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MORE children of drug addicts should be removed from their parents and adopted out, Liberal MP Bronwyn Bishop believes. Ms Bishop, who is chairing a parliamentary inquiry into the impact of illicit drug use and families, believes the current system is skewed towards the interests of drug-using parents rather then their children. "We hear the mantra everything is done in the interest of the child, but evidence I've taken in, not only the inquiry I'm doing but other inquiries, show that lip service is paid to that but it's not in the interest of the child," Ms Bishop has told the ABC's Four Corners program. Ms Bishop said she wanted to see better opportunities for the…

One joint the same as five ciggies - study Author: Unknown Date: July 31, 2007 10:07am Source: News.com.au Copyright: © 2007 Davies Brothers Pty Limited. Here's a link to the website the report came from but I can't seem to find the article they are talking about though.

Author: www.dutchnews.nl Date: Tuesday 24 July Source: http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2007...home_mariju.php Copyright: 2007 dutchnews.nl

Singapore News ============== Tougher approach against abusers of cocaine, cannabis By S Ramesh, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 25 July 2007 1944 hrs ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- SINGAPORE: Singapore's Central Narcotics Bureau and Prisons Department are going to get tougher on first- and second-time abusers of cannabis and cocaine. From 1 August, these abusers will be sent to the Drug Rehabilitation Centres for rehabilitation. Recalcitrant abusers will face a long-term imprisonment of at least five years and three strokes of the cane and a maximum sentence of seven years' imprisonment and six strokes of the cane …

SEVEN people have been arrested at the airport of a remote Aboriginal community for allegedly trying to smuggle drugs and alcohol into the "dry zone". Four females - aged 24, 41, 44 and 54 - and three males - aged 21, 21 and 52 - were followed by police on a flight from Darwin yesterday afternoon. They were arrested on Groote Eylandt where police allegedly found a combined total of 281 grams of cannabis, with an estimated value if sold by the gram in a remote community of $28,100. They also located a combined total of 4,350ml of Bundaberg Rum, 2,100ml of Jim Beam, one Rum and Cola and Bourbon and Cola can and a four litre cask wine inside the luggage. The Top End …

Hey guys, just a heads up but there's an Australian cannabis magazine coming out soon - Sticky Point www.stickypointmagazine.com Heard it on the grapevine, sorry if I've pre-empted someone's announcement here, but it all seems pretty public now. Looks good too, some good writers like JJ and it sounds like they'll be giving a good go of it, fucking awesome. Bout time we had a legally distributed magazine down here, good job guys.

TMNT video clip thats good for a laugh

I heard a rumor today that Qld passed news laws with much harsher consequences for smokers/dealers..anything pot. I know they banned buying even cones the other day, and a "swoop" today yeilded 100 grand worth of implements still being sold at tabbaconists, in Brisbane and the Gold Coast. If it wasn't so serious it's be comical. But please, can anyone give me reliable news about any changes to the penalties in Qld? I'm moving toward the end of the year, I'll go to NSW if that's the case. BTW, how's the harshness in NSW these days? Obviously better than QLD, but still, is it on the way "up" or "down" at the moment in NSW? Here's a link on the big bust on cones to…

Author: Robert Lindsay Date: 21/07/07 Source: Times online Copyright: 2007 Times Newspapers Ltd.

Professor David Nutt, works in addiction psychiatry at the University of Bristol , United Kingdom. A new UK study suggests that the current UK drug classification system of A, B, and C of the Misuse of Drugs Act is flawed and should be replaced by an evidence-based system of potential harm that would place alcohol and tobacco higher than cannabis and ecstasy. The study is published in The Lancet. Professor David Nutt from the University of Bristol, Professor Colin Blakemore, Chief Executive of the Medical Research Council, and two colleagues developed a new drug ranking system that would class socially acceptable tobacco and alcohol as more harmful than cannabis,…

Skunk may be strong, but it's no stronger than the high-quality hashish that has been smoked in Britain since time immemorial. Virtually half the Brown cabinet have now declared that they once smoked dope but didn't like it. What on earth is wrong with these people? Normal folk use drugs and enjoy them. All this talk of re-criminalising millions of cannabis users is predicated on untruth. That is, politicians and medical professionals are peddling dodgy data which purport to show that currently available strains of so-called "skunk weed" are 10 or more times stronger than anything the new home secretary may have toked while she was at Oxford in the early 1980s. It's…

http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/56753/ The Republican governor of Connectictut is the latest politician to look foolish for pushing tough anti-marijuana policies in the face of scientific data that proves the arguments hollow. When Connecticut's Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell vetoed legislation last month that would have allowed citizens with debilitating medical conditions to use medical cannabis under their doctor's supervision, she alleged that there was no proof of pot's therapeutic effectiveness and that legal alternatives are available by prescription. Now, a just-released clinical trial by researchers at Columbia University in New York is making the gove…