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Greening the Green Marijuana is California's biggest dollar crop—and its production is stretching the North Coast's resources. by Nicole Edmison original article

Author ? 01Jul08 http://www.goldcoast.com.au/article/2008/0...coast-news.html FIVE men remain in police custody following appearances in Lismore Local Court over a series of drug raids in the Tweed region yesterday. Two of the five men charged over the alleged drug haul applied for bail but had their applications rejected by Magistrate Nick Reimer who ruled exceptional circumstances. Police estimate the cannabis found on a Cudgera Creek property yesterday was worth more than $1 million and was being grown in a sophisticated hydroponics set-up, including some in an undergound bunker. All five men face charges relating to the cultivation by enhanced methods of a pr…

http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/538/br...ession_no_crime from Drug War Chronicle, Issue #538, 5/30/08 At the end of March, a Brazilian appeals court in São Paulo declared that possession of drugs for personal use is not a criminal offense. Several lower courts had previously ruled in the same way, but the ruling from the São Paulo Justice Court's 6th Criminal Chamber marked the first time an appeals court there had found Brazil's drug law unconstitutional as it pertains to simple drug possession. The ruling came in the case of Ronaldo Lopes, who was arrested with 7.7 grams of cocaine in three separate bags on the night before Carnival began in 2007. Lopes acknow…

Pat Purcell's son, Daniel, on drugs charges Paula Doneman June 29, 2008 12:00am http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0...794-952,00.html THE son of disgraced former Labor minister Pat Purcell has allegedly been selling thousands of dollars of ecstasy each week to support his own drug habit. A Brisbane court was yesterday told of allegations that Daniel Raymond Purcell bought 200 ecstasy tablets a week and sold 140 of them "so he could consume" the remaining 60 illicit pills himself. Purcell, an unemployed 23-year-old, was charged with drug trafficking and possession after he was arrested outside The Met Nightclub in Fortitude Valley, in Brisbane's inner-city, o…

Drugs and phones wing their way to Brazil prisoners RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) Tue 24 Jun 2008, 23:52 GMT http://africa.reuters.com/odd/news/usnN24367678.html A sharp increase in drugs and cellphones found inside a Brazilian prison mystified officials -- until guards spotted some distressed pigeons struggling to stay airborne. Inmates at the prison in Marilia, Sao Paulo state had been training carrier pigeons to smuggle in goods using cell phone sized pouches on their backs, a low-tech but ingenious way of skipping the high-tech security that visitors faced. "We have sophisticated equipment to search people when they go in, but they avoided this by finding another wa…

this is an update on a post a coupla months ago, this one from:- "this is derbyshire.co.uk" http://www. thisisderbyshire.co.uk/news/BREAKING-NEWS-cleared-Derby-shop-cannabis-offences/article-196771-detail/ article.html#continueNews (spaces added for spam) BREAKING NEWS: Three cleared of Derby shop cannabis offences 17:15 - 24-June-2008 TWO businessmen and an employee who were found guilty of selling equipment to cannabis growers from a shop in Derby today had their convictions overturned by the country's top judge at the Court of Appeal. The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Phillips, ruled that the offences of conspiracy to aid and abet and counsel the productio…

Cannabis Conspiracy Uncovered 26 June 2008 http://pr.cannazine.co.uk/content/view/417/27/ It would appear that, if the Police are unable to find an offence to charge you with but they take a dislike to you, its highly likely they will make one up, as the following story illustrates all too clearly. In answer to one of the biggest conspiracy theories attached to the British cannabis debate in recent times, three Derby men have had their convictions over-turned by the country's most senior Judge at the Court of Appeals. Back in January 08 and the talk of the British cannabis community was of the three hydroponic shop workers from Derby who had been convicted of the …

Two fined over selling bongs By Jason Rawlins 24 June 2008 <http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/24/2284318.htm?section=australia> Jayne Elizabeth Ford leaves Brisbane Magistrates Court with lawyer Kevin Kelso. (ABC: Jason Rawlins) A Brisbane magistrate has put two company directors on good behaviour bonds and fined their business under laws introduced last year banning the sale of ice pipes and cannabis bongs. The court heard a Surfers Paradise business trading as 'Off Ya Tree' was raided within days of last year's amendments to the Tobacco and Other Smoking Products Act. Prosecutor Andrew Preston says Health Department officials seized hundreds …

Steve Larkin June 23, 2008 03:25pm courier mail <http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,23908072-953,00.html> PROPOSALS to use the drug ecstasy on war veterans to alleviate stress have drawn a lukewarm response from the Returned Services League. RSL national president Bill Crews said he was reluctant to support a call from an Australian Democrats MP to investigate using the drug on war veterans. South Australian Democrat Sandra Kanck said ecstasy's key ingredient, methylenedioxymethamphetamine, could be used to alleviate post-traumatic stress disorders. "This is not a new idea," Ms Kanck said. "It is being trialled in the United States and Israel…