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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…

An alleged drug farm which used an elaborate irrigation system to grow cannabis has been raided by NSW police. More than 1500 marijuana plants — with an estimated street value of $1.5 million — were seized from the property in Mudgee in the state's central west. Four men were arrested at the scene and are being questioned. The cannabis plants were ripped from the ground and will be destroyed in a large burn-off, police say. I BET NO ONE CALLS IN SICK WHEN THEY DO THE BURN-OFF!!!! WANKERS!!!

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Hi. Just a heads up (or down depending on ya circumstances) to anyone in the Nimbin/NSW FNC area. The chopper arrived yesterday (mon 2/2), apparantly they did Moondani just south of town, they also did around Tuntable, Avalon at Stoney Chute, and the Area between Lillyfield community heading East to Blue Knob, including Lofts Pinnacle Rd on the border of the Tweed and Kyogle shires. This morning (Tues 3/2) they did finished up at Lillian Rock and appear to be heading toward Barkers Vale as of now(the time of typing.) Flying Grid patterns. I'd say they will spend the rest of the day around barkers Vale and probably head elsewhere, like the Channon/Terania Valley, …

Author: Miranda Bovine Date: 5 February 2009 Source: Sydney Morning Herald Copyright: 2009 The Sydney Morning Herald http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/the-war...3423306097.html

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0...5006301,00.html POLICE said a huge cannabis crop found at Virginia had a possible street value of $60 million. Detectives and STAR Group officers swooped on the O'Loughlin Rd market garden this morning where they found about 4000 cannabis plants in five glasshouses. The plants ranged in size from about 30cm to two metres in height and all were in healthy condition and were being fed by an elaborate watering system. Superintendent Linda Fellows from the Drug Investigation Branch said, "it has been some time since we have had a crop of this size".

http://www.police.nsw.gov.au/news/latest_r...CZhbGw9MQ%3D%3D Did anyone else see this on the News last night? Australia started as a penal colony - although without the history books I'd have guessed as a mental asylum - and now we've come full circle. Just imagine how good it will be when a police officer can arrest you if you refuse to give your fingerprints! I'm feeling safer already!