Garda Snout in Trough goes down

A garda has been arrested and is being questioned in Drogheda following the seizure of over €260,000 worth of drugs in the town.

He is stationed in north Dublin, and has been suspended from duty.

It is understood he has been a member of the force for seven years.

More than 13,000 ecstasy tablets, along with cocaine and amphetamines were seized after drugs squad detectives in Drogheda searched an apartment yesterday afternoon.

260,000€ / 13,000 = 20€
ergo, it wasn't all ecstasy coz ecstasy doesn't cost 20€ a pill. And neither do people with 13,000 pills tend to sell them one by one, they sell them in bulk at discount.

The 28-year-old garda, who was in the apartment at the time of the raid, was arrested later in north Co Dublin and is being detained under Section 2 of the Drug Trafficking Act.

Section 2 deals with amongst other things tying Irish criminal law to the United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances done at Vienna on the 20th day of December, 1988.

And making it illegal to stuff drugs in your pocket if you're at raid and working for the boys in blue.

And making it illegal to sell psychotropic substances.

Now Trafficking, whatever the value of the pill, is very very naughty. Its a step up from dealing, and quite a few steps up from sorting out your mates on a friday evening.

Though in fairness trafficking is not the same as owning a factory and pill printing press and holding the recipe for exactly what went into the little pills in the first place.

MDMA is a wonderful substance, make no mistake, it is a member of the SSRI group of chemicals which include anti-depressents, and in clinical trials has been credited with sorting out loads of people, especially believe it or not, really old people.

Which is why there are some states in Europe whose fine scientists have worked for a long time investigating purity of MDMA and what it does to peoples' brains, minds and what sort of kids they have afterwards.

And there are a lot of different types of pills out there.

"Garda snout in trough of Drogheda"
has not done or been party to that research,
and neither the young or old of Ireland
are offered MDMA quality testing kits, or live presently in the sort of legal climate.

= Over to you Minister Mc Dowell.

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/ZZA29Y1996.html
http://www.ecstasy.org/