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If Steve Treleaven had a dollar for every time a fellow inmate had told him that there was no way he could have received a 20-year sentence just for growing some pot on his land, he would be a rich man. And if he had another dollar for every time that he had been told he would never end up doing the whole sentence, he could be running for governor. Instead, he is sitting alone in the visiting room of the shiny, new U.S. penitentiary in Atwater, about 300 miles north of where he spent a carefree childhood in Van Nuys and a few million light-years away from the life he had now hoped to be living. In his letters out, he describes himself as POW number 08656—023. Like tens…

Source: National Post U.S. drug czar John Walters warned yesterday that Canadians could face problems at the border if Ottawa proceeds with the decriminalization of marijuana. Mr. Walters travelled to the Canada-U.S. border at Buffalo to deliver his message on the same day a Commons committee called for the possession and cultivation of less than 30 grams of marijuana to be decriminalized. Mr. Walters, the director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, said RCMP officials recently told him that 95% of all marijuana grown in Vancouver is sent to the United States. "The RCMP informed me that many of the organizations, some of them ethnically …

SOURCE: Daily Telegraph, NSW, Australia heheh, this is funny..... Urbanhog

Restore-Digest Wednesday, December 11 2002 Volume 2002 : Number 268 001 Canada: One toke over line 002 Ottawa set to ease pot laws 003 GA: Forgotten Man 004 CA: WAMM may get official city status 005 Canada: Smoke rises over pot plan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 06:42:56 -0800 From: "D. Paul Stanford" <stanford@crrh.org> Subject: 001 Canada: One toke over line Newshawk: CMAP (http://www.mapinc.org/cmap) Pubdate: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 Source: Toronto Sun (CN ON) Contact: editor@sunpub.com Website: http://www.fyitoronto.com/torsun.shtml Author: Maria McClintock One toke over lin…

Owner protests as cops brand first drug house By EDITH BEVIN December 13, 2002 The owner of the Territory's first drug house said last night she was being punished even though she had not committed a crime. Dianne Burnett, 37, said she was being made to pay for the actions of her drug-dealing tenants. "I've done nothing wrong," she told the Northern Territory News. Iridescent green notices were put up on all entrances at 20 Spencer St at Alice Springs yesterday. The signs were erected by Superintendent Colleen Gwynne and Acting Senior Sergeant Dave Proctor of Alice Springs police. The declaration followed a court order and the issuing of three warnings by …

SOURCE: The Carins Post. Mena Creek is a nice green spot, plenty of rainfalls, and lots of tropical forest with similar green colour as marijuana for great hiding in the rainforest. As I used to live up Innisfail for almost 8-9 months working on banana plantations before settled in SE QLD. Urbanhog

So we all have our personal favs but what is the best strain? The things to consider are: What do we have to do to get the results we all want? The array of strains available to the new user is staggering. What's even more confusing is that you'd be lucky to find two growers that agree on any one particular strain to buy, grow and then (if your lucky) clone. So what does a new grower do? If he or she is lucky to know some-one experienced then they can save years of fiddling and failures (Through little or no fault of their own). How? A clone. Just one. *(Any clone will do as long as it's from a healthy strong strain) Then it get's a bit technical. But this still leads us…

Source: Globe and Mail A special parliamentary committee will recommend tomorrow that Ottawa decriminalize possession and cultivation of marijuana in amounts less than 30 grams, The Globe and Mail has learned. The recommendations, to be included in the report of the committee on non-medical use of drugs, will add weight to the suggestion of Justice Minister Martin Cauchon this week that Ottawa may move toward decriminalization as early as the new year. Sources told The Globe yesterday that the committee, which has been working for 18 months, will recommend that users not receive a criminal record if caught with less than 30 grams. Individuals would be allowed to c…

Source: BG News It was high times against hard times last night in the Lenhart Grand Ballroom, as the University Activities Organization presented "The Great Debate," an open-forum discussion about the legalization of marijuana. The debaters, Steve Hager, editor-in-chief of High Times magazine and Bob Stutman, 25-year veteran of the United States' Drug Enforcement Agency, debated in front of 1,000 people. The debate was moderated by Loren Lomasky, a professor in the Philosophy department. The debate began with each presenter giving an approximately 15-minute opening statement, which was followed by a question-answer session between the two men and the audience. T…

Source: The Press, Christchurch NZ

Got this thru a email from my mates liv'in in NZ: Source: The Press - Christchurch, New Zealand

Source: The Press - Christchurch/Marlborough, NZ

Source: Sunday Star Times, Auckland, NZ

Source: Globe and Mail Justice Minister Martin Cauchon is poised to make a number of major changes to the justice system, including taking steps in the next four months to decriminalize marijuana. Mr. Cauchon made the statement after Question Period Tuesday, where he was asked about a report released Monday by a Commons committee studying the non-medicinal use of drugs. That paper recommended that safe injection sites be set up in each city across the country. Later this week, the Commons Special Committee on the Non-Medicinal Use of Drugs is set to release another report calling on the government to relax current marijuana laws. "I'm looking forward to seeing …

SOURCE: Centralian Advocate - N.T., Australia Anyone know about these "drug house" laws? Urbanhog