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A combined operation by local police over the weekend, which saw a team of 14 officers and one police dog check licensed venues and street activity in the Eurobodalla Shire's three main towns, resulted in 10 people being charged on 22 counts for a variety of offences. In Narooma two people at licensed establishments were detected with cannabis in their possession and were subsequently charged with Possession of a Prohibited Substance. Officers from Batemans Bay general duties, the Far South Coast Target Action Group and the Anti theft Unit visited licensed establishments in Batemans Bay, Moruya and Narooma during the operation. Officers are posted at doorways of the…

Medical cannabis users and advocates are lobbying city leaders to increase Berkeley's indoor marijuana plant limit from 10 to 72, which is the amount allowed in Oakland. Advocates say residents with cancer, AIDS, chronic pain, anorexia, glaucoma, migraine headaches and other severe illnesses need more than 10 indoor plants to cultivate marijuana for medical treatment. Berkeley allows 10 indoor and outdoor plants under a March 2001 ordinance that was brokered under political compromise. The Berkeley City Council will consider an increase proposal Tuesday. "It's not unreasonable to have 72 (plants)," said Mayor Tom Bates. "What people have told me is that this is w…

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) As police watched, hundreds of people gathered at the University of Colorado this week to smoke marijuana as part of an annual counterculture event organized by the Grateful Dead. A cloud of smoke wafted over Farrand Field just after 4:20 p.m. on Tuesday, April 20. The band organized the first 4/20 celebration in 1979 in San Jose, Calif., where "420" was the local police code for marijuana smoking. Freshman Adam Stroul said Boulder's 4/20 is "famous." "I probably heard about it four years ago," he said. "My buddy's older brother went here and told us about it." The Princeton Review, which named Colorado the nation's No. 1 party school in 2003, …

MONROE, N.C. -- Sheriff's deputies in Union County say they discovered nearly $300,000 worth of marijuana growing in house in Marshville. Robert Gregg, 55, and Nancy Taylor, 53, each face four charges. Authorities say a tip led them to a home on Olive Branch Road that had 122 marijuana plants inside. Gregg and Taylor were incarcerated in the Union County Jail and have been released on $10,000 bond, pending a June 1 court appearance. They say the bust represents the fourth indoor growing operation seized in the last five months. Source: WSOCTV.com Eyewitness News

POLICE have arrested a 35-year-old NSW south coast man after seizing $120,000 worth of cannabis in a raid on a house at Nowra. A large quantity of dried and drying cannabis along with hydroponic equipment, a firearm and ammunition were found when the police carried out a search warrant about 3am (AEST) yesterday. They arrested a resident, charging him with possession of a prohibited drug and firearms offences. He was granted conditional bail to appear at Nowra Local Court on May 10. Source: The Australian

A drug dealer who reported the fact that someone had stolen nearly £1,000 from him but later admitted he had made the money selling drugs will have to do 120-hours of community punishment. Damoun Sabzabadi, 20, of High Road, North Finchley, was sentenced on Friday after pleading guilty to possessing seven bags of cannabis on March 18 at Hendon Magistrates Court. The court heard he made profits of around £500 a week by selling cannabis in nine-ounce bags in a period since July 2003, but denied ever selling drugs to strangers or children. Sabzabadi went to Colindale police station in Grahame Park Way on March 13, saying he had been robbed of £980 in cash. But when h…

Aboriginal leaders will co-operate in identifying traffickers in alcohol, drugs and petrol in South Australia's Anangu Pitjantjatjara lands, the area's new service delivery co-ordinator, Bob Collins, said last night. After talks with a women's council in Alice Springs this week, Mr Collins said he wanted to make the lands safer for those who lived there. About 50 attended the administrative centre of Umuwa last night with stories of social breakdown. "Services on the lands are bogged in the sand up to the axle and I plan to get them unbogged, I can promise you that," Mr Collins told them. The Pitjantjatjara Lands are Australia's oldest self-governing tribal lands. …

PRESS RELEASE - PRESS RELEASE - PRESS RELEASE http://www.hempembassy.net/hempe/images/know.jpg NIMBIN HEMP EMBASSY 15 APRIL 2004. Nimbin's Twelfth MardiGrass and 'Just Say Know' Cannabis Law Reform Weekend on the 1 and 2 May has already attracted early campers in the village. "MardiGrass is now an international cultural event which is very popular in the backpackers' calendar as well," said Michael Balderstone, spokesperson for the annual Rally. "It is a unique event which suits our unique community. It's an added bonus that it has real purpose and meaning for a lot of people." This year's MardiGrass is tackling the difficult subject of cannabis and mental health …