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By the time the law came into force, most of the country's 113 NPS outlets, with a bit of help from bullying Garda officers, had shut their doors. Most decided to throw in the towel either because they had criminal connections, such as money laundering or links to mobile phone fencing, or simply because, as their tax returns later proved, they were so reliant on NPS drug sales that their business would have collapsed without the income. Garda officers seized 4.5 tons of NPS. The battle was also fought online, with the closing down of all online head shops with an Irish IP address.Four years later and only a handful—20 at most across Ireland—have stubbornly survived, managing to maintain their businesses by selling legal products such as cannabis seeds, bongs, hemp pajamas, and Bob Marley T-shirts."Those guys who come round with bouncers selling all this stuff to all the legal high shops will have to find something else to do. The blanket ban will be the nail in the coffin for a lot of places who sell legal highs"
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