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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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Police continued their success in the campaign against drugs by recovering illicit substances during an investigation on Monday. The Criminal Investigation Branch, along with uniformed police from the North East Local Service Area and a sniffer dog, went to premises in and around Port Pirie regarding the production, possession and sale of illicit drugs. As a result of these searches, police seized a quantity of amphetamines, marijuana and prescription drugs along with suspected stolen property. Detective Darren Bussenschutt estimated the combined total street value to be $1500. A 34-year-old male of Port Pirie has been arrested and charged in connection with the operatio…
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i was watching GWN news today, and turns out the west australian government has just legalised hemp farming! go u tru blu aussie battlers. i can make a go of my career now!
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POLICE found 138 cannabis plants when they searched a property at Bathurst west of Sydney yesterday. Police also found a hydroponic set up and about three kg of leaf, believed to be cannabis. A 46-year-old man arrested and charged with a range of drug offences is due to appear in Bathurst Local Court on April 5. In a separate operation three men in their early 30s were arrested at Bondi in Sydney's eastern suburbs after police allegedly found 13 cannabis plants and hydroponic equipment. Aged 32, 33 and 35, they will appear in Waverley Local Court on March 23 http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/commo...55E1702,00.html
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Ceduna police have discovered a clandestine drug laboratory at Penong. The sophisticated drug manufacturing apparatus included filtering and distilling devices, chemicals and various other materials used for the manufacture of cannabis oil. A 39-year-old boilermaker from Penong was arrested last Monday and charged with a number of offences including taking part in producing a prohibited substance and possessing a prohibited substance for sale or supply. Both are major indictable offences, with a maximum penalty of up to 25 years imprisonment and a fine of up to $500,000, or both. Due to the seriousness of the discovery, four officers from the Adelaide Drug and Organised C…
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Two hundred cannabis plants worth a total of $370,000 were recovered as part of a three-day police operation. Some of the plants, found in bushland south of Ulladulla, were more than two metres high. A 25-year-old Yatte Yattah man was arrested in relation to the drug raids conducted on February 24, 25 and 26 between Bodalla in the south and Wandandian in the north. Another 12 people of interest are under investigation and police said more arrests would follow during the week. The joint venture between Shoalhaven Police and the Far South Coast Police involved 40 police officers and utilised a number of trail bikes, four-wheel drives and a police helicopter from the Police…
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