Property Owners Can Close Down Headshops Sinn Féin’s Jonathan O’Brien has called on landlords who rent property to Headshops to shut them down by refusing to continue leasing to them.
Cllr O’Brien stated: “Every week brings new confirmation of the dangers of the products being sold in so-called Headshops, and more cases of people enduring psychotic episodes or other side-effects from using them.” “The government has promised legislation to ban some of these products, but it will not be enacted until June. This is too little too late. The Headshops will simply come up with new products to bypass the law as they have done in the past. What is needed – and what Sinn Féin has proposed – is a comprehensive system of regulation for this area, which would put the onus on Headshop owners to prove their products are safe to use.” “In the meantime, however, there is a way to close down many of these shops tomorrow.”
“Property-owners should refuse to let their premises to Headshops. It is possible that some landlords were not aware of the nature of these shops, or their dangers, when they agreed to rent retail space to them. However there is now no such excuse. Property-owners who continue to lease their premises to Headshops are complicit in their legal drug-dealing, and in the consequences that flow from it.” “I would appeal to all property-owners in the city not to let their premises to Headshops, and to end the leases at the earliest possible opportunity where they already do so.” For further information contact Cllr Jonathan O’Brien @ 085-2133907
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