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Just a little FYI... This past week there has been an unbelievable Winter Storm here in Ontario, Canada and yet ANOTHER one expected for this weekend. As many of you are aware, this weather has a great effect on me and makes the pain in my face and head EXCRUCIATING. This is where I have been sitting for almost two weeks now. The pain has settled in my left ear this past week and there is NOTHING I can so about it they tell me but grin and bare it. It is DEBILITATING! I cut down my Grow this week and got four ounces. I knew we were in for trouble but I didn't realize just how much until we cut down. The room was too hot and nothing would grow again. Nothing we co…

Author: AP Date: October 29, 2007 - 9:50AM Source: The Age Copyright: Fairfax Media The governor of California says marijuana is not a drug, a British magazine reported today. Arnold Schwarzenegger told the British edition of GQ magazine that he had not taken drugs. The former bodybuilder and Hollywood star has acknowledged using marijuana in the 1970s and was shown smoking a joint in the 1977 documentary Pumping Iron. "That is not a drug. It's a leaf," Schwarzenegger told GQ. "My drug was pumping iron, trust me," he added. In an interview for the magazine's December issue, Schwarzenegger refused to condemn politicians who declined to answer questions about dr…

Colorado -- A Fort Collins couple and their lawyer plan to visit the Larimer County sheriff's office Wednesday in hopes of recovering 39 marijuana plants seized by narcotics officers during a raid at their home in August 2006. A Larimer County District Court Judge ruled Monday that authorities must return the plants and growing equipment taken from James and Lisa Masters. Their lawyer described them as medical marijuana providers for themselves and about 8 to 10 other people. Brian Vincente, lawyer for the couple, hopes authorities have taken care of the plants as provided by the state's medical marijuana law, which was approved by voters in 2000. "If they've allowe…

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…