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http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/chri...target-the-high Eye in sky may target the high By CHARLIE GATES - The Press Last updated 05:00 17/04/2009 Cannabis "factories" could be exposed by an aircraft with an infra-red camera over Christchurch. The Christchurch City Council plans to use the eye in the sky this winter to create a thermal map of the city and use the information to offer people with poorly insulated homes advice on energy efficiency. Christchurch drug squad officers hope to use the map to look for hot houses one of the tell-tale signs that lamps are being used in an attic for cannabis cultivation. "If the council made that available for us…

Cannabis Compounds Reduce Multi-Drug Resistant Infections Study Says Cannabinoids Show "Exceptional" Antibacterial Activity Against MRSA SAN FRANCISCO--Cannabis Science, Inc. (OTCBB: GFON). Dr. Robert Melamede, PhD., Director and Chief Science Officer, reported to the Board on the current state of research into the use of natural plant cannabinoids to reduce the spread of drug-resistant bacteria, including methicillin-resistant Staphyloccus aureus (MRSA), and the prospects for development of topical whole-cannabis treatments. According to studies published in the Jou…

hey all.. ive been in canberra for a year now. everytime i talk to someone not from canberra they are always like wow ur lucky the marijuana laws are very liberal there. yes u can grow 2 plants (non hydroponically) and have 25gms for personal use. ive lived in 10 different cities around the world and this is the most liberal law by far. however i cant find anything in canberra!! im wondering if this is because the laws are liberal those who smoke grow thee own so that means there is no market for it. therefore i would rather live in a city that the laws arent as liberal as this meant i could always find some stuff. one year is way tooo long. what do u all think?

by Mike Barrington 13.04.2009 http://www.northernadvocate.co.nz/localnew...condsubsection= © APN News & Media Ltd 2008 Cannabis cultivation skills can produce plants like this. Picture/FILE Cannabis cultivation skills which could bring brothers Tim and Dave A'Court jail terms in Whangarei where they lived as teenagers, have made them successful businessmen in Amsterdam. The Kiwiseeds company they set up in the liberal Dutch city five years ago has since won three Cannabis Cups awarded by High Times, a New York-based magazine with an international circulation advocating the drug's legalisation. Tim, 40, and Dave 37, were born in Britain and moved to New …

Families and Friends for Drug Law Reform invites you to a PUBLIC MEETING sponsored by Joy Burch (MLA) Thursday 23rd April, 2009 12.30 pm in the Reception Room, ACT Legislative Assembly Civic Square, London Circuit, Canberra City Topic: Illicit drugs policy through the lens of regulation Speaker: Alison Ritter Director Drug Policy Modelling Program, UNSW Visiting Fellow, Regulatory Institutions Network, the ANU This presentation will describe an attempt to bring the theories of regulation to the issue of illicit drugs. Regulation has a narrow definition as something governments do, using ‘command and control’ but as will be seen, if the broader definition of re…

Growing violence: Marijuana gardens are robbery targets throughout Humboldt County Story by Sean Garmire; Times-Standard. A quiet McKinleyville neighborhood was jolted last Sunday night by the echo of three gunshots and the sound of breaking glass, as three suspects in an alleged home invasion robbery frantically drove away from a marijuana grow house. Home-invasion robberies at houses with pot gardens occur with disconcerting regularity in Humboldt County, law enforcement officials say. And the potential for violence in any robbery is high. Within the past six months, at least three people have been shot during suspected grow house robberies in Humboldt County. ”…

Hey Everyone, I heard an interesting program concerning Prohibition on the ABC's Radio National show called Counterpoint. Check it out HERE. There is a transcript and the audio is available here as well. Share your thoughts...

I e-mailed LEAP a while ago asking whether they would come to Aus and talk to some of our cop stations I just got this reply and I'm not sure what to reply with. Hi ---- Sorry for the delay in response to your email- it was misdirected at an inactive mailbox. Actually, we are in the process of planning a LEAP tour in Australia... can you give me more details, do you have a contact at these police stations that we can speak to and set up a meeting? Thanks, Kristin I'm assuming she thinks I'm a police officer so yeah.... Maybe I'll just look up my local cop shops number or something and say there's a pretty big drug problem around here or something like that. Any thou…

BY DAVID CASTELLON • dcastell@visalia.gannett.com • April 16, 2009 http://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/article/2...EWS01/904160332 Last month, Richard Daleman and his lawyer convinced a jury that he was growing marijuana legally to treat his pain problems and not breaking the law. On Wednesday, the 61-year-old man had another victory when Tulare County Superior Court Judge Darryl Ferguson ordered that all the marijuana county sheriff's deputies had confiscated from him Dec. 16 be returned. "They're giving me every gram of it back," said Daleman, who had been arrested and jailed for weeks after deputies searched his home and found processed and unprocessed marijua…