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Pressure to reform Dutch drug laws as gang violence grows By Nick Meo in Amsterdam Last Updated: 11:55AM GMT 28 Dec 2008 Telegraph.co.uk http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3997943/Pr...ence-grows.html By the time the shooting ended, the A73 south of Nijmegan was littered with bullet casings, and one man lay dead in his car with another sprawled wounded in the passenger seat. Joints containing different types of cannabis are seen in sugar jars at a coffee shop in the southern Dutch city of Bergen op Zoom Photo: REUTERS The survivor refused to talk to police, even though a hired assassin had pursued his vehicle shooting at it without hitting for several miles before f…

Salem-News.com Dr. Phillip Leveque Salem-News.com Phillip Leveque has spent his life as a Combat Infantryman, Pharmacologist, Toxicologist and Physician. http://www.salem-news.com/stimg/december272008/leveque_herer350.jpg Jack Herer, author of "The Emperor Wears No Clothes", with Dr. Phil Leveque at HempStalk 2008 in Portland, Oregon. Jack Herer is possibly the biggest icon in the cultural movement to legalize and legitimize marijuana use. Some may dislike and shudder at such a name. Marijuana Leveque. I don’t. I have been called much worse – Quack, snake oil salesman. In Italy I’m Dr. Pot, here I'm "most dangerous man in Oregon", etc. After I saw “REEFER MADNESS…

A new high: NSW drug arrests Dec 10, 2008 ABC News http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/12/10/2442346.htm Ecstasy arrests in NSW have jumped by more than 50 per cent in two years. (ABC) The latest crime statistics from New South Wales show arrests for drug use have jumped by more than 50 per cent in some cases over the last two years. The NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research says the number of people caught with ecstasy has jumped by 55 per cent since September 2008. Cocaine arrests since then have increased by almost 40 per cent, while arrests for cannabis are up by almost 20 per cent. The bureau's director Dr Don Weatherburn says it may be a case of an…

One in 10 teens hallucinate - study 6 December 2008 http://www.skynews.com.au/health/article.aspx?id=284468 Almost one in 10 Australian teens say they have hallucinations, and those from broken homes are among the hardest hit. Young cannabis users also dominate the 8.4 per cent of teens who say they either see or hear 'things that other people think aren't there'. But the findings do not mean the same teenagers will go on to suffer a mental illness in adulthood, the Queensland-based researchers behind the study say. 'Clearly, most adolescents in this study who experience hallucinations will not subsequently develop a psychotic disorder,' the authors write in the…

CelebStoner's Top 10 Stories of 2008 27 December 2008 CelebStoner, New York http://www.celebstoner.com/news/celebstone...es-of-2008.html 1. Barack Obama elected President Without a doubt the biggest story of the year, Obama tantalized stoners with his quips ("I inhaled frequently") and statements ("we need to rethink and decriminalize the marijuana laws"). The question remains if and how he will address the nation’s misguided Prohibition of marijuana and other illegal drugs. 2. Cheech & Chong reunite Twenty-seven years after the dopey duo split up, they finally got back together for the Light Up America comedy tour, which continues through March. Another C…

Schapelle Corby misses jail term reduction 25 December 2008 Courier Mail http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0...73-3102,00.html CONVICTED drug smuggler Schapelle Corby, of the Gold Coast, has missed being handed a Christmas Day sentence reduction from Indonesian authorities. Indonesian authorities used the day to announce the freeing of 221 prisoners for good behaviour and a reduction in sentences for more than 7000 other prisoners. Corby and fellow Australian drug trafficker Renae Lawrence were among 59 prisoners at Bali's Kerobokan prison in line for Christmas sentence cuts on Thursday. Neither of the women were granted a reduction, but prison official Y…

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…