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Feature: Vested Interests of Prohibition I: The Police Drug War Chronicle - worldโs leading drug policy newsletter Issue #542 11 July 2008 StoptheDrugWar.com Website at <http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/542/vested_interests_drug_prohibition_law_enforcement> Drug prohibition has been a fact of life in the United States for roughly a century now. While it was ostensibly designed to protect American citizens from the dangers of drug use, it now has a momentum of its own, independent of that original goal, at which it has failed spectacularly. As the prohibitionist response to drug use and sales deepened over the decades, then intensified even more with the bipart…
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Two more milestones in the failed war on drugs Sandra Kanck MP 2 July 2008 http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=7576 For those interested in drug laws based on health rather than criminality, June 2008 saw the passing of two anniversaries of note, one at the South Australian level, and the other internationally. In June 2002, the South Australian Drug Summit was held, and the final communiquรฉ recommended a heroin prescription trial and further consideration of the use of cannabis for medical and therapeutic purposes, recommendations which were strongly supported. Six years on, neither of these has happened and, as memories of the Summit recede, the likel…
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http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=7642 July 3, 2008 - Washington, DC, USA Washington, DC: The United Stateโs top federal anti-drug agency, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), turned 35-years-old this week, according to US Department of Justice press release. โThe Drug Enforcement Administration was created 35 years ago on [July 1] by President Richard Nixon, who through an Executive Order established a single unified command to combat โan all-out global war on the drug menace,โโ the DOJ release states. โAt its outset, the DEA had 1,470 Special Agents, a budget of less than $75 million, and a presence in 31 countries. Today, the DEA has 5,235 Special Agents…
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Not happy why o why ... well its happend again my prise plants have been stolen, (dho muther !@@ ) i finaly get some blueberry seed 22% thc, and gorn with my 2 x800wt globs grrrrrr. not happy now i have to start again somwere ells might i add !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so the hunt begins for my lost seedlings
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Harm minimisation: just say no Miranda Devine June 19, 2008 http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/harm-mi...3770730340.html Three weeks ago, on May 27, Tony and Angela Wood went to a Chinese restaurant to mark what would have been their daughter Anna's 28th birthday, had she lived. As they do each year, they ordered her favourite meal, Peking duck, and remembered the 15-year-old girl who died in 1995 after taking ecstasy for the first time. But while her parents have been touring schools and spreading the message that illegal drug use is never safe, Anna Wood was being co-opted without their permission as a poster girl of the drug harm-minimisation lobby, which has shape…
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PArt of the description of this forum is in part "things that effect society by the war on drugs. And I thought that was an excellent pace to plant this link relating to some guy's blogg who seems neither pro or against drugs vrerses booze, he seeems free of both choices, and it is good to see the "joe pulic" have just about had it with the drug arguermepeak through the straight windownt, you have to hope it's reached it's political peak? Let's hope so least ways. cheers rob
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This is a really good video from a laywer who actually makes the speech and lesson exciting and interesting, so its not a boring, dry lecture. Granted this all pertains to USA law, but pretty much everything he says about why you shouldnt talk to the police is equally as true here. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4...33865&hl=en
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There is some orchestrated talk that The Government is toying with the idea of exorcising vanilla and lemon essence from the supermarkets, because young people are drinking these instead of the now more expensive 'alcopops'. Seriously? Have you ever tried to get drunk on vanilla or lemon essence? For myself, I'd rather quaff bong-water, my own urine or sniff petrol than drink cooking essences. Which young person โ even one well and appreciably below average intelligence - is going to purchase bottles of essence to get drunk when there's cannabis? What explanations could be proffered by said young people for their essence excesses? โWe're conducting a science experiment…
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americanchronicle.com The War on Excuses: Why Cannabis Should Be Legalised This is not a new debate, it has raged on through the late 20th Century and through to our current Dark Year of Our Lord 2008. Everyone knows that cannabis is illegal, ignorance is no excuse for being caught at midnight in the middle of a park with a big joint hanging out of your mouth and singing songs of religious praise with an ironic twinge, and Iยดd imagine the police would come down pretty hard on you for at least two things in that sentence. But the big question is why? Why has this small plant become the object for so much political hate, at least in the open? I have money riding on a su…
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What has caused the hard attitude to MJ in Oz? I donโt profess to have the answers but I think kids โusingโ is just one of the ingredients. I notice MJ is mentioned a lot in domestic violence issues and other hostile situations police confront. More than likely this is the usual crap but itโs put out that way. Only a few months ago a bong could be bought at markets or at tobacconists and for the last 27 years that was the way it was. Today in QLD you will not see a bong anywhere. There has always been raids on cannabis growers but this year there seem to be more that ever. Am I just imagining this or have police efforts stepped up a gear or two? What do you think?…
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I know it's not pot, ....this time... But as I've ranted and raved a dozen times before, every bloody royal commision into drug laws in this country, and every commission into political and police corruption, have returned verdicts that drug laws need re-writing. that the prohibited stance of drugs facsilitates corruption at every level, and the harder they push (war on drugs. More like war on drug "users")...the more corruption that emitts. There's gotta be better articles around, but here's one
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I'm not sure why, but I was under the impression that the sale of bongs etc. was still legal in most states other than Qld and SA. However, while searching for some legal info for a friend, I stumbled upon this.. NSW DRUG MISUSE AND TRAFFICKING ACT 1985 - SECT 11A I couldn't find any more detail about... ..so I'm assuming all bongs would be regarded as waterpipes.Considering they're on full display in a few shops in Nimbin, I'm assuming the pigs just choose to turn a blind eye ..or have I got the bull by the tit.. again
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http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Marijuana maybe this is where they get there "facts"? Read link for a good laugh.
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Booze crusade ignores bigger evil=CANNABIS * WTF * Miranda Devine <--- hahaha devine? she is not March 13, 2008 It's a bit rich for a man who got famously stonkered at a lap-dancing club in New York five years ago to be lecturing the rest of us on binge drinking. The Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, said he was so drunk during a visit to Scores club with the New York Post's editor, Col Allan, that he couldn't remember a thing that happened. And yet now he has identified the "epidemic" of teenage binge-drinking as Australia's No.1 scourge, so important he must allocate a staggering $53 million to combat it, despite the fact he doesn't really know if it is a problem.…
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hey all, rock has given me these documents and asked me to post them on his behalf. He is encouraging everyone he can to fill them out and post to the attorney general. I don't know any more about these documents than you do as I haven't read them yet myself, but if you have any questions or want to chat to rock send a PM to me or radic and we'll pass it on the next time one of us sees him. actually I haven't checked if this is OK with radic yet, but I'm sure it would be... Notice_of_understanding_and_Intent.doc write_to_all_attorny_generals.doc
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