Cannabis Hemp News

Author: Michael Crutcher Date: 28 March 2009 Source: Courier Mail Copyright: 2009 Queensland Newspapers. http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0...09-3102,00.html

This week’s LEAP Blog is about issues that I have been anticipating for the upcoming year in a very positive way both here in Canada and in the United States. 2009 will certainly be an interesting one for our countries. Barak Obama has now taken over the presidency of the United States and the country is about to change for the better. Obama is a Democrat, which is our saving grace. So am I. Although some die-hard Republicans call us bleeding hearts, a least we have our hearts in the right place. Democrats in both Canada and the U.S. have a similar vision and a defiantly North American view of the way their country should be run. In Canada on the other hand, the NDP, …

http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Clinton_arriv...m_03252009.html When Vanda works out how the government can make money for the people out of blunting consumer demand for drugs, perhaps it can be explained to CG. Until then, seems like business as usual.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/OpenForQuestions/ 'marijuana' into search box. Apparently the top 7 questions asked are all about legalization etc.

Date: 24 March 2009 Source: ABC North Coast NSW http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/03...site=northcoast

TARA RAVENS January 07, 2009 03:10pm http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0...58-2682,00.html Copyright 2009 News Limited A MAN who used his dead mother's inheritance to buy 5kg of cannabis in Adelaide and then filmed himself masturbating while driving at 150km/h has been jailed. Brendon Alan Erhardt, 39, was pulled over by police on July 16 last year, 25km south of Daly Waters. He was returning to the Northern Territory from Adelaide, where he had used an inheritance from his dead mother to buy a Holden SV6 and 5kg of cannabis. Inside the car, police discovered 10 packages of cannabis hidden in a blue esky in the boot, two cannabis plants on the back seat…

Author: Valkerie Mangnall Date: March 18, 2009 Source: Sydney Morning Herald Copyright: 2009 AAP

Author: DR WASIN BAMRUNGCHEEP Date: 19/02/2009 Source: Bangkok Post Copyright: Copyright 1996-2008 http://www.bangkokpost.com/life/family/119...s-and-treatment

16. 03. 09. - 09:00 http://austriantimes.at/index.php?id=11819 copyright - Austrian Times Dopey police have lost an entire 100 plant marijuana farm they had under observation while trying to trap its owners. Officers in Grenchen, Switzerland, had been watching the front door of the building being used as a farm waiting for the dealers to return to collect their plants. Meanwhile, someone sneaked into the house from the back and harvested the entire crop. Police spokesman Urs Eggenschwiler said: "There are no traces of a burglary so we have to check now which people have a key."

Date: 21 February 2009 Source: The Press Association Copyright: Copyright © 2009 The Press Association Thttp://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5issDTaBl2lFjRgRSI3iVvHKTLOTg

Amazingly I can't pick too many holes in this article it doesn't run off into the usual spin THC

Nick Clark February 16, 2009 03:49pm http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,2...772-661,00.html © Herald and Weekly Times A TASMANIAN man sent a kilo of cannabis as a Christmas present for his stepdaughters, a court heard today. David John Rhodes of Lady Barron, Flinders Island has pleaded not guilty to one count of trafficking on December 1-2, 2005, in the Launceston Supreme Court today, The Mercury reports. Crown prosecutor Virginia Jones said Mr Rhodes had organised that a parcel be flown from Whitemark on Flinders Island to Launceston in Tasmania's north. However, the plot was uncovered when an Airlines of Tasmania staff member at Whitemark rang police be…