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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 We need to scrap the whole classification process - it is outdated, not understood by the p…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…

By Trish Regan Anchor CNBC updated 5:29 p.m. ET Jan. 22, 2009 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28354324/ © 2009 MicrosoftMSN MENDOCINO COUNTY, Calif. - Two hours from San Francisco, Northern California’s Mendocino County is a world away from the urban bustle. At first glance, it’s a picture postcard of the far West. But beneath its beauty lies a controversial, profitable and increasingly violent criminal enterprise. The marijuana trade is an exploding underground industry. Marijuana is being grown in homes, backyards, even in our national parks. Since the 1960s, the so-called Emerald Triangle — Northern California's Mendocino, Humboldt and Trinity counties — has i…

By KIM THOMAS Saturday, 10 January 2009 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4814158a11.html © Fairfax New Zealand Limited 2007 NEW SPICE: An over the counter "chemical cannabis", banned in several countries, is on sale in New Zealand under the brand names Spice and Dream. A widely available "chemical cannabis" is being monitored by the Government after being banned in other countries. The chemical compound JWH-018, sold as Spice or Dream, was recently banned in Austria and was this week outlawed in Germany after tests showed it affected the brain like THC, the natural psychoactive substance contained in cannabis, but was four times stronger. Drug agencies in New Zealand…

Police make marijuana bust in former military underground bunker Date: 22 January 2009 Author: Carly Timmons Source: ABC Copyright: 2009 The E.W. Scripps Co. http://www.abcactionnews.com/news/local/st...8KwTW3DeGQ.cspx

South African Airways cabin crew arrested over drugs haul Agence France-Presse January 21, 2009 07:42am FIFTEEN South African Airways cabin crew members have been arrested after 50kg of cannabis was found onboard a flight from Johannesburg to London. A London Heathrow airport customs spokesman said the drugs, worth $322,000, were found by officers of the UK Borders Agency. The drugs were seized by officers of the UK Border Agency, a newly established force set up to control smuggling and illegal immigration. The drugs were discovered in three pieces of baggage, the spokesman said. Those held were both flight crew and cabin crew. HMRC spokesman Bob Gaiger …

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Sat, Jan 10, 2009 1:10 pm Source: Coed Magazine http://hightimes.com/news/dan/4956 For the stoner sect, working on a pot farm must seem like the equivalent of a fat person winning one of those contests where they get to stuff their shopping cart with as much food as they can in one minute. But I–your faithful blogger—have actually worked on a pot farmer in Mendocino County (part of the Emerald Triangle) and the fantasy isn’t always the same as the reality. So here are 7 truths and fictions about working on a pot farm: There is a shitload of weed on a farm: TRUE! You better believe it. Bushels and bushels of freshly trimmed weed stacked to the ceiling, with exotic na…

Marijuana Monopoly Maintained Jacob Sullum 13 January 2009 Reson Magazine http://reason.com/blog/show/131038.html Yesterday, with a week to go in the Bush administration, the Drug Enforcement Administration officially rejected an application to establish an alternative source of marijuana for medical research, a role currently monopolized by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The application was filed seven years ago by University of Massachusetts at Amherst plant scientist Lyle Craker and the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), which is trying to facilitate research aimed at making marijuana an FDA-approved medicine. In turning Craker down,…