Cannabis Hemp News

ABC Rural 11/11/2008 Western Australia's Ord Valley region has just wrapped up its first hemp harvest in nearly a decade, and the company involved in the trial says it will now look to plant 500 hectares next year. Hemp hasn't been grown in the Kimberley since an unsuccessful trial in 2000, and growers have mixed feelings about the crop's value. Chief executive of Hemp Resources, Kim Hough, believes current legislation, which stops hemp seed from being sold as a food product in Australia, will soon be changed and will make hemp a very viable crop in the Ord. "We're confident that laws will be changed," he says. "But no, it wouldn't turn us away (from growing in …

Arjun Ramachandran November 11, 2008 - 5:20PM http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/suburb...6318640419.html Copyright © 2008. The Sydney Morning Herald Tip-offs triggered police raids on houses in Sydney's south-west, with cannabis plants worth more than $1.5 million seized. Police forced their way into two houses at 11.15am today - at Thurlow Street, Riverwood, and at Broad Arrow Road, Narwee. No one was in either house, which contained almost 300 plants, from seedlings to mature-sized plants. Police said rooms had been converted to grow cannabis. They are investigating who occupied the houses. Today's operation follows raids at three houses in Kingsgrove …

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Aaron Falk Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2008 http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,705262156,00.html GREEN RIVER — More than 100 pounds of marijuana were shrink-wrapped, layered with alcohol-soaked paper towels, placed in plastic bags, covered with axle grease and drenched with Febreze. But it wasn't enough to throw off the dog. A Utah Highway Patrol K9 officer found the 28 bundles of marijuana Sunday inside three suitcases on a Greyhound bus traveling from California to New York. A 57-year-old Jamaican woman on the bus was arrested in connection with the incident. Police are still trying to identify the woman, who was using a fake name to travel because she was an illegal …

Monday 10 November 2008 http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2008..._soft_drugs.php © DutchNews.nl The Dutch policy of turning a blind eye to the sale of small amounts of cannabis came under further pressure on Sunday when the leader of the Christian Democrats in parliament called for an outright ban. Speaking at the CDA party congress, Pieter van Geel said the current policy had failed and that all the cafes where soft drugs are sold, known as coffee shops, should be shut down. The CDA’s minority coalition partner ChristenUnie also supports the closure of coffee shops. Labour, the third party in the government, is opposed. Van Geel’s call comes just weeks …

Northern Territory News PHOEBE STEWART, November 6th, 2008 A DEAF mute ruled unfit to plead to two serious Territory stabbings has become addicted to cannabis while under 24-hour government supervision, the Supreme Court heard yesterday. Roland Ebatarintja, 30, has spent most of a five-year non-custodial supervision order under the care of the NT Health Department after being found unfit to plead in 2004. He is profoundly deaf after contracting meningitis as a toddler, and the location of his care is suppressed. But Justice Trevor Riley was shocked to be told by a Health Department lawyer yesterday that Mr Ebatarintja had become addicted to cannabis in care. "…

Boston Globe David Abel, Globe Staff 8 November 2008 Boston, MA -- Advocates for the decriminalization of marijuana, savoring their success this week in Massachusetts, said they look forward to a day under an Obama administration and a Democrat-led Congress when it's no longer a federal crime to possess small amounts of the drug. They cited a bill introduced in the spring by Representative Barney Frank, which would decriminalize possession of marijuana in amounts of 3.5 ounces or less anywhere in the United States. The bill, if it became law, would end federal prosecution of such crimes, but it would not supersede state laws. The advocates said they hope the bill w…

Drug overdose kills one European per hour ELITSA VUCHEVA 06.11.2008 @ 17:42 CET EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS http://euobserver.com/851/27058 Although drugs consumption in Europe in the last year has remained relatively stable, its levels are still alarmingly high, and the use of cocaine has even noted an increase in some countries, the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction said on Thursday (6 November) in its annual report. The use of cocaine in the last year has increased in seven EU countries. (Photo: US federal government) One European dies every hour from drug overdose, with young people being particularly vulnerable, says the document, which cover…