Cannabis Hemp News

Author: Carlito Pablo Date: 19 March 2009 Source: straight.com http://www.straight.com/article-206649/cop...-legalize-drugs

By MICHELLE DUFF - Manawatu Standard 28/03/2009 http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/2301...uproot-cannabis © 2009 Fairfax New Zealand Limited A cannabis swoop by Central Districts police has netted more than 1800 plants and seen 12 people arrested for drug-related offences. Operation Christie is a yearly drug crackdown by a 25-strong police team, who join with Air Force personnel to wipe out drug growing in the region. In a two-day "recovery" phase using Iroquois helicopters and a separate ground force team, police seized 1834 plants across the Manawatu, Horowhenua and Tararua regions. Of these, 852 plants were pulled from a clandestine spot on the Puketoi r…

In the West Aus yesterday there was a spread that mentioned that MJ growing will be criminalised again and possession allowed for fines will be reduced from 30g to 10g. Anyone heard of this?

27/03/09 http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/articl...wKNmEAD975OIB81 ©2009 Google JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police say they have seized thousands of marijuana water pipes in a raid on a factory in northern Israel. Spokesman Micky Rosenfeld says police entered the building in Haifa this week and confiscated 15,000 bongs that were planned for distribution. He says the factory's 60-year-old owner was arrested. Pipes and other drug paraphernalia are a common sight at Israeli kiosks. But Rosenfeld said Thursday that these items were banned a few weeks ago and police are cracking down. The majority of marijuana is smuggled into Israel by Bedouin across the porous b…

Author: CTV Ottawa Date: 27/03/2009 Source: http://ottawa.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVN...?hub=OttawaHome Copyright: CTV Ottawa

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…