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Marijuana intended for elderly arthritis sufferers, court told A Darwin court has heard that a man who has pleaded guilty to growing marijuana intended to supply it to elderly people suffering arthritis. Craine Lucas Wattam, 37, pleaded guilty in the Northern Territory Supreme Court to unlawfully cultivating a commercial quantity of cannabis. Police discovered the 45 plants when they visited his Darwin River property on an unrelated matter in January this year. The court heard that Wattam had been approached to grow the plants by a group of elderly people in Palmerston who used the drug to relieve symptoms of arthritis. Their own backyard plants had been persist…

Police have arrested a Northern Territory man who tried to hide a shipment of cannabis in a box of fried chicken. Territory police say they searched the 21-year-old man as he got off a flight home to Maningrida, a small Arnhem Land community about 400 kilometres east of Darwin, yesterday afternoon. Police say they found a packet containing 25 grams of cannabis hidden in the man's clothing. Police searching his box of fried chicken pieces found two more parcels concealed among the wings and drumsticks. Each of those parcels contained 27 grams of cannabis split into bags. The man has been released on bail to appear in the Maningrida Magistrates Court on drug po…

NEVADA COUNTY — Investigators in Nevada County are checking out an apparent new type of illegal drug that turned up during a bust there this week. On Tuesday, officers from the Nevada County Sheriff’s Narcotics Task Force, served a search warrant at the residence of Zachary Michael Fisher, 22 years old, on Sutton Way, in the Nevada Woods Apartment complex in Grass Valley. While conducting the search, officers said they discovered marijuana, psilocybin mushrooms, suspected LSD, and a white powdery substance, suspected of being a new hallucinogenic drug called 2C-I (2,5-dimethoxy-4-iodophenethylamine). Officers also said they located evidence of an indoor marijuana grow…

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17596296-2,00.html PM gets tough on marijuana dangers From: By Tony Vermeer December 18, 2005 THE Federal Government is planning a national anti-marijuana campaign to combat community perceptions that it is a relatively harmless drug. Prime Minister John Howard has criticised health experts for adopting what he says is a "relaxed" attitude to marijuana in comparison with the attack on tobacco. And he has called on states and territories to abandon a decade of decriminalisation and introduce tougher laws to deter marijuana users. "It amazes me that we can be so zealous in dissuading people from smoking - and I used to smoke, I…

Author: John Kron Date: 12-Oct-2005 Source: Australian Doctor (.com.au) Copyright: © 2005 Australian Doctor - a division of Reed Business Information Pty Ltd Article link: testing the law Testing the law Breaking the law to treat patients opens an ethical can of worms. By John Kron. SOME doctors recommend illegal treatments to patients because they believe the anticipated benefit is worth the legal risk. But is that ethical? Dr Andrew Katelaris recalls being contacted by a 78-year-old patient soon after Dr Katelaris appeared in an episode of ABC TV’s Catalyst program discussing the medical use of marijuana. “[The patient] was so desperate for help that she foun…

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http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/bocs...able%204-28.pdf This link above shows stats and suburbs for NSW in which growers were caught :thumbdown ! Its quite interesting and revealing. Not many growers on the Northern Beaches but plenty the further west you go :scratchin ! Must visit Richmond-Tweed someday... :smoke

I was clearing my chat history after seeing a few conversations that could be potentially dangerous to my liberty (i.e. jail) if discovered in my history. While there are methods to recover chat histories, regular clearing will make it harder for any LEO to get evidence in the case (god forbid) you get busted.... So, here's how to clear histories in MSN and Trillian, if you use another chat client and know how to do this, please post up the information or links to a guide... Trillian Info. NB - Ensure Trillian is not running while performing this action. In Trillian, the default log location is: C:\Program Files\Trillian\users\default\logs Browse to this folder an…

Original Article People really need to do some research about the difference between tobacco (physically addictive) and cannabis (not physically addictive, but can bcome emotionaly addictive)

I just am about to go home (Queenland) from a holiday and I bought this really good cheap as water pipe(7.95) from some asain store and I was wondering if I would get into any trouble if I put it in my suitcase for when I go home. It will just be a domestic flight and I was wondering if I could get into any trouble at all if some x-ray dude saw it. It hasn't been used at all and is clean as a whistle. I was also wondering if the laws are different in Qld than in any other places. Any help would be most apreciated Wez

Media Alert 15th December 2005 Stuart Highway refuses prison drug-test A Darwin activist may have to ride out the remainder of his sentence in a "punishment cell" at the infamous Berrimah Prison. Berrimah Prison inmate Stuart Highway has been labelled an “identified drug user” (IDU) for refusing to provide a urine sample to prison officers earlier this week. Stuart, presently serving a three-month sentence for charges arising from his involvement in an October 2002 drug law-reform rally, refused to give the required 60mil sample on Monday during a random drug-test. He said he could face 28 days’ in the "punishment cells". "They haven’t issued me with any pap…

Hey guys I've been busted. I'll let you all know how it goes in this thread, but heres the down low.. Couple days ago 3 young men, one armed with a shotgun, attempted to break into my house, around 2am. I was roused by the sound of the front door window breaking and when i confronted them at the front door, they ran (I was holding a samurai sword and a filthy look). Since i wasnt dressed I didn't purse them past the front of the house, however one of them shot a small caliber shotgun shell at the house (probably a 4/10). This of course attracted the attention of the police.....called by my neighbours, naturally.. The police came, searched the house with my consent (…