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THE little girl is not quite two years old, a blue-eyed brunette in pink Winnie-the-Pooh skirt and a ponytail that stands like a palm tree on top of her head. Her brother is just five months old, completely at peace in his timber cot. These are the children at the centre of one of the nation's most disturbing welfare cases. Last September, they were removed from the care of their parents and forced into foster care, despite there being "no evidence whatsoever" that they had ever been abused or neglected. In a judgment delivered on December 19, NSW Supreme Court judge George Palmer described the case as an "abuse of power" and ordered the children be returned to th…
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AUSTRALIAN attitudes to cannabis use have hardened dramatically over the past four years, and support for its legalisation has fallen away. But people are increasingly looking to needle and syringe exchange programs and safe injecting rooms, rather than law and order crackdowns, to tackle the wider illegal drug problem, a new study has found. The study, from the University of NSW Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, reviewed a series of survey results over time and reported a large drop in support for regular cannabis use to less than one in 10 Australians last year, compared with one in four in 2004. Advocates of cannabis law reform also lost ground, with more than …
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hi there, im new to this site.. ive been reading bits an pieces.. its a kool site.. glad to be here.. thanks for having me... you know wat i find ironic.... isnt it interesting... more so now with the global finacial crisis...and the expense of living atm... it seems.. us bottom feeders.. (society) become poorer.. cant afford shit..so ppl start theiving etc.. up goes the crime rate.. i mean the other day on the news, a man was held up in his car, by gun point.. some dude was robbing him.. im mean pls.. how rude.. this was around the corner from my house.. how safe am i...? in amongst all that... us weed smokers get the kick in the ass.. how is weed a drug..and who mad…
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A MAGISTRATE has encouraged a regular marijuana user to attempt to get his drug usage legalised, because it was the only substance that numbed his pain after his whole body was badly burned. Jason Bernard Young, 31, from Coolum Beach on the Sunshine Coast, appeared in the Maroochydore Magistrates' Court yesterday on two drug possession charges after he was found with 2g of marijuana at his home in December. Young was intoxicated when he fell off a train bridge in 1995 and sustained burns to 95 per cent of his body after he grabbed hold of the electrical wiring above the Bald Hills train station. The court was told Young had tried numerous drugs and pain killers but …
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Police have seized more than $107,000 worth of cannabis following the execution of a number of search warrants in Alice Spring s on Friday. Police from the Drug Intelligence Unit, the Dog Operations Unit and the Substance Abuse Intelligence Desk were involved in the operation which resulted in the arrest of a 46-year-old man and seizure of almost 4.3 kilograms of cannabis and $16,000 in cash. Police pulled over the driver of a Ford Falcon sedan which was travelling outbound along Larapinta Drive just after 2pm on Friday. A search of the vehicle located 336.5 grams of cannabis in 12 bags along with $3,750 in cash. The driver of the vehicle was arrested and two subs…
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THE free-wheeling days of buying cannabis and pot smoking at Nimbin's Hemp Bar and the Nimbin Museum are over – or so it would seem. The Nimbin Hemp Bar has been revamped and reopened as part of the Hemp Embassy and will not tolerate drug deals and smoking on the premises. The Nimbin Museum has installed cameras to help stomp out drug dealing. A fence is being built beside the notorious Rainbow Lane. Museum founder and operator Michael Balderstone confirmed his associate Elspeth Jones had applied to take over the museum. Lease negotiations are still being finalised. Mr Balderstone said two of the four museum security cameras have been stolen. Hemp activist Gar…
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livenews.com.au 19/01/2009 10:10am 147 Arrests! Drug sniffing dogs helped police make 147 arrests at Sunday's Big Day Out music festival at the Gold Coast Parklands. Making their first appearance at the annual event, the sniffer dogs led to 52 arrests on drug-related matters, mostly for possession of ecstasy or marijuana. Police laid a total of 172 charges on Sunday. A police spokeswoman said arrests for possession of drugs was down on last year, when 81 faced drug-related charges. A further 308 concert-goers were evicted from the venue, mainly by security personnel, she said. The Big Day Out next plays Sydney on Friday before moving to Melbourne, Adelaide and Per…
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Author: Andrew Korner Date: 18th January 2009 Source: Queensland Times Copyright: 2009 Link: http://www.qt.com.au/story/2009/01/18/mari...ils-to-impress/ Marijuana lesson fails to impress WE'RE all familiar with the idea of growing and smoking your own marijuana for medicinal purposes, but what is the justice system's take on people who grow for educational purposes? After being caught with a 1m tall marijuana plant in his back yard, Tallegalla man Trevor Leslie Walters told police he grew the plant to teach his adult son a lesson about the beauty of naturally grown green stuff. It seemed the 54-year-old pensioner, who puffs to relieve chronic pain in his back a…
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When the penalty exceeds the crime Many typical things happen in a typical month, and March 2006 was typical. It started with yet another US televangelist (Pat Robertson this time) exposed as a charlatan. A week later Slobodan Miloševic died but, as usual, ethnic hatred did not. In Gaza, Israeli rockets killed 10 children. "We are doing everything to prevent innocent people from being harmed, but this is a war and nothing is certain," Israel’s Air Force chief General Eliezer Shkedy said, as usual. In a small pocket of the antipodes, tucked out of mind from the rest of the world, typical South Australian voters returned Mike Rann and his State Labor Government to p…
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ERIC PARNIS 13/01/2009 10:53:00 AM http://tenterfield.yourguide.com.au/news/l...rs/1407976.aspx Copyright © 2008. Fairfax Media. Police were out in force over the weekend, targeting drunk and drugged drivers making the voyage to the Exodus Festival held at Rover Park over the weekend. Numerous motorists were stopped by police at a stationary drug testing site set up on the Drake side of the location, as well as by officers who were conducting mobile patrols in the area. Festival patrons felt the police presence while making the journey to Rover Park, with some festival-goers travelling west from Casino reported being stopped at mobile and fixed sites up to three…
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THE Kings Cross safe injecting centre made no difference at all to overdose death rates in its local area in its first five years of operation. Statistics show death rates from drug overdose in the area around the injecting room are no less than in other areas across NSW. The findings into the $2.5 million-a-year facility are contained in an unreported independent evaluation that studied autopsy rates. The report assessed overdose deaths from heroin, morphine and other opioids in those postcodes - 2010 and 2011 - near the injecting centre and concluded that deaths rates fell at the same rate they did elsewhere in NSW. The most likely conclusion is that the falls w…
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Building materials going to pot 13 January 2009 The Australian http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story...0-12377,00.html CANNABIS could soon be going up in buildings rather than going up in smoke. The hemp plant is one of six identified by Department of Primary Industries (DPI) scientists in Queensland as a source of natural resin to reduce the building industry's reliance on resins produced from fossil fuels. DPI project officer Dr Andries Potgieter said generating resins from renewable sources such as plant oils could reduce greenhouse gas emissions and result in a smaller carbon footprint. Currently most resins and adhesives used in aerospace structures a…
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January 09, 2009 04:45pm http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0...40-2682,00.html Copyright 2009 News Limited POLICE have confiscated a large amount of cannabis after detecting a marijuana smell during a routine patrol at Waterloo Corner this afternoon. They removed 500 cannabis seedlings, 30 to 40 mature plants and about 10kg of cannabis which would have made up to 30,000 street deals from a rental property on Huxtable Rd. Police said the plants were grown in bedrooms of the four-bedroom house and the electricity supply had been tampered with. Lights and transformers were also confiscated. Police are still searching for the tenants of the house.
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Rebecca Lollback 10th January 2009 http://www.northernstar.com.au/story/2009/...d-in-drug-bust/ TWO bus-loads of tourists heading out of Nimbin were stopped at a police roadblock and searched for drugs yesterday afternoon as part of a two-day operation. About 60 per cent of the passengers had drugs on them. Police launched the operation on Thursday which included a roadside drug testing van between Lismore and Nimbin, drug dogs and patrols of 'high risk locations', including hotels. “We also did some other operations in town,” Det Sgt Smith said. Police said 89 people were searched over the two-day operation and 53 were carrying drugs. Of those 24 were caut…
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http://www.theage.com.au/national/100000-h...90109-7dk9.html A cannabis crop worth $100,000 has been seized by police in Melbourne's outer east after a tip-off from the public. Police raided a garage in Ferntree Gully and charged a Mulgrave man, 36, with a series of drug offences after discovering 115 cannabis plants. Acting Sergeant Lee Nichols from Croydon Divisional Tasking Unit said the garage's hydroponic set-up had allegedly used stolen electricity by connecting cables to the power before it was read by the meter. He said police searched the property after anonymous calls made to Crime Stoppers. "We are grateful to those in the community who have taken not…
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