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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…

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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 …

PM - Tuesday, 23 March , 2004 18:40:09 Reporter: Ian Townsend MARK COLVIN: Two and a half tonnes of cannabis landed at the doors of Federal Parliament today, a gift from Queensland. It's the legal stuff, of course, though it did raise a few eyebrows. A frustrated Queensland company has sent each federal politician a 10-kilogram pack of industrial hemp mulch. It's part of a long-running battle to get the Government to relax the restrictions on growing hemp for food and fibre. Ian Townsend reports. IAN TOWNSEND: The mailrooms at Parliament House get the occasional odd item in the post. These individually addressed packs of cannabis posed a few problems, mainly …

October 05, 2006 04:17pm Article from: The Advertiser FINES for people caught smoking, selling or cultivating cannabis will increase, in some cases triple, from December. Attorney-General Michael Atkinson yesterday announced the increase in cannabis related fines. Mr Atkinson says the review of legislation will deliver the first increase in fines in more than 20 years. The fine for the ground cultivation of one cannabis plant will jump from $150 to $300 on December 3. The current $50 fine for possessing less than 25g of cannabis or less than 5g of cannabis resin, smoking or consuming cannabis or cannabis resin or possessing cannabis using equipment, will triple to…

The Full report can be found here http://www.unodc.org/unodc/world_drug_report.html A couple of exerts from the report ; "Confronted with the evidence that a relatively inexpensive and harmless recreational drug continues to be consumed by at least 1 in 25 people on the planet, and that it is supplied by a vast army of small growers the value of whose total economic activity is enormous, ought to make even the most diehard pot prohibitionist hesitate. Cannabis prohibition is a failed policy. In a world challenged by mass poverty, global warming, nuclear proliferation, and Islamist terrorism, what sense does it make to expend scarce government resources on enforcing th…

Los Lunas, NM) - Three employees at a New Mexico fast food restaurant are facing felony charges for allegedly putting pot inside two police officer's hamburgers over the weekend. The officers conducted a field test on the burgers when they noticed something was wrong. The results came back positive for marijuana. Police say officers Henry Gabaldon and Mark Landauazo decided to stop for a snack at the Los Lunas Burger King just before eleven Sunday night. They ordered a couple of burgers. Detective Cavallero said "while eating the food they detected something was very wrong. Another Sgt. came and field tested the food and it tested positive for marijuana." Los Luna…

IT seems illogical, but the same compound that addles the brains of marijuana users may help treat the symptoms and slow the onset of Alzheimer's disease, the leading cause of dementia among elderly people. In laboratory experiments, the compound, delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), preserved levels of a brain chemical that declines in Alzheimer's, permitting the build-up of brain-gumming "amyloid plaques". The plaques are the hallmark of Alzheimer's and its dementia-inducing damage. "Our results provide a mechanism whereby the THC molecule can directly impact Alzheimer's disease pathology," researchers reported in the US journal Molecular Pharmaceutics. The team …