Cannabis Hemp News

10th June 2009 http://www.dailyexaminer.com.au/story/2009...go-up-in-smoke/ © APN News & Media Ltd 2008 WOOLI man Jacob Ronald Hamilton likes smoking cannabis and needed a lot of it for his driving holiday around Australia, the Tweed Heads Local Court heard yesterday. But the 25-year-old carpenter was found with 1.32kg of the drug, worth $2500, before he even left on the trip after coming to attention of police while speeding on the Pacific Highway. Police spotted Hamilton's Hyundai Getz travelling towards Tweed Heads at 8.50am on May 19 at 137km/h in a 110km/h zone, and checks revealed his licence was suspended. A car search was triggered when police suspecte…

<h2 id="k36762" class="contentStyle4">10th March 2009 Nations Should Reject UN Drug Policy</h2> New 10-Year Plan Omits Critical Protections on HIV and Human Rights The new UN Political Declaration on Drugs, designed to guide drug policy for the next 10 years, lacks critically important measures for treating and stemming the spread of HIV, Human Rights Watch, the International AIDS Society, and the International Harm Reduction Association said today. The groups said that respect for human rights and HIV prevention should be at the heart of the policy, but that critical elements had been stripped from the final declaration. They called on member governm…

Kind of. hehe I finally got that article posted. Turns out you can't solicit donations which is why it was taken down the first time. But I put it back up without that info, pointing them here and to niall's site. http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-268240

This paper claims THC may improve symptoms of existing schizophrenia.

Francesca Chilargi Saturday, June 6, 2009 http://www.thenewsherald.com/articles/2009...4e273909581.txt © Copyright 2009 The News Herald TRENTON — A man who was robbed at gunpoint of his marijuana in Wyandotte at about 12:30 a.m. Tuesday called police to report that he was following the culprits south on West Jefferson Avenue. Officers from Trenton, Woodhaven and Gibraltar stopped the suspects’ vehicle at Vreeland and West Jefferson Avenue. All four of the people inside the car were arrested, but two were later released. A Trenton officer saw a bag of marijuana in the car. The driver told police her friend stole the marijuana from the caller. She said she arr…

So Utah had the lowest level of Cannabis usage and the highest "serious psychological distress" I would never have thunked it........... just staggerring. Hand up all those who are shocked by this revelation.

Hope they get off, see that a Yank got 12 months for offing his wife today in QLD http://www.theage.com.au/national/police-b...90605-bybc.html

http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattle911/archives/170129.asp Gotta luv dat The charges will never stick, he ate the evidence, classic!!!!!!!!!! ROFL Kids got a big future in front of him me thinks, best laugh I've had in days

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0906/S00062.htm Cannabis Party Has Answer To The Recession Friday, 5 June 2009, 10:09 am Press Release: Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis PartyCannabis Party Has Answer To The Recession Bill English's first budget as Finance Minister demonstrates that neither he nor the Government has any idea how to survive the recession. While other political parties debate how to deal with the Global Financial Crisis, only one party has the solution to the problem: the ALCP.Any currency is only as valuable as the primary commodity that backs it. In modern civilisation that commodity is oil. The value of the fuel backed dollar has been vital to rapi…

<h1 style="margin-top: 0pt;"> The cannabis debate... </h1> <h4 class="grey">Posted By Submitted</h4> <h5 class="grey">Posted 10 hours ago</h5> Dear Editor, One beneficial component of legalizing cannabis (marijuana) that doesn’t get mentioned online (Marijuana - Time To Make It Legal? Panel Says Yes, May 25, 2009) is that it will lower hard drug addiction rates. DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) will have to stop brainwashing youth into believing lies, half-truths and propaganda concerning cannabis, which…

Only in Queens. Welcome to New York, people. Three [different] customers bought peppers at a Queens’ grocery store with bags of cocaine inside them, according to police. People, who claimed not to know what was inside them, bought the drug-stuffed peppers in separate transactions. All were bought from a store on LIberty Avenue in Ozone Park. Store owners told police the drug-stuffed peppers were imported from South America, the New York Post reported. Police notified the health department and searched the rest of the story with K-9 units.

Zagreb - Croatia's Supreme Court has ruled to allow the use of marijuana to treat post-traumatic stress disorderhttp://kona.kontera.com/javascript/lib/imgs/grey_loader.gif (PTSD), a disorder that afflicts thousands of the country's war veterans, the Vecernji List daily said Thursday. Despite Croatia's harsh laws on drugs, Wednesday's verdict surprisingly acquitted a man previously sentenced to a year in prison for growing a small amount of marijuana in Virovitica, 100 kilometres north of Zagreb. 'The court took into consideration that the defendant suffers rom PTSD. ... Marijuana relaxes him and helps him overcome psychological problems,' the verdict said. …

Survey What a disgusting lopsided survey, the questions frame the result scewing it as people being in favour of prohibition whether they are or not, I just did their survey and twisted it as much as I could back the other way and told them they were bigots in the comments field Could be fun to join their webchat and tear them a new one the bigots, anyone for a game Thursday week

Written by Border Scope Monday, 01 June 2009 http://www.imperialvalleynews.com/index.ph...58&Itemid=2 Rio Grande City, Texas - United States Border Patrol agents assigned to the Rio Grande City Station seize a wheelbarrow full of marijuana weighing 223 pounds. On Thurday, at about 3:30 p.m., Border Patrol agents working in the La Grulla area observed several subjects pushing a wheelbarrow away from the Rio Grande River. When agents approached and identified themselves, the subjects abandoned their cargo and fled into the brush. The agents recovered 20 bricks of marijuana for a combined weight of 223 pounds. After a search of the immediate area, three mal…