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Check out my most recent Blog... Ali xx LEAP Blog: June 26, 2008 A Leader in the Movement Canada remains at the forefront of Drug Reform with INSIGHT - Canada’s first Safe Injection/Intravenous Drug Facility. Some cutting edge news came down a few weeks ago that I thought was just too important to miss and which none of us at LEAP Blogged about in detail… Canada’s and the World’s first Safe Injection Site - INSITE - is being threatened once again with Government initiated closure and we as a Country - have stood up in protest! Letters to Editors of local and National newspapers, demonstrations, meetings, conferences and the like are being attend…

Not sure If I posted this already? Either way, here is my most recent LEAP Blog.... Hope you all enjoy! Alison xx Hi Folks… My apologies for not being around again for a while. Not only have I been extremely busy again, I had also run out of cannabis the past few weeks and found it difficult to get out of bed and stay awake thanks to all the pills I take when I have no cannabis. Between being so busy and then dropping like a rock I feel like I've been run over by a train! I SWEAR my Government knows this is how I become when I can`t fill my prescription for this plant. Very disheartening to say the least. Speaking of my being busy, I had another trying m…

Hi Everybody... Please pass this on to whom ever you think should know.... ;-D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIOi_6o9gjY%20 Thanx tons in advance! Love and stuff, Alison xx

The UN is hosting a historical meeting of NGOs to provide input to the next CND review in March 2009: http://www.unis.unvienna.org/unis/en/event...rum_070708.html "Global NGO Forum on the 1998-2008 Review of the United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on illicit drugs. The forum to be held in the Vienna International Centre (Austria) is organized by the Vienna NGO Committee on Narcotic Drugs, in partnership with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). The forum will allow civil society to have a say on drug policy through the adoption of a global NGO Declaration along with three topic specific resolutions that will be tabled at the high …

Stolen from http://cannabisnews.com/news/24/thread24054.shtml USA -- The United States has some of the world's most punitive drug policies and has led the cheering section for tough "war on drugs" policies worldwide, but a new international study suggests that those policies have been a crashing failure. A World Health Organization survey of 17 countries, conducted by some of the world's leading substance abuse researchers, found that we have the highest rates of marijuana and cocaine use. The numbers are startling. In the United States, 42.4 percent admitted having used marijuana. The only other nation that came close was New Zealand, another bastion of get-tough p…

Author: Reporting by Ho Binh Minh; Editing by Jerry Norton Date: 7/7/2008 Source: Reuters Copyright: © Thomson Reuters 2008 All rights reserved HANOI (Reuters) - Police have detained two custodians who were about to harvest their first crop of cannabis, a source of drugs like hashish and marijuana, from a cemetery in Vietnam's capital, a state-run newspaper reported on Monday. Police took in Nguyen Manh Hung, 44, who heads the caretaker team at the cemetery in Hanoi's outer district of Hoang Mai, and Ho A Lau, 46, after the authorities found cannabis plants grown on a 25 square meter (82 square feet) patch, the Vietnam Labour Confederation-run Lao Dong newspaper said.…

http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6630507.html US Patent 6630507 - Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants Application: filed on 2/02/2001 US Patent Issued on October 7, 2003 Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services Abstract Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties, unrelated to NMDA receptor antagonism. This new found property makes cannabinoids useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such as ischemic, age-related, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants…

Greening the Green Marijuana is California's biggest dollar crop—and its production is stretching the North Coast's resources. by Nicole Edmison original article

Author ? 01Jul08 http://www.goldcoast.com.au/article/2008/0...coast-news.html FIVE men remain in police custody following appearances in Lismore Local Court over a series of drug raids in the Tweed region yesterday. Two of the five men charged over the alleged drug haul applied for bail but had their applications rejected by Magistrate Nick Reimer who ruled exceptional circumstances. Police estimate the cannabis found on a Cudgera Creek property yesterday was worth more than $1 million and was being grown in a sophisticated hydroponics set-up, including some in an undergound bunker. All five men face charges relating to the cultivation by enhanced methods of a pr…

http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/538/br...ession_no_crime from Drug War Chronicle, Issue #538, 5/30/08 At the end of March, a Brazilian appeals court in São Paulo declared that possession of drugs for personal use is not a criminal offense. Several lower courts had previously ruled in the same way, but the ruling from the São Paulo Justice Court's 6th Criminal Chamber marked the first time an appeals court there had found Brazil's drug law unconstitutional as it pertains to simple drug possession. The ruling came in the case of Ronaldo Lopes, who was arrested with 7.7 grams of cocaine in three separate bags on the night before Carnival began in 2007. Lopes acknow…

Pat Purcell's son, Daniel, on drugs charges Paula Doneman June 29, 2008 12:00am http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0...794-952,00.html THE son of disgraced former Labor minister Pat Purcell has allegedly been selling thousands of dollars of ecstasy each week to support his own drug habit. A Brisbane court was yesterday told of allegations that Daniel Raymond Purcell bought 200 ecstasy tablets a week and sold 140 of them "so he could consume" the remaining 60 illicit pills himself. Purcell, an unemployed 23-year-old, was charged with drug trafficking and possession after he was arrested outside The Met Nightclub in Fortitude Valley, in Brisbane's inner-city, o…

Drugs and phones wing their way to Brazil prisoners RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) Tue 24 Jun 2008, 23:52 GMT http://africa.reuters.com/odd/news/usnN24367678.html A sharp increase in drugs and cellphones found inside a Brazilian prison mystified officials -- until guards spotted some distressed pigeons struggling to stay airborne. Inmates at the prison in Marilia, Sao Paulo state had been training carrier pigeons to smuggle in goods using cell phone sized pouches on their backs, a low-tech but ingenious way of skipping the high-tech security that visitors faced. "We have sophisticated equipment to search people when they go in, but they avoided this by finding another wa…