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FOXNews.com Friday, December 05, 2008 By TOBY STERLING, Associated Press Writer Amsterdam will fight national efforts to crack down on marijuana cafes _ arguing that the city's establishments are so strictly regulated that it is unnecessary to comply with a government ban on having them near schools. Mayor Job Cohen's promise to lobby the Justice Ministry to give Amsterdam an exception came after city leaders overwhelmingly voted to challenge the issue. They argue the cafes are already so closely watched they don't need new rules to keep children away. Cohen told national broadcaster NOS that "if there are other possibilities" to an outright ban, "then we'd like…
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ENCOD 3 December 2008 - Yesterday the Cannabis Tribunal in The Hague ended with the final conclusion that a ban on cannabis does have more disadvantages than advantages. Representatives of the Christian Democrat Party (CDA) did not succeed in convincing an independent judge of the opposite. On behalf of the organisers Joep Oomen, spokesperson, launched a call to the Members of the Dutch Parliament to request the Dutch government to abolish this ban as soon as possible. An amount of 200.000 euro had been made available to the political party that would be able to convince an independent court of the positive effects of a ban on cannabis. The organisers had had troubl…
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AlterNet DrugReporter A New Approach to Drugs Would Save New York Hundreds of Millions of Dollars By Gabriel Sayegh, AlterNet. Posted December 2, 2008. Let’s stop spending over $500 million every year on ineffective and wasteful policies like the Rockefeller Drug Laws. While New York reels from the most severe budget crisis since the Great Depression, Gov. David A. Paterson and the legislature are scrambling to close ever-expanding deficits. "We're not going to get out of this quagmire we've built until we reduce our spending," said the governor during a Nov. 12 press conference. Precisely. So let's stop spending over $500 million every year on ineffective and w…
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reason.com Repeal Day drives home the folly of the Drug War Radley Balko | December 3, 2008 This Friday, Dec. 5, is the 75th anniversary of Repeal Day, the day America repealed its disastrous alcohol prohibition. Prohibition was the pièce de résistance of the early 20th-century progressives' grand social engineering agenda. It failed, of course. Miserably. It did reduce overall consumption of alcohol in the U.S., but that reduction came largely among those who consumed alcohol responsibly. The actual harm caused by alcohol abuse was made worse, thanks to the economics of prohibitions. Black market alcohol was of dubious origin, unregulated by market forces. The …
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Wednesday, 03 December 2008 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4781287a4560.html © Fairfax New Zealand Limited 2007 Police who chased an alleged burglar through a Marlborough private property had an unplanned stop along the way when they found a man tending to his cannabis crop in his back yard. Officers and a police dog were on the trail of a man who allegedly forced open the door to a Meehan St house and stole a small hydroponic cannabis plant on Monday afternoon. As the police dog tracked the alleged offender through Elizabeth St, they came across a resident doing a spot of gardening in his cannabis patch, constable Michelle Stagg said. A short time later police …
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ASA December 1st, 2008 U.S. Supreme Court: State Medical Marijuana Laws Not Preempted by Federal Law Medical marijuana case appealed by the City of Garden Grove was denied review today Washington, DC -- The U.S. Supreme Court refused to review a landmark decision today in which California state courts found that its medical marijuana law was not preempted by federal law. The state appellate court decision from November 28, 2007, ruled that "it is not the job of the local police to enforce the federal drug laws." The case, involving Felix Kha, a medical marijuana patient from Garden Grove, was the result of a wrongful seizure of medical marijuana by local police in…
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Monday, December 01, 2008 01:02 IST http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1210629 © 2005-2008 Diligent Media Corporation Ltd JODHPUR: In Rajasthan, use of opium-based narcotics to welcome guests on special occasions like marriage and child birth is part of local tradition. However, with the campaigning for assembly polls in full swing, use of narcotics has become indispensable for politicians and their campaign managers to lure voters. While the choice of drugs offered by political parties may vary from region to region, the aim is one — to solicit their support. Campaigners of a national party candidate in Sekhawat region were seen handing out marijuana-fi…
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Slavery on Britain's cannabis farms Samira Shackle 26 November 2008 New Statesman http://www.newstatesman.com/law-and-reform...-farms-children Cannabis farms are being run in suburban houses by organised crime gangs, and staffed by illegally smuggled children, generally aged between 14 and 16 Children - particularly from Vietnam and China - are being trafficked to the UK to work as slaves in illegal cannabis farms. These 'farms', run by organised crime gangs, are often situated in suburban houses. The children, generally aged between 14 and 16, are smuggled into the country before being locked in the houses to water cannabis plants. They have been found sleeping in…
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UK scientists decry moves to toughen cannabis laws 25 November 2008 International Herald Tribune http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/11/25/...in-Cannabis.php LONDON: A group of senior British scientists has condemned the government's push to toughen the penalties for possessing marijuana, saying in a letter published Tuesday the move ignores scientific evidence. Britain's House of Lords voted to reclassifying the drug Tuesday, and the House of Commons, Britain's powerful lower house, already approved the measure earlier this month and the Lords' vote is seen as a formality. The Home Office said it expected the change to come into effect in January. In Britain, dru…
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Bangor, Maine, USA Temple of Advanced Enlightenment seeks religious exemption from DEA Judy Harrison BDN Staff Every Tuesday and Sunday afternoon the living room in the Rev. Kevin Loring’s apartment becomes a tiny house of worship. The head of the 3-year-old Temple of Advanced Enlightenment earlier this week stood next to a round table as five others sat on sofas and chairs pushed back against the walls. They formed an uneven circle in the second-floor walk-up. “We use music as a form of prayer,” Loring, 28, told them as the service began. “It helps us to see a little bit more clearly.” He played Ben Harper’s “I’ll Rise” as the worshippers bowed their heads.…
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Europe: At Cannabis Summit, Dutch Mayors Try to Address "Backdoor Problem" of Coffee Shop Supply Drug War Chronicle StoptheDrugWar.org Issue #562, 11/28/08 http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/562/du...ackdoor_problem Under existing Dutch policy, licensed marijuana coffee shops can sell their wares to consumers, but have no legal means of obtaining those wares. That snag in the cannabis supply system is known as the "backdoor problem:" Marijuana can legally exit the coffee houses via the front door, but must enter illegally through the backdoor. The backdoor problem has existed for years, but now things seem to be coming to a head. Dutch mayors meeting at a weekend "Ca…
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Scanner detects drugs use amongst clubbers The News http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/Scanner-d...ngst.4744182.jp 29 November 2008 An electronic hand-scanning device is helping to keep drugs out of nightclubs. Police have developed a hi-tech swab which can detect tiny traces of controlled drugs like cocaine, cannabis, heroin and ecstasy. The Ion Track machine is so sensitive it can detect drugs on anyone who has handled a contaminated banknote or shaken hands with a dealer. Police in West Sussex used the device at Thursdays nightclub in Chichester. Every clubber had their hand scanned on admission to see if they had handled illegal drugs. The managers of Thursdays n…
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Here is a little add I found which sort of sums up the 'war on drugs'. http://www.blackmustache.com/work/incarcer...exCanada01.html cheers
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By Graham Tibbetts Last Updated: 7:21AM GMT 27 Nov 2008 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics...is-factory.html © Copyright of Telegraph Media Group Limited 2008 Police raided a 79-year-old widow's Highland cottage after mistaking her tomato plants for a cannabis factory, it was reported. The officers burst in with sniffer dogs and took samples of the plants for analysis. Lulu Matheson, who has lived in the property in Shieldaig for 53 years, said she was shaken up by the encounter. Mrs Matheson told the Daily Mail: "I got a terrible fright and I couldn't understand what they were doing here because I knew we had nothing more than tomatoes in the window. I…
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28/11/08 http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianp...MSItURlmnGXpuvw Copyright © 2008 The Canadian Press. All rights reserved OTTAWA — Researchers say they have located the world's oldest stash of marijuana, in a tomb in a remote part of China. The cache of cannabis is about 2,700 years old and was clearly "cultivated for psychoactive purposes," rather than as fibre for clothing or as food, says a research paper in the Journal of Experimental Botany. The 789 grams of dried cannabis was buried alongside a light-haired, blue-eyed Caucasian man, likely a shaman of the Gushi culture, near Turpan in northwestern China. The extremely dry conditions and alkaline soi…
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