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This week’s LEAP Blog is about issues that I have been anticipating for the upcoming year in a very positive way both here in Canada and in the United States. 2009 will certainly be an interesting one for our countries. Barak Obama has now taken over the presidency of the United States and the country is about to change for the better. Obama is a Democrat, which is our saving grace. So am I. Although some die-hard Republicans call us bleeding hearts, a least we have our hearts in the right place. Democrats in both Canada and the U.S. have a similar vision and a defiantly North American view of the way their country should be run. In Canada on the other hand, the NDP, …
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Author: Carlito Pablo Date: 19 March 2009 Source: straight.com http://www.straight.com/article-206649/cop...-legalize-drugs
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16. 03. 09. - 09:00 http://austriantimes.at/index.php?id=11819 copyright - Austrian Times Dopey police have lost an entire 100 plant marijuana farm they had under observation while trying to trap its owners. Officers in Grenchen, Switzerland, had been watching the front door of the building being used as a farm waiting for the dealers to return to collect their plants. Meanwhile, someone sneaked into the house from the back and harvested the entire crop. Police spokesman Urs Eggenschwiler said: "There are no traces of a burglary so we have to check now which people have a key."
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By KIRAN CHUG Last updated 13:39 10/03/2009 http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/2248...is-haul-nets-16 © 2009 Fairfax New Zealand Limited BUSTED: Police with the giant cannabis plants recovered from Golden Bay, some of the more than 5700 plants seized in the Nelson region during Operation Kristy A seven-day swoop on Nelson's cannabis growers has uncovered 165 plots across the region - some believed to be large-scale commercial operations. The bust, code-named Operation Kristy, ended yesterday and resulted in police cutting down more than 5700 cannabis plants in the Nelson Bays policing area. They recovered 15 firearms and $10,000 of stolen property, and at l…
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http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories...set-new-record/ in Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009 Sources: Marijuana Policy Project, September 27, 2007 Title: “Marijuana Arrests Set New Record for Fourth Year in a Row” Author: Bruce Mirken National Organization for Reform of Marijuana Laws, September 24, 2007 Title: “Marijuana Arrests for Year 2006—829,625 Tops Record High” Author: Paul Armentano Student Researchers: Ben Herzfeldt and Caitlyn Ioli Faculty Advisor: Pat Jackson, PhD For the fourth year in a row, US marijuana arrests set an all-time record, according to 2006 FBI Uniform Crime Reports. Marijuana arrests in 2006 totaled 829,627, an increase from 786…
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4:00AM Tuesday Mar 03, 2009 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article....jectid=10559593 Copyright 2009, APN Holdings NZ Limited An annual police operation targeting cannabis growers on the West Coast has resulted in the arrest of 13 people and the recovery of 5200 plants, including a number of "potent" varieties. Police estimated a mature plant had a street value of about $1000, but noted that some plantings this year were a particularly potent cultivar heavily laden with flowering tops on female plants - which usually contain the highest levels of THC, making them much more valuable. The haul was down 42 per cent on last year, when about 9000 plants were found, …
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By Richard Edwards, Crime Correspondent Last Updated: 4:24PM GMT 27 Feb 2009 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/486...ning-stove.html © Copyright of Telegraph Media Group Limited 2009 Colin Rowe with the door the Police smashed in at his work shop Photo: ROSS PARRY Officers obtained a search warrant and broke through a door at Colin Rowe's workshop in Huddersfield, Yorks, after an infra-red police helicopter camera picked up unusual heat patterns from the house. They looked high and low for the cannabis plants, even breaking a flowerpot in the process, but found that the heat source was simply a stove used to warm the garage workshop where Mr Rowe restores …
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Author: Chris Peterson Date: 23 Febraury 2009 Source: Bloomberg Press http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=206...r=latin_america
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Date: 21 February 2009 Source: The Press Association Copyright: Copyright © 2009 The Press Association Thttp://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5issDTaBl2lFjRgRSI3iVvHKTLOTg
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Author: AKIKO KOGA Date: 19 February 2009 Source: Kyodo News Copyright: The Japan Times http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20090219f2.html
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Author: Matthew Burrows Date: February 2009 Source: Straight.com Copyright: © 2009 Vancouver Free Press http://www.straight.com/article-201902/gre...-prohibitionist
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Author: DR WASIN BAMRUNGCHEEP Date: 19/02/2009 Source: Bangkok Post Copyright: Copyright 1996-2008 http://www.bangkokpost.com/life/family/119...s-and-treatment
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Author: Haider Rizvi Date: 19 February 19 2009 Source: IPS Copyright: 2009 IPS-Inter Press Service. http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45824
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Author: Eamonn McCann Date: 19 February 2009 Source: Belfast Telegraph Copyright: belfasttelegraph.co.uk http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/...s-14195552.html
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