Cannabis Hemp News

I love the media, they're such a bunch of knobs. http://www.smh.com.au/news/health/dope-smo...7097241179.html "More than a third of people who present at Sydney emergency departments after smoking cannabis are violent and half have mental health problems such as severe anxiety and suicidal thoughts, shattering the image that dope smokers are relaxed and sleepy, researchers have found." Hmm, OK so did the MJ CAUSE those problems or are these folks who have other issues and just happen to use MJ as well? "The data, collected by the National Cannabis Prevention and Information Centre, at the University of NSW, indicates that cannabis users can be as aggressive as cry…

EXPERT TESTIFIES CANNABIS HELPS SLOW AGING Fri, 2 May 2008 Media Awareness Project URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v08/n458/a05.html Holy Smoke Trial: University Professor Brought in to Help Prove Case for Defense in Drug Trafficking Trial B.C. Provincial Court heard Thursday that cannabis is safer than aspirin and can restore the balance in people's bodies to help fight illness. That was the testimony of Dr. Robert Melamede, an associate professor at the University of Colorado, who was brought in by the defense team for the four men accused in the Holy Smoke Culture Shop drug trafficking case taking place in Nelson this week. Melamede's testimony comes …

The potency of cannabis gathered in police seizures has dropped, new official data reveals, casting doubt on one of the government's key arguments for reclassifying the drug from class C to class B. Figures collected by the Forensic Science Service and seen by guardian.co.uk show that the potency of herbal cannabis, which includes the strong "skunk" strain, has dropped from 12.7% to 9.5% since 2004, when it was first moved from class B to the less serious class C. This means that samples collected by the police are now weaker than when David Blunkett, the then-home secretary, downgraded the drug in 2004. According to the figures the level of THC - the main psychoact…

Well this can't be good..... Full article here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtm...ciprints107.xml Basic point is, that a new technology now gives police the ability to to detect THC (and other drugs) in fingerprints. So for example if you get arrested and they fingerprint your house or car or something you were holding, they can now detect from the oils from your fingers that formed the fingerprint on the object they fingerprinted if you had been doing drugs.

greetnz thanx for the well wishes well on the day bout 11am before 3 Qld supreem court judges the first thing they need, is rock to agree to contract to PETER TILL so they ask --> are you PETER TILL????? if he say yes i am PETER TILL then he agrees to enter a contract with the judge rock replied --> Thats what you say. InI here is representing PETER TILL this little circle went a few rounds till rock got bored and started asking the judges 5 questions he had prepaired for the occassion reading aloud rock asked the Judges for answers to the following 5 questions to be made under penalty of perjury: 1.)what is your regulatory authority and delegated authority t…

this is amazing news for us stoners considering we number in the millions and the greens are the only major party to actually support cannabis law reform in our favour. if we mass email them saying if they want our votes in the future the only thing we currently care about is cannabis law reform in our favour we might be able to get one of the greens to stand up and use it as leverage over the rudd government in a previous story which i cant be bothered to find at the moment, the greens said if the rudd government wants to take tens of billions of dollars out of the economy its going to have to be replaced somewhere along the line to protect the economy. so bothers…

Legislators aim to snuff out penalties for pot use 30 July 2008 CNNPolitics.com http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/30/frank.marijuana/ The U.S. should stop arresting responsible marijuana users, Rep. Barney Frank said Wednesday, announcing a proposal to end federal penalties for Americans carrying fewer than 100 grams, almost a quarter-pound, of the substance. Rep. Barney Frank's bill would radically curb federal penalties for personal marijuana use. Current laws targeting marijuana users place undue burdens on law enforcement resources, punish ill Americans whose doctors have prescribed the substance and unfairly affect African-Americans, said Frank, flanked…

good on the kids for having open minds, lets just hope that the old ignorant politicians start doing the same

Map for drug hunt August 20, 2008 By HELEN JACK The Northern Star Lismore http://www.northernstar.com.au/storydispla...storyid=3782151 A 54-YEAR-OLD Koonorigan man has pleaded guilty to having nearly 26kg of cannabis leaf and heads, and another kilogram of cannabis resin scattered around his home. Peter Stear Jackson appeared in Lismore Local Court yesterday charged with cultivating and supplying commercial quantities of cannabis. Police arrested him on May 1 during a raid on his 40ha property at Koonorigan Road. While searching the property police found cannabis leaf and seeds in the main bedroom of the house. Jackson was arrested when he admitted to polic…

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date: August 26, 2008 source: cbcnews.ca There were 23 green houses in total and would have produced an estimated 2.5 million joints..... Full Story here http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/...-grow-bust.html