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VIENNA (AFP) - Austria’s parliament has adopted a new bill allowing the cultivation of cannabis for medical and scientific purposes, under the Health Ministry’s control.The bill, approved by parliament during a late-night session Wednesday, will give the health and food safety agency AGES the exclusive right in Austria to grow the plant, which is otherwise categorised as a drug. Michael Bach, president of the Austrian pain studies association OeSG, welcomed the new legislation, saying: “Any initiative that makes it possible to develop and provide new drugs for pain therapy is welcome.” “Substances drawn from cannabis have been used for medical purposes more an…
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Appeal court quashes hydroponic cannabis convictions: No proof that equipment was used to cultivate drug Relief for firms operating in legal grey area Duncan Campbell Monday July 14, 2008 The Guardian UK <http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/jul/14/drugsandalcohol.law> A court of appeal decision has shone a light on the homegrown cannabis industry. The quashing of the convictions of three men involved in hydroponics comes at a time when cultivation of cannabis in the UK is at record levels. In January, three men who worked for a hydroponics company in Derby were convicted at Derby crown court of conspiracy to aid and abet the production of cannabis. Dav…
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Dad posted cannabis to cheer up son By Jodie Beecroft Date: 10 July 2008 Bridlington Free Post at <http://www.bridlingtonfreepress.co.uk/news/Dad-posted-cannabis-to-cheer.4268442.jp> A FATHER who sent his son a parcel containing cannabis in the post was caught out by Royal Mail workers who could smell the drug. Post Office workers at Blackheath in London became suspicious of a package which had been sent from Bridlngton to a hotel in the capital. Gavin Miller, 46, had been asked to send an iPod to his son Grant, who was staying in the hotel, but also incADVERTISEMENTluded 10.6g of cannabis Miller, of Maple Close, Bridlington, was charged with attempting to su…
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Rastas can use cannabis, Italian court rules The Independent Author: Peter Popham in Rome Saturday, 12 July 2008 <http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/rastas-can-use-cannabis-italian-court-rules-865829.html> Rastafarians have always regarded Ethiopia as the promised land, but Italy could rank a close second after its Supreme Court ruled that smoking or possessing cannabis is not a criminal offence but a religious act when the person doing it is a Rastafarian. Last year, the same court declared that cultivating even a single cannabis plant was a punishable offence. But now Italy's Court of Cassation has said Rastafarians use marijuana "not only as …
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Author: Sebastian Saville Date: 09/07/08 Source: The Guardian Copyright: © Guardian News and Media Limited 2008
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Check out my most recent Blog... Ali xx LEAP Blog: June 26, 2008 A Leader in the Movement Canada remains at the forefront of Drug Reform with INSIGHT - Canada’s first Safe Injection/Intravenous Drug Facility. Some cutting edge news came down a few weeks ago that I thought was just too important to miss and which none of us at LEAP Blogged about in detail… Canada’s and the World’s first Safe Injection Site - INSITE - is being threatened once again with Government initiated closure and we as a Country - have stood up in protest! Letters to Editors of local and National newspapers, demonstrations, meetings, conferences and the like are being attend…
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Hi Everybody... Please pass this on to whom ever you think should know.... ;-D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIOi_6o9gjY%20 Thanx tons in advance! Love and stuff, Alison xx
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UN "Beyond 2008" NGO Forum
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The UN is hosting a historical meeting of NGOs to provide input to the next CND review in March 2009: http://www.unis.unvienna.org/unis/en/event...rum_070708.html "Global NGO Forum on the 1998-2008 Review of the United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on illicit drugs. The forum to be held in the Vienna International Centre (Austria) is organized by the Vienna NGO Committee on Narcotic Drugs, in partnership with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). The forum will allow civil society to have a say on drug policy through the adoption of a global NGO Declaration along with three topic specific resolutions that will be tabled at the high …
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Stolen from http://cannabisnews.com/news/24/thread24054.shtml USA -- The United States has some of the world's most punitive drug policies and has led the cheering section for tough "war on drugs" policies worldwide, but a new international study suggests that those policies have been a crashing failure. A World Health Organization survey of 17 countries, conducted by some of the world's leading substance abuse researchers, found that we have the highest rates of marijuana and cocaine use. The numbers are startling. In the United States, 42.4 percent admitted having used marijuana. The only other nation that came close was New Zealand, another bastion of get-tough p…
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Author: Reporting by Ho Binh Minh; Editing by Jerry Norton Date: 7/7/2008 Source: Reuters Copyright: © Thomson Reuters 2008 All rights reserved HANOI (Reuters) - Police have detained two custodians who were about to harvest their first crop of cannabis, a source of drugs like hashish and marijuana, from a cemetery in Vietnam's capital, a state-run newspaper reported on Monday. Police took in Nguyen Manh Hung, 44, who heads the caretaker team at the cemetery in Hanoi's outer district of Hoang Mai, and Ho A Lau, 46, after the authorities found cannabis plants grown on a 25 square meter (82 square feet) patch, the Vietnam Labour Confederation-run Lao Dong newspaper said.…
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http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6630507.html US Patent 6630507 - Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants Application: filed on 2/02/2001 US Patent Issued on October 7, 2003 Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services Abstract Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties, unrelated to NMDA receptor antagonism. This new found property makes cannabinoids useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such as ischemic, age-related, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants…
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Greening the Green Marijuana is California's biggest dollar crop—and its production is stretching the North Coast's resources. by Nicole Edmison original article
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Brazil Appeals Court Rules Drug Possession Not a Crime
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http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/538/br...ession_no_crime from Drug War Chronicle, Issue #538, 5/30/08 At the end of March, a Brazilian appeals court in São Paulo declared that possession of drugs for personal use is not a criminal offense. Several lower courts had previously ruled in the same way, but the ruling from the São Paulo Justice Court's 6th Criminal Chamber marked the first time an appeals court there had found Brazil's drug law unconstitutional as it pertains to simple drug possession. The ruling came in the case of Ronaldo Lopes, who was arrested with 7.7 grams of cocaine in three separate bags on the night before Carnival began in 2007. Lopes acknow…
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Drugs and phones wing their way to Brazil prisoners RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) Tue 24 Jun 2008, 23:52 GMT http://africa.reuters.com/odd/news/usnN24367678.html A sharp increase in drugs and cellphones found inside a Brazilian prison mystified officials -- until guards spotted some distressed pigeons struggling to stay airborne. Inmates at the prison in Marilia, Sao Paulo state had been training carrier pigeons to smuggle in goods using cell phone sized pouches on their backs, a low-tech but ingenious way of skipping the high-tech security that visitors faced. "We have sophisticated equipment to search people when they go in, but they avoided this by finding another wa…
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this is an update on a post a coupla months ago, this one from:- "this is derbyshire.co.uk" http://www. thisisderbyshire.co.uk/news/BREAKING-NEWS-cleared-Derby-shop-cannabis-offences/article-196771-detail/ article.html#continueNews (spaces added for spam) BREAKING NEWS: Three cleared of Derby shop cannabis offences 17:15 - 24-June-2008 TWO businessmen and an employee who were found guilty of selling equipment to cannabis growers from a shop in Derby today had their convictions overturned by the country's top judge at the Court of Appeal. The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Phillips, ruled that the offences of conspiracy to aid and abet and counsel the productio…
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