Special Obligations Drug traffic offences for the purpose of the following obligations covers using, supplying transporting, storing, importing or exporting controlled drugs. It also covers engaging in any conduct which directly or indirectly, in relation to controlled drugs is a money laundering offence. It also includes the use of a ship for illicit traffic in […]
Category: Drugs Offences
Psychoactive Substances
Backgrond The Criminal Justice (Psychoactive Substances) Act 2010 was introduced principally to curtail the phenomenon of “head shops which had sprung up throughout the country. The shop sold a range of products that were not controlled drugs at the time, but which had the same effect. As attempts were made to prescribe particular substances as […]
Drug Offences
Misuse of Drugs Act The Misuse of Drugs Act 1977 was the first substantial legislation on the control of non-medicinal drugs in Ireland. A controlled drug is any substance or preparation specified in the schedule to the Misuse of Drugs Act or from time to time classified as a controlled drug by governmental order. The […]
Drug Offences Powers & Penalties
Search Powers A member of Garda Síochána who suspects with reasonable cause that a person is in possession of a controlled drug in contravention of the Act may without a warrant search the person and for such purpose detain him as long as it is reasonably necessary for making the search; search any vehicle, vessel, […]