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Australia's binge-drinking culture is a "ticking time bomb" threatening to overload the public health system within decades, health experts have warned. A rise in dangerous drinking across all age groups, class boundaries and cultural lines has prompted calls for action. Top researchers predict Australia will see a big rise in chronic diseases such as cirrhosis of the liver, cancers and brain disorders in the next 20 years. Addiction doctors say they are seeing a growing trend of drinkers as young as 18 suffering tremors, sweats and even seizures. Many are drinking a bottle of spirits a day, with experts predicting a rise in brain-damage cases. Those in the field …
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Time to give Nimbin a fair go by S.Sorrensen Nimbin is a little town that tends to get up the authorities’ noses. Always has, since a bunch of long-haired, peace-loving, rebellious, alternative types invaded the village by Kombi in 1973. Authorities didn’t like Nimbin then. Somehow Nimbin has always given us a glimpse of our future. The village is a microcosm, previewing the impending issues of broader society. Issues like the environment and drugs. Every year thousands of people flock to Nimbin’s MardiGrass. It’s a cannabis law reform rally, a festival... a party. Call it what you will. There’s the Kombi Konvoy which splutters its way from Byron to Nimbin. Some of them…
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IT is obvious that some people in the northern NSW town of Nimbin have chosen to be deliberately obtuse and are determined not to face the scientific facts about marijuana. How else can their staging of yet another Mardi Grass be interpreted? This event is wrongly called a festival. There is nothing joyous about people gathering to celebrate a drug that has a proven record of triggering psychosis and schizophrenia. The enthusiastic acolytes of marijuana, who will parade up and down the main street of Nimbin this weekend, dare not read the findings of the world's top neurologists in the past decade or those of Antonio Maria Costa, the executive director of the United N…
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HEADING to Nimbin and thinking you might risk taking along some of your best home grown? Here’s the front row line-up of the team you’ll need to avoid. Drug bus Police began roadside drug testing yesterday afternoon on roads leading to the town. Three drugs are screened for: • THC (the active component of cannabis) • Methylamphetamine (speed, ice, crystal meth or base) • MDMA (ecstasy). These drugs were found to be the most common in people involved in fatal car accidents. The first test: You provide a sample of saliva. A result takes between 3-5 minutes. Second test: If the result is positive you are escorted to the Random Drug Testing Truck for a second test. …
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Cannabis Dependence by Paul DILLon- What a load of BS by Jess Stone! Cannabis is the most widely used illicit drug in Australia, and in western society in general. Most people use it intermittently, experimenting with it once or twice or regularly over a short period of time. However, some people do experience great problems with the drug and continue to use cannabis even when it begins to have adverse effects on their life. For a long time there was a widespread belief that cannabis was not a drug of dependence and you could not become addicted. This belief was due to an apparent absence of tolerance to the effects of cannabis or of a withdrawal syndrome, particula…
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Police have carried out a significant drug bust in Girrawheen, allegedly seizing cannabis, cannabis plants, ammunition and smoking implements. A 29-year-old man has been charged with drug offences after officers from the Inglewood Inquiry Team raided a house in Sparks Court yesterday afternoon. Police claim to have found 28.5 grams of cannabis and four rounds of ammunition along with the smoking implements. A search of the property's back shed allegedly revealed 16 cannabis plants in two separate hydroponic assemblies. The 29-year-old has been charged with cultivating a prohibited drug with intent to sell or supply, possessing a prohibited drug, two counts of poss…
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A MAN has been charged after police seized hydroponic cannabis worth an estimated $1.2 million in Sydney's south-west. Officers attached to the South West Metropolitan Region Enforcement Squad have been investigating organised crime syndicates involved in the cultivation of cannabis. Squad members searched a house in Moorebank at about 7am (AEST) yesterday. Police will allege they found 169 mature cannabis plants and more than 24kg of cannabis head and leaf. The cannabis has a combined estimated potential street value of more than $1.2 million, police said. A 29-year-old Dulwich Hill man was arrested at the scene and taken to Liverpool Police Station for questio…
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Couple charged over cannabis production A man and woman aged in their 60s from South Australia's Adelaide Hills have been arrested and charged over the production of cannabis. Police say they found 103 cannabis plants and 33 kilograms of dried cannabis when they searched the pair's house at Foreston in the Adelaide Hills yesterday. The 68-year-old man and 64-year-old woman have been bailed to appear in the Holden Hill Magistrates Court at a later date. Source: abc news
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* Illicit drug use cost business $3.3bn * Causing reduced workforces, absenteeism * Problem more "balanced business-type approach" THE authors of a new study showing illicit drug use cost Australian business $3.3 billion in one year say the law enforcement approach to drugs has failed to protect people and commerce. The Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation today released what it claims is the first known Australian study to quantify the cost of illicit drug use. The foundation said illicit drug use in 2003 cost Australian business $3.3 billion, or two per cent of that year's corporate profits. Reduced workforce, absenteeism The Three Billion Dollar Que…
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NIMBIN, Australia (Reuters) - The pungent smell of marijuana fills the air outside The Rainbow Cafe in Australia's hippy capital Nimbin as a shopkeeper smokes a joint during a coffee break. Across the road the Hemp Embassy is busy with shoppers inspecting bongs and pipes, as well as hemp T-shirts and hats, while a few enjoy a joint of marijuana in a side room. "Hey mister, want some weed," says a voice in a dark corner of the Nimbin Museum, a cave-like labyrinth which tells of the hippy birth of Nimbin following the Aquarius Festival in 1973. Selling and smoking marijuana may be illegal in Australia, but in Nimbin on Australia's fertile northeast coast authorities u…
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Raids over two days result in nine arrests By Nikki Joyce - 18/04/2007 - Toowoomba Chronicle 2007 NINE people were arrested on 18 drug charges following two days of police raids in Toowoomba this week. Police from the city's Tactical Crime Squad acted on a series of tips from the public resulting in Operation Albatross, where those arrested were charged with possession of drugs and drug utensils. The State Flying Squad joined the city's police in the raids, with more than $1000 worth of stolen property also seized from Belgium and Hume streets in South Toowoomba in the operation. Senior Constable Stuart Standeaven said police were making inquiries about the f…
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Police say outback Indigenous drug smuggling growing Police say the trafficking of cannabis and other drugs is on the rise in South Australia's outback Aboriginal communities. More than a year ago South Australian, Western Australian and Northern Territory police created a substance abuse desk so they could work together to stop alcohol and petrol being smuggled into outback towns. Port Augusta police Superintendent Peter Anderson says while the project and the roll-out of Opal fuel has curbed alcohol abuse and petrol sniffing, more people are now turning to other drugs. "Sadly the focus is now moving towards cannabis and other illicit drugs, so the need for our j…
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Police drug sniffer dogs target children during school holidays - Lismore by Jess Stone April 12,2007 DTS - Exclusive First the NSW government gives us there latest teen anti-cannabis campaign , carrying tag lines such as "Pot. It mightn't kill you, but it could turn you into a dickhead" ,which is staggering in its stupidity ,and now I am informed by reliable sources that undercover police are patrolling the streets of the NSW far north town, Lismore deliberately targeting children during school holidays with sniffer dogs, supposedly randomly selecting their victims but sources inform DTS that children , homeless street people , aboriginals ,buskers but no grannies o…
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Police bust cannabis operation in national park A major drug growing operation has been discovered inside a national park in Victoria's north-west. Police say a complex piping system that stretched for several kilometres was used to grow marijuana crops inside the Hattah-Kulkyne National Park, between Ouyen and Mildura. The pipes were traced back to a nearby property, where police say large quantities of processed cannabis and cash were found buried. A man is being interviewed about the find, but no charges have been laid. Sergeant Mark Edwards says the pipes were traced back to a nearby property. "We've executed a drug search warrant on the property," he said. …
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By staff reporters and the Herald Sun April 11, 2007 03:25pm VICTORIA police said today they had taken cannabis from a school in Kew and would speak to a 17-year-old student. The boy's parents would also be spoken to. Staff at the secondary college had co-operated with police. The Herald Sun reported today that Xavier College in Victoria was forced to expel a year 11 student for selling marijuana in the school yard. Another three pupils were suspended after admitting they bought the drug from the student. Staff at Xavier had decided not to go to police over the incident, instead referring the students concerned for counselling. Students at the independent…
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