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HOMES in south-west Sydney, where police have seized $15 million in marijuana during raids, may be part of an elaborate hydroponic growing network. Since April police have discovered 5000 marijuana plants growing in almost a dozen houses. Detective Inspector Gus Viera, head of the Wetherill Park region enforcement squad, said detectives had not ruled out a connection between the houses. "Investigations into any possible link are ongoing," he said. The most recent raids, on November 7, netted 415 hydroponically grown cannabis plants worth an estimated $2 million from two houses in Rawson Road, Fairfield West. A man and woman were charged. The raids were part of…

ABOUT 60 per cent of Aborigines smoke marijuana regularly and most of those get stoned every day, a Northern Territory study shows. New figures on cannabis rates among indigenous people show a drug use rate far higher than the Australian average, with researchers saying it is "firmly entwined" in the society. Researchers at James Cook University in Cairns and the University of Sydney surveyed 164 people in Arnhem Land in 2006 and found 61 per cent of men and 58 per cent of women used cannabis at least weekly. In-depth interviews with 60 users found that 92 per cent of the men and 78 per cent of the women smoke it daily, according to the study published in the Medica…

Where opium poppies used to colour the plains of northern Afghanistan, towering cannabis plants now sway in the wind, filling the air with their pungent odour. Farmers in Balkh province were banned from cultivating opium last year and have switched to another cash crop, a rich source of income that is still tolerated by the authorities. Balkh's burgeoning hashish industry does not pay farmers quite as much as the heroin factories used to for good-quality opium. But the rich black cannabis resin produced around the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif still pays about four times the price…

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Here is my most recent Media in Canada... Small mistake in the article I take up to 2 THOUSAND MILLIGRAMS OF morphine daily - not 2 GRAMS. Love and a squish, Ali xx Source: The Canadian Press Link: http://tinyurl.com/2dlth3 December 3rd, 2007 Health Canada unfairly restricting access to medical marijuana: lawyers TORONTO - The federal government must loosen unfair restrictions that are preventing seriously ill Canadians from obtaining the medical marijuana they need to treat their debilitating illnesses, lawyers for the sick argued Monday in Federal Court. Health Canada has effectively established itself as the country's sole…

Hi everybody This week once more, I would like to bring your attention to the Canadian Courts. There have been three very important cases from across the Country that have made headlines because of their connection to cannabis. One out in Vancouver, British Columbia involving the Victoria Island Compassion Society and two of their growers who were charged with trafficking cannabis is just tragic. Part way through the Trial the Judge involved died of a heart attack! Now the VICS has a much bigger problem on their hands I'm afraid. Our Conservative Government seems to rear it's ugly head again. Please read on for more: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07/n1379/a12.html…

Author: The Australian Newspaper Date: December 5, 2007 Source: The Australian Copyright: 2007 Yeah right, the Nun's knew what was going on, I bet they just kept quiet so they could share the spoils....

here is what the UN has to say about marijuana: in short that reads if you want cannabis to be legally grown in your country, you have to treat it like opium unless you are growing hemp in which case you can grow as much as you want. but point number 3 blows all that out of the water because it says you have to adopt measures that will decrease the mis-use and illegal traffic in the leaves of the cannabis plant. now why leaf is so special i'll never know, but as point 1 says you have to treat cannabis exactly the same as opium so here is what the UN has to say about growing opium: so if a nation were to make it possible to legally grow your own, it would be requ…

Friday, November 23, 2007 Harper's misguided war on pot Editorial The National Post We are glad to see the Conservative government using the excess lifespan donated by Her Majesty's Opposition to get tough on crime. But was it really necessary to include victimless acts among the list of crimes being targeted? Justice Minister Rob Nicholson's new package of mandatory sentences for marijuana dealers, announced on Tuesday, seems to involve some perverse incentives. Under the bill, a grower who is caught with between one and 200 plants and is found to have the intention of trafficking will receive a non-negotiable minimum of six months in prison, unless he can show t…