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A Darwin man has been charged with possessing $10,000 worth of cannabis after police raided his alleged "retail drug shop" in Arnhem Land. Police allege the 29-year-old was operating from a "retail shop" from one of the rooms in the house at Numbulwar, complete with a cash register. And police say cannabis, cigarettes, clothing, toys and lollies were all being sold from the house. Police allegedly found 380 grams of cannabis inside, with a potential street value of $10,000. Information from the public tipped the police off to the alleged operation. The man was taken to Alyungula police station and interviewed while Palmerston police executed a search warrant at th…
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By AAP Date: 21/05/04 Source: The Australian The Australian
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12,000 LET OFF AS LAW GOES TO POT THOUSANDS of pot smokers are being let off without criminal charges every year because the law is too soft, The Daily Telegraph can reveal. NSW Police have been instructed to dole out caution notices to offenders rather than charging them - and now 12,266 people have escaped punishment. In addition, its traffic services department charges more than 1000 motorists with driving while under the influence of illegal drugs every year. Last night the Government was accused of legalising cannabis through the back door. Shadow Attorney-General Andrew Tink said: "This is all about decriminalising cannabis by stealth. Too many peopl…
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Greens back pedal on drugs policy The Australian Greens have backpedalled on their policy to decriminalise all types of drugs. Greens policy documents on the party's website state that illegal drugs should be decriminalised and regulated to improve health and well-being. When questioned about the policy on the Nine Network's Sunday program, Greens senator Bob Brown said despite criminalisation of drugs having failed tough controls were needed on those who peddled drugs. "As far as I'm concerned where criminals are involved in peddling drugs they should go to jail," Senator Brown said. Senator Brown, a qualified GP, also said he did not believe drugs should be pr…
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University life and dope smoking are not synonymous, according to research done by fourth-year health and science students at the University of WA. Luke van Zeller, a health promotion student at UWA, said students had often been labelled "dope smokers" because of the relaxed atmosphere at university and the drug-related history of the '70s protest movement. But he said they had disproved the theory, showing only 2.1% of students regularly smoked cannabis and 56.8% had never taken any drugs. Luke said: "These are very encouraging results. "We intend to use these results to encourage students not to start taking drugs because they feel a need to fit in." In 2001, …
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A Darwin mayoral candidate has called for drugs to be legalised to turn the city into "Australia's Amsterdam". Stuart Highway, from the controversial lobby group Network Against Prohibition, said drug tourism would attract thousands of tourists from around the world. Mr Highway is one of seven candidates vying for the top job in the Darwin City Council elections on May 29. "If elected I will use my position as lord mayor to accelerate the Network Against Prohibition campaign for the re-legalisation of all drugs," Mr Highway said. "Once this process is complete, it is hoped that Darwin will become Australia's Amsterdam. "Drug tourism will attract thousands of tou…
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A man has been jailed for nine months for growing a large crop of marijuana so he could produce a batch of hash brownies to share with friends. Paul Michael King, 37, of Mooloolabah on the Sunshine Coast, pleaded guilty today to one count each of production and possession of drugs in January last year. Police raided King's property at Narangba, north of Brisbane, and discovered 27kg of cannabis. King's barrister Jim Veivers told the Supreme Court in Brisbane his client had planned to dice, boil, strain and puree the drugs, mix them with butter and bake what would have been a huge batch of cookies. Mr Veivers said King had intended to distribute them to his large g…
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New South Wales Liberal leader John Brodgen says he does not understand why cannabis for use in a trial to help pain and suffering among terminally ill people would have to be imported from overseas. The Opposition leader has suggested the drug could be grown locally. Premier Bob Carr said that plans for the trial had stalled because of delays with pharmaceutical companies in the UK developing an inhaler, his preferred method of supplying the drug. He has raised the possibility of importing the drug from Canada, where it is already used for medicinal purposes, rather than growing it here. He has written to Prime Minister John Howard, seeking his support. But Mr …
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The NSW government has sought federal backing to trial cannabis as a medicinal treatment for people suffering acute pain that cannot be treated with more conventional therapies. NSW Premier Bob Carr has written to Prime Minister John Howard seeking his help in setting up the trial involving HIV, cancer and multiple sclerosis patients. Mr Carr said the Government had no intention of decriminalising cannabis, and other alternatives of accessing cannabis would have to be explored. "NSW is opposed to any scheme which involves growing cannabis in backyards or requiring sick people to buy it on the black market," Mr Carr said. "That means we need to look at the alternat…
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Australian police could catch criminals by matching traces of pollen on their clothes or body with a crime scene, according to a forensic pollen expert, but only if they take the right samples. The problem was that most police didn't know about forensic applications of palynology, the study of pollen or spores, said Dr Lynne Milne from the University of Western Australia. Milne presented her research at last month's conference of the Australian and New Zealand Forensic Science Society in Wellington, New Zealand. "Pollen are single cells. They are so small people pick them up or leave them at a crime scene. We can tell from soil samples on vehicle tyres or under whe…
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It looked like an ordinary suburban home, but inside it had been turned into an enormous greenhouse growing marijuana plants more than a metre tall. Police discovered 850 plants during a raid on the single-storey Canterbury residence yesterday. The crop, with a street value of approximately $1.7 million, was hydroponically grown in four rooms and the roof cavity of the property in Banna St. "The house was set up for the sole purpose of cultivating these plants," Ashfield Detective Acting Inspector Brad Monk said. "There were few signs that people were actually staying at the premises." A team of 16 officers arrived with a search warrant at 9.20am. They were acting…
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Trials of commercial hemp production would continue in NSW despite the limited success of tests underway since 1995, State MP Steve Whan said. But, the NSW government warned anyone interested in growing the crop it contained only low levels of THC, the active ingredient in marijuana. Mr Whan said that since 1995 when trials were first authorised, there had been 60 separate trials delivering important data on hemp growing and the potential of manufacturing its fibre. He said the government warned that earlier trials had been difficult, producing low yields. The first planting was carried out at Armidale but was never harvested because it performed below expectation…
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MORE than 100 people, including members of a motorcycle gang, have been charged with drug offences following a widespread operation, Queensland police said today. Two men, aged 45 and 57, were charged with trafficking and producing amphetamines over a five-year period. The arrests were made during the Queensland Police and Australian Crime Commission's (ACC) Operation Alpha Mayflower. Police said a number of bikies from Rockhampton in central Queensland were charged with drug trafficking offences, while their associates on the Sunshine Coast were charged with distributing ecstasy and cannabis. "Working in cooperation with the ACC, we have charged more than 100 peo…
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Media Alert 7th May 2004 Darwin City Council election candidates declare war on Drug Prohibition Three members of the Darwin based Network Against Prohibition have been nominated to stand for positions in the Darwin City Council election to be held on the 29th of May. Stuart Highway, long term human rights activist, has been nominated for the position of Lord Mayor. Robert Inder-Smith, journalist and civil liberties campaigner will stand in the Chan Ward and Gary Meyerhoff, youth worker, injecting drug user and co-founder of the Network Against Prohibition will contest the Lyons Ward. All three NAP activists face between 15 and 21 months jail for their role in…
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POLICE have charged 48 people with 128 drug and property offences after a series of raids on the Darling Downs in south-east Queensland. In an operation code-named Haricot, State Flying Squad detectives executed 40 search warrants in Toowoomba, Helidon, Oakey, Goombungee, Kingsthorpe, Hirstvale and Millmerran. There were 79 drug and 43 property-related offences. Six other charges were also laid, including possessing an insecure firearm, assaulting police and obstructing police. A cannabis plantation was found on a property outside Millmerran and a 19-year-old woman and a 20-yer-old man were also charged with drug offences after a quantity of cannabis, ecstasy and ca…
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