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The SMH published this bit of bent news today: This article is only half true. Dr Arnold fails to note the fact that the body does not store actual d9-THC in body fat. Only THC metabolites are stored in body fats. THC metabolites are NOT psychoactive. Even if Arnold's assertion is true (and it probably is) that physical exercise or food deprivation causing the body to draw on stored fat for energy causes THC metabolites present in fat to be released into the bloodstream, the subject will not become re-intoxicated. To assert so, as Arnold does here: is so silly that it makes me wonder if Arnold has enjoyed a spliff over the weekend and had spent Monday morning…

By Stephen Gutwillig Los Angeles Times The Times' Aug. 30 article, "Marijuana’s new high life," does a great job describing the cultural mainstreaming of marijuana. Pot is indeed flourishing in "civilized society" as never before, and the movement to end decades of failed prohibition has picked up unprecedented momentum. But that debate has largely ignored the people most impacted by our current policies -- the rising number of people, particularly young people of color, arrested on marijuana charges each year. According to the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice (CJCJ), the arrest rate for all offenses in California sank by 40% from 1990 to 2008, with arrests for…

Author: Tim Brunero Date: 1 September 2009 Source: LiveNews.com

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england...don/8242948.stm I wonder how often this shit happens? more than anyone likes to admit I bet Kudos to the dude for taping the dodgy scumbags

Fernando Henrique Cardoso urges global shift towards decriminalising cannabis use and promoting harm reduction The war on drugs has failed and should make way for a global shift towards decriminalising cannabis use and promoting harm reduction, says the former president of Brazil, writing today in the Observer. Fernando Henrique Cardoso argues that the hardline approach has brought "disastrous" consequences for Latin America, which has been the frontline in the war on drug cultivation for decades, while failing to change the continent's position as the largest exporter of cocaine and marijuana. His intervention, which will reignite growing debate in Europe about how t…

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25922995-29277,00.html Police net 8kg of dope during breath test A MAN pulled over for a roadside breath-test in rural NSW has been charged after police allegedly found eight kilograms of cannabis in his car. Officers stopped a Ford Falcon station wagon on the Sturt Highway at Gol Gol, near Dubbo, about 12.25am this morning, police said. The driver, a 39-year-old Dubbo man, returned a negative breath test, but police detected a strong smell of cannabis in his car. "During a search of the vehicle police will allege they located nearly eight kilograms of cannabis leaf with an estimated potential street value of approximately $6…

By Kimi Yoshino and Richard Winton August 27, 2009 | 11:22 p.m. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ja...0,1554430.story Los Angeles Times, 202 West 1st Street, Los Angeles, California, 90012 | Copyright 2009 The discovery prompted investigators to search the pop star's mansion for heroin-related equipment. But lab tests found no marijuana, cocaine or heroin in Jackson's system. Rotting marijuana that Michael Jackson's family members mistook for heroin briefly caused detectives to look for further evidence of the illegal drug in the pop star's rented residence during the frenzied 48 hours after his death, according to sources close to the investigation. Family…

Author: JESSE McKINLEY Date: August 21, 2009 Source: The New York Times Copyright: © 2009 The New York Times Company In California Forests, Marijuana Growers Thrive SAN FRANCISCO — Lt. Sonny LeGault and 11 other officers from the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department woke before dawn one recent morning, hiked three miles through the woods and just missed the apparently hungry men they had hoped to arrest. “They’d been cooking breakfast: there were a couple of quails dressed out, and a soup going,” Lieutenant LeGault said. “But they were gone.” Those the officers had been hunting were workers at one of the scores of remote, highly organized outdoor mar…

By Stephen Gibbs BBC News, Mexico City Page last updated at 21:26 GMT, Friday, 21 August 2009 22:26 UK http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8215472.stm © MMIX The Mexican government has enacted a law decriminalising the possession of small amounts of drugs, including cocaine and heroin. Mexican prosecutors say the move does not amount to legalisation. They say it is designed to prevent corrupt police from seeking bribes from small-time drug users, and to encourage addicts to seek treatment. The move comes amid a drug war in Mexico that has claimed more than 11,000 lives in the last three years. Those found in possession of the equivalent of four joint…

August 27, 2009 By Ty Brennan A recent study by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University has some startling results about teens and drugs. In their study, they found that 40 percent of teens could get marijuana within a day; another quarter said they could get it within an hour. In another portion of the survey, teens between the ages of 12 and 17 say it's easier to get marijuana than buy cigarettes, beer or prescription drugs. That number is up 37 percent from 2007. But, local law enforcement says these numbers don't match up to what's happening here in east Idaho. Kim Ellis, Pocatello Police department: "That's something that we're see…

Pot or not, that is the question. Fifty-one percent (51%) of American adults say alcohol is more dangerous than marijuana, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Just 19% disagree and say pot is worse. But 25% say both are equally dangerous. Just two percent (2%) say neither is dangerous. Younger adults are more likely than their elders to view alcohol as the more dangerous of the two. Fifty-three percent (53%) of women say alcohol is more dangerous than marijuana, compared to 48% of men. Men by a two-to-one margin over women say pot is riskier, but women are more inclined to say both are dangerous. Unmarried adults are more critical of alcohol th…

This one makes me ashamed to be Canadian By Jeremiah Vandermeer, Cannabis Culture - Thursday, September 3 2009 TAGS: CC MAGAZINE FEATURE ARTICLES HEADLINE NEWS BRITISH COLUMBIA HEALTH MEDICAL MARIJUANA VIDEO Nyle Nagy, a man with full body paralysis and Multiple Sclerosis, was robbed of his wheelchair by his caregiver and confined to bed for legally using medical marijuana. CANNABIS CULTURE - A Canadian care home resident with full body paralysis was confined to his bed against his will after his wheelchair was seized by caregivers - all because he smokes medical marijuana to relieve his Multiple Sclerosis. CHBC news reported yesterday that Nyle Nagy, a Kelowna,…

Thursday, 3 September 2009 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8237006.stm BBC © MMIX Hemp plants look like cannabis ones, but have little psychoactive effect A triumph for Dutch police quickly turned out to be an embarrassing mistake after they destroyed what they thought was a field of cannabis plants. Police on Wednesday announced they had discovered a plantation of some 47,000 illicit cannabis plants with a street value of 4.4m euros ($6.3m; £3.8m). They had destroyed much of the crop when they were told the plants belonged to a respected school of agriculture. They were a type of hemp, being grown as a fibre for use in textiles. Hemp is related to ca…