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A 45-YEAR-OLD man was charged after police found a sophisticated underground hydroponic set-up at two Strath Creek properties, a Bendigo court heard yesterday. Gheorghe Dancints, of Norman Street, St Albans, yesterday pleaded guilty in the Bendigo County Court to four charges relating to the possession and trafficking of cannabis. The court heard Danci was arrested in January, last year, after police raids on properties in Strath Creek and St Albans uncovered about half a kilo of cannabis and two hydroponic set-ups located beneath floorboards in backyard sheds. Prosecutor George Slim said police discovered large underground water tanks, growing tubs, lamps and an "elabo…

Australia: Cannabis laws state by state. Decriminalized in Western Australia & South Australia. Tasmania, Victoria, & Queensland Western Australia Decriminalizes Marijuana Possession, Approves Heroin Trials, Rejects Safe Injecting Rooms 11/30/01 The Labor government of Western Australia Premier Geoff Gallop announced a sea change in the state's approach to drugs this week. Delivering its long-awaited response to the state's Community Drug Summit held in August, the government announced it was accepting 44 out of 45 recommendations, including the decriminalization of possession and consumption of small amounts of marijuana and prescription heroin trials. The dru…

TOWNSVILLE will host the country's first random sampling study of drivers to discover what drugs are being used by Australian motorists. The Queensland University of Technology and the Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety Queensland (CARSQ) will conduct their research in the Townsville region from Easter. For two to three months, researchers and local assistants will select random locations throughout the district to conduct drug tests. Deputy Director of CARSQ Dr Jeremy Davey yesterday said the latest technology in saliva testing would be used in the non-invasive tests. "It is not a police program and we will give people $20," Dr Davey said. "Basica…

THREE men were charged with drug offences after police discovered cannabis crops with a potential street value of $16 million in South Australia's mid-north. About 6000 marijuana plants were discovered yesterday growing hydroponically in sheds and buildings on a property at Bower, about 25km north of Eudunda, a police spokesman said. Three men ? a 35 year-old from Brownlow, a 41-year-old from Athol Park and a 31-year-old from Prospect ? had been charged with cultivating cannabis for sale, the spokesman said. He estimated about 640,000 street deals of cannabis had been prevented by the discovery, made by police after a routine assault inquiry about 4pm CDT yesterday.…

A MAN will appear in court today after police seized hundreds of cannabis plants worth more than two and a half million dollars in Sydney's south-west. Police said raids uncovered more than 1,085 cannabis plants at various stages of maturity, growing in hydroponic equipment inside homes and garages in Canley Vale, Fairfield West, Cabramatta, and Birrong. More than 50 officers from the South East Asian Crime Squad, Drug Squad and Cabramatta and Fairfield Police were involved in the raids that started at 9.30am (AEDT) yesterday. Two men, aged 56 and 39, and a woman, 42, were arrested and taken to Cabramatta and Fairfield police stations for questioning. The 56-year-…

GOODS made from hemp cannot be outlawed by the US Government's narcotics agency, under a court ruling after a two-and-a-half-year legal battle. The ruling on Friday by the Ninth Circuit US Court of Appeals was hailed by a coalition of companies that make hemp-based foods including waffles, vegetarian burgers and nutrition bars. The court ruled the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) overstepped its authority by issuing a so-called zero-tolerance rule for the active ingredient in marijuana, THC, or tetrahydrocannabinols. The court ruled the DEA officials "can regulate foodstuffs containing natural THC if it is contained within marijuana, and can regulate synthetic …

our people have been arrested and cannabis plants with a street value of $16 million seized in a search of a farm in central western NSW. Police said officers discovered 8,000 cannabis plants during a search at a Tullamore property, west of Parkes, on Friday. A 37-year-old Cabramatta man, a 35-year-old Bankstown man and a 46-year-old Bankstown man were arrested and charged with being knowingly concerned with the cultivation of a larger than commercial quantity of a prohibited drug. They will appear in Dubbo Bail Court on Saturday, police said. A 59-year-old Kemps Creek man was also arrested on Friday night near Parkes. He was charged with cultivating a larger th…

A TOTAL of 18 people have been charged with supplying drugs after a two-day police operation on the Sydney rail network. Police said Operation Guardian, which was conducted with rail transit officers, had targeted drug offences at major city rail stations. More than 400 people were searched during the operation, resulting in 150 cannabis cautions, 130 court attendance notices, and 18 people being charged with supply of a prohibited drug. One of those charged was a man on his way to the Big Day Out music festival, who was arrested at the Olympic Park Rail Station in possession of 46 ecstasy tablets, police said. The operation included more than 300 police from ten …

THE host of a British radio gardening program apologised today for unwittingly giving a caller advice on how to grow marijuana. Frieda Morrison, who co-hosts Beechgrove Potting Shed on the BBC's Radio Scotland, said she had thought the caller was discussing cabbages. Morrison and fellow host Jim McColl spent more than three minutes explaining which compost to use and how to water the plant, which the caller referred to as Northern Lights - a very strong variety of marijuana that shares a name with a variety of cabbage. Speaking on BBC Scotland's Good Morning Scotland program today, Morrison apologised for the error. "We thought the caller had said cabbages and if …

PRISON farm inmates are suspected of growing a drug crop concealed behind the farm in the Gold Coast hinterland. Wildlife rangers on Tuesday found more than 181 marijuana plants hidden in rugged terrain in the Lamington National Park, which backs on to the Numinbah Correctional Centre. The well-tended crop, with an estimated street value of up to $20,000, was 300-500m from the jail's perimeter. Police and prison sources said they suspected that inmates were involved. Water containers and fertiliser found at the scene will be checked for fingerprints, and to establish whether they were taken from the jail. An abandoned marijuana-crop site, complete with a shotgu…

New South Wales police are this morning destroying nearly $60 million worth of cannabis plants seized during a drug raid in the state's west two days ago. Police finished pulling up thousands of the plants at a property near Dubbo yesterday. About 200 armed police conducted a dawn raid at the property 80 kilometres west of Dubbo on Thursday. Police say it was one of the biggest cannabis seizures in New South Wales history. Sergeant Kevin Daly from police headquarters says police spent yesterday afternoon pulling up the plants. "In total there were 30,851 plants located on the plantation at Dubbo and those plants had an estimated street value of $59.6 million," h…

Police in Wollongong have seized cannabis plants with a street value of more than $200,000 as part of an ongoing drug crackdown on the New South Wales south coast. The operation has been underway for several weeks and has resulted in more than $1.3 million worth of cannabis being seized. The latest operation involved raids on two plantations at Bulli Tops, where 100 plants were discovered. They will be destroyed tomorrow. http://abc.net.au/news/australia/nsw/200402/s1038124.htm

A STRATHAM woman has escaped a jail term for possessing cannabis because she used the drug to ease the pain of her chronic medical condition. Rebecca Anne Miller (31) appeared in the District Court after pleading guilty to two counts of possessing cannabis with intent to sell and supply. The court heard how Miller suffers from benign intracranial hypertension, or water on the brain, and smoked cannabis to help her cope with the chronic pain associated with the condition. After searching Miller's house twice in October and November in 2002, police found about 600gms of cannabis as well as a set of scales and some small plastic bags. Defence lawyer Rhonda Parks sai…

55-YEAR-old man has been released on bail after police discovered a marijuana crop in a Springvale backyard. Police said 250 plants from 60cm to 180cm were found about 5pm on Monday. They were growing among vegetables and in a shed. The man was charged with trafficking, cultivating, using and possessing marijuana. He was ordered to appear at Dandenong Magistrates' Court next month. http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/st...55E2862,00.html