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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,…

A 60-year-old defense attorney had been smuggling marijuana and cigarettes into Cook County Jail as part of a scheme orchestrated by an inmate, authorities said. Dave Compton was arrested Wednesday afternoon after Cook County Sheriff's officers caught him making a transaction with the unnamed inmate's girlfriend, Angela Bell, and an undercover officer outside a courtroom at 26th and California, according to prosecutors. The sheriff's intelligence unit initiated an investigation when another inmate, Armond Williams, was spotted with a package containing the items on Jan. 7, assistant Cook County state's attorney Russ Baker said. Williams told authorities he received …

http://www.theage.com.au/national/100000-h...90109-7dk9.html A cannabis crop worth $100,000 has been seized by police in Melbourne's outer east after a tip-off from the public. Police raided a garage in Ferntree Gully and charged a Mulgrave man, 36, with a series of drug offences after discovering 115 cannabis plants. Acting Sergeant Lee Nichols from Croydon Divisional Tasking Unit said the garage's hydroponic set-up had allegedly used stolen electricity by connecting cables to the power before it was read by the meter. He said police searched the property after anonymous calls made to Crime Stoppers. "We are grateful to those in the community who have taken not…

ERIC PARNIS 13/01/2009 10:53:00 AM http://tenterfield.yourguide.com.au/news/l...rs/1407976.aspx Copyright © 2008. Fairfax Media. Police were out in force over the weekend, targeting drunk and drugged drivers making the voyage to the Exodus Festival held at Rover Park over the weekend. Numerous motorists were stopped by police at a stationary drug testing site set up on the Drake side of the location, as well as by officers who were conducting mobile patrols in the area. Festival patrons felt the police presence while making the journey to Rover Park, with some festival-goers travelling west from Casino reported being stopped at mobile and fixed sites up to three…

January 09, 2009 04:45pm http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0...40-2682,00.html Copyright 2009 News Limited POLICE have confiscated a large amount of cannabis after detecting a marijuana smell during a routine patrol at Waterloo Corner this afternoon. They removed 500 cannabis seedlings, 30 to 40 mature plants and about 10kg of cannabis which would have made up to 30,000 street deals from a rental property on Huxtable Rd. Police said the plants were grown in bedrooms of the four-bedroom house and the electricity supply had been tampered with. Lights and transformers were also confiscated. Police are still searching for the tenants of the house.

Sheriff Patrick Hedges’ involvement in the Charles C. Lynch medical marijuana case sparks a citizen complaint regarding possible misconduct. Lynch, the former operator of the Morro Bay medical marijuana dispensary, Central Coast Compassionate Caregivers (CCCC), faces up to 100 years in federal prison. Federal Judge George H. Wu scheduled Lynch’s Sentencing for Monday February 23rd 2009 at 8:30 AM SLO County's Sheriff Hedges The complaint alleges Hedges wasted untold amounts of California tax-payers’ money, beginning in March 2006 to present, to subvert California State law in favor of his own political agenda. Stacey Warde, publisher of the Rogue Voice, urges overs…

Pot, Postal Service -- A Bad Combination Postal inspectors intercepted and opened a suspicious-looking package that had been mailed from San Diego and was bound for Naperville. A narcotics dealer has been sentenced to six years in prison for his part in mailing a package that contained $80,000 worth of marijuana to an associate's Naperville home. Paul T. DeLong, of southwest suburban Midlothian, was recommended as a candidate for enrollment in the Illinois Department of Corrections' "impact incarceration" program, or boot camp. The recommendation was made as part of DeLong's sentencing Wednesday in DuPage County Circuit Court. He was also ordered to pay $8,100 in f…

Rationalitate Wednesday, January 7, 2009 Possible Surgeon General Sanjay Gupta's tortured logic on marijuana prohibition Word on the street is that Obama's choice for surgeon general is CNN medical journalist Sanjay Gupta, which is an interesting twist on an otherwise irrelevant cabinet position. The criticism of him on his Wikipedia page ain't too shabby – he's angered The Nation over his healthcare policy coverage and pissed off Michael Moore in his criticism of Sicko. But reading this article that he wrote for Time in 2006 on marijuana legalization makes me doubt the man's competence. Despite the fact that I know he's not an expert on marijuana, either scientifi…

Author: Andrew Korner Date: 18th January 2009 Source: Queensland Times Copyright: 2009 Link: http://www.qt.com.au/story/2009/01/18/mari...ils-to-impress/ Marijuana lesson fails to impress WE'RE all familiar with the idea of growing and smoking your own marijuana for medicinal purposes, but what is the justice system's take on people who grow for educational purposes? After being caught with a 1m tall marijuana plant in his back yard, Tallegalla man Trevor Leslie Walters told police he grew the plant to teach his adult son a lesson about the beauty of naturally grown green stuff. It seemed the 54-year-old pensioner, who puffs to relieve chronic pain in his back a…

Good news from italy...not too much but better tha nothing http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/en..._114319935.html (ANSA) - Rome, January 14 - Italy's top court caused a flap on Wednesday when it said it was OK to grow marijuana as long as people didn't let it get big enough to have any of the drug in it yet. Overturning the conviction of a Marche man caught with 23 small plants in 2003, the Cassation Court said police should only step in when there was a concrete threat. Politicians pounced on the verdict, with Isabella Bertolini of the ruling People of Freedom (PdL) party saying: ''The Cassation judges really seem to be living on another planet. The next t…