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SOURCE: Email response from, The National Drugs and Poisons Scheduling Committee Regarding cannabis and cannabis products The National Drugs and Poisons Scheduling Committee (NDPSC) is responsible for the scheduling of drugs and poisons, at the Commonwealth Government level. The NDPSC is a statutory committee established under the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989 and is responsible for determining the classification or scheduling of medicines, as well as agricultural, veterinary and domestic chemicals in Australia. The NDPSC’s authority is described in the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989. However, while the work of the NDPSC is conducted under that Act, the NDPSC Secreta…

SOURCE: http://www.maps.org/ Professor Craker responds to Bush Administration’s Eleventh Hour Blow To Scientific Freedom On January 30, 2009, lawyers for Professor Lyle Craker filed a motion of reconsideration in response to the DEA’s final ruling, which was the Bush Adminstration's final blow to medical marijuana research. The Bush administration struck a parting shot to legitimate science on January 14th, as the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) refused to end the government monopoly over the supply of marijuana available for Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-sanctioned research. DEA’s final ruling rejected the nearly 2-year-old recommendation of DEA Adminis…

Author: Nick Ralston Date: 5 February 2009 Source: Sydney Morning Herald Copyright: © 2009 AAP

It occurs to me that if you make something illegal, only criminals are going to use it.

Author: Michael Punongbayan Date: 31 January 2009 Source: The Philipine Star Copyright: 2008 Philstar http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?artic...ubCategoryId=68

Author: ? Date: 28 January 2009 Source: gizmag Copyright: gizmag 2003-2009 http://www.gizmag.com/scientists-find-mari...pairment/10849/

www.theage.com.au Cameron Houston 28 December 2008 Victorian Police have turned to satellite technology to hunt green-fingered crooks who grow marijuana in suburban backyards, on farms or on Crown land. With most outdoor crops maturing over the next four months, police are increasingly relying on Google Earth to identify cannabis crops, which can be worth up to $2500 a plant. A Victoria Police spokeswoman has confirmed that Google Earth is a tool in the battle against outdoor growers and has helped with several recent investigations. A senior member of Victoria's drug tasking unit told The Sunday Age the Big Brother technology would be used more when satellite imag…

Hi folks, I've looked a little and cannot find - mind you, to look through this forum would take MONTHS - even using search! so much here, that's a good thing. Apologies if this has already been done, but: Can people please contribute their own knowledge (not heard it from a friend knowledge) about the legality of Pot worldwide. It may need to be broken into provence/state, and please remember to add a date. There's no good having a post on 2/2/09 when the law you know of is relevant as at 1/1/1990!! This will allow us pot smokers looking for a new home to make considerations. It will allow holidayers to know what they can and cannot get away with in their chosen lo…

hi there, im new to this site.. ive been reading bits an pieces.. its a kool site.. glad to be here.. thanks for having me... you know wat i find ironic.... isnt it interesting... more so now with the global finacial crisis...and the expense of living atm... it seems.. us bottom feeders.. (society) become poorer.. cant afford shit..so ppl start theiving etc.. up goes the crime rate.. i mean the other day on the news, a man was held up in his car, by gun point.. some dude was robbing him.. im mean pls.. how rude.. this was around the corner from my house.. how safe am i...? in amongst all that... us weed smokers get the kick in the ass.. how is weed a drug..and who mad…

Author: Paul Armentano, Deputy Director NORML Date: 15 Janaury 2009 Source: NORML Foundation, Washington, DC Copyright: © 2008 NORML http://www.norml.org//index.cfm?Group_ID=7002

16/1/09 http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/articl...gI-ZpgD95NQ83O1 Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved DENTON, Texas (AP) — A man in Denton, Texas who was expecting a shipment of tools instead received a 30-pound brick of marijuana that police say is worth more than $10,000. Officer Ryan Grelle says the man opened the box Monday night, realized it contained drugs and contacted police. The package from the Pharr area was handled by UPS in McAllen on Jan. 6. and apparently was intended for a Dallas address. The Denton Record-Chronicle reports no such address exists in Dallas, so the package wound up 40 miles to the northwest at the similar a…