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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 …

Times Online Author: Andy Hayman Date: January 27, 2009 Source: Times Online Copyright: 2009 Times Newspapers Ltd. The streets don't care what class drugs are Cannabis was reclassified yesterday from C to B. The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs is preparing to give its recommendation to the Home Secretary soon that Ecstasy be downgraded from A to B. I'm never sure which is more arbitrary - the fashion for uppers or downers that changes wildly with each generation of drug-users, or the fashion in policy-making circles for downgrading one year and upgrading the next. We need to scrap the whole classification process - it is outdated, not understood by the p…

BBC News Author: Jim Reed Date: 27 January 2009 Source: BBC News Copyright: MMIX Cannabis health risk 'not rising' Men who take cannabis regularly have a one in 5,000 chance of developing a disease like schizophrenia, according to one of the top drug specialists in the UK. But Professor David Nutt, who chairs the government's Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD), told Newsbeat the risk to mental health from smoking cannabis is no greater than getting drunk. "We've written three reports and read every paper published for the last 30 years. We do not believe the risks are going up," he said. "When we look at the evidence, we have seen a huge incr…

The Nortern Star Author: SAFFRON HOWDEN Date: 28th January 2009 Source: The Nortern Star Copyright: APN News & Media Ltd 2008. Pot less popular, but demon drink is worse WHILE Australians increasingly frown on habitual cannabis use, local experts are warning the bigger problem – alcohol – is hiding in plain sight. Public support for legalising cannabis has declined from a 1998 high as the country takes an increasingly dim view of the drug. A new study by the University of NSW’s Drug Policy Modelling Program shows only 10 per cent of Australians now approve of regular cannabis use, compared with one-quarter just four years ago. “The high watermark for su…

Author: Steve Kubby Date: 23 January 2009 Source: Indpendent Political Report Copyright: 2008 Independent Political Report http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/...ifornia-change/

Author: Ron Matus, Times staff writer Date: 24 January 2009 Source: tampabay.com Copyright: 2009 St. Petersburg Times http://blogs.tampabay.com/breakingnews/200...y-marijuan.html

23/01/09 http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/01/23/2472997.htm © 2009 ABC More than $3 million worth of drugs has been seized from a property on the New South Wales north coast. Police from the Tweed-Byron command raided the property on Eviron Road, Condong, last Friday, and are looking for two men who are connected with the property. They say they found more than 1,500 cannabis plants in an elaborate, hydroponic set up, with a street value of more than $3 million. There was also cannabis leaf worth more than $65,000. Police are looking for two men who have not been seen by family or friends since visiting the property the day before the raid. Strike F…

from voxy news engine voxy.co.nz Friday, 23 January, 2009 - 12:19 Pigs are the same the world over it seems PS Phone No's edited, dont want to make it easy for the dogs out there.

23/01/2009 1:00:00 AM http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local...ps/1414496.aspx Copyright © 2008. Fairfax Media. A baby playing with a telephone inadvertently called police to his house in western Canada and to his ''very surprised'' father's marijuana-growing operation inside, police say. Royal Canadian Mounted Police responded to an emergency call in which the caller hung up without speaking, Constable Janelle Canning said yesterday. Officers entered the White Rock house, near Vancouver, 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 obs…