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Government want to grow own dope Friday, September 26, 2008 Metro.co.uk http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?...mp;in_page_id=2 It may be classified as a class B drug in Britain, but the Sri-Lankan government is thinking about growing their own marijuana. Cannabis has been illegal in Sri-Lanka since the 1890's but an alternative medicine group want exemption to grow it. The weed is used in many traditional Ayurvedic medical preparations in the country and The Ministry of Indigenous Medicine has broached a plan to grow 4,000kg a year of the plant. The practice is of Ayurveda uses traditional herbs and to heal and the Ayurveda doctors-who out number western…

September 26, 2008 - 12:47PM © 2008 AAP Advertisement More than 70 people have been arrested on drug offences after a seven-month police operation targeting a chain of hydroponic retail stores in Adelaide. Police said Operation Desire began in February and had resulted in the seizure of 145 kilograms of dried cannabis, 434 cannabis plants, 245 grams of cocaine, 310 grams of amphetamines and 235 LSD tablets. Among the 72 people arrested were an electrician and four men who had owned or managed hydroponic stores. On Tuesday, a 22-year-old NSW man was arrested at Adelaide Airport as he tried to board a plane with 17kg of dried cannabis. All those detained face char…

10-year-olds stoned Margo Zlotkowski Thursday, September 25, 2008 http://www.cairns.com.au/article/2008/09/2...local-news.html © The Cairns Post CHILDREN as young as 10 are getting stoned in Cape York communities, a James Cook University cannabis researcher will tell a mental health conference in Cairns today. Cape kids are also making bucket bongs from discarded drink bottles, while cannabis-dependent youth are refusing education or job opportunities outside communities because they "don't want to leave the dope". The concerns - told to JCU researchers during consultation in Cape and Torres Strait communities over the past year - will be presented at the Creating F…

Milk bar owner tested drug sales on students herald sun http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,2...670-662,00.html September 25, 2008 03:10am A GEELONG milk bar owner has admitted selling cannabis to high-school students to see if it was "economically viable". The Belmont milk bar manager yesterday admitted selling cannabis to local school students for $20 a bag. Geelong Magistrates' Court heard David Nguyen, of Hallam, took orders from Oberon High School students and sold them bags of cannabis in June. The court heard he had bought $250 worth of cannabis in Melbourne. After a tip-off the 29-year-old was arrested after the drugs squad raided the Kidman Aven…

THE HAGUE, 24/09/08 - A 27 year old Amsterdammer has been fined for smoking a joint. Cannabis was not the problem; he broke the tobacco law. The man is the owner of a 'coffee shop,' as the cannabis bars tolerated in the Netherlands are called. He lit a joint in his coffee shop. He was fined by a police officer because there was tobacco in the joint. It has been forbidden to smoke in hotels, bars en restaurants (horeca) in the Netherlands since 1 July. The ban also applies to coffee shops. However, if a joint consisting entirely of cannabis or hash is smoked, this does not come under the tobacco ban. A police spokesman confirmed yesterday that the man was fined. The …

Marijuana Ingredients Show Promise In Battling Superbugs ScienceDaily (Sep. 8, 2008) Substances in marijuana show promise for fighting deadly drug-resistant bacterial infections, including so-called "superbugs," without causing the drug's mood-altering effects, scientists in Italy and the United Kingdom are reporting. Besides serving as infection-fighting drugs, the substances also could provide a more environmentally-friendly alternative to synthetic antibacterial substances now widely used in personal care items, including soaps and cosmetics, they say. In the new study, Giovanni Appendino and colleagues point out that scientists have known for years that marijuan…

Michael Wray September 22, 2008 12:00am http://www.news.com.au © 2008 Queensland Newspapers ONE in 53 drivers is testing positive for illicit drugs at roadside tests operating throughout the state, Queensland police statistics reveal. Figures released to The Courier-Mail show 181 drivers have tested positive from 9730 roadside drug tests since the program was introduced last December. The preliminary tests are sent for expert analysis at Queensland Health, which has confirmed a positive reading in each of the 168 tests they checked. Police were alarmed at results from an operation in Gladstone over the weekend of September 20-21 in which 13 drivers out of 132 test…

24/9/08 ABC news © 2008 ABC A fire in a shed in Elizabeth Park, Adelaide this morning has led to the discovery of a number of cannabis plants. Police say they were called to the Peterswool Road house at about 4:15am after a fire was reported. They say when the fire was put out, a number of hydroponically grown plants were found. A 47-year-old man has been reported.

September 23, 2008 KTLA News Copyright © 2008 Tribune Interactive SEAL BEACH, California -- A local man is suing the Seal Beach Police Department after he says they confiscated up to 50 of his marijuana plants and forced him to become an informant, court records show. Bruce Benedict, 43, filed the $1 million lawsuit in Orange County Superior Court last month. Benedict states in his lawsuit that he is a patient and caregiver of medical marijuana, which allows him to grow and distribute pot to to patients with prescriptions under California law. Benedict says he called police in February because of illegal construction in his apartment building and officers sm…

21/9/08 the press assocition Copyright © 2008 The Press Association. All rights reserved George Michael has been arrested in public toilets, suspected of possessing drugs. Reports say the multi-millionaire singer was arrested after a tip-off from a suspicious toilet attendant after he was seen loitering in an underground toilet block in London's Hampstead Heath on Friday. When police officers arrived Michael was still in the toilet block. Police reportedly found him in possession of cannabis and crack cocaine. In a candid interview for BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs last year, Michael talked openly about his drug use. He said: "I'm a happy man and I can affor…

Saturday 20th September 2008 ealing times © Copyright 2001-2008 Newsquest Media Group A NORTHOLT man who was caught growing cannabis in his rented flat has been jailed for six month. Charles O’Leary flooded the shop below his flat when his water system malfunctioned while cultivating dozens of cannabis plants. When council workers came out to investigate the problem, at the flat in Haydock Green, Northolt, they found a cannabis factory stocked full of plants and watering equipment. Cops raided the flat after sealed it off and forensic teams moved in, only to be interrupted by O’Leary himself when he returned the next day. The 23-year-old father-of-one admi…

Swiss Cannabis legalisation referendum PR Cannazine 17 September 2008 http://pr.cannazine.co.uk/content/view/689/27/ On November 30th a referendum will be held among the people of Switzerland about whether to completely legalize possession, sale, and cultivation of cannabis. The initiative is titled: “For a sensible cannabis policy with effective protection of the youth”. (in German: Für eine vernünftige Hanfpolitik mit wirksamem Jugendschutz.) P.L.R. (liberal-radical party), swiss-socialist party ,Green party and many politicians of popular-democratic party are (voting) for “yes” in the referendum of 30 November, 2008 about decriminalisation of use of cannabis. …

Texting more dangerous than dope By Jayant Mishra Thursday, September 18, 2008 11:56 AM itexaminer.com http://www.itexaminer.com/texting-more-dan...-than-dope.aspx Don’t be surprised if the traffic cop asks you to leave the driver’s seat, while you were on your way back home from Hard Rock pub but instead of checking alcohol, he insists you show him your mobile log, to see if you've messaged someone while driving. According to the latest research by the RAC, sending an SMS whilst driving is more dangerous than driving after drinking. This is so because when you are texting your hands are off the steering and your mind and eyes are glued on the cellphone, rather than …

Swedish police seize thousands of baffling cannabis plants Published: 17 Sep 08 09:00 CET The Local Sweden Online: http://www.thelocal.se/14382/20080917/ Police in Skåne in southern Sweden confiscated a field full of cannabis on Tuesday, but have yet to determine whether the plants were actually meant to be dried and smoked. “Around 15,000 cannabis plants have been confiscated. Some have been sent for analysis to determine if they are narcotics or not,” said Calle Persson of the Skåne police to the TT news agency. According to the Skånska Dagbladet newspaper, the police were so overwhelmed with the work of harvesting the plants that they were forced to call a landsc…

Bothwell cannabis producer has sentence admonished Sep 18 2008 Hamilton Advetiser http://www.hamiltonadvertiser.co.uk/news/l...51525-21842850/ A MAN who admitted producing cannabis at a house in Bothwell was last week admonished. Xing Cai Liu had pleaded guilty to producing the drug at a house in Lady Jane Gate on February 21 this year. However, his not guilty plea to a charge of being concerned in the supply of the drug at the address was accepted by the Crown. The 33-year-old’s not guilty plea to a charge of failing to appear for sheriff court proceedings, while on bail on another matter, was also accepted by the fiscal depute. At Hamilton Sheriff Court la…