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14 maltatoday | SUNDAY • 7 JULY 2024 NEWS MATTHEW VELLA mvella@mediatoday.com.mt Caritas seeks ban on synthetic cannabis The Chief Executive Officer, Lands Authority, notifies that: Sealed tenders in respect of the following advertisements have to be deposited in the Tender Box at at the Lands Authority, , Auberge de Baviere, Valletta by 10.00am on Thursday, 25 th July, 2024. *Advert No. 39 Lease, for the remaining period of the present lease which ends on the 31 st May, 2028, of the bare Shop tale quale at Garage No. 14 situated under Block Appartamenti Indipendenza Triq Dun M. Mifsud, Santa Lucija. as shown edged in red and marked No. 14 on plan L.D.11/82/34 p.o.. The present tenant does not want to remain in the lease and an interested third party is ready to assume the remaining term of this lease. The interested third party has been reserved the right of first refusal as per Article No. 3 (1) of Legal Notice 573.02. Tenders are to be accompanied by a Bid-Bond for an amount of €2,547 as stipulated in the tender conditions. Offers below the amount of eight hundred and forty-nine Euros and four cents (€849.04) per annum will not be considered. A fee of €50 will be charged for the tender documents. *Advert No. 43 Lease tale quale for a period of fifteen (15) years for commercial purposes of a Shop at No. 1, Triq ic-Cawsli, Civic Centre, Zabbar as shown edged in red and marked as 'Shop 1' on the plan P.D.53_2004_1_Ap.o. Tenders are to be accompanied by a Bid-Bond for the amount of €14,100 as stipulated in the tender conditions. Offers below the amount of four thousand and seven hundred Euros (€4,700) per annum will not be considered. This tender may be subject to the right known as the right of first refusal as per article No. 32 of Chapter No. 573 of the Laws of Malta. A fee of €50 will be charged for the tender documents. *Advert No. 40 Lease, for a period of fifteen (15) of the Shop tale quale at No. 2 Centru Civiku, Triq San Kataldu, Rabat, Malta as shown edged in red on plan L.D.13/87/3. Tenders are to be accompanied by a Bid-Bond for an amount of €16,140 as stipulated in the tender conditions. Offers below the amount of five thousand and three hundred and eighty Euros (€5,380) per annum will not be considered. This tender may be subject to the right known as the right of first refusal as per article No. 32 of Chapter No. 573 of the Laws of Malta. A fee of €50 will be charged for the tender documents. *Advert No. 41 Lease tale quale, on a year to year basis, for agricultural purposes, of a site at Triq il-Wied ta' Has-Saptan, Birzebbuga shown edged in red on plan P.D.2020_0163. This site maybe subject to existing servitudes in favour of the adjacent properties. The bidders must be either full-time or part-time farmers, who have to submit a certificate, issued by the Department of Agriculture with the tender document or students who have completed successfully an academic course relating to agriculture within the previous five years prior to the introduction of the Legal Notice No. 573.06 who have to submit a copy of the relevant certificate also with the tender documents. Tenders are to be accompanied by a Bid-Bond for an amount of €1,000 as stipulated in the tender conditions. Offers below the amount of forty-six Euros and thirteen cents (€46.13) per annum will not be considered. This tender may be subject to the right known as the right of first refusal as per article No. 32 of Chapter No. 573 of the Laws of Malta. A fee of €50 will be charged for the tender documents. www.landsauthority.org.mt/services/tendering Lands Authority St. Sebastian Street, Valletta *Advert No. 42 Grant on a perpetual revisable emphyteusis of the Site tale quale at Triq il-Qarsajja, Attard as shown edged in red on the plan P.D.2021_0243. The winning bidder has the chance to redeem this emphyteusis within the first fifteen (15) years after a revision according to the rate of inflation as explained in detail in the emphyteutical conditions. Tenders are to be accompanied by a Bid-Bond for an amount of €50,000 as stipulated in the tender conditions. Offers below the amount of twenty thousand Euros (€20,000) per annum will not be considered. This tender may be subject to the right known as the right of first refusal as per article No. 32 of Chapter No. 573 of the Laws of Malta. A fee of €50 will be charged for the tender documents. AVVIŻ GĦALL- ISSUE OF TENDERS *Adverts appearing for the first time. These adverts are being published as an invitation to the public to acquire tender documents online. The bidders are to refer to all the conditions of the tender document and are invited to read carefully these conditions. Tenders should be submitted only on the prescribed form, which together with the relevant conditions and other documents, may be obtained by clicking on 'Buy Tender' on the web page where this tender is available on www.landsauthority.org.mt/services/tendering A fee of fifty Euros (€50) must be paid through the online system of the Lands Authority website by using your preferred banking card. CARITAS director Anthony Gatt had flagged the case of the 'ketamine' gummies sold on the legal market to the Univer- sity of Malta's forensic analysis laboratory. In an address to a graduation ceremony for substance abus- ers at its San Blas centre, Gatt said that in cooperation with University of Malta research- ers and colleagues from the substance abuse charity OASI, Caritas had been pushing for a ban on the sale of synthetic cannabis products like HHC being sold in groceries, corner shops and stationeries. The analysis revealed the extent of synthetic chemicals found inside unregulated, yet legally available edibles until recently also purchasable from the online marketplace Wolt. The forensic lab, which car- ries out drug analysis for the police force, said a packet of so-called 'MDMA gummies' had revealed the presence of a novel synthetic hallucinogen – 2-Fluorodeschloroketamine. "The ease of obtaining such product makes the situation even more worrying," the Uni- versity forensic lab warned in its public alert. Researchers analysing the gummies, marketed under the names of 'Speed' and 'MDMA' gummies to allude to the ef- fects of the aforementioned substances, chiefly found the presence of the 2-Fluo- rodeschloroketamine in the gummies. "A colleague bought them and sent them to the laborato- ry, and surprise, surprise, there were traces of MDMA (Ecsta- sy), Ketamine, and Amphet- amine," Gatt told the Caritas graduation ceremony. "This is a moment where we are truly seeing darkness. We believe there is a solution if there is a will for true enforcement." Synthetic hallucinogens are chemically manufactured drugs that mimic the effects of traditional hallucinogens. These substances are typically employed in the formulation of stimulants and psychoactives such as ketamine or PCP, and LSD, substances that induce altered perception and detach- ment from reality. Synthetic cannabis is pre- sented often as herbs which are adulterated with HHC – hex- ahydrocannabinol – to mimic the effects of THC. The reason they can be marketed for sale in Malta is that the product, often labelled as being "unsuit- able for human consumption" has low levels of THC below 0.2%. But neither the pharmacolo- gy nor the toxicology of HHC in humans has been studied in detail. Since HHC products are not regulated, there is no way of understanding the quantity of HHC in a product, whether it will lead to its consumer get- ting high, or how long that high will last since the process that