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A landowner didn't notice cannabis plants growing on his north-western NSW property for at least six months. Officers from Castlereagh Local Area Command visited the rural property of 25,000 hectares at Lightning Ridge shortly after 11am (AEST) on Thursday. When they arrived, the owner told police he had found a marijuana crop on an isolated section of his land. "It's a very vast expanse of land and it's heavily watered with pine trees and the crop was in amongst the pine trees," Detective inspector Scott Russell told AAP. "It was a well set-up, elaborate system. "It's been there for some time, possibly up to six months. Police seized and destroyed a total 136 plants, wit…
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http://www.coffscoastadvocate.com.au/story/2012/03/19/another-drug-bust-nets-279m-crop/ ------------------------- source THE drug busts have kept rolling on across the Coffs Coast with another multi-million dollar cannabis seizure near Coffs Harbour announced. Coffs Harbour Target Action Group officers have made the significant haul in the Bongil Bongil National Park. Police say detectives acted on public information, and with the assistance of the Dog Unit, to locate 1395 mature cannabis plans, with an estimated street value of $2.79 million. The haul came after an extensive ground search of the forest to the west of the National Park, near Slarkes Rd, on Friday. …
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The NSW Greens have called for the legalisation of medical cannabis, while NSW Police have raided the only producer of a cannabis-derived health product in Australia. Greens MLC David Shoebridge made the call at a recent rally in Martin Place. “If a doctor believes that the prescription of cannabis is the best, sometimes even the only, way of dealing with your chronic pain, why do we prohibit that and make it unlawful here in NSW?” Greens MLC John Kaye told the Star Observer he would move a motion during Parliament’s spring sitting which would outline a plan for a one-year medical marijuana trial under which GPs and treating specialists would be able to prescribe medical …
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Posted March 29, 2012 14:51:12 Workers at a New South Wales energy company will no longer have to give urine sample for drug tests, after a ruling by Fair Work Australia. The arbitrator has ruled in favour of trade unions, which had argued the state-owned Endeavour Energy should use oral swabs for testing instead. Scott McNamara, from the United Services Union, says Fair Work Australia found urine testing was invasive and unjust. "The tribunal took a view that drug testing is not for social monitoring. Drug testing is to seek if you are fit for work, and that gets down to workplace safety," he said. "What people do on the weekend does not necessarily have a bearing o…
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Police in the Perth suburb of North Beach pulled over Cousins about 7.30am and allegedly found cannabis and a smoking implement in ... at an airport on Western Australia's south coast. The former West Coast and Richmond star, who detailed his drug ... View the full article
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The internet has increased opportunities to buy illicit drugs and accelerated drug trends The Australia21 report argues the “war on drugs” has failed and we should consider other options for controlling drugs, such as decriminalisation or regulation. In addition to these arguments, an important challenge for drug prohibition has been overlooked in the drugs debate so far: the internet. While the internet has opened up new opportunities to buy drugs, it has also accelerated new drug trends. In the past year, we’ve seen the emergence of two key trends: synthetic cannabinoids (sold as Kronic, K2, Spice, among other names) and the anonymous online marketplace Silk Road. …
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It's over. We've lost drugs war, report says Staff Writers The Daily Telegraph April 03, 2012 12:00AM A new report has called for a national debate on the decriminalisation of drugs. Report urges politicians to accept war on drugs has failed Says illegal drug trade allows organised crime to flourish Calls for debate on decriminalisation THE war on drugs has failed according to a new report calling for a national debate on the controversial topic of decriminalising drugs. The report, released today, urges politicians to face the taboo subject. It says a massive re-think is needed to tackle the illegal drug trade that allows organised crime to flourish and is "killing ou…
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PARENTS could be jailed for 12 months and have their children put in state care for growing just one marijuana plant in Western Australia under arguably the nation's toughest drug laws. Amendments to WA's Misuse of Drugs Act, which came into effect on the weekend, mean people convicted of cultivating a single cannabis plant or processing the drug where a child has suffered harm face a 12-month mandatory prison term. Those convicted of a second drug offence where they were growing just one plant or processing it - hanging it to dry or rolling a joint - face a mandatory jail term of six months if it is proved they endangered a child's health by exposing them to the activit…
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http://www.dailytele...v-1226310870250 "MORE than 152 cannabis plants and a hoard of other drugs where seized from two homes on the Central Coast. Police searched a house on Turpentine Street, Wyoming and located more than 152 cannabis plants, 13 kilograms of dried cannabis, a sum of cash and a quantity of anabolic steroids about 4pm yesterday. A 32-year-old man was arrested at the scene and a search of his home on nearby Jarrett Street found 524 grams of cannabis head, a large sum of cash, a large quantity of anabolic steroids and prescription drugs. The man was charged with a number of offences including drug related offences, recklessly deal with the proceeds of crim…
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Read this the other day... thought I'd post seeing as no one else had already... WTF Okay Gardener is a sick fuck who should never be left in control of a minor ever again. But WTF Murdock journalist? Does 'pot and abortion' really make a bigger story than 'slavery and child abuse'? I suppose so, no priests were involved.
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http://www.sunshinec...rug-boy-parade/ THE 14-year-old boy facing drug charges in Bali spent last night with asylum seekers in an immigration detention centre after being suddenly shifted from his police cell following the intervention of Indonesia's Justice Minister. Shielding his face from the cameras, the teenager wore a half balaclava, sunglasses and hat as he arrived at the facility at Jimbaran Bay, which has recently been rebuilt after asylum seekers burnt much of it down last year. In bizarre scenes, the teenager from Morisset Park on Lake Macquarie was even required to attend a press conference where the move was explained, although he did not say anything…
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Check this out: www.themercury.com.au/article/2012/01/28/296095_todays-news.html Does anyone else find this completely unacceptable? I'm not sure if the drugs were cannabis or not, that has not been disclosed, but I don't think that's important. It has become clear to me that the war on drugs is on some shaky legs when this is what's necessary. Maybe this is the perfect ammo to issue a wake up call to the powers to be? Help to stand up for this girl. Yes it appears she comes from a family of drug dealers but how is that her fault? The consensus down here seems to be that she comes from a bogan family so it's O.K. I'd love to read some thoughts
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Saturday, 21 January 2012 10:38:08 AM Police have seized $7.5 million worth of cannabis in Richmond Local Area Command during the second group of raids in the 2011-2012 Cannabis Eradication Program. Strike Force Hyperion comprises detectives from the Drug Squad’s Cannabis Team, with assistance from the NSW Police Air Wing, Police Dog Unit, Radio Electronics Unit and officers from Richmond Local Area Command. During the past week, Strike Force Hyperion officers targeted more than 60 cannabis crop sites throughout Richmond Local Area Command, including Kippenduff, Rappville, Clearfield, Busby Flat, Mummulgum, Bulldog, Drake, Nimbin, Blue Knob, Kyogle and Tabulam. A to…
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"CANNABIS is kidstakes when it comes to the overall health damage drugs do" according to Wayne Hall, a substance abuse specialist at the University of Queensland's Centre for Clinical Research. Professor Hall’s new paper on the global pattern of drug consumption written with Louisa Degenhardt from the Burnet Institute, attracted media attention during the week for its finding that cannabis is the world’s most widely used illicit drug. On the basis of UN figures they argue between 125 and 203 million people across the planet used cannabis in 2009. This compared to a maximum of 21 million injecting drug users. The reason for its popularity, they argue in the new editi…
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NCPIC and Jan Copeland- "The great Misinformation Act" continues in 2012. Well, was listening to Radio this morning and seems NSPIC is going ahead with Oral Cannabis sprays for treating withdrawals...... Only problem is, before it was going to be used to treat Alcohol Withdrawal.............Now it's for Cannabis withdrawal............. Crazy stuff! Quoted from Jan Copeland on Triple J news........" It will ease the withdrawals associated with Cannabis use". Hmmmm...Cannabis Oral sprays to treat Cannabis withdrawals from cannabis...............don't quite sound right. The oral spray is of low THC content and higher CBD content....... as Jan said "We don't want pe…
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