Cannabis Law and Politics

Author: Olivia Webb and Philip D. Brown Date: 26 April 2009 Source: Richmond Daily Journal http://www.yourdailyjournal.com/pages/full_sate: tory?page_label=home_top_stories_news&id=2444285-Local+man+fights+for+medical+marijuana+to+be+legalized&article-Local%20man%20fights%20for%20medical%20marijuana%20to%20be%20legalized%20=&widget=push&instance=home_news_lead&open=&

My mates were developing a culture of scoring pills and taking them at clubs and it was giving me the shits. Here is why i hate pills and powders > I do not want to trust the safety of my body with the hands of an untrained chemist and pay for the experience. > i am scared i will like the high, also that i will tarnish future natural highs of life because i cant match the artificial experience of an E or coke or speed. So given my personal objections I had two choices cut childhood friendships over drug taking or subtly make a deal, because i didnt want to hang around feeling (apart from a couple beers) sober as a judge around these guys who had dropped a cou…

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hey all.. ive been in canberra for a year now. everytime i talk to someone not from canberra they are always like wow ur lucky the marijuana laws are very liberal there. yes u can grow 2 plants (non hydroponically) and have 25gms for personal use. ive lived in 10 different cities around the world and this is the most liberal law by far. however i cant find anything in canberra!! im wondering if this is because the laws are liberal those who smoke grow thee own so that means there is no market for it. therefore i would rather live in a city that the laws arent as liberal as this meant i could always find some stuff. one year is way tooo long. what do u all think?

Families and Friends for Drug Law Reform invites you to a PUBLIC MEETING sponsored by Joy Burch (MLA) Thursday 23rd April, 2009 12.30 pm in the Reception Room, ACT Legislative Assembly Civic Square, London Circuit, Canberra City Topic: Illicit drugs policy through the lens of regulation Speaker: Alison Ritter Director Drug Policy Modelling Program, UNSW Visiting Fellow, Regulatory Institutions Network, the ANU This presentation will describe an attempt to bring the theories of regulation to the issue of illicit drugs. Regulation has a narrow definition as something governments do, using ‘command and control’ but as will be seen, if the broader definition of re…

Hey Everyone, I heard an interesting program concerning Prohibition on the ABC's Radio National show called Counterpoint. Check it out HERE. There is a transcript and the audio is available here as well. Share your thoughts...

I e-mailed LEAP a while ago asking whether they would come to Aus and talk to some of our cop stations I just got this reply and I'm not sure what to reply with. Hi ---- Sorry for the delay in response to your email- it was misdirected at an inactive mailbox. Actually, we are in the process of planning a LEAP tour in Australia... can you give me more details, do you have a contact at these police stations that we can speak to and set up a meeting? Thanks, Kristin I'm assuming she thinks I'm a police officer so yeah.... Maybe I'll just look up my local cop shops number or something and say there's a pretty big drug problem around here or something like that. Any thou…

Here are two newspaper articals I found today and thought you should all see them. Many Victims in the war on drugs Here is a quote from <h2 class="title">The war on drugs has many victims </h2> Adelaide Independent Weekly - ‎Mar 27, 2009Quote: Surely, we should do something different. But we're stuck on this gung-ho "war on drugs" approach. It's a war we've been fighting and losing for a hundred years. Questioning the War on Drugs The Jakarta Post, Questioning war on drugs Sudirman Nasir , MELBOURNE Fri, 03/27/2009 10:41 AM A recent global drug conference in Vienna-Austria unsurprisingly revealed …

Author: Siobhain Ryan Date: 9 April 2009 Source: The Australian Copyright: 2009 News Limited http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story...4-23289,00.html

Author: Dr Wendell Rosevear Date: 3 April 2009 Source: Courier Mail http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0...5018883,00.html

Authors: Steve Lewis and Sue Dunlevy Date: 8 April 2009 Source: Herald Sun Copyright: Herald and Weekly Times http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,2...023-662,00.html

Author: Greg Stolz Date: 3 April 2009 Source: Courier Mail at http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0...5018883,00.html Copyright: 2009 Queensland Newspapers