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Author: Saffron Howden Date: 30th April 2009 Source: The Northern Star Copyright: © APN News & Media Ltd 2008. They have a poll on if medical cannabis should be legal in Australia. The Northern Star

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JORDANNA SCHRIEVER, COURT REPORTER April 29, 2009 12:47pm http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0...42-2682,00.html Copyright 2009 News Limited A TRIO'S "unsophisticated and clumsy" plan to steal a $100,000 cannabis crop resulted in a bikie shooting a man in the groin, the Supreme Court has heard. Senior Finks member Anthony Mavropoulos, 32, and brothers Vince Votino, 28 and Enrico Votino, 31, were found guilty of aggravated serious criminal trespass and causing harm to a person during the December 2007 incident. They appeared today for sentencing, during which Justice Tim Anderson told the men their crime was "a serious matter made more serious by the fact a g…

Author: Jake Gosselin Date: 24 April 2009 Source: The Sustainability Ninja http://www.sustainabilityninja.com/agricul...ootprint-32437/

http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/chri...target-the-high Eye in sky may target the high By CHARLIE GATES - The Press Last updated 05:00 17/04/2009 Cannabis "factories" could be exposed by an aircraft with an infra-red camera over Christchurch. The Christchurch City Council plans to use the eye in the sky this winter to create a thermal map of the city and use the information to offer people with poorly insulated homes advice on energy efficiency. Christchurch drug squad officers hope to use the map to look for hot houses one of the tell-tale signs that lamps are being used in an attic for cannabis cultivation. "If the council made that available for us…

by Mike Barrington 13.04.2009 http://www.northernadvocate.co.nz/localnew...condsubsection= © APN News & Media Ltd 2008 Cannabis cultivation skills can produce plants like this. Picture/FILE Cannabis cultivation skills which could bring brothers Tim and Dave A'Court jail terms in Whangarei where they lived as teenagers, have made them successful businessmen in Amsterdam. The Kiwiseeds company they set up in the liberal Dutch city five years ago has since won three Cannabis Cups awarded by High Times, a New York-based magazine with an international circulation advocating the drug's legalisation. Tim, 40, and Dave 37, were born in Britain and moved to New …

Growing violence: Marijuana gardens are robbery targets throughout Humboldt County Story by Sean Garmire; Times-Standard. A quiet McKinleyville neighborhood was jolted last Sunday night by the echo of three gunshots and the sound of breaking glass, as three suspects in an alleged home invasion robbery frantically drove away from a marijuana grow house. Home-invasion robberies at houses with pot gardens occur with disconcerting regularity in Humboldt County, law enforcement officials say. And the potential for violence in any robbery is high. Within the past six months, at least three people have been shot during suspected grow house robberies in Humboldt County. ”…

BY DAVID CASTELLON • dcastell@visalia.gannett.com • April 16, 2009 http://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/article/2...EWS01/904160332 Last month, Richard Daleman and his lawyer convinced a jury that he was growing marijuana legally to treat his pain problems and not breaking the law. On Wednesday, the 61-year-old man had another victory when Tulare County Superior Court Judge Darryl Ferguson ordered that all the marijuana county sheriff's deputies had confiscated from him Dec. 16 be returned. "They're giving me every gram of it back," said Daleman, who had been arrested and jailed for weeks after deputies searched his home and found processed and unprocessed marijua…

Portugal's drug decriminalization 'bizarrely underappreciated': Greenwald Rachel Oswald Published: Monday April 6, 2009 Champions of harsh drug criminalization laws as the best solution to curbing drug use will be chagrined to find that Portugal’s eight year history of decriminalization has led to lower drug usage rates. According to a new report entitled, “Drug Decriminalization in Portugal: Lessons for Creating Fair and Successful Drug Policies,” while drug use across the European Union has risen steadily since 2000, Portugal, which has the most liberal drug laws of any country, has actually seen its prevalence rates decrease in various age groups since it decrimina…

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--By our New York staff. Apr 9, 2009 http://www.nme.com/news/britney-spears/43971 © IPC MEDIA 1996-2009, All rights reserved Brittany Spears halted her show in Vancouver last night after just three songs because it was too smokey in the arena. The singer who is currently on the road supporting her ‘Circus’ album, walked off stage and remained backstage for over 20 minutes while an announcer told the crowd the show would not continue if people in the audience continued to smoke weed and cigarettes. The announcer told the crowd it was “unsafe” for Spears and her dancers to continue to perform in that environment, reports Perez Hilton. A statement released to the g…