Dublin, Ireland
Last updated on October 4th, 2025 at 09:36 am
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Legislation:
Cannabis legislation in Ireland was amended in 2006. Cannabis is the only drug not covered by the Irish Narcotics Act. All other drugs are covered by Irish law, e.g., heroin, crack cocaine, etc., and are listed under Schedule I. For cannabis, a three-offense system applies: one offense, two warnings, three court appearances.
Law enforcement:
The Gardaí in Ireland are like any other police force in the world – they can be different. One Gardaí might arrest you, another might buy the new laws protecting Irish cannabis smokers.
Where can you buy marijuana in Dublin?
Marijuana is very easy to get in Ireland, but you need to know people in the know! Street dealing is almost extinct. The only places you can find marijuana when Dublin is deserted are Temple Bar and Moore Street. Temple Bar is the nightclub district. If you hang around outside the clubs, you'll find people selling it – mainly on busy Fridays and Saturdays!
There are many African shops on Moore Street, and some people sell weed. I'd say it's practically impossible to find good weed on the street unless you're really lucky. The only other option is to keep your eyes and nose open in the smoking areas of pubs and see if you can get into any parties.
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Marijuana prices in Dublin:
bar of soap
25 euros – quarter
50 euros – Half
90 euros – ounce
Pollen
50 euros – quarter
180 euros – ounce
gras
50-euro bag (approx. 5 grams of grass)
Grass (Sinsemilla, all varieties)
50 euros – 3,5 grams
100 euros – 7 grams
250–350 euros – 28 grams (ounces)
hash oil
40 euros – pack
Brands:
Bar soaps are the most common type found on the market.
Pollen is not uncommon, but it is not an everyday occurrence either; however, it can be obtained from the right people.
Grass is more often bought on the street, but this can frequently happen when the buds are used up.
Grass has its good times, but it can disappear quickly. Last year, however, it was consistently expensive.
Hash oil is rare, but I've found it quite often, maybe annually.
City ID:
Area: 921 km²
Population: 1,12 million
Country: Ireland
Time zone: GMT/UTC 0 (Greenwich Mean Time)
Telephone code: 01
Dublin, Ireland: The story of a city
Dublin is the city that built Guinness. The capital city of Ireland, with over a million inhabitants, located on the east coast of the Republic of Ireland, is universally associated with Guinness, one of the most famous beers in the world.
An estimated 10 million glasses of Guinness Stout, with its black body and creamy brown head, flow from taps in 150 countries every day. Founded in 1759, the Guinness House at St. James's Gate in Dublin was once the world's largest brewery and remains one of the city's most famous tourist attractions. Thousands visit the brewery each year for a tour and subsequent tastings in its own pub. Whisky also has a strong presence in Ireland's old town.
Jameson, first distilled in Dublin's Bow Street in 1780, is a brand appreciated by connoisseurs worldwide. Visitors with a taste for Irish whiskey can enjoy Jameson, Bushmills, or various other brands in traditional, wood-paneled pubs as well as in the numerous dance clubs blaring techno music.
Dublin – which has recently experienced a boom in the Irish economy and is therefore nicknamed the “Celtic Tiger” – has become a popular meeting place for young locals and visitors from abroad who want to enjoy the country’s famous beers and spirits.
“During my time in Dublin, I noticed that Dubliners are more interested in getting drunk than high,” said Stuart Campbell, a Scotsman from Glasgow who visits Dublin several times a year. But that doesn’t mean, he emphasized, that recreational drugs like marijuana and hashish aren’t available. You just have to know where to look, he said, mentioning the Temple Bar area as a likely place to find club drugs like ecstasy.
Paul, a Dubliner living in the busy area near Trinity College, said hashish and other soft drugs were “freely available in Dublin, but you had to know who to ask for them.”
“It’s not a good idea to just ask random people on the street,” he said.
Campbell agreed. “I think the reason you shouldn’t just go out on the street and ask someone is that they might think you’re going to report them to the police,” Campbell said. “You also have to consider that heroin use is prevalent in some of the city’s more run-down neighborhoods. I imagine there’s a particularly high level of suspicion towards the police there.”
Jim Cusack, security correspondent for The Irish Times in Dublin, stated that recreational drugs are widespread. "Cannabis, ecstasy, amphetamines and increasingly cocaine are relatively easy to obtain throughout Ireland," he said, referring to both the Republic of Ireland and neighboring Northern Ireland.
Cusack warned, however, that law enforcement would not tolerate even occasional drug use.
“The police, the Garda, in the Republic of Ireland prosecute all cases of drug possession. The same applies to the Royal Ulster Constabulary [the police force in Northern Ireland],” he said. Visitors should be advised that the police here have a different approach than in countries like the Netherlands.
Police statistics show that in 1998, the Garda National Drug Unit seized 44.508 grams of marijuana, 690 cannabis plants, 798 LSD tablets, 604.827 doses of ecstasy (MDMA), 4.419 ephedrine tablets, and 333.167 grams of cocaine. Cusack explained that the police action aimed to dismantle groups that had taken over the drug trade.
“Drug trafficking in the Republic is largely carried out by organized criminal gangs who source their drugs mainly from the Netherlands – cannabis, ecstasy, cocaine, heroin – and England – mainly heroin and some cocaine,” he said, pointing to the great danger involved. “One of these gangs was responsible for the shooting of journalist Veronica Guerin in May 1996.” Despite the risks and potential penalties, Campbell said the drug scene in Dublin nightclubs was thriving.
“We were in a nightclub, and a few people approached me and asked if I had any drugs. They were talking about ecstasy or speed,” he said. He added, however, that it could be somewhat difficult for visitors to get their hands on drugs in a city that has been considered a mecca of alcohol for over 200 years. “All the people who approached me were from England and were on holiday for the weekend,” he said.
"Perhaps this means that tourists who are used to getting ecstasy in their clubs back home expected to get drugs in the same way in Dublin, and it turned out not to be so easy."