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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…

The Australian By Andrea Hayward | March 05, 2009 A DRUG disposal bin will be trialled at a West Australian music festival in what police believe is an Australian first. The move follows the death of 17-year-old Perth girl Gemma Thoms, who died after taking three ecstasy pills before the Big Day Out in Perth on February 2. Ms Thoms' friends said she swallowed the pills before entering the festival gates for fear of being caught by police. WA Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan said the drug disposal bin would be trialled at the Rock-It music festival in Joondalup this weekend. "The bin will be placed near the main entrance to the festival and patrons will …

ANDREW DOWDELL, ADELAIDE NOW REPORTER March 11, 2009 11:40am http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0...69-2682,00.html Copyright 2009 News Limited Police display dried cannabis found at a house in Prospect. Picture: Michael Marschall A MAN has been arrested after police uncovered a huge cannabis crop inside a house at Blair Athol in Adelaide's north. Police swooped on the house at the corner of Prospect Rd and Meadows Ave shortly before 9am, unveiling a highly sophisticated hydroponic operation. On first entering the unobtrusive house through the rear door, the Prospect Rd abode appears to be a normal home - until you open the bedroom cupboard. Behind the cupb…

By KIRAN CHUG Last updated 13:39 10/03/2009 http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/2248...is-haul-nets-16 © 2009 Fairfax New Zealand Limited BUSTED: Police with the giant cannabis plants recovered from Golden Bay, some of the more than 5700 plants seized in the Nelson region during Operation Kristy A seven-day swoop on Nelson's cannabis growers has uncovered 165 plots across the region - some believed to be large-scale commercial operations. The bust, code-named Operation Kristy, ended yesterday and resulted in police cutting down more than 5700 cannabis plants in the Nelson Bays policing area. They recovered 15 firearms and $10,000 of stolen property, and at l…

http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories...set-new-record/ in Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009 Sources: Marijuana Policy Project, September 27, 2007 Title: “Marijuana Arrests Set New Record for Fourth Year in a Row” Author: Bruce Mirken National Organization for Reform of Marijuana Laws, September 24, 2007 Title: “Marijuana Arrests for Year 2006—829,625 Tops Record High” Author: Paul Armentano Student Researchers: Ben Herzfeldt and Caitlyn Ioli Faculty Advisor: Pat Jackson, PhD For the fourth year in a row, US marijuana arrests set an all-time record, according to 2006 FBI Uniform Crime Reports. Marijuana arrests in 2006 totaled 829,627, an increase from 786…

4:00AM Tuesday Mar 03, 2009 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article....jectid=10559593 Copyright 2009, APN Holdings NZ Limited An annual police operation targeting cannabis growers on the West Coast has resulted in the arrest of 13 people and the recovery of 5200 plants, including a number of "potent" varieties. Police estimated a mature plant had a street value of about $1000, but noted that some plantings this year were a particularly potent cultivar heavily laden with flowering tops on female plants - which usually contain the highest levels of THC, making them much more valuable. The haul was down 42 per cent on last year, when about 9000 plants were found, …

Denver Post 18 January, 2009 Posted by CODeist2009 The question of is smoking Marihuana dangerous will largely depend on who you ask, where they get their information, the reliability of the information, and whether or not the individual has actually partook of the ‘herb’. Furthermore to what do we compare the alleged dangerousness of this plant; hashish, heroine, cocaine, methamphetamine, alcohol, tobacco, narcotics or physician prescribed FDA approved medication? The idea that Marijuana is harmful to the health of an individual is based on studies done in the 1960’s and 1970’s. In the book “Marijuana Myths, Marijuana Facts:” Dr. Lynn Zimmer and John Morgan add…