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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…

hi there, im new to this site.. ive been reading bits an pieces.. its a kool site.. glad to be here.. thanks for having me... you know wat i find ironic.... isnt it interesting... more so now with the global finacial crisis...and the expense of living atm... it seems.. us bottom feeders.. (society) become poorer.. cant afford shit..so ppl start theiving etc.. up goes the crime rate.. i mean the other day on the news, a man was held up in his car, by gun point.. some dude was robbing him.. im mean pls.. how rude.. this was around the corner from my house.. how safe am i...? in amongst all that... us weed smokers get the kick in the ass.. how is weed a drug..and who mad…

16/1/09 http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/articl...gI-ZpgD95NQ83O1 Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved DENTON, Texas (AP) — A man in Denton, Texas who was expecting a shipment of tools instead received a 30-pound brick of marijuana that police say is worth more than $10,000. Officer Ryan Grelle says the man opened the box Monday night, realized it contained drugs and contacted police. The package from the Pharr area was handled by UPS in McAllen on Jan. 6. and apparently was intended for a Dallas address. The Denton Record-Chronicle reports no such address exists in Dallas, so the package wound up 40 miles to the northwest at the similar a…

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One million Australians have tried cocaine Ben Packham Herald Sun 18 December 2008 http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,2...37-2862,00.html COCAINE use has surged to record highs, with an estimated one million Australians having tried the drug. New figures show cannabis and amphetamine use has slumped, but demand for ecstasy is high. About 6 per cent of Australians aged 14 and over have tried cocaine, and 1.6 per cent - or 281,000 people - use it regularly. That's about 100,000 more cocaine users than in 2004. Australians aged 20-29 are the biggest consumers of the drug, according to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare's 2007 household drugs su…

Police chopper wanted on Coast Matthew Killoran December 31st, 2008 goldcoast.com.au http://www.goldcoast.com.au/article/2008/1...-top-story.html THERE are renewed calls for a police helicopter to be based on the Gold Coast after a wanted man slipped through a police dragnet yesterday. The Westpac Rescue Helicopter eventually joined the hunt but it was too late to make a difference. The man, in his 20s, had been driving north on Olsen Avenue in a red Toyota Seca when police ran a check on the number plates and discovered they were false. The driver refused to pull over and a pursuit ensued. It was called off shortly afterwards when police lost sight of the car…

Rebecca Lollback 10th January 2009 http://www.northernstar.com.au/story/2009/...d-in-drug-bust/ TWO bus-loads of tourists heading out of Nimbin were stopped at a police roadblock and searched for drugs yesterday afternoon as part of a two-day operation. About 60 per cent of the passengers had drugs on them. Police launched the operation on Thursday which included a roadside drug testing van between Lismore and Nimbin, drug dogs and patrols of 'high risk locations', including hotels. “We also did some other operations in town,” Det Sgt Smith said. Police said 89 people were searched over the two-day operation and 53 were carrying drugs. Of those 24 were caut…

livenews.com.au 19/01/2009 10:10am 147 Arrests! Drug sniffing dogs helped police make 147 arrests at Sunday's Big Day Out music festival at the Gold Coast Parklands. Making their first appearance at the annual event, the sniffer dogs led to 52 arrests on drug-related matters, mostly for possession of ecstasy or marijuana. Police laid a total of 172 charges on Sunday. A police spokeswoman said arrests for possession of drugs was down on last year, when 81 faced drug-related charges. A further 308 concert-goers were evicted from the venue, mainly by security personnel, she said. The Big Day Out next plays Sydney on Friday before moving to Melbourne, Adelaide and Per…

A MAGISTRATE has encouraged a regular marijuana user to attempt to get his drug usage legalised, because it was the only substance that numbed his pain after his whole body was badly burned. Jason Bernard Young, 31, from Coolum Beach on the Sunshine Coast, appeared in the Maroochydore Magistrates' Court yesterday on two drug possession charges after he was found with 2g of marijuana at his home in December. Young was intoxicated when he fell off a train bridge in 1995 and sustained burns to 95 per cent of his body after he grabbed hold of the electrical wiring above the Bald Hills train station. The court was told Young had tried numerous drugs and pain killers but …