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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…

AUTHOR: Alvaro Vargas Llosa DATE: March 11, 2009 SOURCE: The Independent Institute [LINK]

Algerian police seize 2.6 tonnes of cannabis ALGER (AFP) — Algerian police have seized 2.6 tonnes of cannabis from an inflatable dinghy off Sbiaat beach near Ain Temouchent in the far northwest, a police statement said Monday. The drugs were hidden in several packets labelled KS2009, according to the police statement quoted by the APS news agency. Gendarmerie police also found supplies of food, mineral water, engine fuel and life jackets. More »

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By David Fisher 4:00AM Sunday Apr 12, 2009 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article....jectid=10566272 Copyright 2009, APN Holdings NZ Limited Green and Borland. Photo / Doug Sherring A club for cannabis smokers has been openly flouting the law for months, with hundreds of people a night turning up to buy and smoke dope. The "Daktory" has been operating from an Auckland warehouse since November and boasts having 400 people on a busy night. Those behind the scheme are involved in efforts to have the drug decriminalised, and say they accept arrest by police is a possible outcome of their provocative club. One of those involved, Brian Borland, has taken a further…

Author: DAVID STOCKMAN: POLICE REPORTER Date: 11/04/09 Source: The Canberra Times [LINK]

Author: ANDREW DOWDELL Date: 19 March 2009 Source: ADELAIDE NOW REPORTER http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0...46-2682,00.html

Author: Arjun Ramachandran Date: 9 April 2009 Source: smh.com.au Copyright: 2009 Fairfax Digital http://www.smh.com.au/national/charged-wit...90409-a12y.html

Source: news.com.au Maybe i'm blind, but where's the info on the "Infrared" that was used in the title.