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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 …

Author: AAP Date: Feb 10, 2009 Source: www.brisbanetimes.com.au Copyright: Fairfax I s'pose. Maybe AAP? Young men who smoke marijuana are more likely to develop an aggressive form of testicular cancer than those who have never tried the drug, a study has found. British newspapers on Monday reported the US research was the first to find evidence of a link between cannabis and testicular cancer. It found smoking the drug at least once a week, or using it regularly from adolescence, doubled the risk of a fast-growing form of the disease called nonseminoma, which tends to strike men in their 20s and 30s. The study, by scientists at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer …

NEW YORK — Snap, crackle ... pot? Bursting with indignation, legions of legalize-marijuana advocates are urging a boycott of Kellogg Co., including all of its popular munchies, for deciding to cut ties with Olympic hero Michael Phelps after he was photographed with a pot pipe. The leader of one of the biggest groups, the Marijuana Policy Project, called Kellogg's action "hypocritical and disgusting," and said he'd never seen his membership so angry, with more than 2,300 of them signing an online petition. "Kellogg's had no problem signing up Phelps when he had a conviction for drunk driving, an illegal act that could actually have killed someone," said Rob Kampia, the gro…

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Author: British Cannabis Lobby Date: 8 February 2009 Source: PR Canna Zine News http://pr.cannazine.co.uk/20090207885/cann...them-today.html

Author: Michael Punongbayan Date: 31 January 2009 Source: The Philipine Star Copyright: 2008 Philstar http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?artic...ubCategoryId=68

www.theage.com.au Cameron Houston 28 December 2008 Victorian Police have turned to satellite technology to hunt green-fingered crooks who grow marijuana in suburban backyards, on farms or on Crown land. With most outdoor crops maturing over the next four months, police are increasingly relying on Google Earth to identify cannabis crops, which can be worth up to $2500 a plant. A Victoria Police spokeswoman has confirmed that Google Earth is a tool in the battle against outdoor growers and has helped with several recent investigations. A senior member of Victoria's drug tasking unit told The Sunday Age the Big Brother technology would be used more when satellite imag…