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CRIMINALS are growing 5000ha of marijuana in Australia every year, an area the size of 689 Melbourne Cricket Ground precincts, according to a US intelligence report. The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) report, obtained by the Sunday Herald Sun under Freedom of Information, paints a grim picture of illegal drug use in Australia. It says: AUSTRALIA has one of the world's highest rates of ecstasy and methamphetamine abuse. THERE are 200,000 heroin users in Australia. ECSTASY manufacturers are using oil from the sassafras plant to make the drug. COCAINE is being smuggled into Australia on flights from South America, and importation is set to rise, and …

Sept. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Canada's marijuana dealers are converting suburban homes and abandoned warehouses into pot farms, creating a C$10 billion ($8.5 billion) market that's three times the size of the nation's biggest legal crop, wheat. Cities such as Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto may each have as many as 20,000 pot factories according to some estimates, said Rich Baylin, former national coordinator for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Cultivation is rising because penalties are often one-eighth those in the U.S., and Canadians' acceptance of pot has risen. ``This is a scourge on our communities and a danger to our children,'' Liberal Party lawmaker Jim Karygi…

POLICE will be given new powers to use sniffer dogs trained in cocaine and designer-drug detection to randomly search private premises, including parties. Parents who host teenage parties could request police undertake drug spot checks at their venue in a bid to reduce the increasing incidence of violence spilling into suburbs. Police Minister Judy Spence said yesterday the new laws, to be debated in State Parliament this week and likely to be in place for Christmas and the Schoolies festival, were targeted at drug dealers who preyed on youth. Three labradors will be trained to ignore cannabis but detect amphetamines, methamphetamines, cocaine, ecstasy, angel dust…

Author: CAMILLE BAINS Date: 30 September 2005 Source: The Globe and Mail (.com) link to article Copyright:© Copyright 2005 Bell Globemedia Publishing Inc. Pot activist to face charges in Canada Private citizen hopes his legal move will prevent Emery's extradition to U.S. By CAMILLE BAINS Friday, September 30, 2005 Page S3 Canadian Press VANCOUVER -- A private citizen says he is filing charges today against pot activist Marc Emery and two of his associates, partly because that will throw a wrench into U.S. plans to extradite them to face drug charges in that country. "If he gets charged in Canada that will have major legal consequences for that extradition request,…

Did anyone catch thhis remarkable statement on 60 minutes last week. Here is a snippet of the transcript of the show (LIZ HAYES is the reporter). Full transcript at 60 minutes archived story on 'Reefer Madness': I would prefer to see that 'London-based psychotherapist' deregistered and banned from treating anyone else

Cannabis Culture Warning above is a link to cannabis culture's warning about the DEA and marc emery being busted....aparently the DEA is stealing mail, putting their own letter inside and sending it off to the person who was meant to get seeds :thumbdown the letters basically say that to recieve your original order + 20 free seeds, you must send them $50 or $100 using identifiable means and the money is being sent to different names in vancouver its a scary ass read and i strongly recommend having a look if you intend on ordering seeds online as cannabis culture thinks this is only the beginning

Two people have been charged after detectives seized more than 100 kilograms of cannabis in Canberra last night. Police found the hydroponically-grown drugs in an Isabella Plains house. Australian Federal Police (AFP) spokesman Sandy Logan says $22,500, suspected of being proceeds of crime, was also recovered. "A 50-year-old woman and a 50-year-old man have remained in custody overnight," he said. "They'll face the ACT Magistrates Court this morning on a cultivating a trafficable quantity of cannabis for sale charge, as well as trafficking in a trafficable quantity and unlawful possession of stolen property." Author:ABC Date:Tuesday, June 7, 2005. Source:ABC Cop…

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,16601864-1245,00.html A WEST Australian Government official is one of two men charged with drug offences following a joint operation between WA's corruption watchdog and South Australian police. WA's Corruption and Crime Commission (CCC) said a WA Department of Agriculture officer based near the SA border, was arrested and charged with the possession of more than 1kg of cannabis. CCC operations director Nick Anticich said the man was in custody ahead of a court appearance in Ceduna, about 450km on the SA side of the border, later today. He has also been suspended by his employer, Mr Anticich said. Following the search of a farm…