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The UK should resist jailing drug users and treat the issue as a health problem, Richard Branson says as judges are given new sentencing guidelines. The Virgin boss told Sky News he believed drugs should come under the remit of the Department of Health, not the Home Office. Mr Branson, who sits on the Global Commission on Drug Policy, made the remarks as details emerged of the legal advice set to come into force on February 27. Friends socially sharing drugs and those using cannabis for medicinal purposes may escape jail under the revised rules. Drug runners and small-time dealers caught with heroin, cocaine or thousands of pounds worth of cannabis could also avoid prison…
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Michael Bublé believes that marijuana has helped him writes hit tunes. A Class B illegal drug in the UK, the drug can have a hallucinogenic effect. 'Marijuana can be very useful in the studio,' says Michael, 36. 'I never wrote a song without a bit of a smoke. 'It helps me create something good.' But Michael admits model wife Luisana Lopilato, 24, doesn't agree with him - and she made her feelings clear on a recent trip to Holland. 'My wife hates the hash fumes,' he tells The People. 'Each time we passed a coffee shop I took a deep breath while she was disgusted.' Saturday, 28 January 2012 http://www.nowmagazi...out-marijuana/1 © Copyright nowmagazine.co.uk 2012
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The New Zealand Police are calling on farmers to keep an eye out for the tell-tale signs of cannabis plots as the latest growing season gets into full swing. With the warm wet conditions over the summer, police say the 2012 cannabis crop will be a bumper one and they're determined to find as much of it as they can. But not everybody agrees that their efforts are worthwhile. Reporter Benedict Collins has more.
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Geopolitical Weekly Security Weekly January 26, 2012 Text Size -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Editor's Note: In this annual report on Mexico's drug cartels, we assess the most significant developments of 2011 and provide updated profiles of the country's powerful criminal cartels as well as a forecast for 2012. The report is a product of the coverage we maintain through our Mexico Security Memo, quarterly updates and other analyses we produce throughout the year. As we noted in last year's annual cartel report, Mexico in 2010 bore witness to some 15,273 deaths in connection with the drug trade. The death toll for 201…
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Dutch police and local governments in the southern Netherlands will work with the European Space Agency to find illegal cannabis plots hidden in fields of corn and asparagus using satellite data. The space agency will perform a trial in 2012, using multispectral and infrared images taken from Earth’s orbit to identify hemp plants, according to Max Timp, a spokesman for the municipality of Venlo, which is leading the project. While growing hemp for marijuana is illegal in the Netherlands, authorities tolerate raising five cannabis plants for home use. Limburg, the country’s southern-most province, has set up a program called “green gold†to root out illegal ru…
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The city council of Copenhagen voted 39-9 Thursday night to set up a committee to explore how best to legalize and regulate the sale of marijuana in the Danish capital. The move is supported by Mayor Frank Jensen. After the committee makes its recommendations, the issue will go to the Danish parliament, where similar efforts have been blocked in the past, but some Danish politicians are saying this time could be different. The council vote paved the way for the council's Social Affairs Committee to draft regulations making Copenhagen the first city in Europe to legalize marijuana sales. Holland's famous cannabis cafes operate in violation of Dutch law, but are allowed…
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Smugglers are using remote controlled planes to sneak drugs into Europe without fear of being caught. Police found a device carrying 2.2 kilos of cannabis resin after it crashed in the Mediterranean between Morocco and Spain. Officers suspect the customised, petrol-powered plane was controlled by a pilot in a boat following as it attempted the 19-mile trip to Tarifa on the southern coast Inside the structure they found two packets containing the drug, worth around 2000 euros (£1,700). Officers from Spain's Civil Guard force were stunned when they discovered the new system for drug smuggling, two miles north of the Moroccan coastline, last week. A police source said: 'T…
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Yeah, marijuana legalization sounds like such a great idea…until a bucket of soapy water, or even an entire human body, comes crashing down on top of you and turns your peaceful life into a nightmare. Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department’s Robert McMahon is charged with enforcing the law on marijuana use. But he is very concerned about the many hidden ramifications of decriminalizing cannabis, making it legal for anyone to grow and smoke hemp. He’s afraid of what the second largest city and most populous state in the country would look like in 20 years if weed is made legal. "I think that anytime that an intoxicant is made legal there are social costs associ…
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In a speech at a meeting held by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Drug Policy Reform on Thursday, Baroness Manningham-Buller said the "war on drugs" has proven "fruitless" and that drug policy should no longer be a "taboo subject." "Given its effects on us all and the enormous cost of our efforts to limit the problems which drugs cause, I find it extraordinary that it is not at the forefront of national debate. "Instead there is a presumption that the current policy is the best we can do. And there is knee-jerk opposition to any change." Baroness Manningham-Buller also said at the meeting that Britain should follow countries like the Czech Republic and Portugal,…
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Someone out there is finally getting it. In order to combat the increasing illegal sales of cannabis in Switzerland, four of the seven French-speaking Swiss cantons (similar to states in the U.S.) will be allowing individuals to grow four cannabis plants at their home, starting in January 2012. The cannabis is only authorized for personal use and cannot be sold. The cantons involved are Geneva, Neuchatel, Vaud (Lausanne) and Fribourg, according to this article . People can apply for permits to grow more than four plants. We here at The 420 Times fully expect this new law to reduce crime and police expenses in Switzerland, and everywhere else this kind of progressive…
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http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-11-14/higher-iq-linked-to-illegal-drug-use-in-adulthood-study-finds.html "Nov. 15 (Bloomberg) -- A high childhood IQ may be linked to illegal drug use in adolescence and adulthood, according to research published today in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. Researchers at Cardiff University and University College London based their findings on data from about 8,000 people included in the 1970 British Cohort Study, which has tracked 16,571 babies born in April 1970. Across most illegal drugs, men and women at age 16 and 30 who reported using drugs had a significantly higher IQ score at age 10 than those who…
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A prototype fingerprint scanner has been developed that can detect the presence of opiates, cannabis, or cocaine in the sweat on a user's fingertip. The device uses special cartridges to take a fingerprint, which are then processed using both chemical testing and a unique photo scanning system. This takes a high resolution image of the fingerprint and its residue, so that the output from individual sweat pores can be measured. Coming soon to a checkpoint near you “We were concerned if you touched a spliff, or shook hands with someone who had, it would leave a residue on the hands,†Dr Paul Yates, business development manager at University of East Anglia (UEA) sp…
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The crack-down on Skunk cannabis in Amsterdam gives New Zealand a chance to corner the global market. Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis party leader Michael Appleby said ALCP policy would legalise cannabis for recreational and commercial purposes for anyone over 18. "The GST from tourism and other export markets could reach over $1 billion each year," he said. "The Dutch have banned cannabis over 15% THC and have restricted sales of cannabis to foreigners, undermining its appeal to cannabis-tourists." Mr Applebys said outlets like the Daktory in Auckland, where cannabis can be bought from a vending machine, showed such outlets were viable in New Zealand. "People from a…
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The Bay Area is renowned for having some of the best produce in the world, and that reputation again extends to its sun-kissed cannabis. California's annual outdoor marijuana crop has come in, and despite global warming and heated federal threats, the harvest looks quite golden. Growers, dispensary operators, and experts say California's 2011 outdoor is bountiful, cheap, high-quality and more medicinal than in years past. While the federal government has publicly pilloried medical marijuana profiteers and exporters, the DEA generally is not interested in qualified patients cultivating marijuana according to state law. More people are growing more ganja than in year…
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