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EXTRAORDINARY powers are set to be given to Queensland police and the Crime and Misconduct Commission as they seek to overcome the threat of terrorism. The Beattie Government has been asked to allow the crime fighters to raid premises without a warrant and conduct surveillance on premises instead of a suspect if they believe a terrorist act is being planned. The Labor-dominated Parliamentary Crime and Misconduct Committee, in its three-yearly review of the CMC, said terrorists should be given less freedom than other criminals. "Terrorist acts are removed from the level of ordinary criminal offences by the nature of their immediate and devastating effects in terms of…

Police in the Great Southern region of Western Australia have seized hundreds more cannabis plants in the Denmark area under Operation High Tide. Ten people have been arrested in recent weeks. Police have seized about 700 cannabis plants in the past fortnight in raids on properties in the Denmark and Walpole areas on the State's south coast. Operation High Tide is targeting drug suppliers in the region and is being driven largely by strong public support. Many of the plants have been discovered in dense forest and some on crown land. Detective Senior Constable Paul McKenna says a haul of 200 crops last week included some huge plants. "One of the plots they …

Washington -- The Justice Department wants to significantly expand the government's ability to monitor online traffic, proposing that providers of high-speed Internet service be forced to grant easier access for FBI wiretaps and other electronic surveillance, according to documents and government officials. A petition filed this week with the Federal Communications Commission also suggests that consumers be required to foot the bill. Law enforcement agencies have been increasingly concerned that fast-growing telephone service over the Internet could be a way for terrorists and criminals to evade surveillance. But the petition also moves beyond Internet telephony, lea…

Beverly Hills, Calif. -- Amigula Incorporated (OTC:AMJL), the world's first publicly traded medical marijuana company, today announced that several Hollywood agents and management groups have been working with their clients at the bequest of Amigula Inc., negotiating contracts with "Super Stars" willing to endorse medical marijuana as a viable medicinal therapy for a variety of extreme illnesses, including multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, arthritis, glaucoma, AIDS, nausea - chemotherapy, anxiety and stress, as well as for several other dysfunctions. "We approached several well-known talent agents and managers to request that they approach their talent and present our caus…

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Eighty-five per cent of participants at NSW's first cannabis treatment clinic have not used marijuana since the centre opened three months ago, the state government said. NSW Premier Bob Carr told state parliament an additional clinic was due to open on the central coast by September, with plans for further clinics in southern Sydney and the state's central west. NSW's first cannabis treatment clinic was set up in Parramatta in December last year under the government's $230 million four year Plan of Action on drugs. "The idea that cannabis is a benign drug is being steadily whittled away by an accumulation of medical evidence," Mr Carr told parliament. At the Parr…

CANNABIS plantations with a street value of about $500,000 have been seized in the Walpole and Denmark areas recently. Albany Detectives and regional police seized about 500 mature plants. Some of the plants reached five metres high. Police and detectives seized more crops as operations in the area continued yesterday. The crops have been dispersed separately throughout one large area. In five weeks the operation has resulted in seven men and one woman, aged between 20 and 58 years old, being arrested and charged with various drug offences. They were from the Denmark, Walpole and Albany areas. Some of the charges include cultivation of cannabis, possession of cannabis wi…

By Daniel Lewis, Regional Reporter March 6, 200 If Keith Bolton has his way, hemp - the great symbol of the hippy North Coast - will be coming to a sewage treatment plant near you very soon. And to your wardrobe, your pantry, your car and your medicine cabinet. Interestingly, the strongest opponents of the Southern Cross University academic's dream are the drug dealers in nearby Nimbin. Man has cultivated hemp for fibre, food and medicine for at least 6000 years and Dr Bolton says that, after a 70-year "blip in history" caused by prohibition, it is time to embrace hemp again to help save the planet. Dr Bolton is director of the University's Centre for Ecotechnol…

March 8, 2004 HOME intruders have led police directly to a hydroponic cannabis operation in Adelaide's northern suburbs. Witnesses saw men jumping over a fence at a Springwood Close, Northgate, property about 9.40 on Saturday night. When Holden Hill police arrived, they discovered two rooms in the rental home contained hydroponic equipment for growing cannabis. Up to 12 plants had been cut at the stems and taken by the intruders. Police still were searching for the occupants of the house. It is understood witnesses who contacted police believed at least one intruder was carrying bolt cutters. Police dismantled the drug-growing operation and seized rem…

March 6, 2004 Despite the drought, there's one crop that's been thriving, with dope growers once more establishing major plantations in rural NSW. Daniel Lewis reports. 'Another day in the Central West, another drug bust," quipped one of the cops outside the one-man police station in Trundle, north-west of Parkes, as dawn broke earlier this week. And he was only half joking. Dope growing is again big in the great outdoors of NSW. In the 1980s it had looked like the end of commercial-scale marijuana plantations out on the western slopes and plains as the industry was shaken by major busts. Police found 18,000 mature plants and 77,000 seedlings on a station near Wan…

March 6, 2004 POLICE have charged 45 people with 179 drug and property offences following a series of raids in southern Queensland. Police from Toowoomba, Ipswich and Dalby executed 50 search warrants on properties throughout Toowoomba, including the suburbs of Milmerran, Pittsworth, Westbrook and Gatton. The raids were part of Operation Oompala (correct) and involved the seizure of a large quantity of cannabis and amphetamines as well as stolen property over a four-day period. Police declined to put a monetary value on the drugs or indicate their weight, saying only that the haul was "large". As a result of the operation, 129 drug charges were laid, including n…