Cannabis Hemp News

POLICE have seized 150 mature cannabis plants and about 500 seedlings after swooping on a sophisticated hydroponic set-up west of Brisbane. A raid on a house at Bundamba, in Ipswich, about 8.30am (AEST) today uncovered a number of rooms converted into hydroponic nurseries, police said. A man was being interviewed over the haul. In a separate incident, a 63-year-old man from Blackbutt, north west of Brisbane, was due in court later this month after police yesterday uncovered another hydroponic cannabis set-up. Police said they allegedly found 27 cannabis plants, a quantity of dried cannabis as well as equipment when they raided the Blackbutt property. The man was c…

FDA approves Valeant Pharmaceutical's synthetic cannabis drug Wednesday, May 17, 2006 12:37:08 PM ET NEW YORK, May 17 (newratings.com) – The US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Valeant Pharmaceuticals Inc’s (ICP.ETR) synthetic cannabis drug, Cesamet, for the treatment of vomiting and nausea due to chemotherapy treatment. Valeant Pharmaceuticals Tuesday announced that Cesamet is effective for a long time and is generally administered two times a day. Cesamet is used for the treatment of patients who have failed to respond adequately to conventional anti-emetic treatments, the company mentioned. Valeant Pharmaceuticals had acquired Cesamet from Eli Li…

Author:HAMISH MACDONELL AND SHAN ROSS Date: Mon 1 May 2006 Source: http://news.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=648742006 Copyright: The Scotsman JOHN REID, the Defence Secretary, has insisted that he has no idea where the cannabis resin came from that was found by police at his Scottish home. The amount found in a guest room was "minuscule," he said, and insisted there was no suggestion that he or any of his family were involved. Police found less than one gram of the drug - with a street value of 85p - during a routine security sweep of his house last week. Dr Reid was on ministerial business abroad when police specialists with sniffer dogs swept his house in the…

Narooma News Cannabis seizure Thursday, 11 May 2006 Police have seized cannabis plants with a street value of approximately $450,000 from the South East Forests National Park. The Far South Coast Target Action Group located more than 200 plants about 30 kilometres from Wyndham last week after information received from a member of the public. Police are seeking information from anyone who may have witnessed anything suspicious in the area or who may have knowledge of the plantation. Bendigo news Drug bunker found Friday, 12 May 2006 CANNABIS worth more than $160,000 on the streets has been seized from a hydroponics set-up in an underground drugs den. Kyneton…

A meeting of Australia's top policy-making body on drugs today will discuss the creation of three national strategies to tackle alcohol abuse, and substance abuse, including cannabis and petrol sniffing. The Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy is holding its annual conference in Perth. The council comprises the federal, state and territory health ministers, and justice and police ministers. The ABC has been told the conference is likely to endorse a national strategy on cannabis use, covering prevention, treatment, and law enforcement. However it is understood the national plan does not seek to over-ride state laws on cannabis. The state and federal ministers w…

A South Australian woman who smoked cannabis before a crash which killed her teenage friend has been fined and banned from driving for six months. Kay Ellen Colman, 22, had smoked four "cones" of cannabis before she rolled her car near Wilmington in the state's mid-north in November 2003. Her 14-year old passenger was killed. Ms Colman was this week found not guilty of causing death by dangerous driving, but guilty of the lesser charge of driving without due care. District Court judge Michael Boylan sentenced Colman on the basis that her driving was not impaired by the cannabis. He added that smoking it before taking the wheel was an act of "gross selfishness." …

A survey of the Northern Territory's drug users shows most have driven while drunk or under the influence of illicit drugs. The survey by the Drug and Alcohol Research council pays people $30 to talk about their drug use, as well as a substance's availability, quality and price. The 2005 results show ecstasy is becoming more popular and is considered easy to get. The results also show users are increasingly combining the party drug with large quantities of alcohol. The majority of those surveyed said in the past six months they had driven while over the alcohol limit and within an hour of taking illicit drugs, usually cannabis or ecstasy. The survey has also fou…

Control centre to tackle cannabis GLENN MILNE 07may06 A NATIONAL Cannabis Control Centre will be established under a new $20 million Federal Government plan to tackle Australia's growing cannabis menace. Federal Treasurer Peter Costello will unveil measures to combat cannabis use in Tuesday's Budget after a new report revealed about 300,000 Australians use it each day. The centre will train specialists in how to educate young people against the dangers of cannabis abuse. It will be used to establish a national database on the problem. Sources said the centre's activities would be backed up by counsellors who will be assigned to university campuses where they w…

For a while there it seemed as though the latest anti-cannabis campaign driven by John Howard and Morris Iemma was dying down but now it's back and meaner than ever. And, I used to think that channel Ten was a little less anti-cannabis than Nine and Seven but that illusion has been shattered. They joined the anti-cannabis crusade in a big way last night by portraying cannabis as a drug which will ravage users and make them deranged out-of-control murderers. On the 5th of May, 2006, Ten's late news had two negative stories on cannabis. Here is the summary: The broadcast starts at approx 11.55pm and the third headline is: "...and how cannabis is driving Australia '…

Mexico set to legalize personal amounts of pot, cocaine, heroin Source: Mexico to decriminalise pot and cocaine, The AgeAuthor: Reuters Date: April 29, 2006 - 6:24AM Copyright: © 2006 Reuters Source: cnn.comAuthor: The Associated Press Date: Friday, April 28, 2006 Copyright: © 2006, CNN International San Diego mayor 'appalled' by Mexican move to lift drug laws: Source: www.sfgate.comAuthor: The Associated Press Date: Friday, April 28, 2006 Copyright: 2006, © www.sfgate.com Yeay! A win for the good guys!

Cannabis Painted on High Street House Must Go LITCHFIELD, Conn. -- A man who spray-painted large cannabis leaves on his house has agreed to remove the bright green paintings as part of a plea agreement with prosecutors. Christopher Seekins, of Winsted, was arrested in October when police discovered about 100 marijuana plants in his house. He said they were hemp and part of a research project. After his arrest, Seekins painted images of the green leaf on his Victorian-style house, each accompanied by the word "hemp." Town officials say they received several complaints because Seekins' home _ on High Street _ is visible from Winsted's main thoroughfare. Seekins has …

A MAN who bludgeoned his own mother to death because he could not bear the thought of becoming her full-time carer led a secret life of shame and violence as a cross-dressing armed robber. Bizarre details of father-of-three Phillip Parkes' life were revealed yesterday when he was jailed for at least 13 years for the murder of ailing Grace Parkes, 83. Parkes, 49, pleaded guilty in November to the crime, committed in January last year, but faced the Supreme Court for sentencing submissions yesterday. The hearing was told he had previously been convicted of armed robberies, carried out while dressed in women's clothes with an unloaded firearm. This, a psychiatrist to…