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Here's my most recent Blog. Hope you enjoy! Alison xx LEAP Blog March 29, 2008 Record Drug Overdoses Sadden Me Prohibition is causing too many people to die as an anonymous statistic. We should be shocked and dismayed when the Center of Disease Control releases statistics showing skyrocketing overdoses. An excellent article by Drug War Chronicles "Drug Overdose Deaths Are Going Through the Roof -- Is Anybody Watching?" made me more aware of this growing tragedy. http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/528/ov...aths_increasing Sadly we were not alarmed when 33,000 people accidentally died from drug overdoses in the year 2005. The third leading cause o…

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Heavy pot smoking boosts lung cancer risk six-fold Just found this on Reuters... Here we go AGAIN. Alison xx Heavy pot smoking boosts lung cancer risk six-fold Last Updated: 2008-02-08 13:00:24 -0400 (Reuters Health) NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Smoking a joint a day is just as bad for you as smoking a pack of cigarettes a day, a study from New Zealand indicates. Smoking a joint a day for one year boosted the likelihood of developing lung cancer by 8 percent, Dr. Richard Beasley of the Medical Research Institute of New Zealand in Wellington and colleagues found, while cigarette smokers' risk increased by 7 percent for every year that they smoked a…

Dakta Green, the co-ordinator of the 2008 National Cannabus tour, making his point at Puke Ariki yesterday. Standing beside his green bus, over looking the green of Puke Ariki, "Dakta Green" inhales, smiles and blows a thick cloud of smoke in the air. "It's very simple," he says. "We wish to legalise cannabis." Mr Green (aka Ken Morgan) was in New Plymouth yesterday on board "Maryjane the Cannabus" with members of the national organisation for the reform of marijuana laws (Norml). The group was on a nationwide tour planning to visit 42 towns and cities in 42 days, holding a protest at 4.20pm every day. "We want to stop people being locked in jail for cannabis of…

Didn't know whether to laugh or cry Marijuana Grower Busted by Cops After Reporting Pot Plant Stolen Friday, March 21, 2008 Source: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,340389,00.html SYDNEY, Australia — An Australian man's complaint of an break-in at his home went to pot Friday when police arrested him for growing marijuana. The 35-year-old man in the central Australian city of Adelaide called police to report that six men had broken into his house through a window and stolen parts of his cannabis plants, South Australia Police said. Police were unable to find the intruders but brought a drug warrant to search the home, where they found six large cannabi…

today my sister was issued with a warrant to search her house on the papers it says for cultivation,leaf meterial,and fertilizer on the sheet of what they took were 11 root balls as they call it 1 picture of my bro in law holding up a plant, his stem no bong num chucks, and a few other things i cant think of there were only 6 or 8 plants there fuckin cunts they are but my bro in law was asking for trouble the plants were around 10 foot tall in suburban sydney the neighbours would have called the cops i will let ya's know what happens when he goes into the police station tonight

Marijuana Vending Machines Opening for Business in LA 2008-01-24 >> news category >> general Source: gizmodo.com Holy crap, what country is LA in? I mean, last time I was there I was surprised enough at the billboards offering medicinal marijuana cards, but this is insane. Starting on Monday, people who have medical conditions such as glaucoma, cancer, and the deadly not-stoned-enough virus can start getting their fat buds from special "AVMs." These electronic drug dealers won't be out on the street next to a Pepsi machine, of course. No, they'll be "housed in standalone rooms, abutting two dispensaries and protected by round-the-clock security g…

Hemp Resources has secured a contract to supply Australian grown hemp to Hong Kong after successful trial plantings in the great southern. The company is behind plans to set up Australia's first industrial hemp farm and eventually wants to create hemp paper and packaging. Company director Kim Hough has been impressed with trials in Katanning and Kununurra and says the hemp has grown to more than a metre in a month. Mr Hough says the company plans to significantly increase plantings this year to take advantage of huge demand in Asia. "We've secured a market out of a Hong Kong company which will now also be the distribution company for Unan Hemp and Unan Resources, …