[stinkyigloo]

I've seen lads pay 50 euro for 2.5, and it was still wet

[Ironeek]

"It was €12 a gram a year ago and has now doubled."

Has it really? 25 euro per gram! That would make Ireland the most expensive country in Europe and one of the expensive in the world.

I dont think that could be true.

If it is, it is disgrace!!

.....What is going on

[VonBudí]

https://www.independent.ie/national-n...y-2864830.html


Equipment can be bought openly*

Friday September 02 2011
Loopholes in the law are allowing growhouse operators to purchase cultivation equipment in shops, writes Tom Brady.

The equipment, which was initially designed to help flowers grow in the Netherlands, is being used by the crime gangs to grow herbal cannabis.

Gardai said they cannot take action to stop the sales unless they can prove that the seller is aware that the buyer intends to use the equipment for illegal purposes.

*They are also concerned that the law brought in to tackle headshops deals only with cannabis cultivated in water and does not account for plants growing in soil.

"These loopholes need to be closed off urgently," an officer warned last night.

Irish Independent

*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_mDT...layer_embedded

Typical spud thick gardai

Wasting their time and our money....they must think headshops are the only place in the country that you can buy grow gear.

[Hundred Gram Oz]

Fighting a fight that they can't ever win.

Originally Posted by Hundred Gram Oz

Fighting a fight that they can't ever win.

Ah brother HGO I'm sure they will pass some sort of bill on head shops selling gear...but it wont make a slight bit of difference...

They cant cope with the indoor scene so god help them when outdoor growing takes off...I'm hoping it comes to the point where they have no choice but to decriminalize growing in an attempt to take the money away from the organised gangs.

[VonBudí]

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Is the country so crime free that we can waste time and money prosecuting a very sick man.

What muppet in the dpp decided that bringing this criminal mastermind to justice would be for the good of the country...brainless fuckers

[VonBudí]

https://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland...is-173559.html

Biochemist ‘inspired’ by smoking cannabis
By Liam Heylin
Friday, November 11, 2011
A WELSH biochemist accused of supplying cannabis said she enjoyed smoking a pipe of her home-grown drug and that it inspired her to work hard on her land in West Cork.
Sionad Jones pleaded guilty to two charges, namely cultivating the cannabis and possessing it for her own use, but denied the charge of having the drug for the purpose of selling it or supplying to others on September 10 last year, when 18 plants were seized by gardaí.

It only took a jury 10 minutes to return a unanimous not guilty verdict on that charge at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.

The unusual case was greeted with frequent outbursts of laughter from the public gallery and indeed from the jury box.

Detective Sergeant Fergal Foley, who gave evidence for the prosecution estimating an €8,000 value on the seized cannabis, described Jones as free-spirited.

The 52-year-old freely admitted smoking cannabis from the age of 19. A qualified biochemist, she bought the land and house at Maughanaclea, Kealkil, Bantry, Co Cork, 24 years ago with her young son after moving to the county in order to grow vegetables, trees and herbs.

She told the jury she also grew cannabis plants outdoors. "I had to hide them so the guards wouldn’t find them but they did. Unfortunately."

Peter O’Flynn, defending, said the prosecution believed she would be the type of person who would supply her home-grown cannabis to friends.

Jones said: "I don’t mix much with other people. I spend a lot of time outside working.

"I just have a little pipe by myself to inspire myself. My cannabis is uplifting and gives me inspiration and energy to do the work. I am 52 and I’ve been smoking this since I was 19. I don’t consider it did me any harm. I am not addicted. Some days I don’t smoke any."

Siobhán Lankford, prosecuting, made the case that the yield from the 18 plants seized by gardaí was too great to be used by one person and suggested that if it was a year’s supply it would have been enough for 1,600 or 3,200 pipes of cannabis, depending on whether a quarter or a half gramme of cannabis was used.

But Jones had no interest in weights or measures.

"I don’t waste my time weighing it before I put it in my pipe, I just smoke it and get out and do something positive with my life."

Sometimes her year’s supply would run out before the end of the year but Ms Lankford wanted to know if there was some left over from the 2009 crop at the start of 2010. One of the biggest outbursts of laughter greeted Jones’s delayed and cautious reply, "Is this a trick question?"

Later in the cross-examination, Jones began to find it funny herself. When Ms Lankford suggested that the defendant must socialise with neighbours from time to time, "and offer them a smoke of your pipe?" Jones laughed and said: "No, they might leave their germs on the pipe."

Jones smiled respectfully throughout the process and accepted that there was a law against growing and possessing cannabis and that she had broken this law.

While looking quite at home in the witness box it sounded like she was more at home tending her precious crop, "watching them since the spring. Watching and waiting. Hopefully."

A group of second-year students from Rathmore Community School in Co Kerry couldn’t believe their luck that they picked yesterday to be in Cork Circuit Criminal Court. One of them remarked afterwards: "If every case was like that I’d be there every day."

However, the weeks ahead may be no laughing matter for Jones, who has a nine-month suspended prison sentence hanging over her from a district court in West Cork for cannabis cultivation. This may now be activated.

One way or another, the woman with several previous cannabis cultivation convictions will be back before Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin for sentencing for her latest cultivation and drug possession convictions on December 1.

Judge Ó Donnabháin said she would have to reflect on her attitude to the offences now that she had several convictions for smoking or growing cannabis.

"Either you change or face the consequences," the judge warned.


Read more: https://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland...#ixzz1dbNKAwat

[VonBudí]

https://www.enniscorthyguardian.ie/ne...d-2928604.html

Man who grew cannabis in bedroom is sentenced


A CAMPILE MAN who cultivated cannabis in the bedroom of his home was handed a 12month, suspended prison sentence having appeared on a plea of guilty before Judge Gerard Griffin at Wexford Circuit Criminal Court.

Before the court was 29- year- old Michael Fleming, of Knockae, Campile, who pleaded guilty to the possession of a controlled drug, a quantity of cannabis herb, for the purpose of selling or otherwise supplying, at Campile on November 9, 2009.

He further pleaded guilty to the unlawful cultivating of cannabis plants on the same occasion. Garda James Farrell told the court that plants were found in the bedroom, small plants that were starting to grow.

The defendant, he said, had the plants under light and in small heated containers. There were approximately 47 plants in total, he said.

Garda Farrell also said that Fleming had 20 to 25 plants growing in an outhouse for the previous two to three months.

The defendant agreed all of the cannabis plants were for sale or supply due to money struggles, and that he had five to six regular customers, making around €40 profit per ounce. He would sell four to five ounces per week.

Defence Counsel, Conor O'doherty, said the defendant had entered an early plea of guilty.

He was no long involved in the cultivation of cannabis plants. Judge Griffin said he would impose a 12month sentence on the first charge, suspended for three years, on defendant entering a bond of €100 and coming under the guidance of the Probation and Welfare services. He also handed down a 12month sentence on the second charge, to run consecutively, and suspended for three years.

seems to be a rise in small busts recently