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NUI Galway Students’ Union could become the first such student body in Europe to support the legalisation, regulation, cultivation, sale, and possession of cannabis for over 18s, if a referendum to be held next month is passed.

The seizure of an estimated €42,000 worth of cannabis plants in Ballina on Sunday (February 8 ) was part of an ongoing intelligence led operation targeting drug suppliers and sellers in the county.

As we age, it is normal for our memory and other brain functions to decline. There is little point in living to 100 if our brain is not functioning properly. Throughout our lives new brain cells are being created in a process called neurogenesis (neuro means nerve and genesis means birth). Even in people with Alzheimer’s new brain cells are being created. However we need to have these brain cells functioning at full capacity; hence the importance of exercise and diet. Next we need to engage these new cells so these new brain cells begin communicating with each other, rejuvenating our brain’s abilities.

Gardaí made a significant dent in the Midland’s drug trade after they seized an estimated 10 kgs of hashish following the search of a car in Glasson on Wednesday evening (August 22).

A young man whom Judge Hughes said looks nothing like the people who usually come before the court will have to live with a drug dealing conviction.

Gardaí from Abbeyleix Garda Station arrested a man in his 40s and seized a quantity of cannabis plants in a planned search of a house on Tuesday, January 31 last.

If anyone has a disused, overgrown walled garden around Mullingar, they should contact Judge Seamus Hughes.

Planning applications for housing developments in the county continue to decline, the planning SPC heard on Monday.

A 21-year-old who stashed drugs in a hay shed on his family farm was before Ballina District Court this week for the possession of cannabis and also for the sale and supply of the drug.

An Oranmore man who gleaned information from the internet on how to grow cannabis plants admitted his “stupidity” and “naivity” at Galway District Court this week before being ordered to carry out community service.