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TWO MEN HAVE been arrested after more than €1.3 million worth of drugs, manufacturing equipment, cash and vehicles were seized in Dublin.
The seizures were made after gardaí searched a business premises in the west of the city and two residential properties in Dublin city centre yesterday evening.
Investigators discovered 66kg of cannabis, along with a smaller quantity of cocaine and mixing agent, with a value of €1.32 million during the course of their searches.
Two vehicles and €33,090 in cash were also seized.
Gardaí arrested two men, aged 35 and 36, on suspicion of involvement in drug trafficking and related offences.
They are currently being detained at Finglas and Mountjoy Garda stations.
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Why do we give a billion euro trade opportunity to organised crime, let them supply dangerously adulterated products of unkowable quality for consumption by honest and mostly respectable people who we then criminalise for their taste in intoxicants ?
Does that sound sane to anyone ?
@Steve O’Hara-Smith: because the “war on drugs” mantra. Drugs have won that war a long time ago!
Should have just seized the cocaine. Some drugs are seemingly ok to sell according to the resident Journal druggies
@Mattress Dick: 16 year olds have easier access to weed than alcohol. That weed is unregulated, of unknown strength, could be full of chemicals and is of unknown quality.
Why are we still doing this? How many times does this need explaining?
@Tomo: you’re right. Seizing all drugs is good so it doesn’t get into the hands of kids
@Mattress Dick: correct. Like nicotine. And alcohol. And caffeine. Maybe when Germany and Luxembourg join Canada in creating a legal, regulated market for recreational cannabis, druggies like you will add cannabis to your list of acceptable drugs.
@Mattress Dick: I’d rather listen to well informed druggies than an /gn0rant moral crusader who thinks they know how everybody else should live their life!
@Mattress Dick: If you were genuinely worried about drugs getting into the hands of kids you’d be pro legalisation. As it stands, we leave all control to the black market with no quality checks, no age limits and no oversight.
And if this valuation is correct then this is €1.3 million in lost revenue to the state which is obscene. And that’s not counting all the money wasted trying to enforce prohibition.
We have got to wake up on this..
We are fighting it – keeping the drug lords in business.
Germany legalising it – pushing drug lords away out of business.
Comments open on a criminal investigation?!
@Ciarán O’ Donoghue: *Grabs Popcorn*
@Ciarán O’ Donoghue: comments will be closed once/if they are charged.
They will be out on bail in no time and whatever crimes they subsequently commit will not add to their sentence.
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