[VonBudí]

1000 plant bust in Delgany,Wicklow

pic from a bust in cork

[VonBudí]

not much but a pic from the wicklow bust,

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That hash from the bust in cork looks like absolute shit. Glad I dont have to buy soapbar these days.

[VonBudí]

Originally Posted by ninja bud

That hash from the bust in cork looks like absolute shit. Glad I dont have to buy soapbar these days.

brace yourself

Originally Posted by VonBudí

came across this earlier

some highlights, is the last one contaminated?

https://www.shannonside.ie/news-detai...on=newsdetails

Cannabis in Ireland is highly contaminated' - Luke Ming Flanagan
Nov 09 2011

Roscommon South Leitrim TD Luke Ming Flanagan says most of the cannabis consumed in Ireland is highly contaminated.

Although Deputy Flanagan has given up the drug since becoming a TD, he believes that this issue should be discussed as thousands of people continue to use the drug - unaware of its ingredients.

The Roscommon TD is sporting a hemp suit in the Dáil today made by Louis Copeland.

He says it's to mark the anniversary of his 10 year campaign to have cannabis legalised.

Deputy Flanagan brought up the issue of contaminated cannabis in the Dáil yesterday, but was disappointed when the Minister of State for Health Roisin Shortfall did not focus on the problem.

He said that while the Government concentrates on its "Drugs are bad" mantra - it continues to overlook a very serious question of the new evil for example, grit weed, which include glass particles, sugars, sands and other micro contaminants.

Jesus that middle picture is scary looking, thats some amount of glass for such a small bud

[Hundred Gram Oz]

That crap is everywhere, imagine having to buy off the street in these times. Are any of you Irish lads getting any of that 'Orange Bud' that is total crap? It never dries, goes moldy and looks/smells/smokes like total shite, it's all over the place, Viet grown apparently.

[VonBudí]

Originally Posted by Hundred Gram Oz

Are any of you Irish lads getting any of that 'Orange Bud' that is total crap? It never dries, goes moldy and looks/smells/smokes like total shite, it's all over the place, Viet grown apparently.

its mentioned on the sprayed fb page

[VonBudí]

little old but interesting, suppose no news is good news

https://www.argus.ie/news/man-gratefu...s-2970204.html

Man 'grateful to be caught' growing cannabis plants

Wednesday December 21 2011
A MAN who was found growing cannabis plants with a street value of almost €3,000 had the case against him adjourned at Dundalk District Court last week.

Darren Kinahan, (35), Whiterath, Dromiskin, admitted having drugs, having drugs for sale or supply and cultivating cannabis charges when he appeared before Judge Flann Brennan.

The court heard how Gardai had a warrant to search his house on June 30th and found 24 cannabis plants, ten saplings and a number of seeds. The estimated street value of the find is €2,800.

Solicitor Tony Danagher said his client, who has no previous convictions, is a former stonemason who is currently on social welfare because of the lack of work. The solicitor said Kinahan's father had passed away in April and his mother suffers from MS.

Mr Danagher said Kinahan 'does the best he can to help her'. The court was told that Kinahan has had problems with cannabis for many years. The solicitor said that Kinahan was 'the embodiment' of what Judge Brennan has warned about the use of cannabis ' which leads to addiction and creates problems in people's lives'.

The solicitor said his client was 'quite grateful to be caught at that early stage' and is now 'doing everything he can to turn his life around'.

A number of references were handed into the judge, who was told that Kinahan is getting help from his GP, is engaging with addiction services and is taking adult education courses with a view to doing catering at DKIT.

Mr Danagher said Kinahan was ' under no illusions about the seriousness of his position'.

Judge Brennan said he wanted to see probation and medical reports ahead of sentencing and adjourned the case to May 2.

old pic

[VonBudí]

https://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...reaking44.html

€1.5m worth of cannabis seized

Gardaí have seized 5,000 cannabis plants with an estimated street value of €1.5 million in Co Offaly in a raid on one of the biggest cannabis factories ever discovered in Ireland.

Three people were arrested after a search at a warehouse at Aughnacarna, Durrow at 9.30pm last night.

A Garda spokesman said a large cannabis cultivation operation was discovered at the warehouse.

Three non-Irish nationals, all men, were arrested at the scene.

One is aged 30 and the other two are in their 20s.

They are detained under section 2 of the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act 1996 at Tullamore Garda station.

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https://www.oireachtas.ie/parliament/...ther-Drugs.pdf

^^ Houses of the Oireachtas
Joint Committee on Health and Children
Report on The Misuse of Alcohol and Other Drugs
January 2012

times article on it

https://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...310710199.html

TLDR = dreamers recommendations for booze and one for cannabis seeds

"5. that legislation be introduced criminalising the importation of cannabis
seeds."


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'Very moral' man was growing cannabis and giving it away
Tuesday January 24 2012

AN UNEMPLOYED wood worker who grew cannabis gave away supplies of the drug without looking for payment, Judge Gerard Haughton was told last week.

The case of 59-year-old James Redmond dated back to a Garda search of his home at Moneydurtlow in Ferns on February 10 last. Officers were brought by the defendant to an outhouse which had been converted to allow cultivation of cannabis.

The building had been insulated and fitted out with strong lights and fans to grow seven plants. In another room, plants were being propagated and a quantity of cannabis herb was seized. The value of the mature plants was put at €1,200 and the herb was worth €500, the court was informed.

Judge Gerard Haughton also took account of the fact that the accused had a previous conviction for cultivation of cannabis, dating back to 2008.

Defending solicitor John O'leary said that his client could not have been more cooperative when the Gardaí called. Redmond suffered from depression and found his home grown remedy more effective than Prozac, said the solicitor.

He had given quantities of the drug to a man who was confined to a wheelchair to deal with pain, without charge. He also gave away some of his crop to a manic depressive.

Mr. O'leary described his client as a deep reader and a very moral person. He offered the court an undertaking not to supply anyone else.

Judge Haughton responded that it was not up to Redmond to decide which laws he would obey. He must expect to face the consequences of his illegal activity. The community service orders imposed for the previous offence did not appear to have served as a deterrent, the judge observed.

The consequences of the latest conviction were a nine-month jail sentence, suspended on the defendant being bound to the peace for two years. An order for destruction of the seized drugs was also handed down.

https://www.independent.ie/national-n...p-2996150.html

Drug purity ruling a blow for DPP

Sunday January 22 2012
The DPP and gardai are considering the potential fallout from a legal ruling in a drug trafficking trial which last week saw charges dropped because the purity levels of the seized cocaine haul could not be proven.

It has also emerged that despite a previous Supreme Court ruling quashing a conviction against a drug dealer for exactly the same reasons, the State's main forensic laboratory still does not test the purity levels of illegal drugs.

The February 2011 ruling in which Wexford man, Alphonsus Connolly, successfully overturned his conviction under Section 15(a) of the Misuse of Drugs Act was last week used as part of a successful legal bid to have more serious charges against another drug dealer dropped.

The 15(a) law was introduced by the Government in 1997 as part of a "zero tolerance policy" to drug trafficking and in response to the gangland shooting of journalist Veronica Guerin.

Under the law a person found in possession of €13,000 or more worth of illegal drugs faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years.

On Friday last Englishman Imran Ramzan, 34, was found guilty in the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court of possession of cocaine for sale or supply.

The haul was valued at €584,500 and Ramzan of Polygon Road, Manchester, was charged with the more serious "15(a)" charge.

But during the trial, Judge Patrick McCartan ruled that the State had to drop the 15(a) charge because of last year's Supreme Court appeal which ruled that the value of the drugs could not be proven beyond a reasonable doubt without a purity test.

The latest judgement is set to be "discussed at a very high level" and could mean the bigger drug seizures will have to be tested for purity in future.

[VonBudí]

25 days into the year and more plants have been busted than in the entire 2010 year (2011 not released)



https://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...310759053.html


Cannabis worth €1.5m found at Offaly warehouse

WHAT IS believed to be the largest cannabis cultivation operation detected in the State has been uncovered at a warehouse in Co Offaly.

About 5,000 cannabis plants valued at €1.5 million were discovered when gardaí from Tullamore, assisted by the regional support unit and the local drugs unit, raided a warehouse in Durrow, just outside Tullamore, on Tuesday night.

Three men, two in their 20s and a 30-year-old, were arrested during the intelligence-led Garda operation at about 9.30pm.

The three Asian men are being detained at Tullamore Garda station under section 2 of the Drug Trafficking Act. The men can be held for up to a week.

A Garda spokesman described the “grow house” as highly sophisticated.

He said specialist lighting and equipment had been used in the operation and the electricity meter had been bypassed.

According to gardaí, the 5,000 plants were at various stages of growth and the grow house may have been in operation “for a number of months”.

On entering the premises, gardaí found evidence to suggest that the people who were tending to the plants had been living in the cannabis factory.

Such was the scale of the operation, gardaí expect it will take a number of days before all of the plants and associated paraphernalia are removed from the building.

Gardaí are planning to move the plants and equipment from the warehouse to Dublin and Tullamore for analysis and storage.

The discovery was made at a former warehouse for machine parts at Aughnacarna, Durrow, on a rural road just off the N52 on the approach to the Tullamore bypass.

Gardaí have sealed off the area and are conducting a detailed examination of the scene.

Electric Ireland was called in to repair and make safe the electrical supply.

Neighbours were shocked to learn of the discovery.

“You would, on an odd occasion, see a truck up there, but that wouldn’t be unusual,” one local man said.

He would often go for walks along the road, he added, but had never noticed anything out of the ordinary.

A member of the local community watch said she regularly passed the site but had never seen anything that might have aroused her suspicions.

This is the fourth major cannabis grow house to be discovered by gardaí in the midlands region in the past three weeks.

On January 9th, a 28-year-old Chinese national was arrested following the discovery of two grow houses containing 450 cannabis plants worth an estimated €180,000 in Mullingar, Co Westmeath.

He was subsequently charged with cultivating cannabis.

A 33-year-old Chinese national was arrested in Athlone, Co Westmeath, on January 11th, when 300 plants valued at €125,000 were discovered at a grow house in Baylough, Athlone.

He was also charged with cultivating cannabis.