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The Canberra Times Noel Towell and Michele Tydd 24/11/2008 The double life of a public servant with ACT Health's alcohol and drug services has been exposed after he admitted growing $160,000 worth of illegal drugs on his NSW property using a sophisticated hydroponic system. Mark Vincent Blattman, who was caught in June with a crop of 75 marijuana plants and 720g of cannabis in a shed on his Sutton property, has also pleaded guilty to storing illegally held firearms and ammunition. Blattman's wife, Lyndal, a nurse with the alcohol and drug services, is facing less serious charges over the June 25 raid but has yet to enter a plea. Queanbeyan District Court heard…
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An Open Letter [i know this is from June, 08, but it still remains very relevant . . . and I did search and couldn't find it here ] An Open Letter to Ms Miranda Devine from Dr Alex Wodak: A shorter version of this letter (without references) was offered to the Sydney Morning Herald but declined. This commentary is a response to arguments made in an article by Ms Devine published in the Sydney Morning Herald on 15 May 2008. This response was posted on the Update Listserver of the ADCA in Canberra on Monday 2nd June 2008. REDUCING THE HARMS OF CANNABIS AND CANNABIS POLICIES In her recent article on cannabis in the Sydney Morning Herald [1], Ms. Miranda Devine exp…
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NSW farmers urged to grow hemp November 20, 2008 - 10:17AM Source: ABC New South Wales farmers are being encouraged to start growing industrial hemp. The Government recently passed legislation allowing the plant to be grown for use in products ranging from bio-fuel to dog food. The Primary Industries Minister, Ian Macdonald, says measures have been put in place to prevent hemp crops being used to camouflage marijuana plantations. "The licensing scheme is authorised by our Act of Parliament," he said. "It'll require farmers who wish to grow industrial hemp to register to get a licence. "That'll mean that their properties will be then audited and inspected regul…
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The Northern Star Helen Jack 19 November 2008 Banana grower Garry Ronald Howard, 63, was sentenced to six-and-a-half years' jail yesterday after pleading guilty to growing nearly 3000 cannabis plants, a large commercial quantity, on his family's farm at Burringbar. Lismore District Court heard Howard nurtured the crop in six plots along a creek bed running through the property. Howard said he had no intention of growing so much of the prohibited drug. He said the seeds had washed down from upstream and had taken root on his property. In sentencing Howard, Judge Colin Charteris said the evidence showed he did intend to sell some of the crop and had admitted to bein…
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long time reader first time poster: http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/high-h...6770542506.html "GROWING cannabis becomes legal in NSW today - provided you are a licensed farmer who will harvest hemp for industrial use. After years of debate, the State Government has approved large-scale hemp farming and will consider licence applications under a new scheme."
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AFP recording legitimate, court told 18th November 2008 By Rae Wilson Sunshine Coast Daily Online http://www.thedaily.com.au/news/2008/nov/1...ate-court-told/ The officer investigating officer an alleged drug smuggling case told a court yesterday that he turned a tape recording off during the execution of a search warrant for legitimate reasons. The Australian Federal Police officer was the key officer in the “controlled delivery” of a 1kg block of amphetamines, with a street value of more than $1 million, into the Sunshine Coast from the Netherlands. The package, which was substituted with another substance, was delivered to a Sunshine Beach address with a listenin…
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Rebecca Tucker November 17th, 2008 http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/articl...31605_news.html Copyright © January 2006 POLICE arrested two men for drugs offences at the Geelong Train Station this morning as part of a special operation. Chief Inspector Brian Jennings, of the Victoria Police transit safety division, said another male was charged with possessing a controlled weapon after he was found with a knife. Police used the dog squad during Operation Goats, which began in Geelong and continued at Werribee and through to Melbourne. One man was charged with possessing and using a drug of dependence, marijuana, and the second with using the same drug. The…
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Friday, 14 Nov 2008 05:37am http://www.police.nsw.gov.au/news/latest_r...CZhbGw9MQ%3D%3D Two men will face court on numerous drug charges after police seized an estimated $100,000 worth of cannabis on the State’s Mid North Coast yesterday morning. About 8am, following extensive inquiries, officers attached to Mid North Coast Local Area Command conducted a search warrant at a property on the Pacific Highway at Valla. After speaking with the owner and searching the premises, police will allege they located a large sum of money and numerous bags of cannabis hidden in various locations both inside and outside houses on the property. Police also seized two firearms…
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By Gemma Jones November 13, 2008 12:00am http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/stor...5006009,00.html Copyright 2008 News Limited POLICE have arrested 869 people during a train operation which also netted a man who allegedly tried to blame his pet rat when a drug dog sniffed cannabis in his bag. The officer told him the dog smelt drugs, not rats and the bag was opened, revealing his pet white rat and allegedly cannabis wrapped in newspaper. There have been more than 35,000 patrols on trains since the start of September resulting in arrests for drug possession and dealing, 63 weapons offences and assaults. Officers have also nabbed 34 people for breach of bail …
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ABC Rural 11/11/2008 Western Australia's Ord Valley region has just wrapped up its first hemp harvest in nearly a decade, and the company involved in the trial says it will now look to plant 500 hectares next year. Hemp hasn't been grown in the Kimberley since an unsuccessful trial in 2000, and growers have mixed feelings about the crop's value. Chief executive of Hemp Resources, Kim Hough, believes current legislation, which stops hemp seed from being sold as a food product in Australia, will soon be changed and will make hemp a very viable crop in the Ord. "We're confident that laws will be changed," he says. "But no, it wouldn't turn us away (from growing in …
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Northern Rivers Echo The Nimbin Museum is open for business and the Nimbin HEMP Bar will soon be opening its doors again, with locals banding together to save the two iconic buildings from closure. The landlords of both buildings were advised several weeks ago they would have to comply with a strict set of conditions or police would declare them ‘restricted premises’ under the Restricted Premises Act of 1943, which allows police to search or raid at will. Museum tenant Michael Balderstone was also told he could no longer manage the tourist drawcard, however, his business partner Elspeth Jones has stepped into the breach and advised the landlord she will take over tenanc…
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Arjun Ramachandran November 11, 2008 - 5:20PM http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/suburb...6318640419.html Copyright © 2008. The Sydney Morning Herald Tip-offs triggered police raids on houses in Sydney's south-west, with cannabis plants worth more than $1.5 million seized. Police forced their way into two houses at 11.15am today - at Thurlow Street, Riverwood, and at Broad Arrow Road, Narwee. No one was in either house, which contained almost 300 plants, from seedlings to mature-sized plants. Police said rooms had been converted to grow cannabis. They are investigating who occupied the houses. Today's operation follows raids at three houses in Kingsgrove …
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========================================================== Psychological Health: Special Session within iCBBE Call for Papers http://www.icbbe.org June 14-16, 2009 Beijing, China ========================================================== This Psychological Heath (PH) is part of the 3rd International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering (iCBBE2009). PH 2009 focuses on the following fields: Theory and research in psychotherapy Psychotherapy approach Biological foundation of psychotherapy …
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Northern Territory News PHOEBE STEWART, November 6th, 2008 A DEAF mute ruled unfit to plead to two serious Territory stabbings has become addicted to cannabis while under 24-hour government supervision, the Supreme Court heard yesterday. Roland Ebatarintja, 30, has spent most of a five-year non-custodial supervision order under the care of the NT Health Department after being found unfit to plead in 2004. He is profoundly deaf after contracting meningitis as a toddler, and the location of his care is suppressed. But Justice Trevor Riley was shocked to be told by a Health Department lawyer yesterday that Mr Ebatarintja had become addicted to cannabis in care. "…
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[uh oh, they're at it again . . .] Brisbane Times Miranda Devine | November 6, 2008 Barack Obama's autobiography, Dreams From My Father, describes his flirtation with drugs during a troubled early period. "Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow [cocaine] when you could afford it … Everybody was welcome into the club of disaffection." At 47, the US president-elect is typical of his late baby boomer-early generation X cohort, in that marijuana was freely available in his teens and early 20s, virtually unpoliced and regarded as relatively harmless, a "soft" drug. As the pot-smoking generations have moved en masse into positions of power, the days when reporters c…
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