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Marijuana intended for elderly arthritis sufferers, court told A Darwin court has heard that a man who has pleaded guilty to growing marijuana intended to supply it to elderly people suffering arthritis. Craine Lucas Wattam, 37, pleaded guilty in the Northern Territory Supreme Court to unlawfully cultivating a commercial quantity of cannabis. Police discovered the 45 plants when they visited his Darwin River property on an unrelated matter in January this year. The court heard that Wattam had been approached to grow the plants by a group of elderly people in Palmerston who used the drug to relieve symptoms of arthritis. Their own backyard plants had been persist…

Police have arrested a Northern Territory man who tried to hide a shipment of cannabis in a box of fried chicken. Territory police say they searched the 21-year-old man as he got off a flight home to Maningrida, a small Arnhem Land community about 400 kilometres east of Darwin, yesterday afternoon. Police say they found a packet containing 25 grams of cannabis hidden in the man's clothing. Police searching his box of fried chicken pieces found two more parcels concealed among the wings and drumsticks. Each of those parcels contained 27 grams of cannabis split into bags. The man has been released on bail to appear in the Maningrida Magistrates Court on drug po…

NEVADA COUNTY — Investigators in Nevada County are checking out an apparent new type of illegal drug that turned up during a bust there this week. On Tuesday, officers from the Nevada County Sheriff’s Narcotics Task Force, served a search warrant at the residence of Zachary Michael Fisher, 22 years old, on Sutton Way, in the Nevada Woods Apartment complex in Grass Valley. While conducting the search, officers said they discovered marijuana, psilocybin mushrooms, suspected LSD, and a white powdery substance, suspected of being a new hallucinogenic drug called 2C-I (2,5-dimethoxy-4-iodophenethylamine). Officers also said they located evidence of an indoor marijuana grow…

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17596296-2,00.html PM gets tough on marijuana dangers From: By Tony Vermeer December 18, 2005 THE Federal Government is planning a national anti-marijuana campaign to combat community perceptions that it is a relatively harmless drug. Prime Minister John Howard has criticised health experts for adopting what he says is a "relaxed" attitude to marijuana in comparison with the attack on tobacco. And he has called on states and territories to abandon a decade of decriminalisation and introduce tougher laws to deter marijuana users. "It amazes me that we can be so zealous in dissuading people from smoking - and I used to smoke, I…

Author: John Kron Date: 12-Oct-2005 Source: Australian Doctor (.com.au) Copyright: © 2005 Australian Doctor - a division of Reed Business Information Pty Ltd Article link: testing the law Testing the law Breaking the law to treat patients opens an ethical can of worms. By John Kron. SOME doctors recommend illegal treatments to patients because they believe the anticipated benefit is worth the legal risk. But is that ethical? Dr Andrew Katelaris recalls being contacted by a 78-year-old patient soon after Dr Katelaris appeared in an episode of ABC TV’s Catalyst program discussing the medical use of marijuana. “[The patient] was so desperate for help that she foun…

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http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/bocs...able%204-28.pdf This link above shows stats and suburbs for NSW in which growers were caught :thumbdown ! Its quite interesting and revealing. Not many growers on the Northern Beaches but plenty the further west you go :scratchin ! Must visit Richmond-Tweed someday... :smoke

Original Article People really need to do some research about the difference between tobacco (physically addictive) and cannabis (not physically addictive, but can bcome emotionaly addictive)

Cannabis: the final word 5 Dec 2005 A risk to mental health, or a boon for people with MS? Both, says Barbara Lantin Why can't people make up their minds about cannabis? A recent issue of a tabloid newspaper carried news of an Australian study that showed that four out of five people with severe schizophrenia had been regular marijuana smokers in their youth. A few pages later, it included an article extolling the virtues of a cannabis-derived medicine for multiple sclerosis (MS) patients. Cannabis: 'what is needed now is education' The Home Office insists that cannabis "is still a controlled drug, and possession, production and supply are still illegal", but last…

Original article Please tell me that the police have better things to do than go bushwalking looking for plants?

Wow massive bust up there in Alaska over 100 grams :: Original article

CRIMINAL sanctions for growing and possessing cannabis should be tightened, according to the Howard Government, which is increasingly concerned by the havoc drugs are wreaking on Australia's young minds. One drug expert warned yesterday that the rising number of people using illicit substances was a mental health "time bomb". The warning came just days after a report exposed how psychologically ill patients were dying because of poorly co-ordinated care. Parliamentary secretary for health Christopher Pyne, who has oversight on drugs, also blasted relaxed state cannabis laws, saying the states "all need to toughen up their laws dramatically", especially in regard to …