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December 16, 2008 - 6:51AM http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/queen...9189569563.html Copyright © 2008. Brisbane Times Police raids at two homes and a storage container on the Gold Coast yesterday allegedly uncovered a large-scale hydroponic drug operation. Officers conducted a search of a Hollywood Drive home at Gaven about 11am after receiving a tip off from the public and allegedly found the drug production set-up. They seized a number of large cannabis plants as well as lighting, ventilation and watering equipment allegedly found inside. A second search was conducted at a property in Withern Court at Caligaraba, where police allegedly uncovered a second hydr…

Well, Well, Well: To all some good herbs Connie Howard 25 December 2008 health@vueweekly.com http://www.vueweekly.com/article.php?id=10607 Peace, hope, love, goodwill, light in the darkness—they’re what every winter solstice holiday has ever been about, but also sadly sometimes as elusive as a hungry child’s faith in Santa. Elusive because the world can be harsh, and because we too often don’t register the dissonance inherent in riding to elaborate diamond-studded holiday celebrations in plush chariots to celebrate giving and goodwill while taking from those with less so we can have more. It’s an age-old thing, the dark quicksand that power becomes, and it has mostl…

101 and Losing Her Home Sue Weibezahl Porter Central New York News 25 December 2008 http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/200...g_her_home.html Mary Reaves and her 101-year-old grandmother, Mamie Singleton, sit on their living room sofa at 114 Baker Ave. in Syracuse. Reaves received a nuisance abatement notice on Dec.19, evicting her and her grandmother within five days due to drug arrests that happened on her property over several years involving a nephew. Mamie Singleton, 101, and her granddaughter, Mary Reaves, 56, are being evicted from their home of 45 years. They received a notice last week from Syracuse police Chief Gary Miguel, giving them five days to leave …

“It Eases My Stress”- Says Man Found With Cannabis BVI Platinum News 22 December 2008 http://www.bviplatinum.com/news.php?sectio...urce=1229962978 Royden Sebastian, 25 of West End was this morning fined $500.00 for the illegal possession of 0.5 grams of cannabis that was found in his clothes closet. Prior to knowing his fate, the young man who is a construction worker told the Court that he did not mean to break the law, but bravely noted that the substance helps him to ease his stress. “I really didn’t mean to break the law or anything. When I come home from a hard and stressful day, it helps to ease my stress…I take the weed to ease my stress and that set there…

Cannabis grower's 'doomed project' swansea.co.uk 22 December 2008 http://www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/news/Can...il/article.html A FATHER from Port Talbot who suffers from an inherited nerve disease attempted to grow cannabis plants to help treat his pain. Neath Magistrates Court was told that Phillip John Williams, of St Asaph Drive, has a condition called Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. He had taken cannabis as a form of pain relief for the past ten years and thought he would save money by growing his own, according to his solicitor Gary Newbury. However, Mr Newbury added it was "an enterprise doomed to failure" because all the plants Williams had given to him were of th…

Cannabis? But what about the children? PR Cannazine 24 December 2008 http://pr.cannazine.co.uk : http://pr.cannazine.co.uk/content/view/794/1/ Almost all of the government’s reasoning over the reclassification of cannabis involves a ‘what about the children’ perspective. We constantly hear about young people and mental illness as the demonisation process rolls on. They worry about seed shops too close to schools and the media play on parental fears of their little one’s being seduced into drug use. But, in the case of septuagenarian milkman Robert Holding, there were only consenting elderly people involved. One would assume that having lived for seventy years o…

nj.com 22 December 2008 George Amick Times of Trenton Those who favor a sensible and compassionate approach to the use of illegal drugs in New Jersey must continually contend with a tough bunch of hard-liners at the Statehouse. It took more than a decade for them to win approval for a cautious test of programs that give intravenous drug users access to clean needles to slow the spread of HIV/AIDS and other blood-borne diseases. And they've been trying for nearly four years to legalize the medical use of marijuana under tight restrictions for sufferers who could benefit from its use. Once again, they're butting heads with legislative drug warriors for whom any policy…

Monday 22 December 2008 To the members of the EU Horizontal Drugs Group, the members of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs of the European Parliament COMMENT OF ENCOD TO THE DRUGS ACTION PLAN OF THE EUROPEAN UNION 2009-2012 Antwerp, 15 December 2008 Dear Madams, Sirs, Please find herewith the communication of the European Coalition for Just and Effective Drug Policies (ENCOD) on the new EU Drugs Action Plan for 2009 - 2012 that has been proposed by the European Commission to be approved by the Member States and the European Parliament. Looking forward to your response, sincerely yours, On behalf of ENCOD (a pan-European network of mor…

24/ 12/ 2008 http://en.rian.ru/russia/20081224/119152187.html © 2007 RIA Novosti YAKUTSK, December 24 (RIA Novosti) - A criminal case has been launched against two men caught picking cannabis in a snow-covered field in the northeastern Siberian republic of Yakutia, a drug police spokesman said on Wednesday. "Despite vigorous cold, reaching minus 52 degrees Celsius [minus 62 degrees Fahrenheit] that day, the two buddies managed to harvest two bags of cannabis with a total weight of nearly three kg [6.6 lbs]," the source said. The two men admitted that they were going to share the drug with friends. Medical tests confirmed that they had used marijuana before. "…

CannaZine According to news reports the authorities in New Zealand, no doubt mindful of the fact they have a shocking record, which sees 38% of the population admit to using cannabis, would like to start teaching children about the 'dangers' of cannabis abuse from the age of 12 years. According to Bill Stone at the Cannabis Lobby , "This entire report is complete and utter rubbish and I'm frankly surprised a normally high quality publication like "STUFF.CO.NZ" has subscribed to it at all." Education or Marketing? Increasing the amount of 'drug education' under prohibition is only going to ADD to the fact New Zealand lags behind only the US in the amounts of its cit…

Special service: The 72-year-old milkman who delivered cannabis with the daily pinta By Jaya Narain Last updated at 10:44 PM on 22nd December 2008 Mail Online http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11...ily-rounds.html Special deliveries: Milkman Robert Holding said he only dealt cannabis to pensioners with with 'aches and pains' Robert Holding was the sort of milkman who always liked to help his customers - particularly the elderly ones. So if they left him a little note asking for something extra, he tried to get it for them. But some of their requests went beyond the usual dozen eggs or bottle of orange juice. Holding, 72, has admitted supplying canna…