Would be cool if non of the people in the two stories got a sentence.
Though to many people who have been sold a lie and those that sold it to them don’t want to be seen as wrong.
Cannabis still being illegal is digusting at thia stage.
I either buy it off a guy who told me how he has to break fingers if people dont pay or grow it and risk this
Name and address published but the superintendent being sentenced for having €600k worth of cannabis in his house is spared that.
It’s ridiculous
Good to see him caught, no excuses.
My ex. Fair play Finbar. If there is one guy positioned to fight this it’s him. God speed!!
Drugs are bad because they are traded by bad people.
Ok, so if I cut out the bad men from my drugs and grow them myself for my own personal use, it should be ok?
NOOO!! Plant bad. Go smoke tobacco and drink booze like a good citizen!
The article is behind a paywall – how did he get caught if he was only growing it for his own use?
Went to primary school with himself and his sister. Nicest people ever.
The mental part about this is that growing it yourself to avoid dealing with the little scrotes that sell weed is completely reasonable, to me this is just more evidence as to why it should be legalised
Modern solutions to modern problems
r/madlads
How the hell did he get caught ? Says he lived with his mother in the country side, so hardly a snooping neighbour looking in the window you’d assume.
Such a waste of Garda resources. I mean there is absolutely no appetite for this kind of arrest in Ireland in 2022. Who is driving these investigations?.
I’ve never seen a lad do anything remotely antisocial after smoking a joint. All they want to do is chill on the couch, watch some cartoons and eat some junk.
The fact that this goes down as a drug seizure alongside Heroin & Cocaine is laughable tbh.
“Medicinal cannabis” is a straight up scam. Legalize it or don’t. Calling it medicinal just corrupts the practice of medicine.
People growing plants for medicine… then the government steps in and criminalizes them, based on unscientific and racist laws from the US that are over 100 years old.
Grow house…4 plants 😂😂😂😂😂
When you read articles about Cannabis in local media and see the comments that people leave then you know its never going to to be legal here. I don’t even think its about us being a backward people, I think its out of sheer spite and hate. Hatred towards anyone who does something different has always been a part of the Irish experience. The puritanical mindset here too doesn’t help.
Is that Perez Hilton? Doesn’t the eejit know it’s legal in California?
Wow, what a truly evil super-villain! Thank goodness he was stopped before he caused more harm to… no one.
Just fucking leagalize it!
Right, Ireland.
Ye finally tossed off the yoke of the Catholic church, and introduced divorce, gay rights, and abortion legislation, dragging our country out of the 19th century.
This one’s still holding you back though.
At least introduce a medical exemption where a GP can prescribe it for people.
(Ahh, who am I kidding, too many big pharmaceutical companies with their bases in Ireland for that to ever happen)
I’m from Vermont.
We’re all allowed to have up to 6 plants and recreational dispensaries just opened up on October 1.
This is a regular Tuesday for me.
Nothing like seeing a grandad holding his grandbaby with a pot plant in tow in a wheelbarrow on a foggy Morning where the golden sun cuts through it like a spotlight from the heavens!
Yup… Sounds about right for Ireland.
They’re just pissed that he didn’t give the Guards a chance to put a dealer before a judge to give him 2 weeks suspended because of a rough upbringing.
Those deliveroo drivers being attacked are going to be glad that this guy is no loner growing his own private medicinal plants.
A MAN caught cultivating cannabis plants in a grow house at his home had been prescribed the drug medicinally in the US but could not buy it legally in Ireland.
Finbar Lavarack (30) did not want to get involved in the drugs trade and took matters into “his own hands” when he began growing cannabis, a court heard.
He was found with more than €7,000 of the drug, including plants, in a garda raid on his house. Judge David McHugh adjourned the case at Blanchardstown District Court for a restorative justice programme report.
He said he would consider striking the charges out, leaving the accused without a criminal record, if the report was favourable.
Lavarack, of Pickering Forest, Celbridge, Co Kildare, pleaded guilty to possession and cultivation of cannabis at his home on August 12, 2020.
The court heard gardaí carried out a search under warrant and found a “grow house”.
Cannabis plants worth €2,400 were found, along with dry cannabis worth €4,970.
The accused accepted responsibility for the drugs. He had no previous convictions.
Lavarack had been diagnosed with anxiety and depression and had been prescribed medicinal cannabis in the US, the court heard.
However, when he returned to Ireland, he did not want to get involved in the drug trade and decided to take matters into his own hands.
He accepted what he did was wrong, it was not a responsibility he shirked, his lawyer told the court.
The lawyer said the accused was now drug-free, had aspirations to travel in the future and asked the judge to consider leaving him without convictions.
Judge McHugh said cannabis was illegal in this jurisdiction “full stop, end of story”.
The judge said €300 the accused had in court should be given to a drugs charity. He noted it was an unusual case and Lavarack had pleaded guilty at the first opportunity.
who’d they find that’d buy that much for 2k?
His grandparents rented Carton House, County Kildare back in the 1950’s.
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> The court heard gardaí carried out a search under warrant and found a “grow house”.Cannabis plants worth €2,400 were found
It’s a bit much calling 3 or 4 plants a fucking grow house, isn’t it? A grow cupboard perhaps.
A cupboard that can hold 3 or 4 plants is a house now. Sounds about right. It’ll be in the market for 2k a month by November.
If you have prescription outside of Ireland does that work in Ireland?
So he didn’t hand over money to criminals to get access to cannabis and didn’t make any money selling it? Well, that was State resources well spent.
3 plants is not a fucking grow house
[https://www.irishpost.com/news/former-garda-arrested-after-e600000-worth-of-cannabis-discovered-in-dublin-221026](https://www.irishpost.com/news/former-garda-arrested-after-e600000-worth-of-cannabis-discovered-in-dublin-221026)
Wonder who will get the longer sentence……..
Would be cool if non of the people in the two stories got a sentence.
Though to many people who have been sold a lie and those that sold it to them don’t want to be seen as wrong.
Cannabis still being illegal is digusting at thia stage.
I either buy it off a guy who told me how he has to break fingers if people dont pay or grow it and risk this
Name and address published but the superintendent being sentenced for having €600k worth of cannabis in his house is spared that.
It’s ridiculous
Good to see him caught, no excuses.
My ex. Fair play Finbar. If there is one guy positioned to fight this it’s him. God speed!!
Drugs are bad because they are traded by bad people.
Ok, so if I cut out the bad men from my drugs and grow them myself for my own personal use, it should be ok?
NOOO!! Plant bad. Go smoke tobacco and drink booze like a good citizen!
The article is behind a paywall – how did he get caught if he was only growing it for his own use?
Went to primary school with himself and his sister. Nicest people ever.
The mental part about this is that growing it yourself to avoid dealing with the little scrotes that sell weed is completely reasonable, to me this is just more evidence as to why it should be legalised
Modern solutions to modern problems
r/madlads
How the hell did he get caught ? Says he lived with his mother in the country side, so hardly a snooping neighbour looking in the window you’d assume.
Such a waste of Garda resources. I mean there is absolutely no appetite for this kind of arrest in Ireland in 2022. Who is driving these investigations?.
I’ve never seen a lad do anything remotely antisocial after smoking a joint. All they want to do is chill on the couch, watch some cartoons and eat some junk.
The fact that this goes down as a drug seizure alongside Heroin & Cocaine is laughable tbh.
“Medicinal cannabis” is a straight up scam. Legalize it or don’t. Calling it medicinal just corrupts the practice of medicine.
People growing plants for medicine… then the government steps in and criminalizes them, based on unscientific and racist laws from the US that are over 100 years old.
Grow house…4 plants 😂😂😂😂😂
When you read articles about Cannabis in local media and see the comments that people leave then you know its never going to to be legal here. I don’t even think its about us being a backward people, I think its out of sheer spite and hate. Hatred towards anyone who does something different has always been a part of the Irish experience. The puritanical mindset here too doesn’t help.
Is that Perez Hilton? Doesn’t the eejit know it’s legal in California?
Wow, what a truly evil super-villain! Thank goodness he was stopped before he caused more harm to… no one.
Just fucking leagalize it!
Right, Ireland.
Ye finally tossed off the yoke of the Catholic church, and introduced divorce, gay rights, and abortion legislation, dragging our country out of the 19th century.
This one’s still holding you back though.
At least introduce a medical exemption where a GP can prescribe it for people.
(Ahh, who am I kidding, too many big pharmaceutical companies with their bases in Ireland for that to ever happen)
I’m from Vermont.
We’re all allowed to have up to 6 plants and recreational dispensaries just opened up on October 1.
This is a regular Tuesday for me.
Nothing like seeing a grandad holding his grandbaby with a pot plant in tow in a wheelbarrow on a foggy Morning where the golden sun cuts through it like a spotlight from the heavens!
Yup… Sounds about right for Ireland.
They’re just pissed that he didn’t give the Guards a chance to put a dealer before a judge to give him 2 weeks suspended because of a rough upbringing.
Those deliveroo drivers being attacked are going to be glad that this guy is no loner growing his own private medicinal plants.
A MAN caught cultivating cannabis plants in a grow house at his home had been prescribed the drug medicinally in the US but could not buy it legally in Ireland.
Finbar Lavarack (30) did not want to get involved in the drugs trade and took matters into “his own hands” when he began growing cannabis, a court heard.
He was found with more than €7,000 of the drug, including plants, in a garda raid on his house. Judge David McHugh adjourned the case at Blanchardstown District Court for a restorative justice programme report.
He said he would consider striking the charges out, leaving the accused without a criminal record, if the report was favourable.
Lavarack, of Pickering Forest, Celbridge, Co Kildare, pleaded guilty to possession and cultivation of cannabis at his home on August 12, 2020.
The court heard gardaí carried out a search under warrant and found a “grow house”.
Cannabis plants worth €2,400 were found, along with dry cannabis worth €4,970.
The accused accepted responsibility for the drugs. He had no previous convictions.
Lavarack had been diagnosed with anxiety and depression and had been prescribed medicinal cannabis in the US, the court heard.
However, when he returned to Ireland, he did not want to get involved in the drug trade and decided to take matters into his own hands.
He accepted what he did was wrong, it was not a responsibility he shirked, his lawyer told the court.
The lawyer said the accused was now drug-free, had aspirations to travel in the future and asked the judge to consider leaving him without convictions.
Judge McHugh said cannabis was illegal in this jurisdiction “full stop, end of story”.
The judge said €300 the accused had in court should be given to a drugs charity. He noted it was an unusual case and Lavarack had pleaded guilty at the first opportunity.
who’d they find that’d buy that much for 2k?
His grandparents rented Carton House, County Kildare back in the 1950’s.
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