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Eighty-five per cent of participants at NSW's first cannabis treatment clinic have not used marijuana since the centre opened three months ago, the state government said. NSW Premier Bob Carr told state parliament an additional clinic was due to open on the central coast by September, with plans for further clinics in southern Sydney and the state's central west. NSW's first cannabis treatment clinic was set up in Parramatta in December last year under the government's $230 million four year Plan of Action on drugs. "The idea that cannabis is a benign drug is being steadily whittled away by an accumulation of medical evidence," Mr Carr told parliament. At the Parr…

CANNABIS plantations with a street value of about $500,000 have been seized in the Walpole and Denmark areas recently. Albany Detectives and regional police seized about 500 mature plants. Some of the plants reached five metres high. Police and detectives seized more crops as operations in the area continued yesterday. The crops have been dispersed separately throughout one large area. In five weeks the operation has resulted in seven men and one woman, aged between 20 and 58 years old, being arrested and charged with various drug offences. They were from the Denmark, Walpole and Albany areas. Some of the charges include cultivation of cannabis, possession of cannabis wi…

By Daniel Lewis, Regional Reporter March 6, 200 If Keith Bolton has his way, hemp - the great symbol of the hippy North Coast - will be coming to a sewage treatment plant near you very soon. And to your wardrobe, your pantry, your car and your medicine cabinet. Interestingly, the strongest opponents of the Southern Cross University academic's dream are the drug dealers in nearby Nimbin. Man has cultivated hemp for fibre, food and medicine for at least 6000 years and Dr Bolton says that, after a 70-year "blip in history" caused by prohibition, it is time to embrace hemp again to help save the planet. Dr Bolton is director of the University's Centre for Ecotechnol…

So who is the biggest and how many are there? Can they and have they ever proposed uniting under one banner? Politics is all about strength of numbers. Party members, poll results, surveys, mass demonstrations, media coverage. It all comes down to support. GreenPeace is no good. Too many political agendas. Too bad a reputation from idiotic policies. For instance they want to ban nuclear power worldwide when CO2 gases threaten to destroy this planet and nuclear is the only serious alternative to coal. You might disagree with nuclear power yourselves but my point is that a lot of people see it differently. Every policy made alienates a section of the community. To get Marij…

hi there.. i'm from brazil and i'm propably going to study in Australia next year and i want to know the truth about australian laws about my deer cannabis.. i have heard a lot of people saying that Australia is a legalize country, with coffe shops and great quality, but in my searchs on the internet that wasn't what i found.. so i came here, at last no one would be better to answer that question than an australian.. so please, someone clean up my terrible doubts (i'm sorry if my english isn't very well, i hope i'll have time to practice it in some sessions with you guys next year)

What has the environmental impact of both an SUV and a fridge? Here's a clue: You're using it right now. It turns out your computer is a much bigger material and energy hog than previously believed. The most effective way to reduce its oversized environmental footprint is to increase its useful lifespan, according to a new book released Monday, Computers and the Environment, by the United Nations University in Tokyo. The average desktop PC and 17-inch CRT monitor takes an SUV-sized 1.8 tons of water, fossil fuels and chemicals to make, the book reports. As for energy use, a computer's lifetime energy impact is about the same as a refrigerator, they report. Whi…

Print This Article Email This Article Young and swinging to the Right By Andrew Sullivan December 23, 2003 WHEN, one wonders, did conservatism in America become hip? In the US the new millennium seems to have entrenched a growing trend among the younger generations that, if not culturally conservative, is anti-liberal. Go to a college campus and you will find the young Republicans gaining in strength. You'll find plenty of sullen and not-so-sullen disdain for 1960s-style professors. You will notice that the internet, as well as providing the groundswell for the Howard Dean campaign, is just as popular among more Right-leaning undergraduates. But you'll notice s…

March 8, 2004 HOME intruders have led police directly to a hydroponic cannabis operation in Adelaide's northern suburbs. Witnesses saw men jumping over a fence at a Springwood Close, Northgate, property about 9.40 on Saturday night. When Holden Hill police arrived, they discovered two rooms in the rental home contained hydroponic equipment for growing cannabis. Up to 12 plants had been cut at the stems and taken by the intruders. Police still were searching for the occupants of the house. It is understood witnesses who contacted police believed at least one intruder was carrying bolt cutters. Police dismantled the drug-growing operation and seized rem…

March 6, 2004 Despite the drought, there's one crop that's been thriving, with dope growers once more establishing major plantations in rural NSW. Daniel Lewis reports. 'Another day in the Central West, another drug bust," quipped one of the cops outside the one-man police station in Trundle, north-west of Parkes, as dawn broke earlier this week. And he was only half joking. Dope growing is again big in the great outdoors of NSW. In the 1980s it had looked like the end of commercial-scale marijuana plantations out on the western slopes and plains as the industry was shaken by major busts. Police found 18,000 mature plants and 77,000 seedlings on a station near Wan…