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Drug Squad must concentrate on big boys 27 September 2008 Cyprus Mail http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?i...17&cat_id=1 THIS MUST be the most successful year ever in the police’s drive to combat drug trafficking. Unprecedented quantities of drugs have been seized and dozens of suspects are currently awaiting trial on a variety of drug-related charges. A week rarely goes by without a major drugs bust being made and the Drug Squad is earning a glowing reputation for it effectiveness. This had not always been the case. Until a few years ago, most drug-busts involved young users found in possession of a few grams of cannabis. The police would make a big song a…

Study puts illicit drug trade at $12b a year Mark O'Brien and Nick McKenzie September 27, 2008 Sydney Morning Herald http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/study-...2217517586.html UP TO $12 billion in illicit drug money is flowing out of Australia annually - an amount 10 to 30 times times greater than official estimates - according to the nation's most powerful and secretive crime-fighting agency. The Australian Crime Commission's estimates suggest authorities are drastically underestimating the quantity of drugs passing over the nation's borders without detection. It is expected that senior law enforcement officials will brief the Federal Government in the coming wee…

Submitted by SHNS on Fri, 09/26/2008 - 11:57. By HELEN ANNE TRAVIS, St. Petersburg Times SPRING HILL, Fla. -- John Consoli wants to get rid of drugs in the workplace, one telephone handset at a time. Consoli, 67, is the president of On Site, a Spring Hill, Fla. company marketing DrugWipe, a handheld narcotic detector. Just swipe the DrugWipe against a keyboard or any other surface, Consoli said, and the toothbrush-size detector can tell whether anyone who has touched the surface in the past 72 hours had drugs in his or her system. "It is 100 percent accurate," Consoli said. "It is the only product that I know of that is defensible in court." The technology com…

Anti-depressants linked to male fertility problems Updated Fri Sep 26, 2008 8:52am AEST ABC News http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09...m?section=world Fertility experts say one in six Australian couples experience delays when they are trying to conceive. (Reuters: Alessandro Bianchi) Researchers in the United States claim they have found evidence that certain anti-depressant drugs can harm sperm DNA. But psychiatrists are urging caution, warning men not to suddenly drop their medication. Many things have been blamed for causing male infertility. Now researchers at the Cornell Medical Centre in New York believe they have stumbled upon another. The team …

Sniffer dog detects ecstasy on man 25/09/2008 4:12:00 PM Mudgee Guardian http://mudgee.yourguide.com.au/news/local/...an/1282811.aspx A man who was found with three and a half ecstasy tablets in his possession after detection by a sniffer dog was fined $3,500 in Mudgee Local Court on September 17. Shortly after midnight on July 27, police entered a Mudgee hotel with a drug detection dog, which went straight up to John Gillespie of Mudgee. The dog positioned himself beside Gillespie on his right hand side, which police evidence stated meant this action by the dog indicated that it had scented drugs. When spoken to by police Gillespie at first told police he did not…

Open letter to the business community of Nimbin The Northern Rivers Echo 25 September 2008 http://www.echonews.com/index.php?page=New...8&issue=363 In recent times, the village of Nimbin has been highlighted in the media due to ongoing operations of Police targetting prohibited drug dealing within the community. The township of Nimbin has a strong and caring community. The drug culture within the township has been around for many years, my focus in targetting the open drug market is to provide a town that is not only safe, but has the feeling of safety by its own community. I want the mums and dads to be able to walk the streets of Nimbin with their kids and not…

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.