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This Changes Everything Cannabidiol Now! By FRED GARDNER Two plants strains relatively rich in cannabidiol (CBD) have been identified by an analytic test lab recently established to serve the medical cannabis industry in California. That's two major stories in one sentence. Let's take it from the bottom… In December a lab in the East Bay started testing samples of cannabis for pathogenic mold and the presence of three cannabinoids –THC, CBD and CBN (cannabinol). THC is the main psychoactive compound in the cannabis plant. CBD is a cannabinoid with intriguing medical potential that gets bred out of cannabis when the breeder's goal is high THC content (as it has bee…

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Amazingly I can't pick too many holes in this article it doesn't run off into the usual spin THC

Nick Clark February 16, 2009 03:49pm http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,2...772-661,00.html © Herald and Weekly Times A TASMANIAN man sent a kilo of cannabis as a Christmas present for his stepdaughters, a court heard today. David John Rhodes of Lady Barron, Flinders Island has pleaded not guilty to one count of trafficking on December 1-2, 2005, in the Launceston Supreme Court today, The Mercury reports. Crown prosecutor Virginia Jones said Mr Rhodes had organised that a parcel be flown from Whitemark on Flinders Island to Launceston in Tasmania's north. However, the plot was uncovered when an Airlines of Tasmania staff member at Whitemark rang police be…

The Australian By Andrea Hayward | March 05, 2009 A DRUG disposal bin will be trialled at a West Australian music festival in what police believe is an Australian first. The move follows the death of 17-year-old Perth girl Gemma Thoms, who died after taking three ecstasy pills before the Big Day Out in Perth on February 2. Ms Thoms' friends said she swallowed the pills before entering the festival gates for fear of being caught by police. WA Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan said the drug disposal bin would be trialled at the Rock-It music festival in Joondalup this weekend. "The bin will be placed near the main entrance to the festival and patrons will …

I don't know if any of you know about this site. But they basically have this thing where people e-mail them ideas, they put them up and people vote and comment. They have a legalise drugs one here pretty close to the top of the list. Whichever gets the most support they try and raise money to get an advertisement on the TV or in the newspaper. So I urge you to sign up over there and vote 'Hot' on this idea! http://www.getup.org.au/2020/idea.php?ideaID=180

ANDREW DOWDELL, ADELAIDE NOW REPORTER March 11, 2009 11:40am http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0...69-2682,00.html Copyright 2009 News Limited Police display dried cannabis found at a house in Prospect. Picture: Michael Marschall A MAN has been arrested after police uncovered a huge cannabis crop inside a house at Blair Athol in Adelaide's north. Police swooped on the house at the corner of Prospect Rd and Meadows Ave shortly before 9am, unveiling a highly sophisticated hydroponic operation. On first entering the unobtrusive house through the rear door, the Prospect Rd abode appears to be a normal home - until you open the bedroom cupboard. Behind the cupb…

NORML Cannabis Spray Shows Long-Term Benefits For Multiple Sclerosis March 5, 2009, United Kingdom Long-term administration of Sativex, an oral spray consisting of natural cannabis extracts, reduces spasticity in multiple sclerosis patients, according to clinical trial data reported last week by the biotechnology firm GW Pharmaceuticals. Thirty-six patients completed the placebo-controlled randomized withdrawal study. Subjects in the study had been using Sativex for a mean of 3.6 years. Patients who ceased using Sativex during the four-week trial experienced significantly worse spasticity than they had while taking the drug, investigators reported. There was "…

Antwerp, March 2009 A RESEARCH INTO THE PARTICIPATION OF DRUG USER ORGANISATIONS IN THE DESIGN OF DRUG POLICIES ON A LOCAL AND EUROPEAN LEVEL Please find herewith the final report of a research on the participation of associations representing drug users in the design and implementation of policies that directly affect their lives: drug policies. Concretely the research has looked into the way this participation takes place on a local level (in the Drug Plans of the Autonomous Community of Euskadi – Basque Country, Spain) and on a European level (the European Union Drug Action Plans). The research was carried out between October 2008 and January 2009, by the European Co…

By KIRAN CHUG Last updated 13:39 10/03/2009 http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/2248...is-haul-nets-16 © 2009 Fairfax New Zealand Limited BUSTED: Police with the giant cannabis plants recovered from Golden Bay, some of the more than 5700 plants seized in the Nelson region during Operation Kristy A seven-day swoop on Nelson's cannabis growers has uncovered 165 plots across the region - some believed to be large-scale commercial operations. The bust, code-named Operation Kristy, ended yesterday and resulted in police cutting down more than 5700 cannabis plants in the Nelson Bays policing area. They recovered 15 firearms and $10,000 of stolen property, and at l…

http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories...set-new-record/ in Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009 Sources: Marijuana Policy Project, September 27, 2007 Title: “Marijuana Arrests Set New Record for Fourth Year in a Row” Author: Bruce Mirken National Organization for Reform of Marijuana Laws, September 24, 2007 Title: “Marijuana Arrests for Year 2006—829,625 Tops Record High” Author: Paul Armentano Student Researchers: Ben Herzfeldt and Caitlyn Ioli Faculty Advisor: Pat Jackson, PhD For the fourth year in a row, US marijuana arrests set an all-time record, according to 2006 FBI Uniform Crime Reports. Marijuana arrests in 2006 totaled 829,627, an increase from 786…

4:00AM Tuesday Mar 03, 2009 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article....jectid=10559593 Copyright 2009, APN Holdings NZ Limited An annual police operation targeting cannabis growers on the West Coast has resulted in the arrest of 13 people and the recovery of 5200 plants, including a number of "potent" varieties. Police estimated a mature plant had a street value of about $1000, but noted that some plantings this year were a particularly potent cultivar heavily laden with flowering tops on female plants - which usually contain the highest levels of THC, making them much more valuable. The haul was down 42 per cent on last year, when about 9000 plants were found, …