the end of growshops soon in ireland and uk

The Government's new legislation designed to target head shops makes it a criminal offence to sell pipes or any other objects used to take controlled or psychoactive drugs.

The Psychotropic Substances Bill also makes it illegal to sell objects used to cultivate drugs by hydroponic means and allows for penalties of up to five years in prison and fines of â?¬5,000 upon conviction.

The main points of new legislation published today make it an offence to sell, supply or advertise hallucinogenic drugs previously sold in head shops.


RTÃ? News: Sale of 'drug pipes' to be banned

and the u.k is going to use same legislation

o ffs this is getting dumber ever day.
you can just replace "drug pipes" with crap lying around or even just an apple.
Oo i know, lets ban apples. apples are a gateway fruit.

did you see there a few weeks ago that they are thinking off paying junkies to have their balls cut off. it maybe the right time to ask the queen to take us back, this self rule has gotten out off control.

i know its getting messed up and its creating a nice diversion away
from our inept goverment i bet the dealers are rubbing thier hands
time for the revolution or just imigrate i think this country is getting
worse fuck all left here for a toker

what a load of bullshit. Government need to jam with all there bait laws

... but you need to get active NOW, to help derail or stop this terrible crap legislation!

Call your politician, and let them know in no uncertain terms that if they vote to help pass this shite, they're out the door in the next election. Put up posters! Better yet, put up a website! Go to the headshops and help them organize.

Cuz if it doesn't get stopped, it's going to jack the prices of everything, escalate the 'war' between the cops and the citizens, and make it much much harder (and more expensive) to get grow equipment for one's own gardening...

Fight! You're Irish! This should be something you enjoy! ;) (just teasing--I married an Irish lass...)

:cool:

yup what he just said:thumbsup:

from what i have been reading they are only banning the sale of hydro equipment in head shops as it is being sold for the sole porpse of growing cannabis and that is what it being mad illegal, so we can still buy hydroponic supplies from other grow shops,garden centers once the shop dose'nt know your going to be useing it for growing weed. :thumbsup:

... the wrong kind of shops, hm?

I find this whole exercise insane. They're only semi-banning something, and apparently attempting to do a modern, Irish version of "running them dang hippies outta town".

So WHAT if you can shop at a 'normal' gardening store for the same gear? HOW DE FUCK DOES ANY GOVERNMENT GET OFF ON TRYING TO RUN SOMEONE OUTTA BUSINESS BECAUSE THEY DON'T "LIKE" THEM? Or because "they're only selling those things for illegal cultivation"?

I personally shop in places in downtown Toronto who sell all things hydro, etc. I know (from estimates, talking to other customers, as well as the shopkeepers themselves) that at least half of their customers use the products to grow "legitimate things" such as tomatoes, or to grow certain herbal medicine "legitimately", and about half of the customers don't realize how much they dress like Commercial Underground Growers, or perhaps don't care.

It is not the shopkeep's responsibility to determine how an item sold in his shop is used. If this were the case, we should a long time ago have outlawed hammers (and the shops that sold them!), pointed sticks, guns, knives, bottles, chewing gum, knitting needles, sexual aides, toothbrushes... need I go on?

I am so sick of crap legislation like this. We have enough of it on our side of the pond. Please don't knuckle under! Work to stop this shite in Eire! Don't you think that you have enough laws in Ireland as it is, without compounding things with stuff that is only going to wind up costing you more, in both literal monetary costs, as well as lost civil rights!

You have rights. COMMON LAW rights. So do the (potentially?) affected merchants. Invoke them.

Keep up the good fight!

i was thinking about this, can the shops affected by this legislation not sue the government for loss off earnings?