Section 5 of misuse of drugs act?

stink_fist

http://cannabisireland.net closed for violations of section 5 of the Misuse of Drugs Act, 1984. Is this not censorship?

5. —(1) ( a ) A person shall not print, publish, cause or procure to be printed or published, sell or expose or offer or keep for sale, distribute or offer or keep for distribution, any book, periodical or other publication which and possession of either—
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(i) advocates or encourages, or might reasonably be supposed to advocate or encourage, whether expressly or by implication, the use of any controlled drug prescribed for the purposes of this section, or any product or preparation containing any such controlled drug, otherwise than in the course of professional treatment by a practitioner, or
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(ii) contains any advertisement advertising any use of a pipe, utensil or other thing for use by persons, for or in connection with the use of a controlled drug so prescribed or such a product or preparation, which is a use other than a use described in paragraph (b) of this subsection.
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( b ) The use lastly referred to in paragraph (a) of this subsection is a use (being the use of a pipe, utensil or other thing)—
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(i) which is described in the relevant advertisement, and
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(ii) which any person reading the relevant advertisement would—
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(I) take to be a use relating to a controlled drug prescribed for the purposes of this section or a product or preparation containing such a controlled drug, and
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(II) take to be, and only to be, a use to be availed of in the course of professional treatment by a practitioner.

Maximilian

Yes.

Reminds me of when I had Building Nuclear Weapons for Dummies confiscated on me.

seamus

Yes, it is censorship.

There is nothing illegal about censorship.