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Emery, Jailed 'Prince of Pot' He's portrayed as a greedy kook, but I know a true crusader. By Brian Preston It’s a strange feeling to dig out something you wrote years ago and read it with fresh eyes. I’m looking at a story from Rolling Stone, April 1998, called Vancouver’s Pot Experiment. “In the Nineties,” I wrote, “Vancouver has been home to a thriving community of marijuana activists—idealistic hippies who believe in hemp’s power to save the world. But it took the arrival of Marc Emery, a bluff, energetic entrepreneur with a history of getting involved in hot button issues, to push Vancouver into its new incarnation: “Vansterdam.” The editors at Rolling Stone ad…

As US politicians crack down on the sale of marijuana-flavoured lollipops, another debate is raging between their manufacturers and hemp product advocates over what is in the candy. Hemp advocates say the candy makers aren't being honest about what's in their confection and that publicity is hurting the sale of legal hemp products, made from a variety of the cannabis plant. California-based Chronic Candy advertises that every lick of its candy is "like taking a hit". The company, though, says the candies contain only hemp oil, a common ingredient in health food, beauty supplies and other household products. "There is nothing illegal in our ingredients and they are…

Cannabis ... no effect on pain, according to a new ruling /supplied CANNABIS has no role in the treatment of acute pain, contrary to popular belief, according to Australian guidelines designed to improve doctors' and patients' "abysmal" knowledge of pain relief options. Although many experts believe cannabis may help relieve chronic (or long-term) pain, the guidelines launched in Sydney yesterday by federal Health Minister Tony Abbott say solid evidence now shows it has little efficacy with acute pain. Acute pain is defined as pain lasting up to two to three weeks after surgery, trauma or a medical condition such as kidney stones. The previous edition of the guidelin…

Hi people, English guy here.... I have just moved to Sydney after 6 years living in Amsterdam and then in Berlin.... I am based in Surry Hills.....please can someone tell me where I can buy a bag of grass in this city... After a hard week at work I miss the obligatory Friday night J. Look forward to any helpful suggestions. Thanks Joe

Production of cannabis, the most commonly used street drug in the world, has jumped by around 25% in one year, the United Nations said in a report on Wednesday. An estimated 161 million people used cannabis in 2003, equivalent to 4% of the global population between the ages of 15 and 64, the UN said its 2005 World Drug Report. The production of cannabis - marijuana and hashish - may have exceeded 40 000 tons in 2003, up from 32 000 the previous year, said the report by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). The production of herbal cannabis is "extremely dispersed", while production of cannabis resin, or hashish, seems to be concentrated in Morocco, which supplie…

http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/4466.html http://www.canada.com/vancouver/story.html...88-4fc53b9ee4a4 http://www.canada.com/national/globalnational/index.html Man, I cant beleive this shit, read these articles. The fucking American government has had a DEA (Drug Enforcment Agency) in Canada for some time, which none of us agreed should be there, who the fuck do they think they are setting up an office in our country and telling us how we shoud be enforcing our drug policy and policing us ? But we pretty much let them have their little office as long as they didn't fuck with us, and now they have decided to start to. This really efffects me personallly b…

ART Garfunkel has been charged with cannabis possession after his car was stopped by police. The drug was found in his limousine's ashtray when an officer smelt it. The 63-year-old singer pleaded guilty to the same offence last year and was fined £110. Garfunkel was stopped after driving through a red light in Woodstock, New York state, said police. He had been stopped for speeding nearby in January 2004 when officers found cannabis in his jacket pocket. Garfunkel had a string of huge hits in the 60s in a duo with Paul Simon. Author:www.mirror.co.uk Date:31 August 2005 Source:www.mirror.co.uk Copyright:www.mirror.co.uk

POLICE have charged 48 people with 128 drug and property offences after a series of raids on the Darling Downs in south-east Queensland. In an operation code-named Haricot, State Flying Squad detectives executed 40 search warrants in Toowoomba, Helidon, Oakey, Goombungee, Kingsthorpe, Hirstvale and Millmerran. There were 79 drug and 43 property-related offences. Six other charges were also laid, including possessing an insecure firearm, assaulting police and obstructing police. A cannabis plantation was found on a property outside Millmerran and a 19-year-old woman and a 20-yer-old man were also charged with drug offences after a quantity of cannabis, ecstasy and ca…

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