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April 14, 2009 http://www.canada.com/Officer+lost+wallet+...3695/story.html © Copyright © Canwest News Service When Burnaby RCMP Const. Amyn Dharamshi lost his wallet, he probably thought things couldn't get much worse. But that was before someone found it and dropped it in a mailbox -- and before Canada Post security handed it over to the Vancouver police. When police opened the wallet, they found, in addition to his ID, a baggie containing 6.1 grams of marijuana and a package of Zig Zag rolling papers. Dharamshi denied the marijuana was his, saying it belonged to his brother, Karim, who had borrowed his wallet for a few days. However, moments after taking a li…

Karen Matthews May 1st, 2009 http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/articl...67121_news.html The Geelong Advertiser Pty. Ltd. Copyright © January 2006 A GROVEDALE man claimed 26 cannabis plants growing in his backyard were for his own use and would only have lasted him a month. Wayne Savage also told a court he once smoked half-a-kilogram of the drug in one day. Savage, of Peter St, Grovedale, pleaded guilty in Geelong Magistrates' Court yesterday to charges of cultivating, possessing and using cannabis. Have your say on the feedback form below Police prosecutor, Senior Constable Kerry Moroney said that about 4.20pm on January 22, police executed a drugs search …

Magistrate Clynt Johansen is urging the SA Govt to relax cannabis laws for sufferers of chronic pain. (ABC News) An Adelaide Hills magistrate is urging Parliament to consider relaxing cannabis laws for sufferers of chronic pain. Mount Barker Magistrate Clynt Johansen made the comments while sentencing 59-year-old Colin Lindner, who has a musculoskeletal disorder, fibromyalgia. Lindner treats the condition with morphine and other prescription drugs but says he turned to cannabis for more effective pain relief after medical advice. He was caught growing the drug at his home in the Hills two years ago and ended up in the Mt Barker court. Lindner pleaded guilty to …

http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2009...erican-prisons/ –Bernd Debusmann is a Reuters columnist. The opinions expressed are his own– Are the 305 million people living in the United States the most evil in the world? Is this the reason why the U.S., with 5 percent of the world's population, has 25 percent of the world's prisoners and an incarceration rate five times as high as the rest of the world? Or is it a matter of a criminal justice system that has gone dramatically wrong, swamping the prison system with drug offenders? That rhetorical question, asked on the floor of the U.S. Senate by Virginia Senator Jim Webb, fits into what looks like an accelerating sh…

http://www.theage.com.au/national/pregnant...90429-anif.html Pregnant woman arrested in marijuana raid * Steve Butcher * April 30, 2009 - 11:39PM A heavily pregnant woman, the father of the child, her father and her sister are among eight people arrested in Melbourne over an alleged international hydroponic marijuana syndicate. Le Thoa Thi, 28, is accused of tending crops on a daily basis at four of nine houses allegedly used to cultivate commercial quantities of marijuana. Police say raids this week in which about 1700 plants were found will result in seizures of cash and other assets worth about $10 million. It is believed it will be one of the big…

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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 …