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Embassy cautious about new drug test laws Friday, 1 September 2006. 13:04 (AEDT) ------------------------------------------------- The Nimbin Hemp Embassy is offering cautious support to plans to introduce drug-testing for drivers in New South Wales. The State Government introduced laws into the Parliament yesterday that would allow police to take random saliva tests designed to detect cannabis, ecstasy and speed. The Hemp Embassy's Michael Balderstone says as long as the tests only apply to recent drug use he will support them. He says the Nimbin community has been waiting for this time to come. "There's been a few false starts on this and we've been waiting fo…
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Last Update: Thursday, August 31, 2006. 7:00pm (AEST) CWA votes in favour of marijuana for medicinal use ----------------------------------------------------------- The National Conference of the Country Women's Association (CWA) has voted in favour of a resolution supporting the medical use of marijuana for pain relief. The CWA held its meeting in Darwin and members have told of relatives seeking relief from the side-effects of cancer treatment and chronic illness. President-elect Leslie Young says the CWA now supports a trial to determine whether cannabis can ease their pain. "We will be approaching the federal and state ministers to consider the legalisation of…
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Drivers face random drug tests Motorists in NSW will be subject to random drug testing under legislation to be introduced to parliament today. Offenders could face prison sentences of up to nine months and unlimited licence suspensions. "The random roadside drugs tests will be used to detect speed, cannabis and ecstasy," Premier Morris Iemma said. Mr Iemma also said all drivers and motorcycle riders involved in fatal crashes would be forced to undergo blood testing. Police Minister Carl Scully said specially trained police officers would conduct the saliva tests with portable drug screening machines. So Morris Iamascumma joins his FUCKWIT TRAITOROUS LABOR MATE…
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Cannabis doctor escapes prison August 24, 2006 - 4:53PM A Sydney doctor who grew 49,519 cannabis plants will not serve a custodial sentence, a Newcastle court has ruled. Dr Andrew John Katelaris was convicted on March 8 this year of one count of cultivating not less than a large commercial quantity of cannabis. He grew the plants on his property at Salisbury, near Dungog in the NSW Hunter Valley. The NSW District Court in Newcastle was told tests showed the crop had a low tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) content, making it of no value as a drug. During sentencing submissions today, the court was told Dr Katelaris' licence as a medical practitioner in NSW had been re…
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Did anyone just see the channel ten news report on the drug raids in Ipswich today? It looked pretty advanced the setup they showed on TV, looks like the news crew was in the house filming it all before they dismantled it. Here's the online article related to it but the one they showed on the news was just heartbreaking compared to the online article. http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0...57-3102,00.html
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2:33 pm, 23 Aug 2006 The Sports Dispute Tribunal says the decision by basketball's international governing body, FIBA, to suspend Tall Blacks guard Mark Dickel jeopardises their bid to achieve uniformity across sport in New Zealand. Dickel was suspended by Basketball New Zealand for two games and was then warned and reprimanded when he appeared before tribunal chair Barry Patterson QC in accordance with World Anti Doping Agency's code. However FIBA suspended Dickel for a further three games at the world champs in Japan and Mr Patterson says that highlights the inconsistencies in penalties that exist for the same offence. He says if the matter isn't resolved they …
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Tourist fined for posting cannabis to himself 23 August 2006 A South Australian man who posted himself some cannabis to use during a holiday in Queenstown has gone home with a drug conviction. Alexander David Wolper, 21, cellar hand, was yesterday fined $600 by Judge Stephen O'Driscoll in Dunedin District Court after he admitted importing 6.6g of cannabis, which Customs intercepted at the Queenstown mail centre on August 11. Wolper posted the cannabis in a parcel with snowboard magazines and gloves before he left Australia, addressing it to the Queenstown hotel where he would be staying. Prosecutor Sergeant Tom Scouller said when police spoke to Wolper in Queen…
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Bucket Bongs on the Terrace 1 2 3
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Perth's Adelaide Terrace (turns into St Georges Terrace past Victoria Ave) is home to many corporate cannabis users. Some duck out the back for a quiet joint after work, some smoke in the alleyways on the way to their Friday Beer'o'Clock local, some just toke openly while walking down the Terrace at lunchtime or on the way home. Nobody really cares, it's not uncommon and a quick glance around usually reveals smirks and winks as our favourite bouquet wafts on the air. But this week, a bucket bong was found in the toilet cistern of the building where I work Building management aren't too happy (or knowledgeable) and sent out an email to all tenants asking for the act…
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Hi All, I heard on the radio this morning that drug testing for high school children was coming in somewhere. I looked on the Net and found: MP's want drug test for teens August 17: Author: XANTHE KLEINIGDate: August 17, 2006 12:15am Source: theadvertiser.news.com.au Copyright: 2006 © news limited. And this one from Vic: August 17 2006: Baillieu urged to drug test school students My comment: I ain’t encouraging young kids to smoke dope or nothin (particularly as this web site is for over 18’s consumption ) but think this is wrong. I smoked weed as a teen and would have been scared and humiliated at getting drug tested. How dare they? Are they going to exp…
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War on drugs costs $3bn per year By Tamara McLean August 11, 2006 AUSTRALIA'S fight against illicit drugs costs about $3.2 billion a year, with more than half blown on drug-related policing, a hard-hitting report has found. An ambitious independent report has calculated for the first time how much money state and Federal Governments spend on drug prevention, treatment and the consequences of addiction. The document estimates that in the 2002-03 financial year the country spent between $1.5 billion and $4.9 billion on fighting illegal drugs. But the researchers involved with the project are concerned the governments are “running blind” - spending money with no clue o…
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THE drug-trafficking dad of stolen baby Montana will be behind bars for at least the next five years. Guiseppe Dom "Joe" Barbaro -- who says his daughter's kidnapping ended his life of crime -- was sentenced yesterday to 9 1/2 years' jail with a minimum of seven for dealing in amphetamines, ecstasy and cannabis from 2002 until just months before his daughter's abduction in 2004. Montana was just three weeks old when she was snatched from her mother, Anita Ciancio, as she packed her car at a Deer Park shopping centre. The little girl was found two days later in an abandoned North Melbourne house. County Court judge Ian Robertson yesterday acknowledged the ordeal had …
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Five to face court 1 2
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FIVE of fourteen people charged during a series of drug raids on houses in the NSW Hunter Region will face court today. The raids yesterday were by officers attached to Strike Force Islander, which was set up in January to investigate the supply of methylamphetamine and cannabis. Officers attached to Strike Force Islander yesterday carried out a vehicle stop in Medowie Street at Williamtown in the Lower Hunter area, north of Newcastle, police said. As a result of the operation, two men were arrested. Officers then executed search warrants on six houses in Medowie, Tomago, Maryland and Woodberry. During the raids they seized 785 grams of methylamphetamine with an…
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August 07, 2006 Ignorance won't make abuse go away Author: The NPY Women's CouncilDate: August 07, 2006 Source: The Australian Copyright: Copyright: News Limited © 2006 Now the Aboriginal people themselves are saying it. I wonder if she's payed-off? I mean, I wonder how much she got payed for each occurrence of the word marijuana? Still, it is being smoked there and so it does contribute in some way to the general environment but, the conditions of these Aboriginal settlements must be appalling. I mean to live from one pay packet to the next be on grog and weed every day and then turn to pedophilia there must be just a hopeless pit of despair and a circle of…
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News Limited has published a couple of cannabis crash stories, one covered twice, in the space of one week in what I would call the largest volley to be fired yet in the recently reinvigorated war against cannabis users. All three were published in News' Courier Mail along with other News publications. The first to come was on August 03, 2006 02:00am Crash driver mother admits cannabis use Author: Amanda GearingDate: August 03, 2006 Source: The Courier Mail Copyright: News Limited © 2006 My comment: What does it matter that she had taken cannabis nine hours before the fatal crash? Does smoking cannabis make you forget anything? What about factors like fatigue or…
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Quite funny I think. It's a shame one of the little 14 year old snitches decided to dob him in to the principal. Kids these days, I don't know. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Teacher dealt drugs in front of class August 10, 2006 12:00am Article from: The Daily Telegraph WHILE most teachers give out homework during class, a New South Wales casual teacher John Fitzgerald Kennedy dished out marijuana to students instead. During his Year 9 maths class at Sydney's Epping Boys High School earlier this year, he let slip to the 12 students he liked to drink and smoke marijuana on weekends. This opened the door for a 14-year-old…
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