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ONE of Australia's largest drug syndicates, suspected of producing tonnes of high-grade marijuana every year, has been smashed, with arrests and raids across north Queensland last night. The syndicate, allegedly run by Queensland grazier Alexander Malcolm Lane, is suspected of operating for more than a decade, with plantations across Cape York and around Cairns. A three-year joint police and Australian Crime Commission taskforce - codenamed Charlie-Thatch - has traced the syndicate to Europe and across Australia. At least 10 properties are suspected to have been used as rotating sites for the sophisticated plantations, growing highly potent hybrid strands of "skunk"…

Monday May 29, 05:28 PM Customs officers at Melbourne Airport have discovered cannabis resin hidden in play dough containers. It was discovered during air cargo examinations on May 23, when Customs opened a package from India, which had been declared as "baby toys". Two tubs inside the package were found to contain a dark resinous substance that initially tested positive for cannabis. A second package was intercepted a day later, and the substance inside also tested positive for cannabis. A 25-year-old man from Caulfield in Melbourne's south-east will face court on charges including the importation of a border controlled drug. He will appear in court in Augu…

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Author: Olivia Rondonuwu Date: 22 May 06 Source: The Hobart Mercury Copyright: © Davies Bros

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g270/reecePhotophucket/r86302_253894.jpgKumanarra © ABC 16 May, 2006: "Up to their ears in ganja", the Federal Minister for Indigenous affairs blames alcohol and ganja for wife bashing and child pedophile rings in central Australian Aboriginal communities. Following the shocking revelations on Lateline two nights ago (15/05/06) on the breakdown of law and order among males in Aboriginal communities across Australia involving petrol sniffing, alcohol and tobacco use Mal Brough decided twice to single out cannabis as a major contributing factor in tonight's follow up to the scandal saying: I've got news for you Mal Brough, you sanct…

Author: Sophie Elsworth Date: 18 May 06 Source: The Hobart Mercury Copyright: © Davies Bros So whats this, 67000 "deals" from 32kg, Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesnt that work out to about 0.4g per 'deal'? :peace:

WA students as young as 12 are peddling drugs to classmates. The problem has become so common that principals are asking police to use sniffer dogs to check children for cannabis and amphetamines. The Sunday Times also can reveal that senior WA police are meeting monthly with teachers and principals in Perth and country towns to try to combat the drug scourge. Supt David Parkinson said parents and politicians would be naive to think drugs were not in public, private and Catholic schools throughout WA. He said police had made the disturbing discovery that some parents were supplying drugs to their children and ordering them to sell the illicit substances to classma…

A CANNABIS haul worth $1.3 million was seized by police during a raid on a home in Adelaide's north-western suburbs today. Detectives from biker gang taskforce Operation Avatar arrived at a home in Cheltenham about 11am and promptly began a search that uncovered 67 one pound (454 grams) bags of cannabis, as well as fireworks and a pair of guns. Police said the amount of cannabis equated to 67,000 street deals, with a total value of $1.3 million. A 41-year-old Cheltenham man was arrested at the home and charged with possession of cannabis for sale and possession of fireworks. He will appear in court at a date to be confirmed. Author:Advertiser Newspapers Pty Lim…

The minister in charge of the government's drugs policy has admitted that he has smoked cannabis. Vernon Coaker, a former government whip who was appointed Home Office under-secretary of state in the reshuffle earlier this month, said he tried the drug at university. "When I was a student, I took one or two puffs of marijuana but that was it. I think it was once or twice," he told the Coventry Evening Telegraph. The MP for Gedling in Nottinghamshire insisted he had never taken hard drugs, and did not enjoy the cannabis experience, thinking afterwards: "I'm not doing that." Mr Coaker is not the first politician to come clean – in 2000, five members of the shadow ca…

Cannabis 'Best for Pain Relief' After Operations May 17, 06:51 PM By MARK PRIGG CANNABIS is a far more effective painkiller than existing drugs following surgery, a study by London scientists has found. Researchers at Imperial College London and the Medical Research Council said a cannabis plant extract can provide highly effective pain relief for patients after major surgery such as knee replacements. Dr Anita Holdcroft of Imperial College London, who led the study published today in the journal Anesthesiology, said: "Pain after surgery continues to be a problem because many of the commonly used drugs are either ineffective or have too many side effects. "These…

Police raid hippie festival From: The Sunday Mail (Qld) By Paul Weston May 07, 2006 POLICE swarmed into the northern NSW hippie town of Nimbin yesterday in the biggest crackdown yet on illegal drug use at its annual Mardi Grass. Police set up road blocks to stop and search vehicles driving into the township, about 60km south of Murwillumbah, as more than 10,000 people flocked to the festival. Police on horseback patrolled the main streets and officers dressed in paramilitary gear and armed with guns inspected venues including the Nimbin museum, which vibrantly promotes marijuana use with its colourful Kombis inside. Some residents were furious when police threaten…