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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-03/claim-cannabis-stays-in-system-for-up-to-12-hours-questioned/7216720 A magistrate has launched a blistering attack on the New South Wales Government's roadside drug testing regime, challenging the accuracy of its claims that cannabis can only be detected in a person's saliva for up to 12 hours. Key points:Drivers are being charged days after using cannabis, magistrate saysMagistrate points to hundreds of cases of this happeningHe said no evidence had been presented in court showing drugs can only be detected for up to 12 hours In a judgement on Monday, Lismore magistrate David Heilpern said he had heard hundreds of cases over th…
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http://www.news.com.au/finance/business/other-industries/legalising-medical-cannabis-sounds-great-if-you-can-afford-it/news-story/60ee23bfa8ee31c7a816d598efa44328 AUSTRALIA is about to see an explosion of capital investment in a product that, up until recently, has been the domain of the criminal underworld. After years of lobbying by doctors, cancer patients and parents of sick children, medical cannabis has finally been legalised. And with the ink still drying on the Federal Government’s laws, key players are ready to pounce on what is tipped to become a billion-dollar industry (once state laws catch up, and a national regulator is established). But fo…
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http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/cannabis-to-stay-illegal-in-queensland-cameron-dick-20160301-gn7li9.html Any prospect of marijuana being decriminalised in Queensland is still a long way off, the state's health minister says. Cameron Dick's comments come after the government this week released draft legislation that could allow doctors to prescribe medicinal cannabis by the end of the year. http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/content/dam/images/g/k/r/4/w/z/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gn7li9.png/1456812038436.jpg Health Minister Cameron Dick has left the door open for marijuana to be legalised in Queensland ... eventually. Although focused on medical tr…
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Medicinal cannabis supplier Heather Gladman on hunger strike after charges laid following police raid; Ms Gladman, 58, has already lost 4kg since she stopped eating after her home in Bradleys Rd, Stradbroke, near Sale, was raided and some 70 marijuana plants were seized. Her and a fellow medicinal cannabis supplier who lives at the property, Liam Hotham, were charged with cultivating and supplying cannabis. They are both listed to appear in Sale Magistrates Court on March 15, a date Ms Gladman is aware she may not live to see. “I’m already a bit weak after only six days without food,” she said. “But I am prepared to die for this cause if it means it will bring about c…
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http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/queensland-considers-medicinal-cannabis-laws-20160228-gn5szd.html Health Minister Cameron Dick wants Queensland to lead Australia on the road to making medicinal cannabis available to stricken patients. Mr Dick said it was clear the Queensland community had a "great hunger" for medicinal cannabis and the government had been considering legislative ways to address it. http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/content/dam/images/g/l/g/j/m/l/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gn5szd.png/1456642646319.jpgQueensland is moving closer to legalising medical cannabis. Photo: Queensland Police Service "I want to ensure Queensland leads Austra…
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The NSW Government and the police are a bunch of old conservative pricks and bullies. Shows the culture of NSW Police force has not changed since the 60's and loves the power over so called druggies. At least Dr Alex Wodak is challenging the staus quo.. http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/nsw/pill-testing-trial-to-begin-at-sydney-music-festivals-vows-drug-expert-alex-wodak-20160227-gn59zu.html President of the Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation, Dr Alex Wodak, has joined forces with emergency medical specialist David Caldicott in announcing a privately funded drug testing "trial" will commence with or without the blessing of a government that has repeatedly blocked t…
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Christmas Island cannabis trials closer after Senate approves new drug lawsBy Rebecca Turner http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-24/christmas-island-medical-cannabis-trial-closer-new-laws-passed/7197800 Plans to set up a medicinal cannabis industry on Christmas Island have moved "a big step closer" after the Senate passed historic laws. The company behind the plans, Perth-based AusCann, is already readying itself for the business opportunities presented by the new laws by preparing to conduct clinical trials of medicinal cannabis in WA. AusCann chief executive Elaine Darby said the trials could start within months, and would be an opportunity to test products whi…
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On the one-year anniversary of medicinal cannabis campaigner Dan Haslam's death, parliament has passed laws allowing the cultivation of medicinal cannabis. Senators paid tribute to the tireless efforts of Mr Haslam's mother, Lucy, who was instrumental in campaigning for change after medicinal cannabis helped her son with severe nausea brought on by his chemotherapy treatment. The laws cleared the upper house on Wednesday, one year after her son died following a five-year battle with bowel cancer. 'Lucy, this wouldn't have happened without your contribution,' Greens leader Richard Di Natale told parliament. 'Your family's grief, your family's pain and suffering, has not be…
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http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/government-medicinal-cannabis-bill-to-be-tested-in-parliament-20160209-gmpjz8.html The Turnbull government will on Wednesday introduce a national scheme into Parliament to licence medicinal cannabis growers. Although medicinal cannabis is available for particular patient groups and clinical trials, it is currently illegal to grow and import most medicinal cannabis products, leading some patients to buy them from the black market and run the risk of prosecution for drug use and possession. Health minister Sussan Ley hoped for bipartisan support for legal changes, which she said would help chronicall…
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http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/hack/stoner-sloth-ad-disaster/7045194
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Hey all, This is awesome news!!! The wheels are turning... the precedent has been set. Yay for common sense!!! Loco Author: By the National Reporting Team's Lorna Knowles and Alison BranleyDate:02/02/2016 Source: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-02/man-caught-drug-driving-days-after-smoking-cannabis-acquitted/7133628 Copyright: Author or news provider? Cannabis user who tested positive after nine days acquitted of drug-driving New South Wales's roadside drug testing laws have been thrown into doubt after a magistrate acquitted a man who tested positive for cannabis he had smoked nine days before he was pulled over. Key points:Man waited nine da…
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http://beta.brisbanetimes.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/tax-toke-the-budget-office-models-gst-on-marijuana-20160129-gmhjli.html Just what are they smoking down in the Parliamentary Budget Office? Big Fat Joints $$$$ The normally conservative federal institution has done some highly unusual economic modelling based on the question: how much money could the Turnbull government raise if it legalised and then applied the GST to marijuana? http://beta.brisbanetimes.com.au/content/dam/images/g/k/r/4/w/z/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gmhjli.png/1454157655956.jpgThe answer is about $300 million a year. And that doesn't even include the increased tax toke – sorr…
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http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/content/dam/images/g/j/6/s/x/b/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gm7xbh.png/1453666920669.jpg Research shows men account for most of Australia's 1.9 million cannabis users, but female smokers are now more likely to use every day. Photo: Rohan Thomson http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/nsw/women-and-weed-the-gender-differences-in-cannabis-use-and-abuse-20160117-gm7xbh.html Naomi* smokes a couple of bongs in the morning after her two-year-old son has been fed and clothed. Once he is asleep at night, she smokes about 20 more. The 29-year-old says she wakes up feeling fresh the next day. She pays her bills, sticks to a routine and never smoke…
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http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/coast-holidaymakers-were-raided-by-police-who-found-their-rented-home-was-a-drug-lab/news-story/bebaed0aeaca1b93a72b26b704d89179 Over the top Raid: Just found 8 plants growing. DIETER Winkler was readying sausages for a barbecue when 10 armed police smashed through the front door of the Gold Coast home where he and his family were having a Christmas holiday. The Sydney family of seven, who had rented the three bedroom house in Burleigh Heads through Airbnb from Boxing Day, were not even 24 hours into their stay when armed Burleigh Criminal Investigation Branch officers, wearing bulletproof vests, kicked the do…
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http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/christmas-island-medical-cannabis-plan-community-expresses-concern-20151228-glw2nj.html Plans to grow Australia's first commercial crop of medical cannabis at Christmas Island have met resistance from some locals, who fear that islanders won't see the financial benefits and drugs may end up in the hands of local youths. The cannabis proposal is the latest of a series of developments that have raised the ire of Christmas Island residents, who say the controversial detention centre damages efforts to grow the island's tourism industry and a reduction in the frequency of government-contracted planes means mail…
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