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12th May 2010
New law bans head shop products
The Government moved strongly against head shops yesterday with a two-pronged approach relying on existing anti-drugs legislation and a newly-drafted Bill from the Department of Justice.
12th May 2010
Many head shop products banned
The sale of a large number of substances found in head shops has been banned today by a Government order that has recategorised the products as illegal drugs.
11th May 2010
Immediate ban for head shop substances.
The Government has today introduced new measures to criminalise the sale of legal highs.
11th May 2010
Legal highs linked to referral of 20 youths to treatment centre
Twenty young people have been referred to an adolescent treatment centre in Cork after using legal highs – including a 15-year-old boy addicted to the controversial compound mephedrone.
11th May 2010
Minister for Health and Children announces immediate criminal ban on list of head shop products
The Minister for Health & Children, Mary Harney, T.D., announced today (Tuesday, 11 May 2010) that the Government has made an Order declaring a number of substances, commonly referred to as so-called ‘legal highs’, to be controlled drugs under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1977, with immediate effect. This follows approval by the relevant EU authorities.
10th May 2010
The little pill that could cure alcoholism
When an alcoholic doctor began experimenting with Baclofen, he made what could be the medical breakthrough of the century.
5th May 2010
Proposed laws against us won’t hold up in court
A head shop owners group said they wrote to Justice Minister Dermot Ahern warning him that “private consultations”” they had with gardaí led them to believe that any charges brought against them under proposed legislation would not stand up in court.
5th May 2010
Bill aims to tackle difficulty over head shop drug sales
Far-reaching legislation to ban the sale and distribution of mind-altering and hallucinatory drugs by head shops is to be introduced by the Government before the summer.
30th April 2010
Pupil who took headshop drugs rushed to hospital
A secondary school pupil was hospitalised after taking legal drugs which had been bought in a head shop.
29th April 2010
Industry cool on proposals to restrict alcohol sales
The drinks industry has expressed concern about new proposals to restrict the sale of alcohol which are emerging as part of the Government’s strategy for tackling substance abuse.

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