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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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Cannabis Conspiracy Uncovered 26 June 2008 http://pr.cannazine.co.uk/content/view/417/27/ It would appear that, if the Police are unable to find an offence to charge you with but they take a dislike to you, its highly likely they will make one up, as the following story illustrates all too clearly. In answer to one of the biggest conspiracy theories attached to the British cannabis debate in recent times, three Derby men have had their convictions over-turned by the country's most senior Judge at the Court of Appeals. Back in January 08 and the talk of the British cannabis community was of the three hydroponic shop workers from Derby who had been convicted of the …
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This seems a little old news now, but it's just come to my attention the coppers that pulled the raid on the terrified school kids at goose crk. USA have lost their law suit and need to pay the students 1.2 million dollars, to be divided equaly between the kids. Fuck, seems to me they deserved that much each. A racially motivated raid, a school primarily of mixed race children was raided full on with loaded cocked ready to fire pistols drawn on frightened children as they cowered from, attack trained dogs. Somebody please tell me this is not the future.. I beliveve BTW no drugs were found. So just be careful when you get tempted into believing the horror stories o…
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Cannabis convictions hit poorest, hardest PR.Canna Zine 22 June 2008 http://pr.cannazine.co.uk/content/view/410/27/ Cannabis convictions in the United Kingdom are hitting those with the lowest incomes hardest, and due to how the law is meted out, low-income family's will often find themselves punished for cannabis possession not once and sometimes even not twice, but three times, by the time the drug is paid for by the user, then confiscated by police, and then a fine (or worse) handed down by the courts. For a substance which is inherently safer than tobacco or alcohol, something isn't right about this. According to a spokesman for Pro-reform cannabis news websi…
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A fresh take rose perfume 03:56 PM CDT on Friday, June 20, 2008 BY CHANDLER BURR / Special to The Dallas Morning News http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dw...n1.2684cef.html Rose is the ultimate perfume paradigm, but today, this is strangely more theory than reality. It is universally known within the industry that the smell of rose does quite poorly in focus groups and, to perfume buyers, reads "old lady." This is why you read disproportionately more about rose in press materials (you like the idea of rose scent) than you actually smell rose in perfumes (the reality makes you think of your grandmother). But a rose revolution has been going for a while. …
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Not sure If I posted this already? Either way, here is my most recent LEAP Blog.... Hope you all enjoy! Alison xx Hi Folks… My apologies for not being around again for a while. Not only have I been extremely busy again, I had also run out of cannabis the past few weeks and found it difficult to get out of bed and stay awake thanks to all the pills I take when I have no cannabis. Between being so busy and then dropping like a rock I feel like I've been run over by a train! I SWEAR my Government knows this is how I become when I can`t fill my prescription for this plant. Very disheartening to say the least. Speaking of my being busy, I had another trying m…
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Cannabis importer's cunning plan not so clever Monday, 16 June 2008 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4586047a12855.html A Christchurch man's cunning plan to spell his name backwards when he ordered cannabis over the internet was not enough to put the authorities off the scent. Michael Gary Davis, a 28-year-old technician, stood in the Christchurch District Court dock to hear his offending described as naive and amateurish. He was appearing before Judge John Strettell for sentence after pleading guilty to importing 20 seeds of the class C drug. Defence counsel Grant Tyrrell explained: "He had been consuming alcohol and was trawling through the internet and thought it …
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http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44730000/jpg/_44730017_house_thermogram466.jpg By Julian Joyce BBC News By toughening the law on cannabis the government hopes to drive a crackdown on UK "farms", many of which have sprung up in recent years. In the cellar beneath Jimmy's house, cannabis seedlings flourish under bright lights. Upstairs, taking over half the attic, more mature plants flower in lamp-lit trays, amid the hum of automatic water and nutrient delivery systems. This is "hydroponic" cannabis - grown without soil in trays. Jimmy's indoor "farm" is one of many to have sprung up behind the walls and closed curtains of houses across the UK in recent year…
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Willits, CA -- Voters in this rugged stretch of Northern California took marijuana laws to new heights in 2000, allowing residents to grow up to 25 marijuana plants for medical, recreational or personal use. But eight years later, some are campaigning to scale back the law, saying it's time to weed out pot profiteers. "We want to take that welcome mat away," said Ross Liberty, spokesman for Measure B, which goes before Mendocino County voters Tuesday. Opponents say they, too, want to evict large-scale, criminal operators. But they say Measure B won't address that issue and will instead go after the people who need medical marijuana. "What (Measure) B does is redefin…
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Medical Cannabis: Police Recommend 3 ounces of "Skunk" per month, per patient 22 May 2008 http://pr.cannazine.co.uk/content/view/300/1/ A row has broken out over in the United States, between the law enforcement community and the medical marijuana community. "No change there then" I hear you shout. But this argument comes from a different angle to that by which the UK government agreed they would unilaterally reclassify cannabis, and in doing so go against the advice of its own advisory board of experts. In Washington State, the issue of how much marijuana a patient needs remains one of the most contentious parts of the law voters passed in 1998, which allows pat…
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Reasons to legalise all drugs (not just cannabis) - Top 10 Transform Campaign for effective drug policy 22 May 2008 http://pr.cannazine.co.uk/content/view/299/27/ So where do you stand? Do you believe legalising drugs and letting government sort out the distribution, earning taxes, as it removes drugs from the hands of organised criminals is the way to go? Or do you reside on the other side of the fence, (the side where the grass is ALWAYS bad for you), believing the legalisation of drugs is the slippery road to rack & ruin? The fact is, there are as many experts on each side of the fence so who do we believe? Here's a bunch of reasons which, according to d…
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