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Another Interview I was in for a U.S Podcast called TIME4HEMP at http://www.time4hemp.com with a good friend of mine, Casper Leitch... Please go to the left hand side of their Home page and click on Time4hemp podcasts. Then go to the next page and you will see an Interview with LEAP Speaker Jay Fisher and one titled "Raise Your Awareness" - THIS - is my most recent interview at TIME4HEMP... Please check these out and pass them on when you have a second... Enjoy! Thank you... Love and a squish, Alison xx ----- Original Message ----- From: "Casper" <happybob_714@yahoo.com> To: "'Alison Myrden'" <alisonmyrden@cogeco.ca> Sent: Saturday, Novemb…

Treatment for Drug Addicts Works and Jail Time Doesn't - Here Are the Stories to Prove It Matthew Palevsky, AlterNet. October 30, 2008 AlterNet DrugReporter Treatment graduates ask CA voters to give others the opportunity they had, to get treatment and turn their lives around. The following video by Prop 5 supporter Matt Palevsky puts a human face on the benefits of rehabilitation rather than incarceration for illicit drug consumption: Matthew Palevsky is the Chairman of Students for Sensible Drug Policy, a drug policy reform organization with over 100 chapters on college campuses across America. Formerly a producer at The Real News Network, Matthew left TRNN to organ…

For the past 15 years, lawmakers have pursued tough-on-drugs policies in an effort to create a "drug free America," ploughing billions of dollars into prosecuting and imprisoning drug offenders. Is it working? Not according to many drug policy observers. AlterNet DrugReporter Who's Getting Rich Off Prohibition? Just Look Who Opposes CA's Prop. 5 Posted by Paul Armentano, NORML, November 1, 2008

50pc of homeless 'dependent on alcohol, drugs' By Penny McLintock 31 October 2008 ABC News http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/10...?section=justin More than 100,000 Australians are estimated to be homeless every night. (AFP: Jewel Samad) New research from the Australian National Council on Drugs (ANCD) shows a large percentage of homeless people are dependent on alcohol and drugs. The ANCD estimates over 100,000 people are homeless every night with a third under the age of 25. ANCD executive director, Gino Vumbaca, says a number of these people have problems with alcohol and drugs. "What the council has found is that the levels are quite high - [they are] …

29/10/08 http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5gH...e7Pob64DBAXzu3w Copyright © 2008 The Press Association. All rights reserved Recreational cannabis users must not be treated as criminals, a leading social campaigner has said. Fr Peter McVerry said users of the illegal drug should not be targeted for prosecution. He told a conference on addiction and young people a clearer distinction must be made between class A drug abuse and recreational use of cannabis. "There needs to be a difference in our response to those using a smaller amount of cannabis for recreational use to help you get to sleep and using drugs such as heroin or cocaine that are extremely harmfu…

HERALD SUN..BREAKING NEWS $8m cannabis seized in Melbourne Article from: AAP October 31, 2008 07:42pm POLICE have seized more than $8 million worth of cannabis during an eight-month investigation targeting a Melbourne drug syndicate. Operation Plexel began in February and culminated in the search of 32 properties in Melbourne's western suburbs over the past two months. Police charged 33 people with a total of 179 offences including cultivating, trafficking and possessing a drug of dependence, after raids on houses in St Albans, Sunshine, Hoppers Crossing, Delahey, Deer Park and Roxburgh Park. Investigators also seized 2727 marijuana plants, $40,000 cash, $50…

John Chan October 29, 2008 - 10:39AM http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/cannabis...81029-5axc.html Copyright © 2008. Fairfax Digital Police have seized 6.5kg of cannabis and almost 70 mature plants in three unrelated incidents in Ballajura, Malaga and Girrawheen. A stash of allegedly stolen goods and 2.5kg of cannabis were found when Joondalup detectives searched a house in Girrawheen yesterday. Police spokesman Sergeant Greg Lambert said that four flat screen televisions, ten laptop computers and an off-road motorcycle were among the 150 items found at the house. Three people were arrested and charged with stolen goods and drug related offences. A 35-year-ol…

10/28/08 06:39 AM http://www.buffalonews.com/437/story/476336.html © 2008 The Buffalo News LOCKPORT — Danny Chapman, of Goodrich Road, Clarence, says he has been smoking marijuana for 30 years and doesn’t plan to stop now — even if it means going to jail. That’s where City Judge William J. Watson sent him Monday, sentencing Chapman, 52, to 30 days for violating his conditional discharge for attempted seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance. He was arrested in May in Lockport with crack cocaine in his possession. Chapman said he’s not going back to crack, but in a lengthy argument with Watson, he defended his use of marijuana and his drinking…

By MINDELLE JACOBS Wed, October 29, 2008 http://www.edmontonsun.com/Comment/2008/10...236716-sun.html Copyright © 2008, Canoe Inc. All rights reserved Ottawa must have a heck of a pot headache after losing its latest medical marijuana case in the Federal Court of Appeal. Remember years ago when sick people who needed cannabis to relieve their symptoms had to get special permission from the federal health minister to smoke pot? Since then, it's been one legal fight after another to bring in common-sense reforms on the issue. On Monday, the Federal Court of Appeal upheld a January ruling that quashed Ottawa's pot monopoly. Under Health Canada's insane regulations, l…

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/new...censor-internet Take a read of that when i saw it, it really couldn't believe it i mean with this censorship epically of the internet is taking it to far in my opinion. When this is in full swing this website could very well be put on the "blacklist".

For the second time in as many months a person has been charged and fined for possesion of scissors used in connection with a dangerous drug. This is pathetic, the Qld police continue to label harmless stoners as criminals and to seize and charge someone for possesing scissors is further proof that the QPS are nothing but a bunch of wankers. What next? The bowl? the table the bowl was on? All these corrupt smurfs will be patting each other on the back thinking they are some type of fucking heroes. Yet they can't stop violent drunken assualts, They can't keep drink drivers off the road and they can't put a dent in the supply of hard drugs. Fuck this state I'm mo…

27/10/08 http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/10...tm?site=idx-qld A 48-year-old Innisfail man has been sentenced to two years jail for growing more than 2,000 cannabis plants in far north Queensland. The Supreme Court in Cairns has heard that in July last year drugs squad detectives raided the Mena Creek property of Russell Gordon Holt and found marijuana crops in five locations. Holt told police he grew the drugs for his own use. However, justice Stanley Jones rejected that, telling the court he grew too much for own use. Holt was convicted of drug cultivation, possession and possession of drug production equipment. After taking into consideration …

US ABC News Health Kate Barrett and Joanna Schaffhausen 15 October 2008