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THE free-wheeling days of buying cannabis and pot smoking at Nimbin's Hemp Bar and the Nimbin Museum are over – or so it would seem. The Nimbin Hemp Bar has been revamped and reopened as part of the Hemp Embassy and will not tolerate drug deals and smoking on the premises. The Nimbin Museum has installed cameras to help stomp out drug dealing. A fence is being built beside the notorious Rainbow Lane. Museum founder and operator Michael Balderstone confirmed his associate Elspeth Jones had applied to take over the museum. Lease negotiations are still being finalised. Mr Balderstone said two of the four museum security cameras have been stolen. Hemp activist Gar…

Cheech & Chong will 'Light up Australia' in a national tour this April. Andrew McManus Presents the legendary cult comedy heroes, who will be joined by special guest Shelby Chong. This hysterical show is not to be missed! Tour Dates Wednesday 15 April - Enmore Theatre, Sydney Sunday 26 April - Perth Convention Exhibition Centre, Riverside Theatre http://premier.ticketek.com.au/shows/show.aspx?sh=CHEECHCH09

Author: AKIKO KOGA Date: 19 February 2009 Source: Kyodo News Copyright: The Japan Times http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20090219f2.html

Author: Matthew Burrows Date: February 2009 Source: Straight.com Copyright: © 2009 Vancouver Free Press http://www.straight.com/article-201902/gre...-prohibitionist

Author: Haider Rizvi Date: 19 February 19 2009 Source: IPS Copyright: 2009 IPS-Inter Press Service. http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45824

Author: Eamonn McCann Date: 19 February 2009 Source: Belfast Telegraph Copyright: belfasttelegraph.co.uk http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/...s-14195552.html

Author: Georgina Dickinson Date: 1 Febraury 2009 Source: New York Post Copyright: 2009 NYP Holdings, Inc. http://www.nypost.com/seven/01312009/news/...bong_152949.htm

Taking the fun out of pot By Connie Littlefield Ottawa Citizen http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Taking/1143884/story.html Low rates of use in the Netherlands demonstrate that the best way to assure teens will try marijuana is to tell them it's illegal Teens smoking marijuana.Photograph by: Getty Images, Getty ImagesIt's official: the Dutch have managed to make pot smoking uncool. The Dutch don't smoke nearly as much cannabis as Canadians, which is surprising because cannabis use is legal in the Netherlands. What can we learn from this? Cannabis is not taboo, as it is in North America, under prohibition. That could be why there is no real attraction for Dutch youth to ta…

America begins to ease up on marijuana smokers Ian Mulgrew 8 January 2009 The Vancouver Sun http://www.vancouversun.com/America+begins...3728/story.html For years we've heard Canada couldn't liberalize its marijuana laws without inciting a crackdown by U.S. authorities and creating chaos along the international boundary. Well, the shoe's now on the other foot with some American jurisdictions telling police forces to quit making minor marijuana arrests and instead issue tickets. In the country that four decades ago launched the interminable so-called War on Drugs? Perfidy. Imagine, American legislators have been adopting progressive drug policies while Ottawa invo…

A baby playing with a telephone inadvertently called police to his house in westernmost Canada and to his "very surprised" father's marijuana-growing operation inside, police say. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police responded to an emergency 911 call in which the caller hung up without saying a word, Constable Janelle Canning told AFP on Wednesday. The officers entered the White Rock residence, after knocks at the door went unanswered, she said. "The father was very surprised to see us and insisted he hadn't called police," she said. "The officers then observed his 11-month-old child playing with a cordless phone, pressing buttons randomly." The mystery caller was…

Author: Scott Morgan Date: January 23, 2009 Source: DRCNet Copyright: 2009 Independent Media Institute Alternet They might as well have displayed a link to ONDCP.gov across the screen for an hour. CNBC's Marijuana, Inc. couldn’t have been more sensationalist if John Walters wrote the screenplay and Bill O’Reilly did the interviews. I’m serious, it was that bad. Of course, it’s impossible to know how the casual observer may interpret a propaganda trainwreck such as this, but for me it crossed the threshold of absurdity to the point of almost becoming useful. If one factual concept emerged unscathed from this, it is that there is simply nothing you can do to stop the …

Examiner.com Asked about medical marijuana on the campaign trail in New Hampshire just a year and a half ago, then-Senator Barack Obama said, "I would not have the Justice Department prosecuting and raiding medical marijuana users. It's not a good use of our resources." Admittedly, he's been on the job just a few days, but now-President Obama's administration has just overseen its first medical marijuana raid. It's time for him to live up to his promise and call off the dogs. It's not right to blame the new White House team for the raid in South Lake Tahoe, California. Drug Enforcement Administration officials are still hold-overs from the old administration, with the…

Author: AAP Date: 17 February 2009 Source: www.news.com.au Copyright: AAP CANNABIS worth more than $1 million has been found growing in rural northwest NSW, police said. They said found 607 plants at a property on Kingsgate Road at Red Range near Glen Innes yesterday. "It's alleged that officers located cannabis plants of differing sizes growing in three separate plantations on the property," police said. The estimated street value of the plants has been put at $1.2 million by authorities. The cannabis has been seized by police who continue to investigate the plantation. No Author? Sounds to me like another frickin media relea…

Source: Rebecca Lollback Date: 14 February 2009 Source: Lismore Star http://www.northernstar.com.au/story/2009/...-uphill-battle/

AUSTRALIAN attitudes to cannabis use have hardened dramatically over the past four years, and support for its legalisation has fallen away. But people are increasingly looking to needle and syringe exchange programs and safe injecting rooms, rather than law and order crackdowns, to tackle the wider illegal drug problem, a new study has found. The study, from the University of NSW Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, reviewed a series of survey results over time and reported a large drop in support for regular cannabis use to less than one in 10 Australians last year, compared with one in four in 2004. Advocates of cannabis law reform also lost ground, with more than …