Cannabis Hemp News

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 …

ALREADY facing possible charges of contempt of court, a Sydney doctor who grew almost 50,000 cannabis plants has verbally attacked police, the courts and his conviction. Dr Andrew John Katelaris was convicted on March 8 this year of one count of cultivating not less than a large commercial quantity of cannabis. He was given a three-year good behaviour bond by Judge Ralph Coolahan when he appeared in the NSW District Court in Newcastle today. But Judge Coolahan said he was referring another matter, in which Katelaris accused a jury of being ignorant and referred to them as "sheep", for consideration of charges of contempt. Outside court following his conviction, an…

The NSW Council of Civil Liberties is looking at stamping out ALL sniffer dogs in NSW :thumbsup Apparently 70-80% of positive detections end without a single bit of evidence of drugs at all so the sniffer dogs are basically useless The council says its police harrassment to have a sniffer dog smell you up and down, expecially considering 70-80% of all positive results given by the dogs are false postives.... The police are whinging (as to be expected) demanding that the dogs stay on as they play a valuable role in the war on drugs and stamping them out will open the way for dealers and traffickers.... I'm not sure if they meant all public sniffer dogs like at…

September 13, 2006 - Washington, DC, USA Washington, DC: Recently published clinical and preclinical research on the therapeutic use of cannabis indicates that cannabinoids may curb the progression of various life-threatening diseases - in particular, autoimmune disorders such as Multiple Sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease, as well as neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's disease and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (a.k.a. Lou Gehrig's disease) - according to a comprehensive new report published today by the NORML Foundation. The NORML Foundation report summarizes over 120 recently published trials assessing the therapeutic utility of ca…

Drivers face random drug tests Motorists in NSW will be subject to random drug testing under legislation to be introduced to parliament today. Offenders could face prison sentences of up to nine months and unlimited licence suspensions. "The random roadside drugs tests will be used to detect speed, cannabis and ecstasy," Premier Morris Iemma said. Mr Iemma also said all drivers and motorcycle riders involved in fatal crashes would be forced to undergo blood testing. Police Minister Carl Scully said specially trained police officers would conduct the saliva tests with portable drug screening machines. So Morris Iamascumma joins his FUCKWIT TRAITOROUS LABOR MATE…

SAN RAMON: By Bruce Gerstman CONTRA COSTA TIMES A fire and explosion in a suburban San Ramon garage in February exposed a lesser-known form of marijuana and ignited a debate about its safety. Prosecutors say three men were mixing butane with crushed marijuana leaves to extract what is known as honey oil, a concentrated form of cannabis, which was going to be used in a medical marijuana dispensary. In what county prosecutors call a first for a marijuana case, the District Attorney's Office has filed charges against the three men for manufacturing a controlled substance -- a charge usually associated with methamphetamine and rock cocaine. A conviction on the charge c…

LAZARAT, Albania (Reuters) - Cannabis plants lay stacked up like Christmas trees around a police station near this remote Albanian village, a humbling sight for growers who two years ago took pot-shots at an Italian police helicopter. "Why didn't you come much earlier?" an old woman wailed at the police, berating them for not acting before work had gone into growing the crop. "Four of our donkeys died fetching water for these plants. And now you come and the harvest's all gone." Albania has been clamping down on cannabis cultivation since Prime Minister Sali Berisha pledged early this year to "wipe it off the map". But in the southern village of Lazarat, where plant…

Last Update: Thursday, August 31, 2006. 7:00pm (AEST) CWA votes in favour of marijuana for medicinal use ----------------------------------------------------------- The National Conference of the Country Women's Association (CWA) has voted in favour of a resolution supporting the medical use of marijuana for pain relief. The CWA held its meeting in Darwin and members have told of relatives seeking relief from the side-effects of cancer treatment and chronic illness. President-elect Leslie Young says the CWA now supports a trial to determine whether cannabis can ease their pain. "We will be approaching the federal and state ministers to consider the legalisation of…

Embassy cautious about new drug test laws Friday, 1 September 2006. 13:04 (AEDT) ------------------------------------------------- The Nimbin Hemp Embassy is offering cautious support to plans to introduce drug-testing for drivers in New South Wales. The State Government introduced laws into the Parliament yesterday that would allow police to take random saliva tests designed to detect cannabis, ecstasy and speed. The Hemp Embassy's Michael Balderstone says as long as the tests only apply to recent drug use he will support them. He says the Nimbin community has been waiting for this time to come. "There's been a few false starts on this and we've been waiting fo…