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The crack-down on Skunk cannabis in Amsterdam gives New Zealand a chance to corner the global market. Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis party leader Michael Appleby said ALCP policy would legalise cannabis for recreational and commercial purposes for anyone over 18. "The GST from tourism and other export markets could reach over $1 billion each year," he said. "The Dutch have banned cannabis over 15% THC and have restricted sales of cannabis to foreigners, undermining its appeal to cannabis-tourists." Mr Applebys said outlets like the Daktory in Auckland, where cannabis can be bought from a vending machine, showed such outlets were viable in New Zealand. "People from a…
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A prototype fingerprint scanner has been developed that can detect the presence of opiates, cannabis, or cocaine in the sweat on a user's fingertip. The device uses special cartridges to take a fingerprint, which are then processed using both chemical testing and a unique photo scanning system. This takes a high resolution image of the fingerprint and its residue, so that the output from individual sweat pores can be measured. Coming soon to a checkpoint near you “We were concerned if you touched a spliff, or shook hands with someone who had, it would leave a residue on the hands,†Dr Paul Yates, business development manager at University of East Anglia (UEA) sp…
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The Bay Area is renowned for having some of the best produce in the world, and that reputation again extends to its sun-kissed cannabis. California's annual outdoor marijuana crop has come in, and despite global warming and heated federal threats, the harvest looks quite golden. Growers, dispensary operators, and experts say California's 2011 outdoor is bountiful, cheap, high-quality and more medicinal than in years past. While the federal government has publicly pilloried medical marijuana profiteers and exporters, the DEA generally is not interested in qualified patients cultivating marijuana according to state law. More people are growing more ganja than in year…
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http://www.hipforums.com/newforums/images/icons/leaf.png Feds Give California Marijuana Dispenaries 45 Days to Shutdown! The US government will announce today, a state-wide crackdown on medical marijuana dispensaries. U.S. Attorneys have sent out letters to at least 16 dispensaries in California, notifying them that they have 45 days to shutdown or face prosecution and confiscation of their assets. Besides sending nasty letters to the pot clubs, the attorneys also sent letters to landlords threatening to confiscate their property and demanding all rent proceeds ever received from the clubs. So the Obama administration has decided to go back on its promise not to pro…
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Absolute Madness!!! The War on Drugs in the US is out of control http://www.encod.org...19-SECONDS.html You hear a whole of statistics ... but Woah! And they are saying that that equates to approximately 750,000 , 3/4 of a Million Arrests for Cannabis in one Year. Truly Insane. Although I'd wonder how many were related to the Law changes in Those Few States For Medicinal Distribution etc. Still ... I'd want Investigation to Centre on How the Corporate Prison System Profits from such Massive Drug Arrest Numbers ... And How the Police are Obviously benefitting aswell ... While the laws are so suspiciously placed to keep this madness happening. Almost seems l…
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The founder of New Zealand's first cannabis club, Dakta Green, has had his jail sentence more than doubled following an appeal by the Solicitor General. View the full article
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Two Canadian researchers hope their work - mapping the cannabis sativa genome - will get rid of the stigma they say surrounds the cultivation of hemp and marijuana in Canada. The University of Saskatchewan's Jon Page and the University of Toronto's Tim Hughes hope other scientists will use their work to develop marijuana as a legitimate medical ingredient, and hemp as a high-quality, fastgrowing crop. "It's a useful plant," Page told Postmedia News on the phone from Saskatoon. "You can eat it, you can build with it, you can use it as medicine ... but, because of its reputation, it's hard to get funding to work with it." Using genome sequencing technology, Page and…
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ACT police will begin roadside drug testing across Canberra from today. Legislation giving police powers to conduct random roadside tests for drugs came into effect in December. Police will now detain drivers to take saliva swabs to test for drugs like cannabis, methamphetamine and ecstasy. "The test is administered through a saliva test and it does take longer than drink driving test. Drivers can expect to be detained on the roadside for up to ten minutes and that's because the technology is not as advanced as technology for random breath testing for alcohol," said Attorney General Simon Corbell. Unlike alcohol testing, there is no legal level or limit on drug co…
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Coroner: Lamar Jack ingested chemical found in fake marijuana before he died Condensed from original by: Nikie Mayo Posted October 15, 2011 Anderson University basketball player Lamar Jack died after ingesting a chemical that is a key ingredient in synthetic marijuana, the county corner said Saturday. The lab testing and analysis revealed that Jack had the chemical JWH-018 in his body when he collapsed during a preseason warm-up with his team on Sept. 30. Just days later, on Oct. 4, Jack died. He was 19. On the basis of an autopsy and the toxicology test results, Coroner Greg Shore is ruling Jack’s death accidental — caused by “acute drug toxicity with exci…
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http://finance.ninemsn.com.au/newsbusiness/8301981/heavy-facebook-users-prone-to-drug-use-study as my friend on facebook said "I know boys and girls lets go to the most run down crack dealer infested suburb we can think of and do a bull shit survey to try and get morons to both pay us for and believe we did a legitimate study." geez they will think of anything nowadays wont they.
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A bit funny, im sure they are ok now. http://www.news.com.au/world/senior-citizens-wind-up-in-hospital-after-being-served-marijuana-brownies/story-e6frfkyi-1226164724318 Three seniors ended up in hospital suffering from nausea and dizziness after being served a surprise pick-me-up at a wake for a friend. Two women, 71, and a man, 82, complained of illness after filling up on brownies containing marijuana. According to police, the mourners had no idea they were biting off more than they could chew when the brownies were served up, the Guardian website reports. The ill residents, from California's Huntington Beach, only knew they were in strife when they co…
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/07/netherlands-potency-cannabis-hard-drug?CMP=twt_gu Associated Press guardian.co.uk, Friday 7 October 2011 18.43 BST The Dutch government has said it will move to classify high-potency cannabis alongside hard drugs such as cocaine and ecstasy, the latest step in the country's ongoing reversal of its liberal policies. The decision means most of the cannabis now sold in Dutch coffee shops would have to be replaced by milder variants. But sceptics said the move would be difficult to enforce, and that it could simply lead many users to smoke more of the less potent weed. Possession of cannabis is technically illegal in th…
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