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MONTEVIDEO (AFP) – Uruguay will write a piece of history next week when the small South American nation becomes the first country in the world to legalise marijuana, launching a social experiment as part of a broad strategy to combat drug trafficking. The plan was unveiled a year and a half ago by President Jose Mujica along with other measures designed to halt crime and violence associated with ... View the full article

South Australian police have charged six people with hundreds of drug charges over a trafficking operation stretching from Adelaide to Darwin. View the full article

Police have seized more than 8700 cannabis plants after swooping on a property at Moogerah in south east Queensland. View the full article

THE percentage of smokers in New Zealand has dropped from 20.7 per cent to 15 per cent, according to Census figures. View the full article

A SKULL of an aristocratic woman with a deformed, pointed 'conehead' has been found in an ancient burial plot in France. View the full article

VICTORIA - A British Columbia pot activist has come up 100,000 signatures short in his province-wide petition aimed at decriminalizing marijuana. Sensible BC Director Dana Larsen has been collecting signatures since the summer in an attempt to eventually propose a law that would prevent police from enforcing simple marijuana possession laws. Legislation rules say Larsen must collect just over ... View the full article

Illegal recreational drugs including LSD, ecstasy and cannabis should be considered as alternative treatments for conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety, a Curtin University researcher says. View the full article

As most of you have probably noticed today OZ Stoners has stepped into the modern web with a new layout and more options to suit your mood. The new layout is designed to suit all modern devices and display resolutions such as tablet pc's, televisions and any mobile devices that don't rely on a mobile specific theme. Anyone on mobile phones that do rely on a layout suited to them should also find the new mobile layout we rolled out quietly last week a big improvement to the previous mobile layout and options. So to help you get started with the new layout here is a basic brief run down on what's new and how you access it. Firstly as pictured below if you look to the top …

US singer Lady Gaga has opened up about whey she smokes marijuana, saying it makes her forget that she is famous. View the full article

Joe Jonas claims Miley Cyrus and Demi Lovato suggested he try marijuana when he was a teenager. View the full article

A woman who picked up a cheeseburger from a Wendy's drive-thru discovered an extra ingredient in her order. View the full article

In a country known for its drug war and where Bill Clinton once caught hell for admitting to smoking pot, new ground is being broken: legal marijuana markets in two states. The pioneers of this sea change are out west, in Colorado and Washington, and grassroots support for their experiment is strong. Marijuana consumption is legal and regulated for medical purposes in 19 US states, in some cases ... View the full article

Most Nigerian farmers now abandon growing food and economic crops for cannabis in a bid to become instant millionaires, the country's anti-narcotics agency said on Saturday. In a statement, Ahmadu Giade, the chairman of the Nigeria's National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), said: "It is sad and disturbing that most farmers are now abandoning food and economic crops for cannabis." Last year ... View the full article