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Hi guys, Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I just thought I'd share a small incident which happened today, in which 2 of my friends were caught by teachers at school whilst high. Now, they are facing trouble both in school, with their families and with the police. This is unfortunate as they are both intelligent and caring people who have obviously had a lapse in judgement in terms of appropriate times to be smoking ganja. I am a vast proponent for the legalization of marijuana, however the likelihood of this occurring in Australia being virtually 0%, I would at least settle on the dissemination of useful and truthful facts surrounding the use of …

Thursday, 3 September 2009 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8237006.stm BBC © MMIX Hemp plants look like cannabis ones, but have little psychoactive effect A triumph for Dutch police quickly turned out to be an embarrassing mistake after they destroyed what they thought was a field of cannabis plants. Police on Wednesday announced they had discovered a plantation of some 47,000 illicit cannabis plants with a street value of 4.4m euros ($6.3m; £3.8m). They had destroyed much of the crop when they were told the plants belonged to a respected school of agriculture. They were a type of hemp, being grown as a fibre for use in textiles. Hemp is related to ca…

Interesting article that was in the Sydney Morning Herald. http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/tide-turns-i...90826-ezph.html

Sgt. Northcutt's Post-Iraq Nightmare: Getting Arrested for Growing Pot By Fred Gardner, O'Shaughnessy's Posted on September 1, 2009, Printed on September 1, 2009 http://www.alternet.org/story/142337/ Phil Northcutt saw the map of Iraq on the wall and started recalling his time there. He’d been stationed in Ramadi, Al Anbar Province, in 2004. Phil Northcutt: There was this main street, ‘Route Michigan,’ like a 4-lane highway going through town with a 12-inch tall median painted yellow and black. When we first got there you could see big holes in the median. By the time we left, there was no median. It had been blown up along six or seven miles of roadway... There wer…

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Heading speaks for it self maybe someone with experience on Sydney travel could provide help on the easiest ways to get to the powerhouse museum.

Landmark B.C. study lets trauma sufferers find relief with ecstasy Vancouver therapists get green light to use drug in trial to treat post-traumatic stress By Frances Bula Vancouver — From Wednesday's Globe and Mail Last updated on Tuesday, Sep. 01, 2009 03:34AM EDT Two Vancouver therapists have become the first Canadians to be permitted to give ecstasy to patients in a scientific trial aimed at finding new ways to help people with post-traumatic stress disorder. Psychologist Andrew Feldmar and psychiatrist Ingrid Pacey, with the help of the Boston-based organization Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, also known as MAPS, are recruiting 12 peo…

New Mexico’s one medical marijuana producer is all sold out By Marjorie Childress 8/31/09 3:39 PM Medical marijuana signAccording to a medical marijuana patient who has access to the secure Web site of the one nonprofit in the state producing marijuana for patients, the nonprofit has run out of its product and won’t have more available until October. From the Santa Fe Institute for Natural Medicine (SFINM) Web site: 8/28/09 PRODUCT UPDATE We are currently sold out of our inventory. Not knowing what members would like, our first crop was 50/50 indica dominant/sativa dominant. And although we are so sorry to run out, we now know that members prefer sat…

Schizophrenia link to cannabis denied A STUDY by North Staffordshire academics has rejected a link between smoking cannabis and an increase in mental illness. The research found there were no rises in cases of schizophrenia or psychoses diagnosed in the UK over nine years, during which the use of the drug had grown substantially. Pro-cannabis campaigners seized on the results as supporting the legalising of cannabis, and claimed the report had been suppressed. But the leading expert behind the study said it could be too low-key to re-ignite the debate on whether restrictions should be removed from soft drugs. From their base at the Harplands Psychiatric Hospital in Hart…

By Andy Ivens The Province Diabetic double-leg amputee Marilyn Holsten may have lost her life while fighting eviction for smoking medical marijuana at home, but her struggle survives. Supporters of medical-marijuana patients' rights reacted with sadness and anger at the news of her death Aug. 7. They are organizing a rally next Wednesday, from noon to 6 p.m., in front of the Anavets Senior Citizens Housing Society building in the 900-block East 8th Avenue in Vancouver, where Holsten lived for eight years before being told she had to leave. "We're counting on quite a crowd," pot activist Marc Emery said Thursday. "A lot of people who are similarly disabled will be there. "…