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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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TARA RAVENS January 07, 2009 03:10pm http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0...58-2682,00.html Copyright 2009 News Limited A MAN who used his dead mother's inheritance to buy 5kg of cannabis in Adelaide and then filmed himself masturbating while driving at 150km/h has been jailed. Brendon Alan Erhardt, 39, was pulled over by police on July 16 last year, 25km south of Daly Waters. He was returning to the Northern Territory from Adelaide, where he had used an inheritance from his dead mother to buy a Holden SV6 and 5kg of cannabis. Inside the car, police discovered 10 packages of cannabis hidden in a blue esky in the boot, two cannabis plants on the back seat…
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6/01/2009 11:21:00 AM http://forbes.yourguide.com.au/news/local/...ts/1400685.aspx Copyright © 2008. Fairfax Media. Nine people will appear before Dubbo Local Court after they were arrested in relation to eight separate drug busts across the city yesterday. Officers from Strikeforce Monkman struck the residences at 7am yesterday, however the operation had been under covert planning for about two months. Homes in Gasnier Place, Gilbert Street, Bourke Street, Forrest Crescent, North Street, Aldrin Place, Braun Avenue and Colombia Street were searched by 85 police officers and a number of sniffer dogs. An unspecified quantity of cannabis, as well as some cash, was s…
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Summerfieldayze, Big Day Out cops undercover in drug sting Greg Stolz January 04, 2009 11:00pm Courier Mail http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0...01-3102,00.html GROOVY undercover cops disguised as dance music lovers are crashing the party for drug-taking revellers at this summer's music festivals. The covert cops nabbed dozens of patrons for possessing ecstasy and other drugs at the Summerfieldayze festival on the Gold Coast at the weekend. And they are warning the blitz will continue during upcoming music festivals like Good Vibrations and the Big Day Out. Undercover and uniformed police charged 37 people with mostly drug offences during Summerfieldayze …
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Police chopper wanted on Coast Matthew Killoran December 31st, 2008 goldcoast.com.au http://www.goldcoast.com.au/article/2008/1...-top-story.html THERE are renewed calls for a police helicopter to be based on the Gold Coast after a wanted man slipped through a police dragnet yesterday. The Westpac Rescue Helicopter eventually joined the hunt but it was too late to make a difference. The man, in his 20s, had been driving north on Olsen Avenue in a red Toyota Seca when police ran a check on the number plates and discovered they were false. The driver refused to pull over and a pursuit ensued. It was called off shortly afterwards when police lost sight of the car…
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I've heard that the grow limit is going to be reduced to 2 plants due to a crime org growing uber hydros , givem 20 years i say where else is a brother going to retire , drop the bomb on you fucking dumb weak ass poinces
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