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Four men appear in Galway court over €750k cannabis haul

Gardaí arrested six people at the weekend in connection with the major haul of cannabis plants in Tuam and Oughterard.

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FOUR MEN HAVE appeared in court in Galway this morning charged in connection with a major haul of cannabis at the weekend.

Six people were arrested on Saturday when Gardaí seized cannabis plants worth an estimated €750,000 as part of a planned search of two houses in Tuam and Oughterard in Galway.

Four men appeared before Galway District Court this morning in connection with the drugs find. The other two suspects, one man and one woman, are still being held in custody in Galway.

The drugs were seized as part of an operation targeting the sale and supply of drugs in the west of Ireland.

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  • Zoltar 17/09/12 #

    Patrick anything does harm in inappropriate quantities or taken without education. The facts of the matter is this “drug” is less harmful to an individual and society than alcohol, cigarettes, caffeine and most if not all prescription and non-prescription pharmaceuticals.

    This substance has more culture and diversity than the wine trade despite the collective ignorant policies enforced all over the world that cause more harm than the substance ever would itself.

    Shelf your worn out rhetoric we have friends and family to heal.

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  • legalise it and tax it ,didn’t do the dutch economy any harm

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  • Jonno 17/09/12 #

    Seems for one to be a waste of tax money and man hours chasing the stuff, when they should be chasing hard drugs and Two thats a huge cash crop and revenue stream the government could tap into. Silly its illegal, lot of studies coming out proving its benefits and is legal medically in california. Just tax it and make it 18′s like cigs and alcohol. I wouldnt smoke it either way, just not my kinda thing but Id still say legalize it.

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  • @patrick lets take alcohol and cigarettes off the streets also or is that a step too far think of the loss to revenue

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  • Massive work, well done.

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  • It is good to see the police taking this drug off the streets. Those who proclaim that this drug does no harm are themselves doing more harm than they realise.

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    • Yeah, prohibition really works….and the police really are taking this drug off the streets and when your teeth fall out the tooth fairy remunerates you….

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    • Educate yourself, Patrick..this herb/weed/plant has been used for millennia as a medicine and has nothing like the destructive history of alcohol, nicotine or even sugar in its record.
      The Diageos of this world are afraid this easily grown plant might reduce their profit margins from their intoxicants…that inTOXICating products.
      There is a healthy little earner of an industry in running pseudo-scientic ‘studies’ to prove its ‘dangerous’ properties. Anyone slightly scientifically literate will recognise the speciousness of the marshalled argument propaganda.
      Only reason its illegal is because the bureaucrats who fattened on alcohol Prohibition in the States had to find a justification for their budgets when repeal finally landed for the white-man’s drug of choice…weed had the added advantage of targetting the blacks and hispanics for harassment…a useful side-effect in a racisty society.

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  • Ya, legalise it. Like they did with the bath salts… That worked out pretty well…

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