Cannabis Hemp News

http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/world/gulf-war-veteran-loses-his-kids-over-medical-marijuana-use/ar-BBpco2B?ocid=spartandhp When Raymond Schwab talks about his case, his voice teeters between anger and sadness. “People who don’t understand the medical value of cannabis are tearing my family apart,” says the Kansas father and US veteran, who has a prescription for marijuana in neighboring Colorado, where it is legal. Nine months ago, Schwab tried to move to Colorado to grow medical marijuana for fellow veterans. While he and his wife were there preparing for the move, the state of Kansas took five of their children, ages 5 to 16, into custody on suspicion of child endanger…

http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/coast-holidaymakers-were-raided-by-police-who-found-their-rented-home-was-a-drug-lab/news-story/bebaed0aeaca1b93a72b26b704d89179 Over the top Raid: Just found 8 plants growing. DIETER Winkler was readying sausages for a barbecue when 10 armed police smashed through the front door of the Gold Coast home where he and his family were having a Christmas holiday. The Sydney family of seven, who had rented the three bedroom house in Burleigh Heads through Airbnb from Boxing Day, were not even 24 hours into their stay when armed Burleigh Criminal Investigation Branch officers, wearing bulletproof vests, kicked the do…

http://beta.brisbanetimes.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/tax-toke-the-budget-office-models-gst-on-marijuana-20160129-gmhjli.html Just what are they smoking down in the Parliamentary Budget Office? Big Fat Joints $$$$ The normally conservative federal institution has done some highly unusual economic modelling based on the question: how much money could the Turnbull government raise if it legalised and then applied the GST to marijuana? http://beta.brisbanetimes.com.au/content/dam/images/g/k/r/4/w/z/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gmhjli.png/1454157655956.jpgThe answer is about $300 million a year. And that doesn't even include the increased tax toke – sorr…

http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/is-it-right-to-lose-your-licence-over-a-joint-you-smoked-days-ago "Last weekend, Australian police in New South Wales (NSW) ran a roadside drug testing blitz in several regional areas around the state, which found one in five drivers testing positive. On Monday, the NSW government announced plans to triple the number of tests by 2017. The crackdown comes in response to one in ten drivers failing the roadside tests for drugs, ­compared to one in 300 for alcohol. The reason this is concerning is that drug tests don't check for drug intoxication, but for certain chemicals in saliva. In the case of NSW this is marijuana, MDMA, and amphetamin…

http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/alarming-trend-pretty-pot-heads-posting-clips-and-boasting-about-their-drug-use-online/news-story/ab4b090aede2122c73dc424539bb6cb6 AN alarming trend has emerged on social media where thousands of young girls upload pictures and videos of themselves seemingly smoking pot and boasting about it using hashtags #prettypotheads, #girlswhosmokeweed, #gangagirls and #girlsgoneweed. The #prettypotheads hashtag today returned more than 300,000 posts from all over the world, including Australia, on Instagram. Some social media users posted semi-naked photographs of themselves holding marijuana in an appa…

This article is from August 2014 but interesting all the same. Researchers aren’t sure why, but in the 23 U.S. states where medical marijuana has been legalized, deaths from opioid overdoses have decreased by almost 25 percent, according to a new analysis. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-medical-marijuana-deaths-idUSKBN0GP1UJ20140825

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-16/police-raids-close-20-million-dollar-hydroponic-cannabis-network/7033372?WT.ac=statenews_qld "A Vietnamese criminal syndicate allegedly operating a series of cannabis grow houses in south-east Queensland has been shut down after a six-month joint operation by Queensland Police, Border Force and the Australian Crime Commission." I know I should care about this,as in "let it grow already, FFS!" then another part of me says "fuck em, greedy pricks!" greed is bad

Scary Shit. http://theadelaidecurrent.com/2015/07/17/man-dies-from-marijuana-overdoes-in-adelaide-today/