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Nine News: Ciaran Mullooly, Midlands Correspondent, reports that the last thing people in Edenderry, Co Offaly, wanted is such a shop in their town
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Prime Time: Keelin Shanley talks to the owners of such shops, and to members of the public who avail of the psychoactive, but legal, substances
There has been a dramatic increase in the number of so-called 'head shops' operating around the country.
Gardaí say the businesses, which are legal, are selling herbal and synthetic substances and new premises are opening at a rate of one a week.
The Seanad has meanwhile passed an all-party motion urging the Government to introduce legislation to regulate the sale of dangerous substances through these shops.
The issue is to be the subject of a major debate in the Seanad next week.
