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23rd August 2010
Gardaí to raid head shops as ‘legal high’ ban takes effectGardai will raid head shops around the country tomorrow night to ensure all ‘legal highs’ are no longer for sale as new laws come into effect at midnight tonight making it a criminal offence to sell all psychotropic substances.
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23rd August 2010
Concern as can of beer now costs less than a soft drinkRetailers are selling alcohol for less than the price of a soft drink, with a can of beer now costing as little as 67c.
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21st August 2010
Off-licences warned on home salesOff-licences across the country have been warned more than once that accepting cash payments for delivering alcohol to the homes of customers was an illegal practice, the industry’s representative body said today.
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21st August 2010
Call for online alcohol sales banAn organisation representing 1,500 small shops and retailers has called for the online sale of alcohol to be scrapped in a bid to stop teenagers buying it.
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20th August 2010
Underage drinkers exploit online salesThe Government has admitted it is effectively powerless to stop off-licences selling alcohol to underage drinkers on a cash-on-delivery basis.
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20th August 2010
Call for minimum alcohol pricingMinimum pricing for alcohol in clubs and supermarkets should be introduced as soon as possible, Alex Attwood has said.
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18th August 2010
New Drugs.ie feature: National Drug Conference, Dublin, November 2010This feature focuses on to the upcoming National Drugs Conference which will be held in The Radisson Blu Royal Hotel Golden Lane, Dublin 8, 4th & 5th November, 2010.
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18th August 2010
The Criminal Justice (Psychoactive Substances) Act 2010 will come into operation next Monday.The Criminal Justice (Psychoactive Substances) Act 2010 (No. 22 of 2010) will come into operation next Monday, 23 August 2010, as provided for in the Criminal Justice (Psychoactive Substances) Act 2010 (Commencement) Order 2010 (S.I. No. 401 of 2010).
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18th August 2010
UK: Decriminalisation the wrong approachThe Home Office has restated its position on drugs, after the outgoing president of the Royal College of Physicians called for a review of the law. Speaking to the BBC, Sir Ian Gilmore said that the ‘the present policy of prohibition is not a success’.
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18th August 2010
Alcohol charity warns of ‘cheap booze’ ahead of Leaving Cert celebrationsAlcohol Action Ireland, the national charity for alcohol-related issues, congratulated the country’s 59,000 Leaving Cert students but reminded them in the run-up to celebrations that they have a choice about whether to drink and if they do drink to remember - there can be a high cost for cheap alcohol.