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A SEIZURE OF over €200,000 worth of cannabis has been made in Westmeath.
Gardaí attached to Mullingar and the Divisonal Drugs Unit made the discovery at a shed in the village of Tyrellspass yesterday.
The cannabis herb is estimated to be worth €206,400 and will be sent for laboratory analysis.
Gardaí, who were conducting the search as part of Operation Tara, also seized a car and recovered a number of tools and mobile phones.
A Garda spokesman said investigations are ongoing.
With no weight given hardly a 2 dozens seedlings constitute 200k?
@James Reardon: €800 per plant is what.they use. Those are seedlings.
@James Reardon: They should get these estimators to value a rock I found on a beach as I’m looking to retire to Spain. Jebus
@Steve O’Hara-Smith: The logic is way off, seeds, seedlings and actual fully grown plants should not have the same or similar value. Bizarre stuff…
@James Reardon: Closer to 80 seedlings in photograph.
@Epgenetics29 Declan Christoph: When it gets to court the judge will insist on ‘potential value’ being the description.
@sean o’dhubhghaill: few dozen autocorrected to 2 dozens, regardless, they are seedlings so 200k?? Madness.
They are literally seedlings this is bizarre
Waste of time and resources
€206,400- How do they come up with this?
Seeds are not illegal here be a use they don’t actually contain thc.. seedlings contain practically no thc but it is illegal to germinate seeds here.. based on thc levels though, they shouldn’t estimate this at 200k. It’s like saying a house has full value when only the foundation is built and stops there.
Either way, it’s a ridiculous waste of time and resources
@Chimo Spinola: got caught with stolen bricks + few bags of cement? ,
I’m afraid we’re going to charge you for stealing a 4 bed semi detached with a pool house + tennis court
0 thc content in cuttings, they are essentially worthless unless the person is being charged on the assumption of future yield.
Crazy valuation.
Well done Gardai, well done. 200K What a joke!
Everyone should just start planting everywhere possible, it’s about time this ridiculousness is met with civil disobedience
Can The Journal question the validity of An Garda Siocanna’s estimation in order to get some balance? These estimations are used by the guards as a show of success in relation to budgets. An Garda Siocanna need to be scrutinized as much as any government department. This estimation does not appear to be realistic.
Ah would at look at the lickle babies? I really don’t get why this plant is illegal in this day and age, knowing what we now know about it. Remove the criminality first and foremost. It’s about time.
Lots of replanting if an indoor operation, seems mad sloppy unless they’re getting set to grow outdoors.
They smoke that like that and there lungs won’t forgive them
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