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October 06, 2008 http://www.themorningbulletin.com.au © APN News & Media Ltd 2008 A DRUG addict and small-time dealer used cannabis to cope with the strain of having 15 chidren, Rockhampton Magistrates Court heard. Jody Brian Richardson, 39, pleaded guilty to 13 drug-related charges, including supply, drug production, possession of cannabis and ecstasy and owning instructions on how to produce drugs. His solicitor, Lance Rundle, said jobless Richardson and his partner had 15 children between them and Richardson had been smoking marijuana for 20 years. "He smokes to ease the stress of having so many kids," said Mr Rundle, who claimed Richardson had made a …

How to improve the quality of the high from a low quality bud - the magic of Terpenes While I was in Nimbin recently at the 2008 Mardi Grass, I had the opportunity to sit and blow a joint with Ed Rosenthal. We got to talking about Terpenes, with particular regard to a chapter in Ed's latest Book, "The Big Book of Buds Vol. 3", called 'The Secret Chemistry of Cannabis Odors and Highs'. The discussion led to a Terpene known as Myrcene, which is the most prevalent Terpene found in most varieties of Cannabis, but not found in hemp. It is also present in high amounts in mangos, hops, lemon grass, West Indian bay tree, verbena and the plant from which it derives it's name Me…

NORML September 12th, 2008 By: Allen St. Pierre, NORML Executive Director www.pubmed.gov

Police Discover World’s Largest Marijuana Plants Scott Morgan Wed, 10/01/2008 - 8:39pm StoptheDrugWar.org http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle_blog/2...orld_s_largest_ Drug enforcement officers never tire of their overpowering compulsion to exaggerate marijuana seizures to the point of absurdity. Again and again, we’ve caught police making ludicrous claims that contradict basic math and science. The latest example comes from California, where local narcotics officers found some large marijuana plants and tried to frame it as some sort of unbelievable shocker: Marijuana plants seized Monday in Browns Valley and Live Oak "are the largest I've seen," a drug enforce…

Report urges regulated market for cannabis to replace prohibition Duncan Campbell Thursday October 2 2008 The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/oct...hol.drugspolicy A report on cannabis prepared for next year's UN drug policy review will suggest that a "regulated market" would cause less harm than the current international prohibition. The report, which is likely to reopen the debate about cannabis laws, suggests that controls such as taxation, minimum age requirements and labelling could be explored. The Global Cannabis Commission report, which will be launched today at a conference in the House of Lords, has reached conclusions which its authors sugg…

2/10/08 http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk © News Group Newspapers Ltd, 2008 A German artist today claimed to have obtained Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain's ashes and revealed she plans to SMOKE them in a cannabis joint. Barmy Natascha Stellmach won't reveal how she came by the remains of the iconic singer - saying only that it's "kind of magic". We revealed earlier this year that they had been stolen from wife Courtney Love's home. There has been no confirmation that the ashes are genuinely those of the dead rock legend. Kurt, DAVE GROHL and KRIST NOVOSELIC mesmerised the music world in the 90s with hits like In Bloom and Smells Like Teen Spirit. The band has…

Thursday, 02 October 2008 http://www.livenews.com.au/Articles © Macquarie Radio Network Limited 2007 A British research group has called for a "serious rethink" of drug policy after finding that cannabis is less harmful than alcohol or tobacco, and that banning the drug has no impact on supply. The Beckley Foundation, a charity group featuring senior British and international academics as its advisors, said outlawing cannabis only acted to turn users into criminals. "Although cannabis can have a negative impact on health, including mental health, in terms of relative harms it is considerably less harmful than alcohol or tobacco," the report by the Foundation's Gl…

Enough cannabis for `48 years' Brothers plead guilty to $700,000 drug charge BY RACHEL WILLIAMS 2/10/2008 12:00:00 AM The Examiner http://northerntasmania.yourguide.com.au/n...ge/1323053.aspx TWO Nabowla brothers have pleaded guilty to a series of drug-related charges after they were found with enough cannabis to last them a lifetime. Craig Andrew Bennett, 42 and Wayne Rex Bennett, 52, both pleaded guilty in the Launceston Supreme Court yesterday to charges including trafficking, cultivating, possession and using a controlled substance. The men admitted to growing more than $700,000 worth of cannabis on their co-owned bush property in the State's North-East. Crown…

Cannabis and the Course of Schizophrenia DANIELE FABIO ZULLINO, M.D., LAKSHMI WABER, M.D., and YASSER KHAZAAL, M.D. Geneva, Switzerland 2 October 2008 http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/conten...l/165/10/1357-a American Journal of Psychiatry Am J Psychiatry 165:1357-a-1358, October 2008 doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2008.08040618 © 2008 American Psychiatric Association Letter to the Editor To the Editor: While the correlations between schizophrenia and cannabis abuse are well corroborated, evidence for a causal correlation remains lacking. In their study, published in the April 2008 issue of the Journal, Monica Rais, M.D., et al. (1) found a more pronounced brain volume re…

By ninemsn staff 19:00 AEST Wed Oct 1 http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=640197 © 1997-2008 ninemsn Pty Ltd - All rights reserved A Catholic priest and a drug counsellor have been charged with possessing and dealing marijuana after the scent of the joint they were smoking wafted into a nearby police vehicle. A patrolman in the US state of West Virginia was on patrol in the town of Charleston over the weekend when he became aware of the smell and pulled over the silver minivan in front as it was the only vehicle in sight, the Charleston Daily Mail reports. He claimed Father James O'Connor and Michael Deegan were found to be smoking a hand-rolled joint and…