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news.com.au March 22 2012 http://www.news.com.au/weird-true-freaky/vending-machine-dispenses-marijuana-so-no-one-gets-arrested/story-e6frflri-1226306981177?sv=b3ce0aabb9e9f421f598d53e4a5754e8 In New Zealand a medicinal dispensary has started using a vending machine to supply cannabis to patients so no-one can be arrested for selling. However I don't see how this prevents being arrested... Surely the owner of the machine is responsible for it's contents? Still, an interesting idea.

Great news for the good people of Maryland with jail sentences and fines reduced for small time possession http://www.thedailyc...ss-in-maryland/

A major phase of the Netherlands' ban on tourists patronizing coffee shops goes into effect in the country's southern provinces on May 1. Shops in Amsterdam are scheduled stop selling marijuana to foreigners on January 1, 2013. But enacting this ban may be harder than finding a 22-year-old who hasn't seen EuroTrip: the benign, psychotropic plant that grows naturally in the ground makes the country a lot of money. According to the director of the Drugtext Foundation in the Netherlands, 50% of the country's tourists visit the coffee shops, and 10% of tourism is exclusively for marijuana. The Telegraph reports that the coffee shops generate around $2.5 billion annually, whic…

The leader of the Smer party, Robert Fico, on March 15, 2012, before his meeting with the Slovak president at the presidential palace in Bratislava Robert Fico, the incoming Slovak prime minister, may push for partial legalization of marijuana possession. “If smokers of marijuana, lovers of bongs [water pipes] or cakes with ingredients of this soft drug in Slovakia currently face very severe punishment, it is legitimate to raise the question of whether the threat of such punishment is effective, given the widespread use of marijuana,” Mr. Fico, a lawyer whose left-of-center Smer-Social Democracy party won March 12 general elections, wrote on his blog. Casual marij…

Monkfish seared in cannabis-infused coconut oil on a bed of congee with cannabis butter and cannabis-infused coconut oil folded in with cannabis epazote pesto. Photo courtesy of Starry Kitchen. As some of you prepare to add another chapter to the stoner diaries on April 20, you might want to consider celebrating cannabis by consuming it during a secret dinner in Downtown Los Angeles. Chef Laurent Quenioux and Executive Chef Thi Tran of Starry Kitchen (LQ@SK) are teaming up yet again to bring pot practitioners -- or anyone interested in herbal cuisine -- "THE 4.20 (Weed+Chinese) HERB Dinner." Only 100 lucky diners can score a spot at the table to enjoy five weed-infuse…

PARENTS could be jailed for 12 months and have their children put in state care for growing just one marijuana plant in Western Australia under arguably the nation's toughest drug laws. Amendments to WA's Misuse of Drugs Act, which came into effect on the weekend, mean people convicted of cultivating a single cannabis plant or processing the drug where a child has suffered harm face a 12-month mandatory prison term. Those convicted of a second drug offence where they were growing just one plant or processing it - hanging it to dry or rolling a joint - face a mandatory jail term of six months if it is proved they endangered a child's health by exposing them to the activit…

All 16 coffeeshops in Haarlem, the Netherlands, refuse to discriminate tourists and to register their local customers! http://www.coffeesho...roduce-weedpass

http://www.dailytele...v-1226310870250 "MORE than 152 cannabis plants and a hoard of other drugs where seized from two homes on the Central Coast. Police searched a house on Turpentine Street, Wyoming and located more than 152 cannabis plants, 13 kilograms of dried cannabis, a sum of cash and a quantity of anabolic steroids about 4pm yesterday. A 32-year-old man was arrested at the scene and a search of his home on nearby Jarrett Street found 524 grams of cannabis head, a large sum of cash, a large quantity of anabolic steroids and prescription drugs. The man was charged with a number of offences including drug related offences, recklessly deal with the proceeds of crim…

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