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mmmmmm.....just on the spyware comments...mmm.......smoking causes paranoa.....thatll be a definite yes ghostrider......companies are going to be at all interested in or find any use in data collected from unemployed pot smoking bums...mmm.......I don't think so 99. What do think all your microsoft based porducts have inbuilt into them anyway...if you bothered to check the IE dll's and some odd the basic information sent across during a windows update and when you browse the web....ooohh and yeah by the way, all this information relays back also via probes sent off by ISP's such as Tesltra.....where does it go. It goes back the information exchange network which is link…

Pharmaceutical giant Bayer HealthCare has applied to market a marijuana-based drug in Canada. If approved, it would be the first cannabis-based drug legally available in this country for the relief of debilitating symptoms of multiple sclerosis and severe neuropathic pain. Bayer and GW Pharmaceuticals of Britain announced Tuesday they had filed a new drug submission to Health Canada for Sativex, an oral spray developed by GW Pharmaceuticals and licensed to Bayer. A spokesperson for Health Canada said it typical takes about 18 months for the department's therapeutic products directorate to review and rule on a submission. Bayer's vice-president for public policy a…

Ok, this hasn't been released yet, I've been watching it for awhile now and I think they'll release it later on this year. Have a look, see what you think.......... Black Angel

Right-handed males, aged 25-55yrs are required for research on the long term effects of CANNABIS on MEMORY. University researchers are seeking people with many years experience of cannabis use: either heavy - near daily or only occasional - once or twice a month; also a group of non-users who have never used cannabis regularly. BRAIN IMAGING and memory tests will be performed. Participants will be reimbursed. Conducted in Sydney area. For further information please phone Colleen: 02 4221 4491 or 0423 985 802. _____________________________________________________ Attached flyer is for anyone who wishes to further promote this research. CannMemory_Flyer.DOC

Experts and officials from government-sanctioned medical marijuana programmes in The Netherlands, Canada, and the United States will be visiting New Zealand 26-30 May. In recent years, governments around the world have begun re-legalising the use of marijuana (cannabis) by patients with chronic pain and other forms of suffering, such as muscle spasms due to multiple sclerosis, appetite enhancement in patients with terminal conditions, and nausea due to chemotherapy. A parliamentary health select committee recently recommended that New Zealand consider making cannabis-based medicines available to suffering patients. However, no consensus yet exists on how to proceed. …

Australian police could catch criminals by matching traces of pollen on their clothes or body with a crime scene, according to a forensic pollen expert, but only if they take the right samples. The problem was that most police didn't know about forensic applications of palynology, the study of pollen or spores, said Dr Lynne Milne from the University of Western Australia. Milne presented her research at last month's conference of the Australian and New Zealand Forensic Science Society in Wellington, New Zealand. "Pollen are single cells. They are so small people pick them up or leave them at a crime scene. We can tell from soil samples on vehicle tyres or under whe…

SRI Lanka plans to lift a ban on growing cannabis and begin government cultivation of the plant, which is a key ingredient in traditional medicine, a minister was quoted saying today. Indigenous Medicine Minister Tissa Karaliyadde said he hoped to introduce a bill in parliament to allow practitioners of herbal medicine known as ayurveda to grow at least five plants each. The state itself hopes to start cultivation and land has already been earmarked for the pilot project, The Island newspaper quoted Karaliyadde saying. Despite an official ban on cannabis in Sri Lanka, it is easily available on the clandestine market both for traditional healers and smokers. By Col…

A number of cannabis plants were seized during a search of a house in Geelong earlier this morning along with a one metre long alligator found in a child's wading pool. The alligator is the first to be seized in Victoria and was taken to Melbourne Zoo while the Department of Sustainability and Environment continue their investigations.

Trials of commercial hemp production would continue in NSW despite the limited success of tests underway since 1995, State MP Steve Whan said. But, the NSW government warned anyone interested in growing the crop it contained only low levels of THC, the active ingredient in marijuana. Mr Whan said that since 1995 when trials were first authorised, there had been 60 separate trials delivering important data on hemp growing and the potential of manufacturing its fibre. He said the government warned that earlier trials had been difficult, producing low yields. The first planting was carried out at Armidale but was never harvested because it performed below expectation…

Vancouver Mayor Larry Campbell has weighed in on the marijuana debate, and left no doubt where he stands. Speaking at a conference on legalizing pot Saturday, Campbell said he supports the plan but added it pot were available legally, he would "tax the hell out of it." Campbell said every tax dollar would go to health care, noting that without the pot industry, British Columbia would be in a recession. If pot ever is legalized, don't expect Campbell to spark up. "In fact, I've never even smoked marijuana," the mayor told the conference. "My biggest fear is that I may like it more than cabernet, and then what the hell am I going to do?" Campbell says it's time …

On May 5, newspapers and news broadcasts around the country carried alarming stories about a new study of marijuana, published in that day's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. "Stronger marijuana makes more addicted," screamed the Los Angeles Daily News. "Abuse and dependence rise as pot becomes more potent," headlined the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Rising marijuana potency, the stories claimed, was leading more Americans to become addicted to the devil weed. Small problem: The theory that pot that is more potent is getting people hooked is almost certainly wrong. But none of the newspaper stories gave the slightest hint that might be the case. …

Note: The article, complete with it's many graphs, is also currently on line as a .pdf document at http://www.mapinc.org/lib/limited.pdf Objectives. We tested the premise that punishment for cannabis use deters use and thereby benefits public health. Methods. We compared representative samples of experienced cannabis users in similar cities with opposing cannabis policies--Amsterdam, the Netherlands (decriminalization), and San Francisco, Calif (criminalization). We compared age at onset, regular and maximum use, frequency and quantity of use over time, intensity and duration of intoxication, career use patterns, and other drug use. Results. With the exception of hi…