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The Dominion Post | Friday, 16 May 2008 KENT BLECHYNDEN/The Dominion Post http://www.stuff.co.nz/4550176a10.html DRUG TOUR: Ken Morgan, coordinator of "Mary Jane the Cannabus" tour, celebrates the conclusion of a national tour promoting cannabis use with a cheeky smoke at Parliament. The long blue arm of the law watches over the red eyes of Ken Morgan as he celebrates the conclusion of a national tour promoting cannabis use with a cheeky smoke at Parliament. Mr Morgan, coordinator of "Mary Jane the Cannabus" tour, said the restored bus that acts as a mobile "legalise cannabis" office visited 44 towns and cities around New Zealand. "We invited locals to join us …
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I stumbled onto this video a week or two back, 'n showed a few in chat. Thought i betta post it for others to see, if they haven't come across it yet. Too much weed for me, but you have to admire one's efforts. Huge Pot Field Found in Afghanistan
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Author: ? Date: 13/05/08 Source: SMH Copyright: © 2008. The Sydney Morning Herald.
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Scipione wants proof of drugs corruption May 6, 2008 - 5:28PM The head of a Sydney drug and alcohol clinic must back up his claims that corrupt police are selling cannabis, NSW's police chief says. St Vincent's Hospital drug and alcohol service director Alex Wodak says criminals and corrupt police control the cannabis market. Dr Wodak argues cannabis should be legalised and distributed by the government, which would then be able to reap the resulting tax revenue. "What's so good about criminals and corrupt police that you'd want them to have a virtual monopoly of cannabis distribution," he said on ABC Radio on Tuesday. NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione…
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New centre will fight marijuana May 5, 2008 Public information campaigns will try to counter the high rate of cannabis use among the young, writes Natasha Wallace. Cannabis use and addiction have become such a problem, particularly among the young, that the Federal Government is funding a $12 million research centre at the University of NSW to try to turn the trend around. The National Cannabis Prevention and Information Centre will focus on public information campaigns similar to those tackling tobacco addiction to try to cut the increasingly high rates of cannabis use among the young. The centre's director, Jan Copeland, said the latest statistics showed that …
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Post office cannabis idea just plain potty By Harry Clarke Posted 3 hours 42 minutes ago Updated 3 hours 26 minutes ago Cannabis use in Australia is falling, as the recent National Drug Survey shows. (File photo) (ABC News) I wonder what Australia has done to deserve having people in charge of drug treatment services advocating the decriminalisation of illicit drugs such as cannabis. The director of the alcohol and drug service at St Vincent's Hospital, Dr Alex Wodak, proposes selling cannabis in post offices to cut consumption. He made the proposal for taxed and legalised cannabis at the Mardi Grass festival in Nimbin on Sunday (an appropriate site for a medica…
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Government set to defy its own experts and upgrade cannabis again! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Government has finally confirmed cannabis is being restored to Class B status - bluntly snubbing the views of its own experts. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith insisted the U-turn was necessary to safeguard "the future health of young people". She also unveiled a crackdown on cannabis "paraphernalia" such as pipes and even potentially posters that "glamorise" its use. However, critics insisted Ms Smith was "crazy" to defy expert opinion, and accused her and Gordon Brown of "dithering" over how to deal with the drug. The P…
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Legal cannabis sale plan slammed May 6, 2008 - 11:59PM A proposal by the head of a Sydney drug and alcohol clinic that cannabis should be sold legally at post offices has been branded irresponsible by an anti-drug group. St Vincent's Hospital drug and alcohol service director Alex Wodak argued that cannabis should be legalised and distributed by the government, which would then be able to reap the resulting tax revenue. Drug Free Australia chair Craig Thompson rejected Dr Wodak's proposal. "At a time when the most reputable evidence points to the increased harms of cannabis, it seems highly irresponsible from a person in Dr Wodak's position to make such a statemen…
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Found: Thu May 01 22:46:32 2008 PDT Webpage: http://www.police.nsw.gov.au/news/latest_r... Newshawk: http://drugpolicycentral.com/bot/ Court grants application to close alleged drug premises -- NimbinFriday, 02 May 2008 03:28pm An application by police to temporarily close two businesses in the Northern NSW township of Nimbin has been successful following an order made in the Lismore Local Court this morning. Richmond Local Area Command Police applied for the temporary closure of the Nimbin Hemp Bar and Nimbin Museum, from midday today (Friday 2 May) to midday Monday (5 May). Police applied for the order, under Section 15C of the Restricted Premises Act (1943),…
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada 30,000 people Queen's Park NO ARRESTS 12noon to 8pm Check us out... http://www.themarijuanamission.com/images/mmm_2008/index.htm Marc Emery and I spent hours in the Media Tent doing Interviews for everyone from our National Newspaper the National Post, to the Nation's leading Music station MTV Canada. My Interview with MTV should be out this week so stay tuned... Hope your Global Marijuana March turned out well in Australia... Happy Monday guys and thanx again for all of your support.... Love and a squish, Alison xx
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Some members of Minnesota's law enforcement community are lying in order to kill MPP’s medical marijuana bill in the state — in other words, in order to keep patients in pain. This small but vocal contingent is claiming that marijuana has no medical value, that “every prosecutor in every medical marijuana state” opposes its use, that you can “overdose” on marijuana, and more than a dozen other outrageous lies. We’re fighting back. Yesterday, MPP held a news conference at the Minnesota statehouse to refute the outright false testimony that law enforcement officials have been providing the legislature and the news media. And we distributed to reporters and legislators an …
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From the ABC: Can't be anything but good. Too many zero-tolerance drug policy advocates have been able to use the 'no evidence of harmlessness' crutch because too many governments have actively interfered with cannabis research, preventing the assembly of a credible body of evidence. However, keep in mind that this study is being done by the government's 'National Cannabis Prevention and Information Centre.' Whatever they come up with will be biased toward reduction or cessation of cannabis use, sort of out of the universal 'drugs-r-bad-mkay' box. They probably won't take into account that many cannabis users self medicate for physical or psychological disco…
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Just saw an ad on southern cross Ten for the above topic to be discussed on the program "In Focus" at 1pm today. Lets hope this will be a positive thing.
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http://forums.cannabisculture.com/forums/u...;gonew=1#UNREAD Canadian Rights and Freedoms are at Risk An Important Notice Regarding Bill C-51 On April 8th, 2008, the Canadian Minister of Health introduced Bill C-51 into the House of Commons. This Bill proposes significant changes to the current Food and Drugs Act that will have wide-ranging negative implications for Canadians. Bill C-51 will: * Remove democratic oversight, bypassing elected officials to vote in laws and allow bureaucrats to adopt laws from other countries without our consent. * Remove more than 70% of Natural Health Products from Canadians and many others will be available by prescri…
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