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By Graham Tibbetts Last Updated: 7:21AM GMT 27 Nov 2008 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics...is-factory.html © Copyright of Telegraph Media Group Limited 2008 Police raided a 79-year-old widow's Highland cottage after mistaking her tomato plants for a cannabis factory, it was reported. The officers burst in with sniffer dogs and took samples of the plants for analysis. Lulu Matheson, who has lived in the property in Shieldaig for 53 years, said she was shaken up by the encounter. Mrs Matheson told the Daily Mail: "I got a terrible fright and I couldn't understand what they were doing here because I knew we had nothing more than tomatoes in the window. I…
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http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story...2-12377,00.html "Ms Roxon said an average of four under-25s died each week from alcohol, not counting the hospitalisations and the Government, communities and parents were trying to convey a message about responsible drinking." How is it they can continue to sell and tax this lethal poison?
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THE Federal Government has urged every state and territory government to get tough on cannabis in a bid to reduce mental health problems. Federal Parliamentary Secretary for Health, Christopher Pyne yesterday called for cannabis use and possession to be recriminalised. Cannabis possession is criminal in all states but with varying leniency. In Victoria, the maximum penalty for cannabis use or possession is a $500 fine. First or second-time offenders with up to 50g may be cautioned. Mr Pyne said it was time to make cannabis possession criminal no matter how small the amount. Advertisement: "We must do more to tackle the perception that cannabis is a harmless drug,"…
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The Canberra Times Noel Towell and Michele Tydd 24/11/2008 The double life of a public servant with ACT Health's alcohol and drug services has been exposed after he admitted growing $160,000 worth of illegal drugs on his NSW property using a sophisticated hydroponic system. Mark Vincent Blattman, who was caught in June with a crop of 75 marijuana plants and 720g of cannabis in a shed on his Sutton property, has also pleaded guilty to storing illegally held firearms and ammunition. Blattman's wife, Lyndal, a nurse with the alcohol and drug services, is facing less serious charges over the June 25 raid but has yet to enter a plea. Queanbeyan District Court heard…
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Some excerpts of the transcripts. Lightning is accused M.P. Littlbit is Accused E.P. Persecutor is Mr C. It is a real eye opener to the state of law in Australia. HER HONOUR: I am obliged at the end of the trial to instruct the jury as to the law which it must apply to its deliberations. If I feel, or if my decision is, that what you have to say about the constitution, international covenants and treaties and human rights legislation is not correct at law, I will not instruct the jury to consider it. I will in fact tell the jury that that is not a matter that they should consider. The jury is not here to decide the law. The jury here is h…
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ENCOD MORE THAN HALF OF DUTCH LORD MAYORS WANT TO LEGALISE CANNABIS published Wednesday 19 November 2008 by encod Lord mayors in favour of legalising soft drugs chain - Source: Binnenlands Bestuur, 19 November 2008 More than half of all Dutch lord mayors with one or more coffeeshops on their territory, want to legalise the entire soft drugs-chain. The lord mayors want to get rid of the "frontdoor - backdoor problem, created by a policy that tolerates the sale of weed, but not the production and delivery. That is the result of a telephone survey of weekly magazine Binnenlands Bestuur (Domestic Administration) among the 106 municipalities that have one or more coff…
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ENCOD DUTCH MP VISITS COFFEESHOP published Thursday 20 November 2008 Dutch MP Boris van der Ham buys a bag of weed of the "regulated market" - A glance of the future after the ban on cannabis has been abolished! On Thursday 27 November, at 09.15 hs, Dutch Member of Parliament of left liberal party D66 will buy a bag of cannabis at coffeeshop "Cremers", Prinsestraat 84 in The Hague. The owner of this coffeeshop, Gerard Smit, will provide him with this bag and inform him extensively on the origin of this cannabis, the methods of cultivation, the effects of it and the way in which the price has been determined. In this way it becomes clear how the cannabis market c…
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Dutch drug policy shaken by coffeeshop closures -------------------------------------------------------- Author: Robert Chesal Date: 24-10-2008 Source: Radio Netherlands Worldwide Copyright: Radio Netherlands Worldwide 2008 Two southern Dutch town mayors have taken the dramatic step of shutting down all local businesses currently legally selling cannabis. It's the first time a blanket stop has been introduced in a Dutch town. The two towns, Bergen op Zoom and Roosendaal, claim they are suffering from the nuisance caused by foreign tourists in search of soft drugs banned in their own countries. In total eight coffeeshops, the name used f…
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By Vanessa Mock Monday, 24 November 2008 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/eu...ls-1032210.html Copyright 2008 Independent News and Media Limited The Dutch city of Eindhoven has caused a stir with a plan to set up a cannabis plantation to supply marijuana to its coffee shops. The move was announced at a "weed summit", when dozens of Dutch mayors urged the government to back the pilot project in an effort to clamp down on the criminals who supply the drug. The Netherlands, famed for having one of Europe's most tolerant policies on soft drugs, allows for the possession of less than 5g of marijuana and its sale in coffee shops, but bans the cultivation and …
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NSW farmers urged to grow hemp November 20, 2008 - 10:17AM Source: ABC New South Wales farmers are being encouraged to start growing industrial hemp. The Government recently passed legislation allowing the plant to be grown for use in products ranging from bio-fuel to dog food. The Primary Industries Minister, Ian Macdonald, says measures have been put in place to prevent hemp crops being used to camouflage marijuana plantations. "The licensing scheme is authorised by our Act of Parliament," he said. "It'll require farmers who wish to grow industrial hemp to register to get a licence. "That'll mean that their properties will be then audited and inspected regul…
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long time reader first time poster: http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/high-h...6770542506.html "GROWING cannabis becomes legal in NSW today - provided you are a licensed farmer who will harvest hemp for industrial use. After years of debate, the State Government has approved large-scale hemp farming and will consider licence applications under a new scheme."
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Earlier this year I kicked out a housemate for failing to pay her rent (we also have 2 kids together but have been seperated for years). Knowing this person to be a low life narc I took the measure of keeping my herbs on the windowsill in the toilet in the hope I could flush it before entry could be made to my home. Well some dickhead left the door unlocked and I was lucky enough to see three blokes (looked like mormons) walking up my drive, I dashed for the toilet and dumped and flushed. All I could here was "mate come here, come here". FLUSH, TACKLE, SLAMMED INTO THE WALL. The mormon lookalikes let themselves in and did not like the fact I was flushing the toilet. I c…
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,454971,00.html © 2008 FOX News Network, LLC. All rights reserved SACRAMENTO — State and federal drug enforcement officials say they have pulled more than 5 million marijuana plants from public and private land this year, a record amount. The state Department of Justice, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and other agencies announced Wednesday that they have seized 5.2 million marijuana plants. Most of those were on public land. John Gaines, chief of California's Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement, says more than half the nation's domestically produced marijuana is grown in California. State and fede…
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22/11/08 Copyright © 2008 The Press Association. All rights reserved Amsterdam will close almost a fifth of its marijuana cafes to comply with a national ban on having them near schools, the city's mayor said. Another city, Eindhoven, said it would start issuing permits to cannabis growers in order to better regulate the trade - if the national government approves. The plans were announced as 33 major Dutch cities held a "weed summit" to discuss the nation's long-standing policy of tolerating marijuana use while routinely arresting growers. Cannabis is technically illegal in the Netherlands, but can be sold in small amounts in designated cafes - euphemistically …
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An Open Letter [i know this is from June, 08, but it still remains very relevant . . . and I did search and couldn't find it here ] An Open Letter to Ms Miranda Devine from Dr Alex Wodak: A shorter version of this letter (without references) was offered to the Sydney Morning Herald but declined. This commentary is a response to arguments made in an article by Ms Devine published in the Sydney Morning Herald on 15 May 2008. This response was posted on the Update Listserver of the ADCA in Canberra on Monday 2nd June 2008. REDUCING THE HARMS OF CANNABIS AND CANNABIS POLICIES In her recent article on cannabis in the Sydney Morning Herald [1], Ms. Miranda Devine exp…
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