Cannabis Hemp News

Hiya all found this on KK and thaught ya might enjoy. It relates to USA : Ok all, heres a exerpt from an AP news segment, enjoy. The Conventional One Has Been Highly Costly, With Little Return. Making Narcotics Legal -- And Very Expensive -- Can Reduce Addiction And Crime Starting with Richard Nixon, every U.S. President has declared war on drugs. The FBI, CIA, DEA, military, and countless prosecutors have devoted enormous resources to combating narcotics over the past several decades. According to an estimate by Boston University economist Jeffrey A. Miron, federal, state, and local governments have put some $33 billion in resources toward prosecuting the war on d…

Drugs, Guns, Computers & an elaborate Hydro setup.... Pure are you still here? (Just kidding around, although I hope it wasn't you). http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12366228-421,00.html -- Eikel.

A Tasmanian man who said that he grew Cannabis to relieve boredom was jailed yeasterday for 3 months. The man who is named in the Report , but which I will omit ., Had earlier pleaded guilty to to one charge of cultivating a controlled plant and one count of stealing by dishonestly diverting Electricty. the 44 year had earlier pleaded not Guilty to a charge of, ( Get This Guys ) Possesing things intended for use in The cultivation of a controlled plant for sale. Cheif Justice Peter Underwood said the defendant, had made a considerd decision to break the law in a substantial manner. The Cheif Justice convicted the defendant to 5 months jail , with 2 months suspended on…

Boffins to build 'hemp houses' February 18, 2005 From: AAP RESEARCHERS on the NSW north coast are preparing to harvest 2.5 million cannabis plants to build what's believed to be Australia's first hemp homes. Dr Keith Bolton from Southern Cross University said the hemp crop is expected to be harvested in the next couple of weeks, before the building of two houses commences. "We're certainly expecting them to be finished before the end of the year and we'll be commencing the building in the next couple of months," he said. The four year commercialisation research project involves the Southern Cross University, NSW University and Byron Shire Council. One house is t…

Anyone see the crap that they pulled in the USa, the "land of the free" () the other day? Full scale drug raids, with cops holding guns on school children, terrorising them, as they searched their bags and lockers. The kids fell to the ground, were made to lay with their hands out, as if they had commited a crime, and scared them shitless. How much dope did the cops find? None. The cops reckon they did nothing over the top. And the principle says he saw nothing wrong with what they did. It seems that the land of the free, the centre of western civilastion, the leader of the free world, and other self proclaimed bullshit names; finds no offence in menacing children…

A former president of the Rebels Motorcycle Club Bendigo chapter who was involved in a conspiracy to traffick drugs was yesterday sentenced to 19 months' jail. But Paul John Maher walked from the Bendigo County Court a free man, having already served 410 days of the sentence - the remainder of which was suspended. Maher, 40, of Nyah West, had earlier pleaded guilty to eight charges including conspiracy to traffick methlamphetamines, incitement to inflict serious injury and possess and cultivate cannabis. Two of Maher's co-offenders - Robert Edward Hudson, of Warrnambool and Anthony Lewis Russell, of Launceston, also each pleaded guilty to one charge of conspiracy to…

DRIVERS high on speed or cannabis are more than twice as likely to be found on the nation's roads compared to drink-drivers. That's the preliminary finding of the world's first random roadside drug-driving test being trialled in Victoria. And under current laws in Victoria, those drivers won't be forced off the road. The first six weeks of the year-long pilot program found that one in every 103 motorists were driving with either methamphetamines and/or THC in their system, the active components in speed and marijuana respectively. This compares with an average of one in 250 drivers found to be drink-driving - that is, with a blood alcohol level of 0.05 per cent or m…