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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

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Source: http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0...5E26462,00.html POLICE have made one of the biggest seizures of cannabis plants in NSW, worth more than $20 million, during a pre-dawn raid of a property in the state's west. NSW Police arrested 12 people in the raid of a property 30km north east of Gilgandra, near Dubbo. More than 200 armed specialist police swooped on the property about 6am (AEDT) today, seizing hundreds of mature cannabis plants in a plantation roughly the size of three football fields. Police said the raid had dismantled a significant and well-organised drug syndicate aimed at dominating the drug trade in NSW. The 12 people arrested were …

went 2 get the latest "Hightimes" mag a couple of weeks ago and I was told that the customs had confiscated the shipment and would not be letting anymore in. What is this country becoming? JF, peace

hi every1 i was reading on another website that the laws in aust are changing soon to decrim MJ but i couldnt find out exactly what it means........ anyone care to put it simple, laymans language for a stoner *doh* peace

THE Victorian Ombudsman has uncovered evidence of drug trafficking and violence by staff at youth detention centres. The Department of Human Services is also under scrutiny, amid concerns it has handled issues in the juvenile justice system inadequately. The Ombudsman has revealed: A YOUTH detention centre officer is under investigation over allegations of supplying drugs to young inmates. AN UNCAPPED syringe, mixing bowls, and bongs were discovered in a room where two young offenders had been smoking cannabis while staff from the ombudsman's office were visiting a centre. AN UNCONSCIOUS 16-year-old needed hospital treatment after sustaining "blunt trauma to…

A 28-year-old man from Gunnedah in New South Wales has been arrested as part of a massive police operation to close down a group they believe responsible for an interstate drug ring. Shannon Bree was arrested by officers from Strike Force Corkscrew after a six month covert operation involving police in South Australia, Victoria, Queensland and New South Wales. The 28-year-old is charged with supplying a commercial quantity of cannabis and has been remanded in custody until February. Police claim the charges involve as much as 30 kilograms of cannabis. http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1015811.htm

Drugs found at prison officer's home 23dec03 A QUEENSLAND prison officer has been suspended on full pay after drugs were allegedly found at his home. The officer, who works in a southeast Queensland jail, was charged earlier this month with three counts of possessing dangerous drugs, a Corrective Services Department spokesman said. He was remanded to appear in the Brisbane Magistrate's Court on January 22. The officer has been on annual leave and has not been on duty since police laid the charges.

More than half of all British adults believe sale and possession of cannabis should be decriminalised or even legalised, according to a new survey. A YouGov poll for The Daily Telegraph found 28 per cent favoured decriminalising the drug, making it a minor offence, such as parking in the wrong place, while 23 per cent wanted full legalisation. Again, more than half (52 per cent) applauded Home Secretary David Blunkett's move to downgrade cannabis from a Class B drug to Class C. Only 43 per cent believed selling or possessing the drug should remain a criminal offence. The survey found, though, that 44 per cent regard cannabis as "seriously addictive" - but 75 per c…

More than 100 cannabis plants and 470 grams of processed cannabis with a street value of nearly $250,000 was found during a weekend police raid on a storage shed at Nimbin in northern New South Wales. Police say a complex hydroponics set-up was also found during the raid on the Nimbin Industrial Estate. In another operation, a 46-year-old woman is due to face several drug charges when she appears in court next month after a Christmas Eve raid on a house in East Lismore. Plants with a street value of $86,000, more than two kilograms of cannabis leaf and a large quantity of hydroponic equipment was seized. The woman is due to appear in Lismore Local Court of January…

N a pre-planned operation, Murray Bridge police and CIB officers raided a cannabis crop worth more than one million dollars, 20 kilometres south-east of Yumali yesterday afternoon. No-one was arrested, but numerous forensic samples were taken from the scene. The crop was located in heritage scrub, a section of land farmers are not allowed to clear. Murray Bridge CIB Detective Senior Constable Darren Niblett said the crop was "reasonably large" for the area, with more than 500 plants. "It was quite difficult to spot, and unless you were doing a grid search of the area in a helicopter, you would have missed it," Detective Senior Constable Niblett said. "It was a similar siz…