{"id":267672,"date":"2026-01-05T02:22:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T02:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/267672\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T02:22:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T02:22:18","slug":"criticism-over-vape-shop-selling-cannabis-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/267672\/","title":{"rendered":"Criticism over vape shop selling \u2018cannabis\u2019 products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Concerns raised in Wexford as new retail outlet selling sweets and energy drinks popular with children and teenagers alongside drug-related content\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The new Candy Cloud vape shop in North Main Street in Wexford town. Pic: Jim Campbell\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/9428dd03-6c24-45cb-bab2-ab59d1120cc0.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The new Candy Cloud vape shop in North Main Street in Wexford town. Pic: Jim Campbell<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Ordinarily, when a new shop opens its doors in a vacant unit on Wexford\u2019s Main Street, local representatives are quick to roll out the welcome mat. Usually there\u2019s a photo and an encouragement for locals to offer their support to the new venture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It was noticeably quieter as Candy Cloud opened its doors on North Main Street recently, in the unit formerly occupied by Butler\u2019s Post Office. The reason being that many have already expressed concerns about the new shop, which markets all manner of vapes and \u2018cannabis\u2019 related products, in the same store as the types of unusual \u201cAmerican candy\u201d and energy drinks that are sought after by children and teens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Concerns raised in Wexford as new retail outlet selling sweets and energy drinks popular with children and teenagers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,18,19,17,7583],"class_list":{"0":"post-267672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-padraig-byrne"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115840112564865314","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}