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HYDROPONIC cannabis crops are being grown in Melbourne homes by crime syndicates, then exchanged for heroin in Sydney. Police say criminals are using about five rented suburban houses at a time to grow cannabis worth millions of dollars. The operations uncovered in ongoing investigations were "organised crime at its best", Victoria police drug investigation spokesman Detective Superintendent Tony Biggin said. "Cannabis is not a drug of choice for most of these people, just a very lucrative cash crop," Det-Supt Biggin said. The crops of about 100 plants would sell for $250,000, which was enough to buy three 350-gram blocks of heroin worth $1 million each. "The cann…

The Darwin-based drug law-reform group the Network Against Prohibition is running five candidates in this months’ Northern Territory election. Scott White will vie for the seat of Casuarina, Fiona Clarke – Fannie Bay, Gary Meyerhoff – Johnston, Robert Inder-Smith – Millner and Stuart Highway – Nightcliff. The NAP is calling for: -The repeal of drug prohibition; essentially the re-legalisation of drugs; -The release of all non-violent drug offenders from the Northern Territory Correctional System; -A Royal Commission into police, judicial and governmental corruption in the Northern Territory; -An end to zero tolerance policing of young people; -An immediate p…

"Sniffer dogs take to the streets" Chris Griffith Courier Mail 13jun05 QUEENSLAND police are using sniffer dogs to randomly check people for drugs. The tactic has been criticised as verging on "totalitarian". Police confirmed their anti-drugs operation following an Irish tourist's claim that he was subjected to 15 minutes of embarrassment and humiliation after a sniffer dog check at Brisbane's Toowong train station on Thursday morning. The Irish visitor, who asked not to be named, and his friend David Davore had travelled from the city to Toowong when they were intercepted by several uniformed and plainclothes police at the exit point near the station's ticke…

Cocaine and other illegal drugs are widely used across Sydney, from restaurants and bars to sporting venues and even inside Parliament House. The Sunday Telegraph found traces of drugs, including cocaine, opiates and cannabis, in the men's toilets outside the parliamentary offices of Opposition Leader John Brogden, National Party leader Andrew Stoner and Labor MPs. Extensive tests conducted over three weeks by The Sunday Telegraph also found traces of drugs in the rest rooms at A-list restaurants after lunch and in a referees' change room at Aussie Stadium, which was easily accessible by members of the public, after a rugby league match. The tests were carried out in …

High Everyone, If you haven't noticed it already there is now a link at the top right of the page to an image gallery open to all members. How To Add Images Firstly you need to Create an Album. To do this click on My Controls (Your User CP). In your CP you will notice on the left a menu and right at the top you'll see the options for Your Albums & Your Favourites. Click Your Albums, this will take you to a page where you can create an album. During the creation of your album which is only 1 screen you have the option of making your album public so other members may browse it also, by default this option is set to private gallery. You may create more than 1…

One day my girlfriends mother tried to call here from her boyfriends house and when we failed to pick up the phone, she didnt think anything was out of the usual until she didnt get message bank... well a few days later after trying many times to call us, she finally came around and asked what was up with the phone, when we replied we dont use it and have no idea what your talking about she decided to call telstra and find out what the deal was... telstra turn around and tell her that we are no longer customers with them and that we have changed providers she flipped and demanded that they change us back and i said to her to say that if they intend on charging us w…

From: Agence France-Presse ORGANISED crime detectives believe the arrest of three men in Perth has broken a national drug syndicate responsible for shipping thousands of dollars worth of methylamphetamine into Western Australia. As a result of the arrests yesterday, police said around $700,000 worth of assets, including more than $200,000 in cash, would be seized and frozen under WA proceeds of crime laws. Operation Marlee was launched in March, targeting the activities of a suspected national crime network responsible for the drug trafficking, WA Police said. Advertisement: Investigations identified members of the network in WA and Victoria, and the operation clima…

A man who police allege has been part of a drug distribution network appeared in court at Bega yesterday (Tuesday, June 7). The 49-year-old Bega man was arrested after police raided several properties in the town on Monday, June 6 and seized cannabis worth up to $150,000. Members of the Police Drug Squad and local police cordoned off a commercial building in Auckland Street and several vehicles parked outside for several hours and undertook a major search that continued late into Monday afternoon. A house in Angle Street and one in Rawlinson Street, Bega were also searched as part of the overall police search action. They also took amphetamines and a sum of cash fou…

A Supreme Court judge has jailed two Mackay men for 18 months each on separate drug-related charges. Lesley Carter, 38, pleaded guilty to possessing more than four kilograms of cannabis. The court heard Carter sold his Harley Davidson for $20,000, with the drugs making up the balance of the sale. Carter claimed he intended to use only half of the four kilograms for "commercial use". Justice Kerry Cullinane jailed him for 18 months to be suspended after six months. In a separate case, John McLellan, 52, will serve three months in jail for growing marijuana in the courtyard of his inner-city townhouse. Police found McLellan with one kilogram of cannabis in plast…

Trent Bruce Torrens didn't have much luck with his efforts to grow a little cannabis for himself and save on electricity, Darwin Magistrates Court heard yesterday. Last September he set up a hydroponics system in the laundry of his Woodroffe residence and tried to grow several plants, prosecutor Sergeant Gavin Kennedy said. On Christmas Eve, he got hold of a cloned plant, which he began to nurture. Torrens then put a heavy-duty magnet on his electricity meter in an attempt to slow it. While waiting for his plant to mature, he bought a small amount of cannabis to smoke and $80 worth of methylamphetamine at a city hotel. That day, February 15, while he was at wo…