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TWO MEN HAVE been arrested after drugs believed to be destined for the Galway “rag week” market were seized by gardaí.
The men in their early 20s were arrested after herbal cannabis and approximately 4,000 ecstasy tablets were discovered during a search today.
The drugs have an estimated street value of €50,000.
The two men are being held at Galway Garda Station.
The search was part of ongoing joint investigations targeting drug trafficking in the Galway area.
A joint intelligence led operation was conducted by Revenue’s Customs Drugs Law Enforcement and the Drugs & Organised Crime Bureau supported by officers from the Galway Regional Drugs Unit.
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Water sales won’t be what they used to be on rag week so
@Stephen Collard: Pints of Heineken for a €5 a go won’t be flowing either. Never underestimate the power of that lobby group.
It’s a pity that lobby group can’t get pubs open on good Friday.
Who cares
Students! Enjoy your rag week, but if you do indulge, get safe and check your supply. Always test a tiny scraping a few hours before, just to test a reaction. Never take more even if you think they’re weak at first, and look out for your friends.
pillreports.net and bluelight.org are essential for you. Get educated.
@Seán Tynan:
That’s stupid advice for nowadays…
“Coke” and ecstasy is mixed with baby laxatives and dental antiseptic,
So when you “test” it on your gums,and they go numb, that’s not from the “Coke” but from the dental shiit it’s mixed with…
And their is no such thing as “come up Shiits” as I’ve heard a lot of people on nights out describe,that’s the baby laxatives.
@stephen mc galey: No, I’m not talking about things going numb, I’m talking about a reaction that may happen if you have a reaction. Start small. Basic sense.
@stephen mc galey: Also, cocaine and MDMA are very different. Your €5 pill will never contain cocaine, or be sold as.
@Seán Tynan: @Seán Tynan
I suppose that makes a bit more sense.
I taught you meant testing quality.
But their still just taking mostly baby laxatives and dental shiit with baking soda anyway ha.
The quality of this stuff now is just horrendous, but people are stupid enough to buy it anyway so their going to keep mixing it till their is no drug left in it and it’s just a concoction of stuff you buy in the pharmacy
@Seán Tynan: either will €50 bag
@stephen mc galey: Oh you’re right there Stephen. There is no QC on the underground market. But it’s not baby laxatives and baking soda that kids die from.
From what I have seen, most tragedies can be prevented with common sense, such as know your source and know your dose.
That’s not easy, but people need education (see my links above), and be very wary of what is handed to them in a pill or powder, especially in these new days of RCs.
You do realise it’s very easy i buy testing kits to see what the active ingredients are.
@Michael Duffy: I was going to raise that too! But the testing kits cost more than the pill. This is students we’re talking about.
Testing should be free and available in clubs, or anywhere. But, hey, drugs are bad m’kay?
I have done my time with MDMA in my youth, but the only drugs I have ever valued and continued with (rarely) are cannabis and liberty cap mushrooms.
I’m in my mid 40′s and still like a smoke here and then.
Once or twice a year, some mushrooms are very beneficial, even though it’s a difficult experience, which i do alone, in my bedroom.
@Seán Tynan: ok I get what your saying…
But at the same time, it’s made in a filthy basement or wherever anyway (E) so either way their is just a concoction of shit mixed in with the pills anyway, so their is no real way to be safe with does kind of drugs.
It doesn’t matter who your source is or where they come from, people are still going to take it, same way as people take it now knowing it’s mixed with god knows what from God knows where.
€13 a yolk !?! Are the Gardai on something themselves ???
The cannabis was included in that figure…
So 2kgs of cannabis was also found ?
Herbal cannabis and 4,000 yokes = 50,000€. They are probably valuing a yoke at a tenner so that’s 40,000€, and 10,000€ worth of weed so that’s half a kilo to them. But it’s hard to guess when they never value anything correctly.
@Uncle Monty: How they value these things does not matter. The media headlines put a monetary value on it. It does not matter. What matters is the nature of the drugs, and their safety.
They, our establishment cannot control safety, because of their own laws.
And every time someone dies, they blame the drugs, and not our laws.
Even sources of education aren’t allowed. That’s why bluelight have to register in RU.
Think!
Sean… I agree with you on our laws being a farce.. but when some poor lad with caught with a 50 bag is being done as if it’s 300 euros worth just to get Garda stats up it has to be challenged…. Or do we just brush it under the carpet like the rest of their corruption ? We’re talking about people going to jail here…
**OK that sounded a little angrier than it should have done… but still….
You’d get a 10r for them out in the pubs, buy early to avoid the increased cost :)
Jesus, in this country we consume huge amounts if drugs. Nearly every 2nd story is about a drug bust. Who says crime does not pay if they are only finding/busting 5-10 % of the amount that’s consumed. No wonder there are so many criminals/wasted/junkies/walking dead. It’s unreal.
There will always be a demand for something as fantastic as weed and ecstasy.
@Uncle Monty: There will. But the market has been flooded with cheaper and more dangerous things. The grey haired old men in the dail still have a say over these things. Kids die, they get a nice pension.
Rag week is a disaster. I don’t know why people just go a few pints in their local pub instead of doing this craps.
You basically answered your own question
@Eoin Mulhern: Ah now, we can’t be seen to encourage alcohol abuse in our young and becomings, can we?
When I was a student it was beans and toast and not e”s and yolks.
@George McCarthy: I still have beans and toast. Yolks as well, preferably scrambled. The yokes are another thing entirely. We must have gone to different colleges.
I was living in Galway a few years ago and a guy brought 10,000 tabs of acid, really strong micro dots in to town and flooded the place with them.
It was one of the maddest weekends ever. He was driving around town like a lunatic handing them out, collecting money, dropping tabs and partying 24 hours a day. The craziest guy I’ve ever encountered, absolutely mad.
Then he just disappeared. India I think.
Gov. “You cant have this” Public “why not” Gov. “Because its dangerous” Public “actually many study’s have proven that most drugs are less dangerous then alcohol, and the majority of those are non-toxic.” Gov. “It could ruin your life” Public “Over 90% of drug users lead productive lives, and the other 10% have been proven to have mental health issues” Gov “We need to save the children” Public “since the prohibition of drugs the use of drugs by kids under 18 have risen 10 fold” Gov “well if we legalize drugs thousands of law enforcement officials will lose there jobs” Public “that is not a good reason to keep drugs illegal but we can retrain them to become substance abuse counselors” Gov “Truth time, the drug war is just a sophisticated form of mind control” Public “ok that makes sense”
@John Waldron: Well, there are genuine health concerns too. Which drug use is… a health concern. Not a problem for our Gardai. Check out tdpf.org.uk. The times they are a changing.
Hope them two men if guilty get 20 years as they deserve it
Lol
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