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23/01/09 http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/01/23/2472997.htm © 2009 ABC More than $3 million worth of drugs has been seized from a property on the New South Wales north coast. Police from the Tweed-Byron command raided the property on Eviron Road, Condong, last Friday, and are looking for two men who are connected with the property. They say they found more than 1,500 cannabis plants in an elaborate, hydroponic set up, with a street value of more than $3 million. There was also cannabis leaf worth more than $65,000. Police are looking for two men who have not been seen by family or friends since visiting the property the day before the raid. Strike F…

from voxy news engine voxy.co.nz Friday, 23 January, 2009 - 12:19 Pigs are the same the world over it seems PS Phone No's edited, dont want to make it easy for the dogs out there.

23/01/2009 1:00:00 AM http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local...ps/1414496.aspx Copyright © 2008. Fairfax Media. A baby playing with a telephone inadvertently called police to his house in western Canada and to his ''very surprised'' father's marijuana-growing operation inside, police say. Royal Canadian Mounted Police responded to an emergency call in which the caller hung up without speaking, Constable Janelle Canning said yesterday. Officers entered the White Rock house, near Vancouver, after knocks at the door went unanswered, she said. ''The father was very surprised to see us and insisted he hadn't called police,'' she said. ''The officers then obs…

By Trish Regan Anchor CNBC updated 5:29 p.m. ET Jan. 22, 2009 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28354324/ © 2009 MicrosoftMSN MENDOCINO COUNTY, Calif. - Two hours from San Francisco, Northern California’s Mendocino County is a world away from the urban bustle. At first glance, it’s a picture postcard of the far West. But beneath its beauty lies a controversial, profitable and increasingly violent criminal enterprise. The marijuana trade is an exploding underground industry. Marijuana is being grown in homes, backyards, even in our national parks. Since the 1960s, the so-called Emerald Triangle — Northern California's Mendocino, Humboldt and Trinity counties — has i…

More and more people are finding themselves able to kick sometimes long-term, damaging and expensive alcohol habits without any of the uncomfortable symptoms of withdrawal which normally comes with long-term addictions, and they are doing it thanks to cannabis. Ninety-two Northern Californians using cannabis as an alternative to alcohol obtained letters of approval from the author - Physician Tod Mikuriya MD. Their records were reviewed to determine characteristics of the cohort and efficacy of the treatment —defined as reduced harm to the patient. All patients reported benefit, indicating that for at least a subset of alcoholics, cannabis use is associated with r…

Hello all. I'm a spanish guy who enjoys cannabis. The European community has extracted a page in which one can do offers and suggestions towards the economic and social future of the community. Someone already put an offer, legalizing the cannabis, at the moment it takes only 1420 votes, but wont be bad that we all vote to see what happens... Only if this does pressures to this shit of government that we have... The link is: http://www.consultas-europeas-a-la-ciudada...u/proposal/2125 I already have voted, to see if we obtain a few thousands of votes Saludos from Spain

By KIM THOMAS Saturday, 10 January 2009 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4814158a11.html © Fairfax New Zealand Limited 2007 NEW SPICE: An over the counter "chemical cannabis", banned in several countries, is on sale in New Zealand under the brand names Spice and Dream. A widely available "chemical cannabis" is being monitored by the Government after being banned in other countries. The chemical compound JWH-018, sold as Spice or Dream, was recently banned in Austria and was this week outlawed in Germany after tests showed it affected the brain like THC, the natural psychoactive substance contained in cannabis, but was four times stronger. Drug agencies in New Zealand…

Police make marijuana bust in former military underground bunker Date: 22 January 2009 Author: Carly Timmons Source: ABC Copyright: 2009 The E.W. Scripps Co. http://www.abcactionnews.com/news/local/st...8KwTW3DeGQ.cspx

Cannabis Law Changes Jan 28th 2009 will go down as a dark day in the British drugs debate, as the worlds safest illicit drug is dragged kicking & screaming back into the days of "Reefer Madness", when it is reclassified as a class B drug. This new class B status brings with it the threat of a 5 year prison term just for simple possession, (up from 2 years at class C), and a 14 year prison term for supplying cannabis, (Unchanged from class C), and at face value that all seems fair and square. Lets face it, no one is overly keen on drug dealers. They simply serve a purpose right? Fulfill a community need which the government turned their back on decades ago. But is…

South African Airways cabin crew arrested over drugs haul Agence France-Presse January 21, 2009 07:42am FIFTEEN South African Airways cabin crew members have been arrested after 50kg of cannabis was found onboard a flight from Johannesburg to London. A London Heathrow airport customs spokesman said the drugs, worth $322,000, were found by officers of the UK Borders Agency. The drugs were seized by officers of the UK Border Agency, a newly established force set up to control smuggling and illegal immigration. The drugs were discovered in three pieces of baggage, the spokesman said. Those held were both flight crew and cabin crew. HMRC spokesman Bob Gaiger …

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Sat, Jan 10, 2009 1:10 pm Source: Coed Magazine http://hightimes.com/news/dan/4956 For the stoner sect, working on a pot farm must seem like the equivalent of a fat person winning one of those contests where they get to stuff their shopping cart with as much food as they can in one minute. But I–your faithful blogger—have actually worked on a pot farmer in Mendocino County (part of the Emerald Triangle) and the fantasy isn’t always the same as the reality. So here are 7 truths and fictions about working on a pot farm: There is a shitload of weed on a farm: TRUE! You better believe it. Bushels and bushels of freshly trimmed weed stacked to the ceiling, with exotic na…

Marijuana Monopoly Maintained Jacob Sullum 13 January 2009 Reson Magazine http://reason.com/blog/show/131038.html Yesterday, with a week to go in the Bush administration, the Drug Enforcement Administration officially rejected an application to establish an alternative source of marijuana for medical research, a role currently monopolized by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The application was filed seven years ago by University of Massachusetts at Amherst plant scientist Lyle Craker and the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), which is trying to facilitate research aimed at making marijuana an FDA-approved medicine. In turning Craker down,…

A 60-year-old defense attorney had been smuggling marijuana and cigarettes into Cook County Jail as part of a scheme orchestrated by an inmate, authorities said. Dave Compton was arrested Wednesday afternoon after Cook County Sheriff's officers caught him making a transaction with the unnamed inmate's girlfriend, Angela Bell, and an undercover officer outside a courtroom at 26th and California, according to prosecutors. The sheriff's intelligence unit initiated an investigation when another inmate, Armond Williams, was spotted with a package containing the items on Jan. 7, assistant Cook County state's attorney Russ Baker said. Williams told authorities he received …

http://www.theage.com.au/national/100000-h...90109-7dk9.html A cannabis crop worth $100,000 has been seized by police in Melbourne's outer east after a tip-off from the public. Police raided a garage in Ferntree Gully and charged a Mulgrave man, 36, with a series of drug offences after discovering 115 cannabis plants. Acting Sergeant Lee Nichols from Croydon Divisional Tasking Unit said the garage's hydroponic set-up had allegedly used stolen electricity by connecting cables to the power before it was read by the meter. He said police searched the property after anonymous calls made to Crime Stoppers. "We are grateful to those in the community who have taken not…