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"Specialist search teams and dog units were among those who took part in the raids. During the early part of the crackdown more than 400 kilos of cannabis was seized. However, later in the day a very large seizure was made after more of the drug was found in Norfolk. The total haul is understood to have come to 1.8 tonnes." http://www.coastalscene24.co.uk/news/ipswich_shotley_8million_cannabis_gang_due_to_be_sentenced_1_1673342 Those cops in melbourne thought they had made a big haul. Pissy compared to what cops were stealing from growers in england around the same time. Ofcourse all of these raids won't make a dent in the industry. In 20 years when crops are legal e…

http://www.heraldsun...g-1226506602043 Police came across 18 plants and saved them from flames. Now they'll either be smoked by cops later or burned in a deliberate government fire. I expect there will be a few bush crops destroyed. They are all over the place. I have often stumbled across other grows looking for a spot to start my own. More often its just the equipment they leave behind though.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/southland-times/news/court/7877009/Black-out-on-artificial-cannabis A man hallucinated and lost consciousness while driving after smoking artificial cannabinoid K2 Black, the Invercargill District Court was told last week. The guy was taken to hospital with chest pains. Other side-effects include extreme anger and high levels of anxiety and psychotic symptoms. The health minister of NZ reckons it will be banned soon. Screw that rubbish. I've been smoking regular weed for decades and never experienced any shit like that. This laboratory weed extract is dangerous crap. It wouldn't be around if politicians hadn't banned harmless traditional dope.

http://www.420magazine.com/2012/10/brad-pitt-blasts-u-s-war-on-drugs-calls-for-policy-rethink/ Brad Pitt Blasts U.S. ‘War On Drugs’, Calls For Policy Rethink "Brad Pitt has thrown his weight behind a documentary that blasts America’s 40-year war on drugs as a failure, calling policies that imprison huge numbers of drug-users a “charade” in urgent need of a rethink." “I know people are suffering because of it. I know I’ve lived a very privileged life in comparison and I can’t stand for it,” Pitt told Reuters on Friday, calling the government’s War on Drugs policy a “charade.” “It’s such bad strategy. It makes no sense. It perpetuates itself. You make a bust, you d…

A woman has been convicted of giving cannabis to her 3-month old baby through her breast milk, in what is believed to be the first case of its kind in New Zealand. The 29-year-old Wanganui woman was charged with administering a class C controlled drug, namely cannabis, to a person under the age of 18. She pleaded guilty and was sentenced in Wanganui District Court last week to six months' supervision. The charges were laid after a police search of a house for drugs. The woman's partner also faced charges over the drug raid. Acting Senior Sergeant Andrew McDonald said the woman's actions amounted to child abuse. "People often believe drug-related activities are victimless,…

A FATHER-of-nine's plea for a heavier jail sentence to properly recognise his achievement in growing one of Australia's largest cannabis crops has fallen on deaf ears. Michael Bennett Gardner Sr, 58, voiced his outrage in Brisbane's Court of Appeal over the 13-year sentence he was handed for growing 3.5 tonnes of cannabis with an estimated street value of almost $70 million. Gardner was of the opinion that his effort in raising a record-breaking crop should have yielded him a jail term of at least 20-years. Gardner, an anti-abortion campaigner who represented himself in court earlier this weekwearing a T-shirt with the slogan "Abortion is Killing", is among the few Queen…

VICTORIA Police has seized marijuana valued at $19 million in an operation involving raids on at least one property each day for almost seven weeks. Hundreds of thousands of dollars in hydroponic equipment was found in houses capable of producing $500,000 worth of marijuana every three months in new outer-suburban estates. Vietnamese crime families are believed to have spent millions of dollars buying many of the 47 houses that were raided. Police say the move away from renting property for grow houses indicates the financial clout of those behind the trade. Many of the houses were expected to be transformed back to rental properties after less than a year, giving drug ki…