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Thought this was interesting... Check t out... Love and a squish, Alison xx Illicit drug report shows traffickers using new tactics AM - Friday, 11 May , 2007 08:29:00 Reporter: Barney Porter TONY EASTLEY: The amount of drugs seized by Australian police and customs officials has dropped significantly according to the latest Illicit Drug Data Report. In the last financial year, six tonnes of drugs were seized compared to 13 tonnes in the year before. The report is being released later today by the Australian Crime Commission. But the Australian National Council on Drugs says while the amount of drugs has dropped, the number of seizures ha…
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CANNABIS seizures have more than doubled in South Australia, but arrests have increased by only 6 per cent. The national Illicit Drug Data Report released yesterday also shows a massive increase in the amount of amphetamines seized by police, from about 5kg in 2004-05 to more than 66kg in 2005-06. The report from the Australian Crime Commission shows there were more than 500 cannabis seizures in the 2005-06 financial year, compared to 251 the year before. The weight of cannabis seized has also doubled, to almost 8000kg. However, there was only a 6 per cent increase in arrests and a 15 per cent increase in the number of cannabis expiation notices. The overall lev…
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Hey all .. just read this ... and I wanna know more ! the story is full of the usual Gov propaganda ... but maybe they know something I'd like to know more about ... Super Dope ... now how tantalizing is that ??
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More than 100 people arrested at Nimbin Mardi Grass 7 May, 2007 The NSW Police Force arrested more than 100 people – predominantly for drug offences – and seized more than 15kg of drugs over the three-day Mardi Grass festival in the northern NSW town of Nimbin. Operation Maloo, comprising police from Richmond LAC, dog squad, mounted police, OSG (Operational Support Group) and the new roadside drug testing unit, was active between 6am Friday May 4 and 6am Monday May 7, 2007. During that time, police arrested 109 people of which 50 were charged with a number of offences and 62 dealt with by way of cannabis caution. The majority of the 50 charges were for posses…
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Author: ABC Date: 05/05/07 Source: ABC News Online Copyright: © 2007 ABC
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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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