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UNEMPLOYED dad turned himself into a drug dealer after Centrelink told him he was too old to get another job. Marijuana helped generate an income for Mr Cook. Former retail manager Kenneth Mark Cook, 35, had lost his job for the first time in 20 years. He had no prior criminal record except for a few minor traffic infringements. But the Darwin dad resorted to dealing marijuana in his desperation to make money to pay bills and support his wife and children. Cook embarked on the new career path, the Supreme Court heard last week, because Centrelink officials told him to "change his life and re-educate himself" because he was too old to get another retail trade …

Now that recreational use has been dealt with, the WA Government are finally addressing industrial hemp. Hopefully medical use won't be too far behind. If they did it backwards, there'd be too many questions about legitimising or tolerating recreational use - deal with recreational use first and the other topics can be discussed without ambiguity: From: MAPNews <owner-mapnews@mapinc.org> To: mapnews@mapinc.org Subject: MN: Australia: New Laws Clear Way To WA Fields Of Hemp Newshawk: Niall Young Pubdate: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 Source: West Australian (Australia) Copyright: 2003 West Australian Newspapers Limited Contact: letters@wanews.com.au Website: http://www.thew…

MORE than 1900 marijuana plants with an estimated street value of $3 million have been discovered in a raid on a property in northern NSW. NSW Police said officers raided the Myrtle Creek property yesterday afternoon and seized 1959 plants, valued at $2,953,000, a shotgun and two rifles. A 60-year-old Myrtle Creek man was charged with cultivate large commercial quantity of prohibited plant, possess prohibited drug and not keeping a firearm safely secured. He was refused bail and will appear in Lismore Local Court today. A 58-year-old Myrtle Creek woman was charged with cultivating a large commercial quantity of a prohibited plant. She was granted conditional bail …

Anyone see the horrors of marijuana on Today Tonight this evening? (24th. Nov). Apparently this woman's son killed himself because he smoked all this pot for a few weeks, while on holiday. He returned home, to Tasmania and did himself in. Says a lot more about the situation of living in Tasmania for youth than it does about grass I reckon. But what was amazing was the pictures they showed of this kid on holiday were full of images of Jim bean, and Jack Daniels, and booze was barely mentioned. The idiot woman reckons she felt that he son was in a safe environment because he was in the centre of the country at Alice Springs ( I think it was there), and amongst Abori…

Source: http://www.medicalmarihuana.ca/death.html Sunday, November 2, 2003 by James Gordon from The Ottawa Citizen A local Canadian activist has died. Don Appleby was legally allowed to smoke marijuana to help with his AIDS. He apparently blew himself up while attempting to extract THC with butane. Don Appleby died of his injuries suffered in an Oct. 12 explosion while he was trying to make a concentrated oil using marijuana and butane. Don Appleby's fight against the aids virus that was sapping him was made more difficult by a tragic paradox. While the Ottawa man was one of the few Canadians who could legally smoke marijuana for medicinal purposes, he could rarel…

Granger allowed to appeal drug conviction By SEAN FEWSTER 21nov03 FORMER football strongman Dave "Grave Danger" Granger has been given permission to appeal against his drug conviction – and will challenge the validity of state law. Granger and his lawyers will ask the Court of Criminal Appeal to find South Australia's decades-old drug laws "contravene the Australian Constitution" and are unfair to anyone found with large quantities of cannabis. The Court of Criminal Appeal yesterday granted Granger leave to appeal against his jail term of four years and three months. Earlier this month, Granger, 48, was given a two-year non-parole period for growing 17kg of cannab…

While hunting through the net the other nite I came across an Abstract from the Australian Journal of Plant Physiology. Cannabis sativa were assessed for their usefulness to trace seized Cannabis leaves to the country of origin and to source crops by determing how isotopes signatures relate to plant growth conditions. The CSIRO wanted $18.00 for the full text. No way was I going to pay them so I contacted one of the authors and kindly ask for a copy, which she sent without haste. I refuse to go into detail on this but will send a copy to Ozstoners. One part really opened my eyes and I quote.

In the quiet countryside just outside Vancouver, B.C. an ambitious young entrepreneur surveys a blindingly bright room filled with lovely plants--dozens of stalks of high-power marijuana. Almost ready for harvest, they hold threadlike, resin-frosted pot flowers, rust-and-white "buds" thickening in a base of green-and-purple leaves. The room reeks of citrus and menthol, a drug-rich musk lingering on fingertips and clothes. "There's no way I won't make a million dollars," says the entrepreneur, David (one-name sources throughout this story are pseudonymous). He runs several other sites like this one, reaping upwards of $80,000 in a ten-week cycle. Says he: "Even if they …

SYDNEY'S first cannabis clinic will be established to help heavy users quit the drug and curb its use by young people, the NSW government announced today. NSW Special Minister of State John Della Bosca said the clinic, aimed to help people highly dependent on cannabis, is part of a $2.4 million state government program. The clinic, to be set up in Parramatta, is the flagship for more planned on Sydney's west and south, the NSW central coast and central west. Mr Della Bosca said the latest government initiative highlighted the serious health consequences of cannabis use, particularly to young people. "The people coming to this clinic will be seeking treatment for s…

Bust seizes 67 drug plants SIXTY-seven cannabis plants with a potential street value of $2500 each have been seized in the Lockyer Valley. A man and a woman were charged in relation to the drug bust on Monday, part of the Toowoomba Tactical Crime Unit’s (TTCU) latest drug-focused operation — Operation Croodle. Denis John Land, 54, appeared in Toowoomba Magistrates Court on charges of possessing and producing a dangerous drug, exceeding the schedule limit and possessing property suspected of being used in the commission of a crime. A 64-year-old woman is yet to appear on the same charges. TTCU officer-incharge Senior Sergeant Mark Kelly said a 12-metre shipping container, …

Sup Peeps thought i might post this.. For the peeps outside sydney.. theres a huge asain growing ring... where they chem the fuck out of there plants for commecial use.. this is the story

Britain's most senior coroner is warning that hundreds of young people are dying in accidents caused by their prolonged use of cannabis. Hamish Turner, the president of the Coroners' Society, said that the drug, which is often portrayed as harmless, has increasingly been behind deaths that have been recorded as accidents or suicides. In the past year, he estimated that cannabis was a significant contributory factor in about 10 per cent of the 100 cases that he had dealt with in south Devon, where he works. Conversations with his colleagues led him to believe that the scale of the problem elsewhere in the country was equally bad. "Cannabis is as dangerous as any oth…