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Another 'head shop' damaged by fire

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    #32
    FensterDJ
    Registered Users Posts: 188 ✭✭FensterDJ


    The metro today said, 2 guys just walked in when the shop was open, doused it, lit it and legged it, there was 2 staff in the shop too, at about 9.30, balls of steel.


    I'm not lawyer but I can't see the government getting a ban together in 3 months, it would take 3 months to get a definition of what a head shop actually is.

    Also, and this is a small point, none of the products are sold for human comsumption, they are all branded as bath salts, or incense or plant growth inhibitors -why anyone would want that i don't know- or whatever. so what exactly would they be banning?

    you can't ban all bath salts, radox would not be happy, so you'd have to ban all bath salts with the chemical formula wxyz, so they drug co pharmcists just bring out formula xwyz.

    I can't see it happening anytime soon.


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    #33
    tfak85
    Registered Users Posts: 1,068 ✭✭✭tfak85


    whe i was cycling home up camden street/wexford street this evening i noticed the sign for the new head shop there is down, now it just says "camden street ---- shop"... the sign was up last week... hard to know if it's related to these incidences, i honestly have no clue as to whether it's the same company...


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    #34
    electrogrimey
    Registered Users Posts: 3,791 ✭✭✭electrogrimey


    FensterDJ wrote: »
    The metro today said, 2 guys just walked in when the shop was open, doused it, lit it and legged it, there was 2 staff in the shop too, at about 9.30, balls of steel.

    9.30 am or pm?

    Can't really see any motive for paramilitaries, unless it's just good old fashioned Catholic intolerance, so my vote goes to the dealers. Maybe we should add a poll to this, it could be like X-Factor. For arsonists.


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    MementoMori
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,492 ✭✭✭MementoMori


    electrogrimey wrote: »
    9.30 am or pm?

    Can't really see any motive for paramilitaries, unless it's just good old fashioned Catholic intolerance, so my vote goes to the dealers. Maybe we should add a poll to this, it could be like X-Factor. For arsonists.

    Motive for paramilitaries is cutting into their drug profits.
    First attack sounded like a pipe bomb, second like standard criminal intimidation. Would be kinda shocked if it wasn't paramilitaries/drug dealers.


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    electrogrimey
    Registered Users Posts: 3,791 ✭✭✭electrogrimey


    MementoMori wrote: »
    Motive for paramilitaries is cutting into their drug profits.
    First attack sounded like a pipe bomb, second like standard criminal intimidation. Would be kinda shocked if it wasn't paramilitaries/drug dealers.

    I suppose there'd be quite a big overlap between the two, especially at the top.


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    AnonoBoy
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    FensterDJ wrote: »
    Also, and this is a small point, none of the products are sold for human comsumption, they are all branded as bath salts, or incense or plant growth inhibitors -why anyone would want that i don't know- or whatever. so what exactly would they be banning?
    .

    They'll bring in a law blanket banning the products in some manner similar to the way the UK have.


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    DepecheHead101
    Registered Users Posts: 599 ✭✭✭DepecheHead101


    FensterDJ wrote: »
    The metro today said, 2 guys just walked in when the shop was open, doused it, lit it and legged it, there was 2 staff in the shop too, at about 9.30, balls of steel.


    I'm not lawyer but I can't see the government getting a ban together in 3 months, it would take 3 months to get a definition of what a head shop actually is.

    Also, and this is a small point, none of the products are sold for human comsumption, they are all branded as bath salts, or incense or plant growth inhibitors -why anyone would want that i don't know- or whatever. so what exactly would they be banning?

    you can't ban all bath salts, radox would not be happy, so you'd have to ban all bath salts with the chemical formula wxyz, so they drug co pharmcists just bring out formula xwyz.

    I can't see it happening anytime soon.
    They aren't banning the shops themselves nor are they banning what the products are marketed as. They are banning the active chemical compounds in these products. So in the case of the smoking blends, synthetic cannabanoids will get a blanket ban as opposed to - say - incense sticks and candles.


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    #39
    FensterDJ
    Registered Users Posts: 188 ✭✭FensterDJ


    electrogrimey wrote: »
    9.30 am or pm?

    Can't really see any motive for paramilitaries, unless it's just good old fashioned Catholic intolerance, so my vote goes to the dealers. Maybe we should add a poll to this, it could be like X-Factor. For arsonists.

    pm

    i'm going with the dealers theory, although Nirvana, the first shop to be burned, is a wholesaler for a lot of the other shops, so maybe it's more of a personal vendetta against him, so maybe he was approached to pay protection or to give up a cut of the profits or something, and things got nasty


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