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This was posted at LEAP on January 2, 2008. My first LEAP Blog this year! Happy New Year! Please check it out and pass it on... Enjoy! Thank you. Ali xx The Drug War Gets Personal ( 94 reads) Wednesday, January 02, 2008 Hi everyone. Seeing as this is Christmas and the coming New Year, I thought I would tell heart-warming story of an American trustee and his courageous wife who know the magic of cannabis as medicine and recognize the value of legalizing and regulating all drugs. This week I would like to introduce you to this gentleman and his wife, whom I would love to meet one day. I will let him do most of my speaking, as he seems to be ready to take …

http://www.thechronicle.com.au/localnews/s...condsubsection= Drug user gets cool reception 05.01.2008 By Peter Hardwick HAVING ice pipes at home prompted a cool reception from police for Toowoomba man Tommy Scott McLachlan. A police search of the 22-year-old's Newtown residence at 7.30am, December 14, turned up a number of drug-related utensils including "ice pipes" and filters, Toowoomba Magistrates Court heard. "Ice" is the street name for crystal methamphetamine hydrochloride, a powerful, highly addictive synthetic stimulant drug. Police prosecutor Sergeant Greg Lewis told the court police initially found in McLachlan's bedroom about three grams of cannab…

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/01/03/skysc...ref=mpstoryview NEW YORK (AP) -- Doctors say they have never seen anything like it: A window washer who fell 47 stories from the roof of a Manhattan skyscraper is now awake, talking to his family and expected to walk again. Alcides Moreno, 37, plummeted almost 500 feet in a December 7 scaffolding collapse that killed his brother. Somehow, Moreno lived, and doctors at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center announced Thursday that his recovery has been astonishing. He has movement in all his limbs. He is breathing on his own. And on Christmas Day, he opened his mouth and spoke for the first time sinc…

A WOMAN had to be cut free after her hand froze to a railway track when she fell on to the line. Irina Ivanova, 62, grabbed the rail after slipping over in temperatures of -30°C. Her hand stuck to it and a passer-by found her an hour later. Rescuers used welding torches to cut the track. She was taken to hospital where doctors removed the metal and treated her for hypothermia in Tyumen, Siberia. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article649272.ece

AN RAF ground crew man has become a video star — break-dancing as he directs £25million Tornado jets. Dean Tabreham, 28, was filmed larking around as he guided Top Gun pilots and their 1,000mph GR4 bombers taxiing on the tarmac during a Nato training exercise. The five-minute video has zoomed around the Ministry of Defence on email, causing some computers to crash because it takes up a huge slice of memory. In one sequence, Senior Aircraftman Dean dons gigantic false hands — like those worn by madcap comic Kenny Everett — to marshal the jets. In another, he does a break-dancing routine as one of the Tornado’s red-hot turbo jet engines passes just inches over his he…

From the ABC again. A car owner in the South African capital Johannesburg was driven to desperation when she found a family of Cape Hyrax, small animals that resemble guinea pigs, living in the engine of her vehicle. Hoping to shake off the short-eared, short-tailed creatures known locally as dassies, she drove at high speed to a dealership on the other side of town. She then dumped the vehicle there without giving an explanation. Astonished staff at the dealership phoned Johannesburg Zoo and asked them to come and rescue the animals, as the car had been abandoned in their washbay and was interfering with their work. "The guys called us and said that there was mov…

Exploding dogs pose no threat to estate houses Posted Fri Jan 4, 2008 8:18am AEDT The Northern Territory Government is confident it will not have any problems building a housing estate across the road from a crematorium in Darwin where a dead dog exploded on Wednesday night. Police were called to the crematorium because of a strong red glow coming from the chimney. Staff told the officers that the dog exploded because it had not been defrosted properly. A nearby resident says it does happen occasionally. Territory Planning Minister Delia Lawrie says the new houses will not be right next to the pet crematorium. "Planning is underway, in terms of the actual pl…

ABC NEWS Posted Wed Dec 26, 2007 10:09am AEDT Reading in dim light will not hurt your eyes, you do not need eight glasses of water a day to stay healthy and shaving your legs will not make the hair grow back faster. These well-worn theories are among seven "medical myths" exposed in a paper published in the British Medical Journal, which traditionally carries light-hearted features in its Christmas edition. Two US researchers took seven common beliefs and searched the archives for evidence to support them. Despite frequent mentions in the popular press of the need to drink eight glasses of water, they found no scientific basis for the claim. They say the complet…

New marijuana law not catching on with local authorities Dec. 31, 2007, 9:47AM © 2007 The Associated Press DALLAS — Many Texans busted for misdemeanor marijuana possession are still being jailed despite a new state law that allows police to issue a citation instead of making an arrest, according to a newspaper report. Texas lawmakers hoped to ease jail crowding with the new legislation, which took effect Sept. 1, but some local prosecutors worry what message getting a mere ticket for pot might send. "It may...lead some people to believe that drug use is no more serious than double parking," Collin County prosecutor Greg Davis said in Tuesday's editions of The Dal…

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