Cannabis Law and Politics

Two employees of a private security firm called G4S have been fired after attaching an electronic monitor to a man’s prosthetic leg. The firm, which claims to be “the world’s leading international security solutions group,†places tens of thousands of ankle bracelet monitors on offenders each year on behalf of Brittan’s Ministry of Justice. However, 29-year-old Christopher Lowcock, who was to be monitored for a court-imposed curfew due to drug and weapon charges, fooled them. Lowcock got G4S employees to attach his electronic monitor to the ankle of his false leg. This, of course, allowed him to remove the limb, leave it behind, and break curfew without alerti…

just to let anyone interested the cut of date for public submittions for the new amendments to the drug act to include more of the cannabinoids and a clause that makes anything acting in a similar effect as tectrahydrocannabanol illegal closes tomorrow 7 september 2011 see Invitation for public comment - ACMS and ACCS meetings, October 2011 http://www.tga.gov.au/newsroom/consult-scheduling-acms-1110.htm#proposed my sugestions if anyone is interested is as follows. thanks for reading. To: The Medical Advisory Committee. Hello my name is Martin Stone and I would like to put forward my opinion on the forthcoming amendments to the Drug Act, I am concerned about the submi…

When do you think the government will decriminalize marijuana in Australia? The government have recently made the drug laws more strict in WA read more here: http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/premier-colin-barnett-to-introduce-tougher-marijuana-legislation/story-e6frg14c-1225785442674 :thumbdown:

Across the World, a massive gang has set itself up as the No 1 organised crime gang in the World. This gang has set up gang houses in every city and town. They wear gang colours, carry weapons and 'roll' in gang vehicles covered in gang colours, logos, badges etc. This Global Organised Crime gang regularly commits criminal acts of intimidation, harassment, shakedown/ protection money schemes, trespassing, home invasions, break and enters, robbery, kidnapping, terrorism, rape, torture, wanton destruction (vandalism), sexual solicitation favours, murder etc. This gang wages Global gang turf war to gain mor 'turf' and to wipe out any competition to the gang or the gan…

"ANY TIME THAT THEY LIKE" - (Cannabis Parody: ‘In the middle of the night’ - Billy Joel) Any time that they like, They smash bottles in my street. Spreading violence and fear, While on others they beat. Drug abuse is now legal, An ever climbing cost. And families regularly mourn, The loved ones that they’ve lost. Even though the abuse is rife And our home gets trashed from city to shore, To try to excuse their ‘revellers’ crimes, Upon another’s choice they wage uncivil war. In the middle of the night, I get woken from my sleep. By fighting and screams, From people in too deep. But when we al…

For many decades now legal drug supremacists and anti-drug collectives have worked together to brand the cannabis genus as ‘the gateway to all drug taking’. In the name of targeting/persecuting this so-called ‘gateway’ and other heretical drug choices classed as ‘illicit,’ these bigots, hypocrites and other holier-than-thou collectives created a Gateway to Hell that they continually hold wide open for their fellow human beings, as well as the other genera on this Planet. Let’s look at this simply: Just like in the time of Ethanol Drug Prohibition, Selective Drug Prohibition is a massive Gateway. It’s a gateway to legalized corruption. .Itâ…

http://cannabisnews.com/news/24/thread24946.shtml CA -- California voters may soon get a chance to weigh in on whether marijuana should be legalized and taxed by the state. If enacted, this may help the state's budget by providing revenue from a brand new source, while also freeing up money that previously went to enforcement efforts against marijuana growing. Of course, marijuana would still be illegal under federal law, but this may be a turning point in the legalization movement -- the point where politicians desperate for tax revenues see dollar signs instead of prison bars when looking at the cannabis plant. And make no mistake -- this is not medical marijuana we…

The 23 June episode of Catalyst (copyright ABC TV Aus), it had a really hilarious segment about agricultural hemp (video only available in Aus or by proxy): http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/3251949.htm The gist is in the introductory transcript anyway. I tried alerting ABC to their error, but they were insistent that they never said C. sativa wasn't psychoactive (see transcript - it's exactly what they said) and that a botanist in Sydney had provided the information [which they persisted in doggedly misinterpreting]. I thought again before getting too locked in. I now realise the researchers at ABC were quite correct and I was horribly wrong. Any psychoac…