Cannabis Hemp News

G'day! I run a small online cannabis news portal over in the UK, and with the news breaking regarding the Oz government planning to try to ban bongs and such like, how that would affect you guys? I would love to be able to include opinions from "on the ground" oz stoners so any opinions at all, please weigh in with them and we'll get the eyes of the world looking at ya's. Out of respect for the Oz stoners admin I wont post a link to the portal unless invited. I look forward to hearing from you guys. All the best cannazine

Article by The Age: Source: The Age Author: AAP Date: May 16, 2007 - 11:51AM Copyright: © 2007

Hey all .. just read this ... and I wanna know more ! the story is full of the usual Gov propaganda ... but maybe they know something I'd like to know more about ... Super Dope ... now how tantalizing is that ??

Space will be the final frontier for busting marijuana grow operations in Canada now that police researchers are backing satellite technology that can uncover hidden cannabis plantations. While RCMP weren't hot about the idea a few years ago, a study just completed by the Canadian Police Research Centre shows that police forces would be crazy not to use the technology, if they can afford it. Staff Sgt. Brian Thiessen, who led the recent study in British Columbia, said he was initially told not to bother with the research since it had already been attempted and failed. Using satellite and airborne imagery in the summer of 2006, police researchers were able to find th…

CANNABIS seizures have more than doubled in South Australia, but arrests have increased by only 6 per cent. The national Illicit Drug Data Report released yesterday also shows a massive increase in the amount of amphetamines seized by police, from about 5kg in 2004-05 to more than 66kg in 2005-06. The report from the Australian Crime Commission shows there were more than 500 cannabis seizures in the 2005-06 financial year, compared to 251 the year before. The weight of cannabis seized has also doubled, to almost 8000kg. However, there was only a 6 per cent increase in arrests and a 15 per cent increase in the number of cannabis expiation notices. The overall lev…

Author: ABC Date: 05/05/07 Source: ABC News Online Copyright: © 2007 ABC

Cannabis Dependence by Paul DILLon- What a load of BS by Jess Stone! Cannabis is the most widely used illicit drug in Australia, and in western society in general. Most people use it intermittently, experimenting with it once or twice or regularly over a short period of time. However, some people do experience great problems with the drug and continue to use cannabis even when it begins to have adverse effects on their life. For a long time there was a widespread belief that cannabis was not a drug of dependence and you could not become addicted. This belief was due to an apparent absence of tolerance to the effects of cannabis or of a withdrawal syndrome, particula…

IT is obvious that some people in the northern NSW town of Nimbin have chosen to be deliberately obtuse and are determined not to face the scientific facts about marijuana. How else can their staging of yet another Mardi Grass be interpreted? This event is wrongly called a festival. There is nothing joyous about people gathering to celebrate a drug that has a proven record of triggering psychosis and schizophrenia. The enthusiastic acolytes of marijuana, who will parade up and down the main street of Nimbin this weekend, dare not read the findings of the world's top neurologists in the past decade or those of Antonio Maria Costa, the executive director of the United N…

Police say outback Indigenous drug smuggling growing Police say the trafficking of cannabis and other drugs is on the rise in South Australia's outback Aboriginal communities. More than a year ago South Australian, Western Australian and Northern Territory police created a substance abuse desk so they could work together to stop alcohol and petrol being smuggled into outback towns. Port Augusta police Superintendent Peter Anderson says while the project and the roll-out of Opal fuel has curbed alcohol abuse and petrol sniffing, more people are now turning to other drugs. "Sadly the focus is now moving towards cannabis and other illicit drugs, so the need for our j…