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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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NEW YORK — Snap, crackle ... pot? Bursting with indignation, legions of legalize-marijuana advocates are urging a boycott of Kellogg Co., including all of its popular munchies, for deciding to cut ties with Olympic hero Michael Phelps after he was photographed with a pot pipe. The leader of one of the biggest groups, the Marijuana Policy Project, called Kellogg's action "hypocritical and disgusting," and said he'd never seen his membership so angry, with more than 2,300 of them signing an online petition. "Kellogg's had no problem signing up Phelps when he had a conviction for drunk driving, an illegal act that could actually have killed someone," said Rob Kampia, the gro…
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Author: AFP (See the Journo won't put his name to this) Date: 11 Feb 2009 Source: www.brisbanetimes.com.au Copyright: AFP or Fairfax COLUMBIA, South Carolina - Police have made eight arrests in connection with the party that led to publication of a photograph of Beijing Olympic hero Michael Phelps, television station WIS reported on Tuesday. Phelps, the American swim star who won a record eight gold medals at Beijing six months ago, was not among those charged in a probe by the Richland County Sheriff's Department, according to the report. Seven arrests were made for drug possession and another for distribution of drugs, with arrests resulting fro…
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Author: British Cannabis Lobby Date: 8 February 2009 Source: PR Canna Zine News http://pr.cannazine.co.uk/20090207885/cann...them-today.html
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