Cannabis products packaged like sweets to target youngsters, drugs counsellor warns

Cuan Mhuire expert Michael Guerin said the "jellies and vaping oils are being distributed as an attempt to get more youngsters into recreational drug use".

Gardaí seized €4,200 of suspected cocaine and €2,175 of cannabis oils, cannabis vape pens and cannabis jellies. A weighing scales was also seized.

Cannabis jellies are being packaged like sweets in a sinister attempt to target young adolescents into recreational drug use, a leading addiction counsellor believes.

And the fact that a recent garda drug seizure in Cork of cannabis jellies alongside a quantity of cocaine is extremely worrying, Cuan Mhuire expert Michael Guerin said.