1.4 Million Euros Worth Of Cannabis Seized In Dundalk, Ireland

Irish police on Wednesday seized 240 kg (528 lbs) of cannabis resin in Dundalk, Ireland, just 51 miles north of Dublin.

According to the Belfast Telegraph, the cannabis was first found when police stopped a van in the town on Wednesday afternoon.

One man is now being detained under section four of the Criminal Justice Act at the Dundalk police station, the Dundalk Democrat reports.

The cannabis resin is thought to have a street value of €1.44 million ($1.82 million), reports the Irish Examiner.

Last month Irish police raided what was thought to be one of the the biggest cannabis factories ever discovered in Ireland. In that bust, authorities found cannabis with a similar street value of around €1.5 million, the Irish Examiner reported.

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Comments

[BravoFour]

02:36 PM on 02/17/2012

We got the best dank here in Tennessee!

[panda ewok]

06:16 AM on 02/17/2012

I bet it had red hairs.

[moroccantreasures]

11:29 PM on 02/16/2012

Give it to the chornically ill, and chronic pain suffers!! MAKE IT LEGAL!

[TomMartin]

06:17 AM on 02/17/2012

Yes, a doctor recommended pot to my mom due to her vomiting due to chemo, but she was afraid to buy it due to the stupid war on drugs, so she kept vomiting, it was terrible. Shame on the politicians for not telling us the truth, they are cowards.

[sunbeltvoter]

09:23 PM on 02/16/2012

Colossal waste of tax dollars. The war on pot is a failure. Legalize it now.

[mejohndoe]

08:43 PM on 02/16/2012

The cartels said Thank You, we will be looking forward to getting paid AGAIN to replace the lost shipment.

[Questioning Conventions]

07:54 PM on 02/16/2012

LMAO

How is 500 pounds of shwag worth 1.4 million?

[sunbeltvoter]

09:35 PM on 02/16/2012

The cops always use fuzzy math. "Each ounce of pot is always cut 50% with rat poison and then prerolled into 50 pencil thin joints which are then sold on the street next to the playground to elementary school students for $10 each. This nets $8000 per pound so the 528 pounds is worth $4.2 million street value dollars." LOL

[BCEXHAX]

12:42 AM on 02/17/2012

That's actually reasonable

[Questioning Conventions]

08:19 AM on 02/17/2012

you are paying way too much for shwag then

[darrtown]

05:58 PM on 02/16/2012

528 pounds, that makes the news?
Here on the Mexican border we see busts by the ton.
In the 1980's an 18 wheeler was caught packed full with 18 tons of weed.
250 kilos would be rather minor.

[Bushido08]

05:54 PM on 02/16/2012

The grower was turned in by disguntled Guinness employees who didn't like any competition and weren't getting a pay raise this year due to a sluggish economy. :-)

[Aaron Winston]

05:47 PM on 02/16/2012

glad to know the irish get stoned too.

[economystc]

05:40 PM on 02/16/2012

A big THANK YOU for catching these sorry crooks.

[panda ewok]

06:24 AM on 02/17/2012

Yes thank these hypocrites who probably went to a bar to drink booze and celebrate their major weed bust.

[StaircaseCO]

05:29 PM on 02/16/2012

Schwag.

[DC Broughton]

05:26 PM on 02/16/2012

what's cannabis resin, hash? ...it's retarded with all the need for money how Marijuana is still illegal. Don't legalize, decriminalize it and fine the ones caught with it. Law enforcement keeps their jobs and tax payers don't have to shell out the 50k a year to convict and incarcerate each individual. The big loosers, and their lobby are groups like KBR who build prisons with taxpayer money and the prison system who get those tax payer dollars to operate.

[Rainnskittles]

05:04 PM on 02/16/2012

got to love the latex gloves..don't want to absorb those evil toxins through their skin.

[Rainnskittles]

05:02 PM on 02/16/2012

Gotta love the latex gloves.. don't want to absorb anything evil through your skin.

[Reiner-von-Sinn]

04:26 PM on 02/16/2012

The real crime is that cannabis is illegal.

[Madcap79]

05:34 PM on 02/16/2012

That is correct sir!

[conchop]

08:43 PM on 02/16/2012

Bulls EyE!!! Its been used for tens of thousands of years - a real gift of providence - and now this - society needs to change this prohibition - along with a lot of other tricks that have been perpetrated on us - LEGALIZE IT - WORLD WIDE - NOW!