Head shops: If California can ban them, so can Kerry

Cllr Tom Doherty, Killarney, raises an important point in relation to “head” shops.

However, the emergence of new psychoactive substances being sold in the remaining outlets are covered under the new Irish law using the term ‘generic’. We are ahead of other European countries. The Drugs Squad are now free to raid these shops and the penalties are high, as your paper reported recently in a case where the drug dealer was sent to prison.

Therefore, it would be helpful if committed citizens and policy makers continued to report any suspicious trading to the gardaí.