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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…

Associated Press December 22, 2008 3:14 AM ET http://www.kswt.com/Global/story.asp?S=956...nav=menu613_2_6 © Copyright 2000 - 2008 WorldNow and KSWT. All Rights Reserved TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - An ultralight pilot who flew a bit too low crashed his marijuana-stuffed aircraft southwest of Tucson. The unnamed pilot sustained serious back injuries following Friday night's crash near the Casino Del Sol. Federal officials think the single-engine plane may have been overloaded with about 350 pounds of marijuana when it clipped electrical lines and crashed. A spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection says smugglers have been using ultralights to avoid radar. Th…

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 08:27:04 GMT http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/24...han-school.html Copyright, respective author or news agency Kabul - Soldiers discovered 2.5 tons of cannabis inside a classroom in southern Afghanistan, while four militants were killed elsewhere in the country, officials said Sunday. The plants were found in a school in the Arghestan district of Kandahar province on Friday, the US military said in a statement. "The building contained an estimated two-and-a-half tons of marijuana and a large room filled with marijuana seeds," it said. "No students or faculty were at the schoolhouse at the time of the discovery. The school's furniture had …

Written by Imperial Valley News Saturday, 20 December 2008 http://www.imperialvalleynews.com/index.ph...65&Itemid=1 Sterling, Virginia - Some people enjoy consuming tea for its antioxidant health benefits while others enjoy tea for the caffeine rush, but for one international traveler, his tea was more the mind altering kind. Unfortunately for him, it couldn’t alter an outstanding New York City arrest charge that abruptly ended his return trip home late Wednesday night. Jeffrey Cannon, 20, of Huntington, Md., was arrested by Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) Police after Customs and Border Protection officers confirmed Cannon’s identity a…

Warning about new, stronger strain of marijuana in VN 19/12/2008 (GMT+7) VietNamNet Bridge http://english.vietnamnet.vn/social/2008/12/819426/ A new, more potent marijuana is being sold to adolescents in northern and southern Viet Nam, Ha Noi police have reported. Smoked like a normal cigarette, marihuana excites the nervous system, but less than opiates. It is being sold in Hai Phong and HCM City as well as Ha Noi. HCM City police believe it will be a precursor to the use of harder drugs. It was difficult to confirm suspected users because spot tests were ineffective, said Dr Tran Phuoc Dung of HCM City's Go Vap Hospital. "This kind of cannabis is addictive li…

By Aaron Houston, AlterNet. Posted December 18, 2008 A new survey reveals 13% of 10th-graders reported smoking marijuana in the past 30 days, while just 12.3 smoked cigarettes. AlterNet Buried in the latest Monitoring the Future survey -- the major annual, federally funded survey of teen drug use -- is an astonishing finding: More 10th-graders now smoke marijuana than smoke cigarettes. Strangely, in announcing the results, White House drug czar John Walters failed to mention this evidence that our current drug policies constitute an utter train wreck. In the just-released survey, 13.8 percent of 10th-graders reported smoking marijuana in the past 30 days (consider…

20/12/08 http://www.nisnews.nl/public/201208_2.htm THE HAGUE, - People with five cannabis plants in their home will not be prosecuted, no matter how much cannabis the plants produce, the appeal court in Den Bosch has ruled. The police have for years maintained a policy of not considering five plants at home an offence, because they can be seen as ornamental plants or for personal use of cannabis and not for commercial cultivation. The Public Prosecutor's Office (OM) did not consider those criteria relevant in this case because 6,712 grams of cannabis was found in the home of the suspects, a couple from Uden. The policy of toleration, created by jurisprudence and …

standard.co.uk Terry Kirby 17.12.08 They have criminal records for drug dealing, robbery, driving offences, assault and theft. And all are serving police officers. Essex police have admitted that 25 officers have convictions. A total of 10 offences were committed while the officers were serving and include dangerous driving, criminal damage and battery as well as common assault. The remainder were employed in the full knowledge of previous convictions. The details were released after a Freedom of Information request. One sergeant has a record for possession and supply of cannabis. Tony Rayner, chairman of the Essex branch of the Police Federation, said: "If th…

Police officers due in court 18 December 2008 Press Association http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/a...HKfijgaPI8lrBlw Three police officers are due to appear in court accused of perverting the course of justice, the police watchdog said. Sergeant Marcus Garvey, 44, and Pc Wayne Campbell, 40, were summonsed over the arrest of a man in January for possessing cannabis. The arrested man was charged and appeared in court in Greenwich, south-east London, but the case was dismissed after a digital recording from the time of the arrest was played in court.