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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…

Author: Raanan Ben-Zur Date: 05.23.06, 00:40 Source: Israel Ynet News Copyright: Yes I found this story on treatingyourself, but wasnt sure how many people would see it

By 12:00 Article from: Font size: + - Send this article: Print Email THE man accused of the murder of Janelle Patton told police shortly after his arrest that he had been smoking cannabis before he hit her with his car and he had "panicked". A fingerprint expert also told the court that prints belonging to Glenn Peter Charles McNeill were found on the plastic in which Ms Patton's body was wrapped. A statement by New Zealand Detective Sergeant Christopher Roberts, who arrested McNeill in February, revealed the alleged admission when it was tendered to McNeill's murder committal hearing. Ms Patton's body was found at Cockpit Waterfall Reserve late on the afte…

A 69-year-old Perth pensioner and her son have been charged over the distribution of cannabis between Western Australia and South Australia. Police allegedly uncovered 3.1 kilograms of compressed cannabis heads in a package which was transported by road courier between the two states. Detective Senior Sergeant Neville Dockery says police searched the woman's unit in Redcliffe last week. He says police have charged Evelyn Elizabeth Harvey and her son, Johnny Edward Harvey, of Prospect in South Australia, with attempting to posses cannabis with intent to sell or supply. "We will allege that Mrs Harvey, due to her age, has been used as a depot for the transportation …

I saw on the news today they had an interview with this old far named John Herron from the Australian National Council on Drugs. He has written a new booklet on cannabis that "proves" that it has dangerous long term physical and mental health effects and destroys relationships. The booklet can be downloaded at: http://www.ancd.org.au/

MORE than $1 million worth of hydroponic cannabis has been seized after two houses were raided in Sydney's south-west. Officers attached to the Wetherill Park Target Action Group, formed as part of a crackdown on hydroponic cannabis, raided the two empty houses at Smithfield Road in Greenfield Park about 11.30am (AEST) today, police said. They discovered elaborate hydroponics set-ups consisting of more than 360 cannabis plants, along with a large quantity of processed cannabis, which were seized by police. Inquiries are continuing. Author:news.com.au Date:August 07, 2006 Source:news.com.au Copyright:news.com.au