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FROM today, possession of small amounts of cannabis might not be considered a crime in WA. At a police officer's discretion, a person can have up to 30g and still avoid a criminal record, instead paying a fine up to $150 and going to compulsory drug education classes. And a household will be allowed to grow two cannabis plants without the occupants facing criminal charges. They will be fined $200 and have to go to drug education classes. The changes were recommended at the community drug summit in 2001. The Government's aim is that more people will be referred for medical help for cannabis use and that people in the compulsory education and treatment programs will u…
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By GRAHAME ARMSTRONG March 21, 2004 NEW cannabis laws which come into effect tomorrow will increase the risk of physical and mental health problems for young people, Opposition Leader Colin Barnett claims. Mr Barnett said the changes ? making the possession of up to 30g of the drug and the cultivation of up to two plants punishable by fine or an education session ? sent the worst possible message to the community that some cannabis was OK. "There is clear scientific evidence that cannabis use is linked with depression and anxiety in youths and an increased risk of psychotic disorders such as paranoia, manic depression and schizophrenia," he said. "Physical healt…
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EXTRAORDINARY powers are set to be given to Queensland police and the Crime and Misconduct Commission as they seek to overcome the threat of terrorism. The Beattie Government has been asked to allow the crime fighters to raid premises without a warrant and conduct surveillance on premises instead of a suspect if they believe a terrorist act is being planned. The Labor-dominated Parliamentary Crime and Misconduct Committee, in its three-yearly review of the CMC, said terrorists should be given less freedom than other criminals. "Terrorist acts are removed from the level of ordinary criminal offences by the nature of their immediate and devastating effects in terms of…
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Police in the Great Southern region of Western Australia have seized hundreds more cannabis plants in the Denmark area under Operation High Tide. Ten people have been arrested in recent weeks. Police have seized about 700 cannabis plants in the past fortnight in raids on properties in the Denmark and Walpole areas on the State's south coast. Operation High Tide is targeting drug suppliers in the region and is being driven largely by strong public support. Many of the plants have been discovered in dense forest and some on crown land. Detective Senior Constable Paul McKenna says a haul of 200 crops last week included some huge plants. "One of the plots they …
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In news today a local Brisbane man logged on to a Marijuana Support forum and entered its online chat room. :: Why don't you join me!!! Chat Room!
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CANNABIS plantations with a street value of about $500,000 have been seized in the Walpole and Denmark areas recently. Albany Detectives and regional police seized about 500 mature plants. Some of the plants reached five metres high. Police and detectives seized more crops as operations in the area continued yesterday. The crops have been dispersed separately throughout one large area. In five weeks the operation has resulted in seven men and one woman, aged between 20 and 58 years old, being arrested and charged with various drug offences. They were from the Denmark, Walpole and Albany areas. Some of the charges include cultivation of cannabis, possession of cannabis wi…
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Stan Gorton Thursday, 11 March 2004 POLICE located 135 marijuana plants on Monday after using a helicopter to search scrub around Coffin Bay and Mount Hope. The search conducted by 20 police officers, including two STAR force observers, focussed on the Coffin Bay National Park, the Kellidie Conservation Park as well as scrub around Mount Hope. Once the observers in the helicopter identified plants in the scrub, officers on the ground were directed in to uproot the crops. The plants ranged in size from 1.5 metres to more than two metres and will be destroyed by police. Senior Sergeant Hank Swalue said police over the last 10 years had conducted searches of the parks regu…
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11mar04 FIVE people were arrested and 200 marijuana plants recovered after a special phone-in yesterday to crack down on hydroponic drug crops in Adelaide. A police spokesman said they took about 800 calls which resulted in the discovery of 30 crops. Five people were arrested and charged with drug offences while another 34 were reported. Police said they still had more leads to follow up http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/comm...55E1702,00.html
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Eighty-five per cent of participants at NSW's first cannabis treatment clinic have not used marijuana since the centre opened three months ago, the state government said. NSW Premier Bob Carr told state parliament an additional clinic was due to open on the central coast by September, with plans for further clinics in southern Sydney and the state's central west. NSW's first cannabis treatment clinic was set up in Parramatta in December last year under the government's $230 million four year Plan of Action on drugs. "The idea that cannabis is a benign drug is being steadily whittled away by an accumulation of medical evidence," Mr Carr told parliament. At the Parr…
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Police in the Great Southern region on Western Australia's south coast have arrested eight people after seizing 500 cannabis plants during raids on rural properties. The plants had grown to between one and five metres tall and their street value is estimated at $500,000. Police were forced to trek through dense scrub to reach many of the plants growing in isolated areas and in some cases on crown land. Great Southern Superintendent John Watson is urging anyone with information about illegal cannabis plantations to contact police. "The whole operation's been going for the last six months and Operation High Tide is targeting the drug traffickers, suppliers and wheel…
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March 8, 2004 HOME intruders have led police directly to a hydroponic cannabis operation in Adelaide's northern suburbs. Witnesses saw men jumping over a fence at a Springwood Close, Northgate, property about 9.40 on Saturday night. When Holden Hill police arrived, they discovered two rooms in the rental home contained hydroponic equipment for growing cannabis. Up to 12 plants had been cut at the stems and taken by the intruders. Police still were searching for the occupants of the house. It is understood witnesses who contacted police believed at least one intruder was carrying bolt cutters. Police dismantled the drug-growing operation and seized rem…
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March 6, 2004 Despite the drought, there's one crop that's been thriving, with dope growers once more establishing major plantations in rural NSW. Daniel Lewis reports. 'Another day in the Central West, another drug bust," quipped one of the cops outside the one-man police station in Trundle, north-west of Parkes, as dawn broke earlier this week. And he was only half joking. Dope growing is again big in the great outdoors of NSW. In the 1980s it had looked like the end of commercial-scale marijuana plantations out on the western slopes and plains as the industry was shaken by major busts. Police found 18,000 mature plants and 77,000 seedlings on a station near Wan…
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By Daniel Lewis, Regional Reporter March 6, 200 If Keith Bolton has his way, hemp - the great symbol of the hippy North Coast - will be coming to a sewage treatment plant near you very soon. And to your wardrobe, your pantry, your car and your medicine cabinet. Interestingly, the strongest opponents of the Southern Cross University academic's dream are the drug dealers in nearby Nimbin. Man has cultivated hemp for fibre, food and medicine for at least 6000 years and Dr Bolton says that, after a 70-year "blip in history" caused by prohibition, it is time to embrace hemp again to help save the planet. Dr Bolton is director of the University's Centre for Ecotechnol…
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March 6, 2004 POLICE have charged 45 people with 179 drug and property offences following a series of raids in southern Queensland. Police from Toowoomba, Ipswich and Dalby executed 50 search warrants on properties throughout Toowoomba, including the suburbs of Milmerran, Pittsworth, Westbrook and Gatton. The raids were part of Operation Oompala (correct) and involved the seizure of a large quantity of cannabis and amphetamines as well as stolen property over a four-day period. Police declined to put a monetary value on the drugs or indicate their weight, saying only that the haul was "large". As a result of the operation, 129 drug charges were laid, including n…
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By Rachelle Chapman Saturday, 6 March 2004 A LARGE-SCALE local cannabis operation was brought to an abrupt halt Thursday night after Bathurst police seized plants with an estimated street value of $300,000 at Kelso. Chifley LAC Inspector Chris Davey said a search warrant for a Kelso residential property was issued on Thursday evening after police received tip-offs from members of the community. Bathurst Police seized 138 mature cannabis plants (10 which had grown three metres high), a hydroponic set-up, and three kilograms of leaf believed to be cannabis. Insp. Davey said the majority of the plants were grown outside. He said police also found six cannabis plant…
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