Cannabis Law and Politics

Barnett goes for a new War on Drugs with Cannabis laws in Western Australia. Well the genius at the helm of the Western Australian parliament has come up with a grand idea. Let's increase penalties for cannabis possession, use and cultivation, as well as distribution of smoking implements to minors, by a full order of magnitude shall we? So a $200 fine for possession of 30gm now turns into a $2000 fine and potentially 2yrs gaol for posession of anything over 10gm. Just read the following story to see the crazy at work. WTF are these guys smoking to think this is anything like a good idea and that it would have anything but devestating consequences for the vast m…

Sorry to bring a downer to the conversation, but not a good week for me. My diabetes has once again made another victim in my decrepid old body, this week I have a problem with my feet, the pain is one thing but the DR's..say this is the first stages of when, (if it gets worse and infected) they start cutting things off starting with my foot ! I just relaying this to my sons and in conversation one brought up my little indevour in the growing of my own special brand of medication. It appears ok for my doctors to prescribe ever larger doses of MS Con tin ( slow release morphine) and yet as we know it is still illegal for my medication of choice. Apart from the side aff…

is there anything the general public (ie. us) can do about these new laws coming in on 1st Aug for W.A? who makes and decides then passes these laws? i did not hear anything about them till they were on the perthnow story and newspaper, and then bang all of a sudden these crazy laws are hitting the streets? is there anyone we can speak to to oppose these laws? local MP etc and higher? this is a real backwards step for the cause.

This afternoon at 5.30pm NSW time Triple J's Hack program will be discussing the fact that the majority of drug users are functional members of society. They are asking people to call in to comment on this and also to give their views on current policy and what they think future policy should be, decrim etc. This is your chance to be heard, this is a national radio station with an open mind so please contribute and show people that cannabis users are educated and harmless to society. In fact if Cannabis were legalised and taxed it would greatly benefit the greater community with the taxes generated far exceeding those generated by the wine industry for example. Please…

http://www.perthnow....u-1226102858694 WA called Australia's 'cannabis capital' From: AAP July 27, 2011 2:11PM WESTERN Australia has become the "cannabis capital of Australia" thanks to weak laws put in place by the previous Labor government, the state's police minister says. Rob Johnson today responded to results from the 2010 National Drug Strategy Household Survey that showed WA's rate of cannabis use was 13.4 per cent, 30 per cent higher than the national average. The figures released today come the week before …

greetnz the war on drugs was started by racism and and continues to be supported by racism as we speak heres the proof hail Joseph Collum want more a bit earlier Jan 2008 LEAP are sending two speakers to mardigrass this year to talk to the local and federal cops cant wait to meet and greet them.,.,.,,.,. they came to oz once before but missed mardigrass due to bad timming., but they did speak to the qld law society, ABC tv, the nsw cops union, and some pollies in cambera forward ever free all drugs free the people free the land

Good Day OZStoners The other day I did a search on the legality of cannabis around the world, and came across this wiki page. I was surprised to see that it claimed that cannabis is decriminalized in every state and territory in Australia, barring New South Wales, and Tasmania. Until now, ive only heard of it being decriminalized in the ACT. I wont put the outside link here, for fear of retribution from our excellent forum moderators. Just do a google search for "Legality of Cannabis" and it should be the first wikipedia article that pops up. Check out the map. Is it true?

Good Day OZStoners! I am Hashy. No, despite the name, I have never actually tried hash before. I plan to take a trip to amsterdam later next year, and hopefully experience this for myself, yippie =) I have not participated in a Cannabis forum for many years. I used to post on overgrow.com, however I left the forum due to corrupt power mad admins. 2 months later, overgrow was shutdown. Karma is a b!tch. Because of my interests in Cannabis, I studied some basic level horticulture. I may not be an expert on the subject, but I know a thing or two. =) The reason for this post, besides introducing myself, is a query in regards to bringing seeds in from overseas, namely …

I am absolutely gobsmacked, but proud of our Indo cousins....This is AMAZING! There is a Global Marijuana March today in Jakarta. Just incredible. Check out their site, it's all in Indo but you can use Google translate to translate whole paragraphs of text. http://www.legalisasiganja.com/ http://translate.google.com/# Will it ever happen in Indonesia? doubtful! But wow, so impressed by these guys! Morgz