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GARDAÍ HAVE MADE a major cannabis seizure in the suburbs of north Dublin.
Two vehicles travelling in the Coolock/Santry area were stopped by officers from the Garda Drugs and Organised Crime Unit this afternoon and were searched.
During the course of a search, a large amount of cannabis herb with an estimated street value of €500,000 was seized.
Four men were in the two vehicles and they have all been arrested.
The men are aged 27, 30, 36 and 58 years and are being held at Coolock and Ballymun garda stations.
Gardaí say that follow up searches are now being carried out.
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Just sparking up a nice big 5 skinner of lemon haze now and will be continuing the trend over the long weekend. Keep pissing against the wind Gardaí..
Half the Gardai smoke more than you Snoop! They don’t make the laws.
Couple of spliffs of amnesia haze and a nice bottle of red , never fails
Oh yes Jane, love the haze. Wouldn’t waste my money on anything weaker..I can’t drink red wine when having a spliff. My mouth would be as dry as Gandi’s flip flop..I find a few Erdinger are a lot more pleasant..
Envious
Can I have your number Jane?
My kinda gal!
So they close the off licences and take the herb? Talk about buzzkillers.
I wonder how much money we waste every year sending armies of cops after a drug that, even if you actively tired to overdose on it, you couldn’t. 100s of 1000s of people the world over are gunned down by armies and police to protect our society against this drug that can’t kill you, a man in Florida was shot point blank in the head by a SWAT team 6 weeks ago on a raid in his apartment (an unarmed man) after they got a tip that he had plants in his apt, madness.
What was major about it? Drug supply unaffected, price unaffected and quality remains as awful as ever
Nice bud.
If the picture above is part of the seizure they’ll get off as it’s infected with a fungus and unusable
Funny
LEGALISE IT FOCKING IDIOTS!!! It’s working well in American states that have legalized it. Our politicians are so conservative and out of touch with modern society.
50 kilo is an awful lot of smoking.
Having arthritis will not get them off that one.
A good friend of mine in London is in a mental home because of smoking skunk daily for years. It has messed his head up and his family.
A good friend of mine died from alcohol abuse. What’s your point?
Addiction will always be with us. People are addicted to codeine and hydrocodone does that mean we should ban those products and leave cancer patients in pain? People are addicted to gambling does that mean we should ban the lotto?
Compulsive behaviors are not caused by the object of those behaviors. Its not the drink per say that’s causing Jims alcoholism it’s the psychological factors causing a problem Jim wants to dull the pain of with drink.
We also should have learned by now that banning something does not mean it’s not available – banning drugs did not get rid of drugs, it just made the drugs that were available far more dangerous because they’re unregulated
I find that the majority of drug users are responsible drug users. Whether that be a few pints on the weekend or the odd use of a vaporizer the same logic applies. We need to help those who misuse and leave the responsible users alone. This approach works with alcohol and is working with cannabis in the places it’s legal/ decriminalised.
In a regulated market skunk will become a thing of the past, thc/cbd ratios would be regulated like the safety regulations put in place for the production of alcohol.
Is skunk not a messed up super strength strain of cannabis? Best left alone me thinks. Sorry for your friend hope he recovers but any drug illegal or legal abused is not going to end well.
Skunk is a lot stronger and more expensive. Blows the head off you. Sorry about your friend Bill.
Awful to hear of those cases involving skunk and the legal highs (friend of family committed in Oz), but if we had legalisation, the state could monitor the strength as could the people, without fear of reproach (like in Amsterdam). Much safer outlook. Portugal is a great example of using state funded help to assist with addiction to drugs rather than locking them up. These people need help, not incarceration. Prohibition has failed for alcohol. War on drugs has failed spectacularly. We’re too conservative a nation, waiting for the UK to step up, which wont be in the near future.
This “skunk” thing is a load of ballhicks. It is a term used to describe any strong cannabis strain. With stronger versions of recreational substances you simply consume less. Think of skunk like spirits in the alcohol world. People in the 70′s were getting just as high as people today, they just needed to smoke a lot more plant matter.
Everything In moderation
The recent scare stories surrounding Skunk are complete nonsense, nothing more than modern day Reefer Madness, bad science funded by companies with vested interests in keeping cannabis prohibited, mainly the big alcohol & pharmaceutical companies – http://www.ibtimes.com/marijuana-legalization-pharmaceuticals-alcohol-industry-among-biggest-opponents-legal-weed-1651166
Debunking the Latest Smear Campaign Against Marijuana: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgLefrt3KMw&feature=youtu.be
Jeez! It’s gonna be a long, long weekend..
€500,000 @ 23% vat is €11,500 that could be extra revenue to the country.
How much did the man power cost?
Put a zero on it.
” art” plenty of ice in the red does the trick art ,
And fxck the naysayers id happily grow my own for personal use obviously ,
Cannabis the fad that just will not die
If you call a plant that’s been used across the world for over 8000 years a “fad” then fair enough that’s your logic.
It’s 200 million regular users must be all on some sort of bandwagon
Found a stash of drugs in Coolock? Noooo way!
Airhead
That much weed is burnt before the Angelus.
All plants have been used in one guise or another since millennia cannabis an idiots hit had the t shirt burned it
I had a few of those t-shirts full of nodge burns myself. My ‘Tomb of the mutilated’ one was the worst…
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