Head shop drugs worth €2m seized last year

Gardaí seized €2m worth of banned head shop drugs and nearly €330,000 worth of illicit prescription tablets last year.

Nearly 60kg and about 90,000 tablets containing psychoactive substances formerly sold in head shops were confiscated in 2011.

Sources said the scale of the haul highlighted the existence of a significant illegal market, which was replacing in part the massive legal trade in the drugs before their sale was banned in 2010.