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Gulp.

Last night.

County Cork.

Gardaí seized a quantity of the illegal plant cannabis, with a ‘street value ‘of €60,000, around €9,000 in cash and arrested one man following an operation in Cobh as part of Operation Tara, A man in his late teens was arrested and detained and released without charge. Investigations are ongoing.

The streets are a little safer this morning.

Rollingnews/Garda Press office

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17 thoughts on “Personal Use

    1. SOQ

      Was it organic? And was that €60,000 An Garda Síochána’s value, or the real value? They habit of exaggeration, especially when on the shift in Coppers.

    2. Kin

      And we wonder why our streets are unsafe with releasing criminal gang members
      Maybe we might see more kinehan style gangs growing in Ireland as the gardai are more interested in catching people for motoring offences

  1. Mistake Not...

    ‘Street value’, isn’t that a uniquely Irish way of describing it?

    Take a 4 gms for 50 euro and cost it that way by the weight not taking into account that the actual value as is is much lower than that as it sold wholesale and there could be a few more hands to pass through before it gets to the street.

    But then who believes the Garda, we know for a fact that they have no credibility, they have been shown to be utter liars at every turn.

    1. TenPin Terry

      You’d still be pleading for their help though as some thug was lobbing a brick through your house window to get his hands on your prized collection of Barbie dolls and you were soiling the mattress in fear …

      1. Mistake Not...

        Eeeeeewwww, nobody needs to hear your pervy fantasies but for the record I was more a Sindy girl growing up.

        But honestly, in what version of reality do people go around lobbing bricks through windows to steal dolls? As I said, eeeeeewwww.

  2. NM

    The streets are a little safer?? Has anyone ever seen or heard of anyone starting trouble after smoking cannabis.
    Why not focus on Dublin city which has become a no go area because of hard drug use and crime? Henry street has become the new skid row, a fight broke out on O’ Connell street it took 20minutes for the Garda to arrive. Heroin sold openly up and down the quays from O’ Connell bridge to Christ church on the streets, people queuing up 15/20 deep sleeves rolled up or shirtless while 1 or 2 men heat up spoons, I saw one guy injecting into his pubic area at the Q carpark, people walking up and down Talbot street shouting “Get your tablets”. Constantly see Crazy carry on outside the GPO while Garda turn their backs and walk away because they don’t what the hassle its too dangerous. The streets are safer alright…….

    1. Broadbag

      @NM I take your post to mean cannabis dealing is grand and causes no harm? But cannabis dealers rarely ‘just’ deal in cannabis and an operation of this scale (9k in cash just lying around) is likely linked to or funding much more damaging drugs and/or operators, who again are rarely just into drugs, add in people trafficking, guns etc…

      I know this may come across as very pearl clutchy, but this notion that cannabis dealing is at the touchy feely end of the drugs spectrum is very blinkered, it would be much better to legalise it to break the chain and place it legally and ethically in a much better place. Although knowing Ireland it would probably end up being a massive rip off!

      1. SOQ

        So why was there no other drugs found? There is a certain type of dealer who only trades in herbs. Not so much in the urban centres of course, and I am not sure what the ratio would be- but they definately exist.

        I agree with your point on legalisation as the social implications are much wider than just the drugs themselves but in cases like this, and I may be just being cynical but- it is like the guards plucking a few low hanging fruit to appear like they are doing something.

        1. anti bot

          You definitely are Goo. Moan about everything that the Guards do. Support everything that SF does. But above all, moan

  3. Daisy Chainsaw

    The teenager caught will probably end up in a couple of suitcases in the Lee because he won’t have €70k to repay his bosses for their loss.

    Decriminalise it, tax it, regulate it and cut the legs out from under the dealers.

  4. Junkface

    Legalize it, put the large tax profits into building some social housing, and new schools.

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