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TOWNSVILLE will host the country's first random sampling study of drivers to discover what drugs are being used by Australian motorists. The Queensland University of Technology and the Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety Queensland (CARSQ) will conduct their research in the Townsville region from Easter. For two to three months, researchers and local assistants will select random locations throughout the district to conduct drug tests. Deputy Director of CARSQ Dr Jeremy Davey yesterday said the latest technology in saliva testing would be used in the non-invasive tests. "It is not a police program and we will give people $20," Dr Davey said. "Basica…
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A 45-YEAR-OLD man was charged after police found a sophisticated underground hydroponic set-up at two Strath Creek properties, a Bendigo court heard yesterday. Gheorghe Dancints, of Norman Street, St Albans, yesterday pleaded guilty in the Bendigo County Court to four charges relating to the possession and trafficking of cannabis. The court heard Danci was arrested in January, last year, after police raids on properties in Strath Creek and St Albans uncovered about half a kilo of cannabis and two hydroponic set-ups located beneath floorboards in backyard sheds. Prosecutor George Slim said police discovered large underground water tanks, growing tubs, lamps and an "elabo…
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POLICE Commissioner Mal Hyde believes South Australian courts are handing out lenient sentences to some drug dealers. On occasion, judges and magistrates are failing to take into account the harm and negative effects caused by illegal drugs in the community when sentencing dealers, Mr Hyde said yesterday. "From time to time you see penalties, particularly on the supply of cannabis, that you have got to ask yourself whether or not there is a full appreciation of the harm that is being produced by the supply of those drugs," he said. "You have got to ask yourself whether there is a full appreciation of that as is reflected in the penalty." Mr Hyde said courts shoul…
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Australia: Cannabis laws state by state. Decriminalized in Western Australia & South Australia. Tasmania, Victoria, & Queensland Western Australia Decriminalizes Marijuana Possession, Approves Heroin Trials, Rejects Safe Injecting Rooms 11/30/01 The Labor government of Western Australia Premier Geoff Gallop announced a sea change in the state's approach to drugs this week. Delivering its long-awaited response to the state's Community Drug Summit held in August, the government announced it was accepting 44 out of 45 recommendations, including the decriminalization of possession and consumption of small amounts of marijuana and prescription heroin trials. The dru…
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A MAN will appear in court today after police seized hundreds of cannabis plants worth more than two and a half million dollars in Sydney's south-west. Police said raids uncovered more than 1,085 cannabis plants at various stages of maturity, growing in hydroponic equipment inside homes and garages in Canley Vale, Fairfield West, Cabramatta, and Birrong. More than 50 officers from the South East Asian Crime Squad, Drug Squad and Cabramatta and Fairfield Police were involved in the raids that started at 9.30am (AEDT) yesterday. Two men, aged 56 and 39, and a woman, 42, were arrested and taken to Cabramatta and Fairfield police stations for questioning. The 56-year-…
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THREE men were charged with drug offences after police discovered cannabis crops with a potential street value of $16 million in South Australia's mid-north. About 6000 marijuana plants were discovered yesterday growing hydroponically in sheds and buildings on a property at Bower, about 25km north of Eudunda, a police spokesman said. Three men ? a 35 year-old from Brownlow, a 41-year-old from Athol Park and a 31-year-old from Prospect ? had been charged with cultivating cannabis for sale, the spokesman said. He estimated about 640,000 street deals of cannabis had been prevented by the discovery, made by police after a routine assault inquiry about 4pm CDT yesterday.…
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our people have been arrested and cannabis plants with a street value of $16 million seized in a search of a farm in central western NSW. Police said officers discovered 8,000 cannabis plants during a search at a Tullamore property, west of Parkes, on Friday. A 37-year-old Cabramatta man, a 35-year-old Bankstown man and a 46-year-old Bankstown man were arrested and charged with being knowingly concerned with the cultivation of a larger than commercial quantity of a prohibited drug. They will appear in Dubbo Bail Court on Saturday, police said. A 59-year-old Kemps Creek man was also arrested on Friday night near Parkes. He was charged with cultivating a larger th…
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PRISON farm inmates are suspected of growing a drug crop concealed behind the farm in the Gold Coast hinterland. Wildlife rangers on Tuesday found more than 181 marijuana plants hidden in rugged terrain in the Lamington National Park, which backs on to the Numinbah Correctional Centre. The well-tended crop, with an estimated street value of up to $20,000, was 300-500m from the jail's perimeter. Police and prison sources said they suspected that inmates were involved. Water containers and fertiliser found at the scene will be checked for fingerprints, and to establish whether they were taken from the jail. An abandoned marijuana-crop site, complete with a shotgu…
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Police in Wollongong have seized cannabis plants with a street value of more than $200,000 as part of an ongoing drug crackdown on the New South Wales south coast. The operation has been underway for several weeks and has resulted in more than $1.3 million worth of cannabis being seized. The latest operation involved raids on two plantations at Bulli Tops, where 100 plants were discovered. They will be destroyed tomorrow. http://abc.net.au/news/australia/nsw/200402/s1038124.htm
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55-YEAR-old man has been released on bail after police discovered a marijuana crop in a Springvale backyard. Police said 250 plants from 60cm to 180cm were found about 5pm on Monday. They were growing among vegetables and in a shed. The man was charged with trafficking, cultivating, using and possessing marijuana. He was ordered to appear at Dandenong Magistrates' Court next month. http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/st...55E2862,00.html
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A STRATHAM woman has escaped a jail term for possessing cannabis because she used the drug to ease the pain of her chronic medical condition. Rebecca Anne Miller (31) appeared in the District Court after pleading guilty to two counts of possessing cannabis with intent to sell and supply. The court heard how Miller suffers from benign intracranial hypertension, or water on the brain, and smoked cannabis to help her cope with the chronic pain associated with the condition. After searching Miller's house twice in October and November in 2002, police found about 600gms of cannabis as well as a set of scales and some small plastic bags. Defence lawyer Rhonda Parks sai…
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I was watching the Ten Late news last night, (Sun) and saw a story about police stopping cars and trucks and the main Highway out of Victoria and SA near Hay NSW. They had sniffer dogs an all and they were stopping them at random. They had footage of a car been pulled over where they found a tin full of cannabis. I cant find the story anywhere on the net but if anyone can source it, post it. This is Fuckin BULLSHIT.... All there going to get is personal smokers. It really scares the shit out of me because b4 Chirstmas last year, me and a friend took that exact same road to queensland from Adelaide to visit a friend and we took an Oz up with us. If we got pulled over, we…
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New South Wales police are this morning destroying nearly $60 million worth of cannabis plants seized during a drug raid in the state's west two days ago. Police finished pulling up thousands of the plants at a property near Dubbo yesterday. About 200 armed police conducted a dawn raid at the property 80 kilometres west of Dubbo on Thursday. Police say it was one of the biggest cannabis seizures in New South Wales history. Sergeant Kevin Daly from police headquarters says police spent yesterday afternoon pulling up the plants. "In total there were 30,851 plants located on the plantation at Dubbo and those plants had an estimated street value of $59.6 million," h…
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Source: http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0...5E26462,00.html POLICE have made one of the biggest seizures of cannabis plants in NSW, worth more than $20 million, during a pre-dawn raid of a property in the state's west. NSW Police arrested 12 people in the raid of a property 30km north east of Gilgandra, near Dubbo. More than 200 armed specialist police swooped on the property about 6am (AEDT) today, seizing hundreds of mature cannabis plants in a plantation roughly the size of three football fields. Police said the raid had dismantled a significant and well-organised drug syndicate aimed at dominating the drug trade in NSW. The 12 people arrested were …
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N a pre-planned operation, Murray Bridge police and CIB officers raided a cannabis crop worth more than one million dollars, 20 kilometres south-east of Yumali yesterday afternoon. No-one was arrested, but numerous forensic samples were taken from the scene. The crop was located in heritage scrub, a section of land farmers are not allowed to clear. Murray Bridge CIB Detective Senior Constable Darren Niblett said the crop was "reasonably large" for the area, with more than 500 plants. "It was quite difficult to spot, and unless you were doing a grid search of the area in a helicopter, you would have missed it," Detective Senior Constable Niblett said. "It was a similar siz…