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Author: Marsha Rosenbaum and Paul Armentano Date: June 23, 2007 Source: http://www.alternet.org/story/54977/ Copyright: © 2007 Independent Media Institute. All rights reserved.

This is basicly a notice to let you know that we are going to be upgrading the forums in a few days There will be a period of a few hours that you will not be able to access the forums as they will be closed This is a major Forum and Gallery update that will bring us more inline with the www2 standards and latest features available from invision and ofcourse those extra's you have always been able to find here that we add . Now for things you will notice missing at first, the cookbook and tutorial modifications where writen specificly for the current forum verion we are using so we are going to have to re-write these modifications or find another solution so t…

THESE are the state-of-the-art devices that police say will help them win the war against drugged drivers. Police unveiled the saliva drug-testing kits for The Sunday Times this week, ahead of the illicit amphetamine summit on Tuesday. Supt Nigel White said the roadside tests would give police the ability to snare doped-up drivers who compromised community safety. "Police have been looking forward to these tests for quite some time,'' he said. "We know there is a problem out in the community with drugs, but one of the biggest issues is people driving drug-impaired and the difficulties in detecting that.'' Under the new laws, police will be able to take a sample of s…

Australian tennis player PAT CASH has let slip about his past drug use - after he confessed to baking marijuana cookies in his sporting heyday during a U.K. radio interview. The sporting ace - who has previously admitted to smoking cannabis on his way to winning the 1987 Wimbledon tennis championships - made the contentious revelation during a live interview with fellow tennis star Michael Stich, while they were discussing fellow tennis stars' hobbies on BBC Radio Five Live. Cash said: "The only think I used to bake was a bit of hash cookies in the old days." But bosses at the station are not impressed and have since warned the star to be more cautious on air. A spokeswom…

Well being honest would have to be the first good trait for this potential employee

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You've probably all seen the papers this week with all the fuss about alcoholism, violence and unemployment in Aboriginal communities, as usual the PM is soap boxing about saving children etc... Well the solution is quite simple really. Here's an easy way to solve Aboriginal unemployment, violence and alcohol abuse all in one brilliant sweep. Ban alcohol for a start, good, but don't leave them empty handed...Get them growing commercial quantities of cannabis. This would provide huge amounts of income and jobs for the communities seeing that Australians love their herb. Obviously this would include recreational (smoking) cannabis, medicinal cannabis and of course cannabis …

Ed Rosenthal, the self-described "Guru of Ganja" convicted for a second time last month of violating federal drug laws by growing marijuana for medical patients, wants a new trial. The 62-year-old cannabis cultivation expert, former High Times magazine columnist and steadfast advocate for legalizing marijuana claims U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco wrongly prohibited him from telling jurors his goal was helping the sick, not selling drugs. "The court erred in excluding all evidence regarding the scientific value of medical marijuana," Rosenthal's attorney, Robert Amparan, said in court papers filed earlier this month. Responding to that motion in …

Tip-off sparked school nude drug tests Anti-doping officials have defended drug testing schoolboy rowers in the nude, saying it is a common procedure and the regatta was raided after a tip-off from an insider. The private schoolboys, from Newington College and Sydney Church of England Grammar School (Shore), gave samples to Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority officials at an inter-school regatta on March 17. Under the international drug-testing standard, the boys had to pull their shirts up to their chests and drop their pants in the presence of a chaperone from the authority. The incident reportedly angered some GPS principals, who refused to provide ASADA t…