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GARDAÍ HAVE SEIZED cannabis herb with an estimated street value of €325,000 in Co Sligo.
As part of a planned operation, gardaí from the Ballymote district in Co Sligo, assisted by the divisional drugs and crime units, searched a residential property in the area yesterday.
Cannabis herb (subject to analysis) with an estimated street value of €325,000 and associated drug paraphernalia were seized.
No arrests have been made and investigations are ongoing.
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wow that is Shocking World news along side with Cannabis is now become legal in Canada since last Tuesday !
@Johnny Mason: Ireland will be one of the last developed countries in the world to have it legalised.. Especially if the big pharma companies and politicians looking out for the drink industry have anything to say about it
@Acedeuce: I don’t know. There could be a money making angle for Big Pharma in it selling quality controlled cannabis for medicinal purposes. I’d say they are watching this space closely.
@Acedeuce: Exactly! Compared to other developed countries Ireland is still living in stone age, min 20 years behind. You have 4 small plants on your backyard for own use and they are making such a big deal out of it. And 15 months later investigation still continues, questioning, statement, district court etc. It’s a JOKE! Like they have nothing better to do than bother decent people who enjoy the benefits of cannabis products.
Funny they always report an ‘estimated street value’ instead of weight.
@Patrick Swan: They used to but nobody’s buying it anymore so it just makes them look like fools..
@Patrick Swan: we all know how estimates escalate within the Gardes… Usually to around double
@John Ryan: that’s probably two kilos , Sligo prices Yeh
@Patrick Swan: yep because people would see through the pure propoganda lies they tell
That’s a disgraceful waste of Garda resources, on prohibition that is not an actual crime. Prohibition is a shameful blight on humanities existence and our current prohibition dwarfs the historical US alcohol debacle, that is rightly condemned. Canada is a shining beacon for humanity, against the vile inhumane corrupt prohibition attack on nice people.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/17/on-a-high-canada-celebrates-cannabis-being-legalised
@KingCrisp: and the example that Japan has set by going after users? The drug crime in Japan has plummeted but that not going to impress on your narrative. While I myself have an open mind on legalisation the belief that legalizing is the only solution is false. Japan proves this.
@Mjhint: Japans culture is very different and based on strict adherence to laws, but that is changing rapidly with a surge in drug use as they realise that the laws are nonsensical “in 2010, the government of Japan estimated that there were at least 2.76 million Japanese who had used illegal drugs. Although this is only about 2.9 percent of the population, for a country that had relatively no drug problem only 15 years ago, this is a huge increase.”
Japan proves that very strict cruel inhumane illogical prohibition laws do not work as the people disobey laws that should never exist.
https://www.dw.com/en/japan-struggles-with-growing-cannabis-use/a-44094855
https://www.thecabinchiangmai.com/blog/statistics-of-japan-s-rising-drug-use/
@KingCrisp: point taken. Good research.
@Mjhint: One would hope that you do not approve of cruel illogical laws that are terrorizing jailing nice people, whilst enriching dangerous gangland mafias perpetually. It’s hard to tell from your comment. On the one hand you say you have an open mind and in the other you appear to think the only way is Japan(Essex TV joke), or its a good example.
Insane cruel laws have existed in many guises. The Jim Crow laws lynched people, it was the law. In Nazi Germany the killing of millions of people was the law.
A lot of countries including jailed executed people if they where gay. Some countries still do this and the US is regressing back towards inhumane laws of theocracy against people because their religion is opposed to LGBT etc.
These are all insane cruel laws, as are prohibition laws. People are still executed in some countries under cruel sadistic prohibition laws. Some people think that you have to obey cruel evil laws, just because it is the law.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44668459
https://drugabuse.com/the-20-countries-with-the-harshest-drug-laws-in-the-world/
@Mjhint: Ignore the bit on my latest post, as I was unawares as to your open mind on prohibition and cruel laws.
@KingCrisp: oops ” including Ireland jailed”
@KingCrisp: it’s not a crime eh?
Wouldn’t that money be better in the local economy. Legalise it.
1: Save on garda resources.
2: court cases, prison terms etc
3: tax it
4: Money out of drug dealers pockets
5: regulation of the stuff
6: tourism
7: art, music, cultural etc
@Ultan: You know better than to be bringing logic around here Ultan. This is the journal mate.
@Ultan: would you feck off with your common sense!!!
What a waste of time and resources is cannabis, Ireland will be on the backfoot once it goes main stream in the EU, Ireland should get ahead of this and legalise it.
@Dave.: never happen, this is too much of a backward country, to be so forward thinking.
Just legalize it already
Great work by the gardai – another kick in the teeth for the Kinahans and their fans.
@Toby Thedogk: this was Sligo, not Dublin. It’s probably a bit of an inconvenience for the Irwins.
@Toby Thedogk: if its worth €325,000 Street value (according to the guards) it’d cost someone like christy kinahan less than €50k. And seeing as he’s worth over €1billion I don’t think a bust like this would make any difference to the kinahans. And as for their fans, who are they?
I don’t know about you folks but I’ll rest easy tonight knowing our brave police force have taken this evil killer drug off our streets, bravo chaps
@Jonny: I don’t know are you trying to be sarcastic, but anyway last sentence of the article.. have a look.
For anybody who’s interested in how farcical the war on drugs is, Johann Hari’s Chasing the Scream is a must read.
Personal use.
Legalise
Waste of Gardaí time and resources!
Legalise, regulate, tax!
Shame. This consignment was being exported to Canada to help them overcome the current shortage!
50,000 euros worth eh?
Just tax it, let the Garda do real work.
Nothing around again this weekend ,,!!
pot heads.. pot heads everywhere.
There goes christmas I was saving that.
Not nice ppl
Triple wrapped, vacuum packed heat sealed compressed blocks. Guess it came into the North, concealed with legitimate goods. (Note the brown paper sacks.) Temporary storage in anonymous rental, and move to cities for sale. Perhaps the kinehans owned it.
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