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Drug Squad must concentrate on big boys 27 September 2008 Cyprus Mail http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?i...17&cat_id=1 THIS MUST be the most successful year ever in the police’s drive to combat drug trafficking. Unprecedented quantities of drugs have been seized and dozens of suspects are currently awaiting trial on a variety of drug-related charges. A week rarely goes by without a major drugs bust being made and the Drug Squad is earning a glowing reputation for it effectiveness. This had not always been the case. Until a few years ago, most drug-busts involved young users found in possession of a few grams of cannabis. The police would make a big song a…
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Submitted by SHNS on Fri, 09/26/2008 - 11:57. By HELEN ANNE TRAVIS, St. Petersburg Times SPRING HILL, Fla. -- John Consoli wants to get rid of drugs in the workplace, one telephone handset at a time. Consoli, 67, is the president of On Site, a Spring Hill, Fla. company marketing DrugWipe, a handheld narcotic detector. Just swipe the DrugWipe against a keyboard or any other surface, Consoli said, and the toothbrush-size detector can tell whether anyone who has touched the surface in the past 72 hours had drugs in his or her system. "It is 100 percent accurate," Consoli said. "It is the only product that I know of that is defensible in court." The technology com…
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Green Party plan for marijuana reform unworkable: Libertarian Party 26 September 2008 Western Standard http://westernstandard.blogs.com/shotgun/2...-party-pla.html Libertarian Party candidate Krista Zoobkoff today launched her campaign in the federal riding of Wild Rose with a press conference with party leader Dennis Young. Zoobkoff and Young released the party’s strategy for marijuana policy reform at a Canmore hemp store owned by 29-year-old entrepreneur Zoobkoff, who also owns businesses in Banff and Airdrie. The party’s three-part strategy for reforming Canada’s approach to marijuana policy includes: Legalize the cultivation, sale and use of marijuana by adul…
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Government want to grow own dope Friday, September 26, 2008 Metro.co.uk http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?...mp;in_page_id=2 It may be classified as a class B drug in Britain, but the Sri-Lankan government is thinking about growing their own marijuana. Cannabis has been illegal in Sri-Lanka since the 1890's but an alternative medicine group want exemption to grow it. The weed is used in many traditional Ayurvedic medical preparations in the country and The Ministry of Indigenous Medicine has broached a plan to grow 4,000kg a year of the plant. The practice is of Ayurveda uses traditional herbs and to heal and the Ayurveda doctors-who out number western…
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THE HAGUE, 24/09/08 - A 27 year old Amsterdammer has been fined for smoking a joint. Cannabis was not the problem; he broke the tobacco law. The man is the owner of a 'coffee shop,' as the cannabis bars tolerated in the Netherlands are called. He lit a joint in his coffee shop. He was fined by a police officer because there was tobacco in the joint. It has been forbidden to smoke in hotels, bars en restaurants (horeca) in the Netherlands since 1 July. The ban also applies to coffee shops. However, if a joint consisting entirely of cannabis or hash is smoked, this does not come under the tobacco ban. A police spokesman confirmed yesterday that the man was fined. The …
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Marijuana Ingredients Show Promise In Battling Superbugs ScienceDaily (Sep. 8, 2008) Substances in marijuana show promise for fighting deadly drug-resistant bacterial infections, including so-called "superbugs," without causing the drug's mood-altering effects, scientists in Italy and the United Kingdom are reporting. Besides serving as infection-fighting drugs, the substances also could provide a more environmentally-friendly alternative to synthetic antibacterial substances now widely used in personal care items, including soaps and cosmetics, they say. In the new study, Giovanni Appendino and colleagues point out that scientists have known for years that marijuan…
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September 23, 2008 KTLA News Copyright © 2008 Tribune Interactive SEAL BEACH, California -- A local man is suing the Seal Beach Police Department after he says they confiscated up to 50 of his marijuana plants and forced him to become an informant, court records show. Bruce Benedict, 43, filed the $1 million lawsuit in Orange County Superior Court last month. Benedict states in his lawsuit that he is a patient and caregiver of medical marijuana, which allows him to grow and distribute pot to to patients with prescriptions under California law. Benedict says he called police in February because of illegal construction in his apartment building and officers sm…
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21/9/08 the press assocition Copyright © 2008 The Press Association. All rights reserved George Michael has been arrested in public toilets, suspected of possessing drugs. Reports say the multi-millionaire singer was arrested after a tip-off from a suspicious toilet attendant after he was seen loitering in an underground toilet block in London's Hampstead Heath on Friday. When police officers arrived Michael was still in the toilet block. Police reportedly found him in possession of cannabis and crack cocaine. In a candid interview for BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs last year, Michael talked openly about his drug use. He said: "I'm a happy man and I can affor…
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Swedish police seize thousands of baffling cannabis plants Published: 17 Sep 08 09:00 CET The Local Sweden Online: http://www.thelocal.se/14382/20080917/ Police in Skåne in southern Sweden confiscated a field full of cannabis on Tuesday, but have yet to determine whether the plants were actually meant to be dried and smoked. “Around 15,000 cannabis plants have been confiscated. Some have been sent for analysis to determine if they are narcotics or not,” said Calle Persson of the Skåne police to the TT news agency. According to the Skånska Dagbladet newspaper, the police were so overwhelmed with the work of harvesting the plants that they were forced to call a landsc…
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Bothwell cannabis producer has sentence admonished Sep 18 2008 Hamilton Advetiser http://www.hamiltonadvertiser.co.uk/news/l...51525-21842850/ A MAN who admitted producing cannabis at a house in Bothwell was last week admonished. Xing Cai Liu had pleaded guilty to producing the drug at a house in Lady Jane Gate on February 21 this year. However, his not guilty plea to a charge of being concerned in the supply of the drug at the address was accepted by the Crown. The 33-year-old’s not guilty plea to a charge of failing to appear for sheriff court proceedings, while on bail on another matter, was also accepted by the fiscal depute. At Hamilton Sheriff Court la…
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Court acquits sick man with homegrown cannabis Wed Sep 17, 2008 AMSTERDAM (Reuters) http://in.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughN...LG1398720080916 The Dutch high court on Tuesday acquitted a man charged with illegally growing marijuana who said the drug helped ease pain from his multiple sclerosis. Growing marijuana is illegal in the Netherlands but sales of it and other cannabis-related soft drugs in coffee shops have been tolerated for decades, making them a major tourist attraction. Pharmacies are allowed to sell limited quantities of cannabis only if the buyer can provide a doctor's prescription. The man suffered some negative side-effects after taking pharmacy…
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Saturday 20th September 2008 ealing times © Copyright 2001-2008 Newsquest Media Group A NORTHOLT man who was caught growing cannabis in his rented flat has been jailed for six month. Charles O’Leary flooded the shop below his flat when his water system malfunctioned while cultivating dozens of cannabis plants. When council workers came out to investigate the problem, at the flat in Haydock Green, Northolt, they found a cannabis factory stocked full of plants and watering equipment. Cops raided the flat after sealed it off and forensic teams moved in, only to be interrupted by O’Leary himself when he returned the next day. The 23-year-old father-of-one admi…
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CHRISTINE CUNNINGHAM 19 September 2008 edp24.com Copyright © 2008 Archant Regional A man had to help rescue his wife and two young children from a burning house after equipment he set up to secretly grow cannabis caught fire, a court heard today. Driving instructor James Cutting, 39, had been growing 24 plants in the loft of the family home in Sunderland Close in Norwich to feed his own habit. He even got a friend to tamper with the electricity meter to power the growing equipment, Norwich Crown Court heard. But his scheme all went wrong when a fire started at his home when the equipment caught fire. Cutting raised the alarm after hearing a crackling noise and got …
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Saturday, 20 September 2008 the southland times An Invercargill woman who tried to smuggle cannabis into the Invercargill Prison by stuffing it in her bra will be sentenced in November after she appeared in the Invercargill District Court yesterday. Tania Francis Irene Clark, 20, appeared on the cannabis charges, as well as a charge of driving while forbidden. Police prosecutor Senior Sergeant Steven Armitage said a phone call between a prisoner and someone called "Stacey" was intercepted on June 19. During that phone call, arrangements were made for someone called "Tanz" to take cannabis into the prison. The next day Clark was detained by prison authorities a…
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Sarah Harvey Sat, 20 Sep 2008 otago daily times © Allied Press Limited 2007 A 48-year-old Dunedin man was arrested yesterday and charged with cultivating almost 60 cannabis plants at a house in Calton Hill. Sergeant Chris McLellan, of the Dunedin police tactical section, said a search warrant was executed under the Misuse of Drugs Act at a house in Panmure Ave at 10am yesterday. Police found 18 plants, each up to 50cm in height, plus 40 seedlings and germinated plants growing in the basement, sleepout and garden of the house, he said. The man was charged with cultivating cannabis, a class C drug. He was refused bail when he appeared in the Dunedin District C…
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