Cannabis Hemp News

www.news.com.au November 06, 2006 06:51pm Damm you would cry lossing your babies to these things time to get indoors or start netting!!

HHOHHO, 30 October (IRIN) - A fundamental shift in Swaziland's attitude towards the cannabis plant, or hemp, the country's most lucrative cash crop, could be on the horizon. The government is set to allow small-scale production of hemp to see if it has the potential to become an economically viable crop. "In hemp we have an alternative to cotton, which has let us down badly over the last few years. It has been because of marijuana that we have found it difficult to talk about hemp, but that is changing, and we are beginning to shape public opinion to its benefits," said Lufto Dlamini, the Swazi Minister for Enterprise and Employment. "The government is considering a p…

The Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority has fined and reprimanded two players for testing positive to cannabis during the last National Basketball League season. Melbourne Tigers forward Rashad Tucker and former Perth player David Bailey tested positive to the banned drug during in-competition testing, and were fined $5,000 each. Bailey is no longer registered in the NBL after being released from his contract with the Wildcats at the end of last season. Basketball Australia said it supported the action taken against both players. Print-friendy versionPrint Send to a friendEmail ABX Sport July 4, 2006 http://www.abc.net.au/sport/content/200607/s1678437.…

October 24, 2006 12:15pm TWO former police officers staged a fake drug bust during a $120,000 speed deal so that they could on-sell the drugs, a Sydney court was told today. A witness known only as APW2 said former NSW police officer Samuel John Foster had asked him to organise the purchase of 1kg from a dealer in Enfield in southwest Sydney in September 2002. Mr Foster, 41, and former Victorian police officer James Anthony McCabe would stage a drug bust during the deal and the men would split the drugs among themselves, APW2 told Downing Centre Local Court today. "He (Mr Foster) said he would make it look like a drugs bust and I would be arrested," he said. "He…

Quite funny I think. It's a shame one of the little 14 year old snitches decided to dob him in to the principal. Kids these days, I don't know. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Teacher dealt drugs in front of class August 10, 2006 12:00am Article from: The Daily Telegraph WHILE most teachers give out homework during class, a New South Wales casual teacher John Fitzgerald Kennedy dished out marijuana to students instead. During his Year 9 maths class at Sydney's Epping Boys High School earlier this year, he let slip to the 12 students he liked to drink and smoke marijuana on weekends. This opened the door for a 14-year-old…

180,000km..one Winnebago ..... NSW Government will try to scare drug-using drivers off the roads with the use of a single, unmarked Winnebago motor home. The State's only roadside drug-testing bus will be responsible for policing 4.5 million licence holders in NSW and its patrol area will cover 180,000km of road. As well as a drug-testing lab, the $350,000 Winnebago has CCTV, kitchen and bathroom facilities and a flat-screen TV. It is unmarked because police are hoping to blend in with van-loving "grey nomads'' to catch drivers by surprise when the bus hits the road for the Christmas holidays. Offenders will face fines of up to $2200, prison sentences of up to n…

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,20687...from=public_rss November 02, 2006 08:49am A 40-YEAR-OLD man has been arrested after police found more than 500 cannabis plants at a house in Adelaide's north-eastern suburbs. Police said the plants were found last night growing in four rooms in a large garage at a property at Hillcrest. About 15 kilograms of dried cannabis and a quantity of cash was also found. The man was charged with producing and possessing cannabis for sale and with stealing electricity after wiring and lights for the cannabis plants were rerouted around the electricity meter. He was granted police bail to appear in the Holden Hill Magistrates'…

Article from: The Sunday Mail (Qld) Font size: + - Send this article: Print Email POLICE locked down Fortitude Valley late last night with a string of drug raids on some of Brisbane's most popular nightclubs. Dozens of people were charged as a drug-sniffing dog was randomly run past the lines of mostly young people waiting to enter the clubs about 11pm. The operation -- involving almost 100 police and named Black Dog 2 -- targeted cannabis, MDMA (ecstasy) and amphetamines. Men and women suspected of possessing drugs were questioned and then made to stand with their hands against walls and legs apart while they were searched. In April, a similar raid on four Vall…

November 04, 2006 09:52am Article from: AAP ELECTRICAL wiring to power hydroponics for a marijuana crop is being blamed for a house fire in Melbourne. More than 100 marijuana plants were found in the roof of a rented Riddle St house at West Meadows when fire fighters attended the blaze about 2.45am (AEDT) today. Metropolitan Fire Brigade officers wearing breathing apparatus took less than an hour to put out the fire but remained at the property while police set up a crime scene. Gas and electricity suppliers were called. "The thought is that the amount of power being used and the way it was being used may have caused the fire," an MFB spokesman said. Sgt Glenn…

Damm first resonable price ive ever seen pigs quote 300 an ounce roughly!!!

Dogs to search for drugs on most trains By Jim O'Rourke April 25, 2004 Sniffer dogs will be allowed to roam almost every train carriage running on the City Rail metropolitan network, randomly checking all passengers for drugs, when new regulations come into effect on Friday. The North Shore line, running from Berowra to Central, has been added to other train lines where officers do not need a warrant to search for illicit drugs, Police Minister John Watkins announced yesterday. Handlers and their dogs will now be able to search passengers on train services running as far south as Bomaderry, north to Newcastle and west to Penrith. Drug detection dogs will also chec…

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,2...00-2862,00.html POLICE have uncovered a large hydroponic marijuana operation in a Port Melbourne warehouse. Officers from the Moorabbin regional response unit executed a warrant on the Nott St property on Wednesday night and arrested three men. Police yesterday removed 150 cannabis plants from the building. Sgt Andrew Collison said the warehouse was fitted with hi-tech lighting and watering systems. He said the plants ranged from about 45cm to 70cm tall and would have been close to being harvested. Sgt Collison said police were unsure how long the drugs had been grown in the rented warehouse. Jason Jackson, 32,…

80% of mentally ill patients are heavy cannabis users [link to www.dailymail.co.uk] 8 out of 10 mentally ill patients are heavy cannabis users By STEVE DOUGHTY, Social Affairs Correspondent Last updated at 22:10pm on 16th October 2006 Eight out of ten people who suffer the onset of serious mental illness are heavy cannabis users, claims a scathing report on the effects of the drug. The report found that the huge majority of those undergoing a first episode of psychiatric disorder, schizophrenia or similar mental breakdowns are habitual users of the drug. The overwhelming evidence of a connection between cannabis and schizophrenia was confirmed in a report deliv…

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Islamic leaders in Mogadishu on Thursday gave a woman 11 lashes for selling cannabis, the first female to receive such punishment since the fundamentalist rulers took over the capital in June. The woman, who throughout the beating insisted she was innocent, was flogged alongside five other men at the Yassin Square in Mogadishu in front of several hundred people. The small bundle of cannabis, worth around $1 on the streets of the capital, was burned before the crowd. ``The reason we punished them was that we want to stop people selling and using drugs,'' said a local security official, Sheik Omar Hussein. ``We believe as Islamists that people …

Author: Date: 23sep06 Source: AAP Copyright: POLICE have found 600 cannabis plants during a raid of a property in north Queensland. Two men and a woman were charged after the plants, up to 30kg of dried cannabis, hydroponic equipment, a large sum of money and a firearm were found at the Shute Harbour Road property at 9.30am (AEST) today, police said. One of the men, 59, and the 56-year-old woman were charged with trafficking, the production and possession of drugs, possessing tainted property and with the unlawful possession of a weapon. They will appear in the Proserpine Magistrates Court on Monday. The other man, 43, has been charged with possessing cannabis …