stop it, when so much revenue could have come from something no more if not less harmful to society than alcohol and tobacco.
It’s the common tax payers that buy it that suffer the most.
It really is such a waste of our Garda’s resources & tax payers money, with nothing achieved except for seeing organised crime gangs get more powerful by the day; instead we could be generating a huge amount of tax revenue and providing thousands of jobs within a new industry, similar to what they’re experiencing in Colorado, not to mention the knock on effect of reducing the level of crime (10.1% decrease in overall crime from this time last year and a 5.2% drop in violent crime) – http://reset.me/story/six-months-legal-marijuana-colorado-thriving/
NORML Ireland is now up & running and I’d encourage anyone who feels strongly about cannabis legalisation or de-criminalisation to join up and fight for the worthy cause – http://www.norml.ie/
https://www.facebook.com/NormlIreland
https://twitter.com/NORMLIRELAND
Surely its getting to breaking point? Surely a change is coming soon. Of course the government realise that regulation would benefit everybody much more than the current illegal state. I imagine they don’t want to annoy a few closed minded people and lose some a few votes.
€80k = 5/6 plants , using Garda math.
It looks like about 10 quintillion worth.
This was the same math cops used 40 years ago in the USA. If you are flying about in helicopters instead of doing the hard & dangerous work of clearing what should be more touristy streets in Dublin at night you have to justify your expenses.
Now the cops in Seattle are giving out Doritos at “smoke-in” demos…just 40 years away, Ireland!!
Or you could put it to referendum.
An ounce of cocaine is 2800 ….. Gold is 1500 ………
When I bought gold , for my wedding ring I didn’t have to buy another one the following weekend, or the weekend after that etc.
“Cheaper drugs now ! ; Frank Gallagher !
may i suggest the next time you buy coke go to columbia/peru/chile and you’ll get your coke for $1000 a kilo.And thats pure
For a start according to the UN office of drugs and crime the average retail price of ounce of coke in Ireland is €1898, in the UK it’s €1283. You kid are getting RIPPED OFF big time.
Secondly you’re getting through an OUNCE of coke every weekend… According to the European drugs monitoring agency the estimated minimal lethal does is 1.2g but addicts may tolerate up to 5g daily… An ounce is 28.3g FYI.
Thirdly at that kind of quantities, you should at least be getting a bulk discount buy two grams get one free kinda thing.
I bought a gold wedding ring ; I was just comparing white gold to gold gold and the excellent profit margins from a customer base that is recurring and insatiable …
If I was in the business of buying cocaine you wouldn’t even know I existed …..
thanks for the info guys ; everything cheaper in Britain as usual !
We should rename the squad that tries to resist the growth of the cannabis trade to ” King Canute’s Regiment”.
Excellent.
You won’t be saying that when the plastic bag tax comes in and your glue sniffing overheads goes up.
There goes the weekend in Killarney!!
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