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http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/queensland-cracks-down-on-cannabis-as-canada-moves-to-tax-legal-use-20160507-goouj1.html Queensland government moves to give cannabis the same status as heroin and cocaine as the most dangerous drugs will push marijuana users onto harder drugs, according to a visiting Canadian advocate. Dana Larsen, who operates cannabis dispensaries in Vancouver, will give a public talk on Sunday about Canada's new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's plans to legalise and regulate cannabis use. http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/content/dam/images/g/l/g/j/m/m/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.goouj1.png/1462632427046.jpgCannabis. Photo: Queenslan…

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http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/richard-nixon-used-america%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98war-on-drugs%e2%80%99-as-excuse-to-target-%e2%80%98anti-war-left-and-black-people%e2%80%99-claims-former-aide/ar-BBqQg2N#image=1 America’s so-called “war on drugs” began as little more than a ploy to enable Richard Nixon to go after his political enemies, one of the disgraced President’s former policy gurus admitted in an interview which has surfaced for the first time. John Ehrlichman, who had advised Nixon on domestic policy, told the journalist Dan Baum that the drugs war was an excuse to target “the anti-war left and black people”, Mr Baum writes, in a new report advocating drug lega…

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2016/03/10/recreational-marijuana-australia_n_9434580.html?utm_hp_ref=australia A senate committee has held a hearing in Sydney on the legalisation of marijuana for recreational purposes, as part of a series of hearings on personal choice and community impacts. The Senate Economics References Committee met at the Erskineville town hall on Friday, hearing submissions on the "sale and use of marijuana and associated products". More than a dozen written submissions were received by the committee, with five individuals, the Department of Health and the National Rural Health Alliance giving evidence in person. Senators Sam Dastyari and Davi…

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/cannabis-to-stay-illegal-in-queensland-cameron-dick-20160301-gn7li9.html Any prospect of marijuana being decriminalised in Queensland is still a long way off, the state's health minister says. Cameron Dick's comments come after the government this week released draft legislation that could allow doctors to prescribe medicinal cannabis by the end of the year. http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/content/dam/images/g/k/r/4/w/z/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gn7li9.png/1456812038436.jpg Health Minister Cameron Dick has left the door open for marijuana to be legalised in Queensland ... eventually. Although focused on medical tr…

http://www.news.com.au/finance/business/other-industries/legalising-medical-cannabis-sounds-great-if-you-can-afford-it/news-story/60ee23bfa8ee31c7a816d598efa44328 AUSTRALIA is about to see an explosion of capital investment in a product that, up until recently, has been the domain of the criminal underworld. After years of lobbying by doctors, cancer patients and parents of sick children, medical cannabis has finally been legalised. And with the ink still drying on the Federal Government’s laws, key players are ready to pounce on what is tipped to become a billion-dollar industry (once state laws catch up, and a national regulator is established). But fo…

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-03/claim-cannabis-stays-in-system-for-up-to-12-hours-questioned/7216720 A magistrate has launched a blistering attack on the New South Wales Government's roadside drug testing regime, challenging the accuracy of its claims that cannabis can only be detected in a person's saliva for up to 12 hours. Key points:Drivers are being charged days after using cannabis, magistrate saysMagistrate points to hundreds of cases of this happeningHe said no evidence had been presented in court showing drugs can only be detected for up to 12 hours In a judgement on Monday, Lismore magistrate David Heilpern said he had heard hundreds of cases over th…

The NSW Government and the police are a bunch of old conservative pricks and bullies. Shows the culture of NSW Police force has not changed since the 60's and loves the power over so called druggies. At least Dr Alex Wodak is challenging the staus quo.. http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/nsw/pill-testing-trial-to-begin-at-sydney-music-festivals-vows-drug-expert-alex-wodak-20160227-gn59zu.html President of the Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation, Dr Alex Wodak, has joined forces with emergency medical specialist David Caldicott in announcing a privately funded drug testing "trial" will commence with or without the blessing of a government that has repeatedly blocked t…