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US police chief's warning over doomed drugs policy The prohibition against illicit street drugs should be ended as hard-line legislation against drugs is doomed to failure, a US police chief warned today. Jerry Cameron, a police veteran with 17 years experience, urged the Irish Government not to make the same mistakes the United States has made in its war on drugs. Mr Cameron said there was ample evidence the hard-line crackdown with severe prison sentences for possession of street drugs such as cannabis and heroin in America had failed to deal with the problem. “If someone wants to try a drug they are going to try it the law makes no difference,” he said. “In a…

August 07, 2006 Ignorance won't make abuse go away Author: The NPY Women's CouncilDate: August 07, 2006 Source: The Australian Copyright: Copyright: News Limited © 2006 Now the Aboriginal people themselves are saying it. I wonder if she's payed-off? I mean, I wonder how much she got payed for each occurrence of the word marijuana? Still, it is being smoked there and so it does contribute in some way to the general environment but, the conditions of these Aboriginal settlements must be appalling. I mean to live from one pay packet to the next be on grog and weed every day and then turn to pedophilia there must be just a hopeless pit of despair and a circle of…

Hi All, I heard on the radio this morning that drug testing for high school children was coming in somewhere. I looked on the Net and found: MP's want drug test for teens August 17: Author: XANTHE KLEINIGDate: August 17, 2006 12:15am Source: theadvertiser.news.com.au Copyright: 2006 © news limited. And this one from Vic: August 17 2006: Baillieu urged to drug test school students My comment: I ain’t encouraging young kids to smoke dope or nothin (particularly as this web site is for over 18’s consumption ) but think this is wrong. I smoked weed as a teen and would have been scared and humiliated at getting drug tested. How dare they? Are they going to exp…

Tourist fined for posting cannabis to himself 23 August 2006 A South Australian man who posted himself some cannabis to use during a holiday in Queenstown has gone home with a drug conviction. Alexander David Wolper, 21, cellar hand, was yesterday fined $600 by Judge Stephen O'Driscoll in Dunedin District Court after he admitted importing 6.6g of cannabis, which Customs intercepted at the Queenstown mail centre on August 11. Wolper posted the cannabis in a parcel with snowboard magazines and gloves before he left Australia, addressing it to the Queenstown hotel where he would be staying. Prosecutor Sergeant Tom Scouller said when police spoke to Wolper in Queen…

2:33 pm, 23 Aug 2006 The Sports Dispute Tribunal says the decision by basketball's international governing body, FIBA, to suspend Tall Blacks guard Mark Dickel jeopardises their bid to achieve uniformity across sport in New Zealand. Dickel was suspended by Basketball New Zealand for two games and was then warned and reprimanded when he appeared before tribunal chair Barry Patterson QC in accordance with World Anti Doping Agency's code. However FIBA suspended Dickel for a further three games at the world champs in Japan and Mr Patterson says that highlights the inconsistencies in penalties that exist for the same offence. He says if the matter isn't resolved they …

Cannabis doctor escapes prison August 24, 2006 - 4:53PM A Sydney doctor who grew 49,519 cannabis plants will not serve a custodial sentence, a Newcastle court has ruled. 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 grew the plants on his property at Salisbury, near Dungog in the NSW Hunter Valley. The NSW District Court in Newcastle was told tests showed the crop had a low tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) content, making it of no value as a drug. During sentencing submissions today, the court was told Dr Katelaris' licence as a medical practitioner in NSW had been re…

Call for new roadside drug test [Posted: Tue 22/08/2006] Roadside drug testing technology, which is already in use in Australia, should be introduced here, Fine Gael has said. The party was responding to a report by the Medical Bureau of Road Safety, which found that around 70% of erratic drivers who are stopped by the Gardai are under the influence of drugs. According to the report, cannabis and prescription medicines that affect the ability to drive, were the most common types of drug used by drivers. Cannabis was most likely to have been used by young male drivers, while middle-aged men were more likely to be on prescription drugs, such as antidepressants. …

Cannabis growers not guilty of supplying By Bolton Evening News Reporter AN article published in the Bolton Evening News on August 16 about a cannabis farm in Salford reported that Tony Bethell, aged 43, of Caldbeck Drive, Farnworth, and John Edgar, aged 21, of Kenyon Way, Little Hulton, had pleaded guilty to possession of the drug with intent to supply. The details were printed in good faith on the basis of information supplied by Greater Manchester Police. We are now happy to point out that both Mr Bethell and Mr Edgar pleaded guilty to cultivating cannabis but neither was charged with possession or intent to supply. continued... We are happy to set the record s…

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g270/reecePhotophucket/ChrisPyne.jpg "Have I told you lately that I love you?" Australia's peak policy making body on illicit drugs, The Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy, the people who make some drug users criminals and others not, has concluded that cannabis is to be the main target of new drug initiatives. After the Council's latest meeting last in Perth last May the 15th the announcement was made that $21 million dollars alone will be spent telling Australians that marijuana causes mental illness. And, even though the Council makes the recommendations that form drug policy it wont help medical marijuana users stating: "The str…

News Limited has published a couple of cannabis crash stories, one covered twice, in the space of one week in what I would call the largest volley to be fired yet in the recently reinvigorated war against cannabis users. All three were published in News' Courier Mail along with other News publications. The first to come was on August 03, 2006 02:00am Crash driver mother admits cannabis use Author: Amanda GearingDate: August 03, 2006 Source: The Courier Mail Copyright: News Limited © 2006 My comment: What does it matter that she had taken cannabis nine hours before the fatal crash? Does smoking cannabis make you forget anything? What about factors like fatigue or…

THE drug-trafficking dad of stolen baby Montana will be behind bars for at least the next five years. Guiseppe Dom "Joe" Barbaro -- who says his daughter's kidnapping ended his life of crime -- was sentenced yesterday to 9 1/2 years' jail with a minimum of seven for dealing in amphetamines, ecstasy and cannabis from 2002 until just months before his daughter's abduction in 2004. Montana was just three weeks old when she was snatched from her mother, Anita Ciancio, as she packed her car at a Deer Park shopping centre. The little girl was found two days later in an abandoned North Melbourne house. County Court judge Ian Robertson yesterday acknowledged the ordeal had …

FIVE of fourteen people charged during a series of drug raids on houses in the NSW Hunter Region will face court today. The raids yesterday were by officers attached to Strike Force Islander, which was set up in January to investigate the supply of methylamphetamine and cannabis. Officers attached to Strike Force Islander yesterday carried out a vehicle stop in Medowie Street at Williamtown in the Lower Hunter area, north of Newcastle, police said. As a result of the operation, two men were arrested. Officers then executed search warrants on six houses in Medowie, Tomago, Maryland and Woodberry. During the raids they seized 785 grams of methylamphetamine with an…