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SINCE Tasmania's Country Women's Association voted unanimously to lobby for the trial use of marijuana for medical relief, Ailsa Bond's popular cheese and parsley scones have been the subject of many a joke. "People joke that the parsley flakes could be replaced with other green flakes!" she says. The move from the CWA to get the drug approved for medical use surprised many, but the sprightly 80-year-old responds that the organisation has always been progressive. "We've been raising social issues for 60 or 70 years," she said. "We've talked about the value of water, the importance of trees, we've lobbied for childcare centres, for roads, for hospitals and libraries.…

Brussels ? The Belgian government said Wednesday it would have no objection to following the Dutch move this week to make cannabis available from pharmacies on prescription. Minister for Health Rudy Demotte confirmed Belgium could be the next European country to legalise the sale of cannabis in pharmacies. ?This is an area where public health must prevail and research has shown that cannabis can be of medicinal use,? a Health Ministry statement said. Studies have shown cannabis derivatives to be effective in the treatment of the secondary effects of chemotherapy, anorexia, epilepsy and depression. Research is currently being carried out in several Belgian univers…

Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 22:51:45 -0700 From: "D. Paul Stanford" <stanford@crrh.org> Subject: 007 Dutch Chemists to sell legal cannabis for $31 - $42/eighth from Dale Gieringer Note that LEGAL medicinal cannabis is being offered for 40 - 55 E per 5 grams in the Netherlands, or about $31 - $ 42 per eighth oz. This is not much lower than the prevailing price in Cal's cannabis clubs ($40-55/ eighth). Apparently, the costs of Dutch regulation are comparable to those imposed by prohibition. This raises obvious questions about how much legalization would lower the price of cannabis. It also raises doubts about all of the complaints about supposedly overpriced …

Coffeeshop no go zone for police officer. Police officers are not allowed to buy softdrugs in coffeeshops in their off duty hours. “These civil servants could namely be in a difficult situation if and when they have to act against a coffeeshop entrepreneur in their line of duty.” This was stated by Minister Remkes (Home Affairs) yesterday, during an in-chamber debate about integrity amongst authorities. This should not only apply to police officers, but also for other public figures, like a Mayor and a Minister, because they actually are on duty for 24 hours, according to the VVD minister. “A police officer a role model function and has to display authority”, says Remke…

GENEVIEVE Hedditch and Jo Neal are typical of a growing number of young women taking more health risks. Both 21, and holidaying in Adelaide from Melbourne, they drink regularly and excessively to "get drunk". Drinking alcohol about three to four times a week is common for Ms Hedditch, with each drinking session usually involving at least six drinks of her favourite whisky and soda or Carlton Draught. Ms Neal also regularly drinks alcohol, enjoying beer and white wine on about three occasions each week. They are typical of a new study which has found binge drinking, illicit drug-taking, no exercise and unsafe sex are among the risks young women are more frequently …

TASMANIA'S Country Women's Association wants cannabis legalised as a treatment for the terminally ill. The association's state conference voted overwhelmingly in favour of a motion on the issue yesterday. It wants state and federal governments to legislate so the drug can be a prescription pain relief treatment for people with non-curable conditions such as cancer, HIV, and multiple sclerosis. The motion was raised by Launceston's Riverside branch. Branch delegate Ailsa Bond, a retired pharmacist, told the conference the active ingredient in cannabis, tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, had demonstrated benefits for terminally ill people including pain relief and appeti…

A TEENAGER who left a house with a man to buy marijuana was later found stabbed to death and stuffed into a stormwater drain, a court heard yesterday. The Supreme Court in Brisbane heard the bloodied body of Dylan Charles Anderton, 14, was found with multiple wounds to his head and chest in the drain near a shopping centre at Kingston on Brisbane's southern outskirts. Sean Stewart Clayton, 32, pleaded not guilty to Anderton's murder, which allegedly took place on November 25, 2001. Prosecutor Simone Bain told the jury there was not much doubt Clayton told police he killed Anderton but that the issue could be about his intent at the time. Ms Bain said Clayton also…

August 31, 2003 TERRITORY MP Marion Scrymgour will not stand down as the head of the Government's Substance Abuse Committee after her son was convicted of dealing drugs last week. Ms Scrymgour told the Sunday Territorian yesterday her "determination to make a difference" had increased after her 22-year-old son, Richard Maurice Daiyi, was given a four-month suspended jail sentence for possessing cannabis, possessing a traffickable quantity of cannabis and unlawfully supplying cannabis. Daiyi was arrested in the community of Wadeye, southwest of Darwin, on August 13. "In my capacity as a parent I want to apologise to all the remote Aboriginal communities in the No…

The son of Territory Government MP Marion Scrymgour has been caught dealing drugs. Richard Maurice Daiyi, 22, pleaded guilty to three charges. He was given a four-month suspended jail sentence for possessing cannabis, possessing a traffickable quantity of cannabis and unlawfully supplying cannabis. Magistrate David Loadman also gave Daiyi a 12-month good behaviour bond and confiscated his earnings from dealing drugs. Daiyi, 22, sold cannabis at Wadeye, southwest of Darwin. Ms Scrymgour chairs the Government's substance abuse committee. Last night she said she felt ``hurt and betrayed'' by her son. A police insider told the Northern Territory News he was c…

Police left with drug raid overdose By MARK BUTTLER 27aug03 POLICE were ordered not to raid big drug crops because of a shortage of storage space. Officers at Sunshine in Melbourne's west were told they should not execute warrants on large hydroponic marijuana set-ups in their area. An order sent to 55 officers at the station stated the order would apply until further notice. "At present the property office is so full we are unable to store any more," the memo states. The police force last night said after the ban was revealed that the order was no longer valid. But Police Association secretary Paul Mullett said the situation was nonsensical and should be of gre…

Prosecuting doctors who tell of marijuana's medical benefits is wrong. The Justice Department has decided that criminalizing marijuana -- a perfectly defensible position -- also requires criminalizing talking about marijuana. That's the upshot of the decision to appeal the ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Conant v. Walters, which barred the government from prosecuting doctors who inform patients about the benefits of medical marijuana. Federal policy on medical marijuana has grown more inflexible even as the scientific community's view of its efficacy grows more fluid. Marijuana, like other controlled substances, is available only in ti…

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World Leading Health Journal Opines For Patients To Receive Federal Exemptions To Use Medical Marijuana July 30, 2003 - Brisbane, Australia Brisbane, Queensland: Governments should grant federal exemptions to qualified patients who find therapeutic benefits from the medicinal use of marijuana, conclude a pair of researchers writing in the current issue of the journal CNS Drugs. "The best prospects for the medical use of cannabinoids lie in finding ways to deliver THC that do not involve smoking and in developing synthetic cannabinoids that produce therapeutic effects with a minimum of psychoactive effects," write Professors Wayne Hall and Louisa Degenhardt of the Of…