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STATESBORO, Ga. (AP) — Sgt. Jason Kearney hopes all his arrests will be this easy. As Kearney was sitting in his marked patrol car Thursday, waiting for his colleagues to join him for lunch, a man named Ron Stone asked him for a ride. The Bulloch County deputy agreed to take Stone to his car, but first he insisted on searching Stone for weapons, said Sheriff Lynn Anderson. "Stone told Sergeant Kearney to go ahead," Anderson said. Kearney didn't find a gun — but he said he did find two small bags of pot. Stone, 30, told the uniformed officer he had spent the night at a friend's house and the marijuana was not his, police said. Instead of a ride to his car, Ston…
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Dutch Ministers clash over coffeeshops and weed. It is well known that the Dutch Justice Minister, Piet Hein Donner, does not like coffeeshops and softdrugs users, he wants to get rid of them all. That is why he visited the southern province of Limburg yesterday, so he could personally deliver his disapproval of the plans of two of his rebellious town mayors, Mayor Leers of Maastricht and Mayor Som van Kerk of Heerlen, all CDA politicians. These Mayors want to see the production of cannabis for coffeeshops regulated and legalized, they consider the War on Drugs a waste of time, funds and effort. Donner went to Limburg to declare a full war on cannabis growers and drugs …
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By ADAM NICHOLS DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER They're Generation Rx. Today's teenagers are more likely to pop prescription pills to get high than snort cocaine or drop acid, experts say. A survey of 7,300 American teens shows the nation has had success in tackling illegal drug use. But it also reveals a new trend of kids raiding their parents' medicine cabinets for chemical kicks. "It's a new category of substance abuse that we see emerging, and it is frighteningly large," said Thomas Hedrick, director of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America. The organization's 17th annual survey found more teens had abused a prescription drug such as Vicodin, OxyContin or Ritalin i…
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Workers distracted by phones, emails and text messages suffer a greater loss of IQ than a person smoking marijuana, a study revealed today. The constant interruptions reduce productivity and leave people feeling tired and lethargic. But the fact that people constantly break their concentration in order to answer and check these messages shows Britons are obsessed with technology. Almost two out three people check their electronic messages out of office hours and when on holiday, according to the study carried out by TNS Research and commissioned by Hewlett Packard. Half of all workers respond to an email within 60 minutes of receiving one while one in five will …
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An American teenager has been arrested for stealing the head from a corpse to use as a bong to smoke cannabis. The 17-year-old boy has been arrested for breaking into a Vermont crypt and removing the head from a man who had recently been entombed there. Police were informed of the boy's plans by a friend who was disturbed by his proposal to steal the head and use it as a smoking device. Officers initially thought the story was a hoax, but disbelief turned to shock when they discovered a local tomb had been broken into and a head was missing. Police department spokesman Richard Keith said: "We had the funeral director come to the scene and we pulled the casket out…
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April 14, 2005 - Honolulu, HI, USA Honolulu, HI: Behavior suggestive of schizophrenia generally precedes the onset of cannabis use, according to survey data published in the current issue of the journal Psychiatry Research. One-hundred and eighty-nine volunteers responded to an anonymous questionnaire inquiring about cannabis use and schizotypal traits (behavior suggestive of schizophrenia but not of sufficient severity to warrant a diagnosis of schizophrenia). Among recent cannabis users, average age of schizotypal symptoms significantly preceded age of first use of cannabis. When cases were analyzed individually, authors affirmed that the majority of respondents i…
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April 14, 2005 - Belmont, MA, USA Belmont, MA: Heavy, long-term use of cannabis appears to have a negligible impact on cognition and memory, according to clinical trial data published in the current issue of the American Journal of Addictions. Researchers at Harvard Medical School performed magnetic resonance imaging on the brains of 22 long-term cannabis users (reporting a mean of 20,100 lifetime episodes of smoking) and 26 controls (subjects with no history of cannabis use). Imaging displayed "no significant differences" between heavy cannabis smokers compared to controls. "These findings are consistent with recent literature suggesting that cannabis use is not as…
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A PLUMSTEAD man is on trial accused of being part of a gang of cannabis farmers who converted four homes into state-of-the-art factories producing bumper crops. Tuan Nguyen, 29, of Plumstead High Street appeared at Southwark Crown Court on Friday with four other Vietnamese men. The court heard the gang boosted profits by powering its suburban farms with stolen electricity. The homes, including one in Wricklemarsh Road, Blackheath, were equipped with hi-tech hydroponics systems that yielded harvests of 40kg - worth £120,000 - every six weeks. Special light bulbs, air filters and extractor fans were powered with energy stolen through the main street cables. Electrical…
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A man who until yesterday was responsible for promoting Rotorua as a tourist destination has been charged over a sophisticated indoor cannabis growing operation. Blair Harvey Graham made a brief appearance in Rotorua District Court yesterday on charges of cultivating cannabis and possessing cannabis for supply. The 34-year-old's court appearance came shortly before he resigned as the conference and incentive manager for Destination Rotorua Tourism Marketing. Graham did not enter pleas to the charges and has been remanded on bail to appear again on April 20. His court appearance follows the discovery by police on Thursday of an underground bunker at a property …
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A CANNABIS-EATING granny was given a six month suspended jail sentence after admitting possessing the drug with intent to supply. Former Edinburgh restaurant owner Patricia Tabram, 66, ran a cookery club for her elderly neighbours and put the cannabis into recipes for medicinal purposes. She has since become the public face of the campaign to legalise cannabis, appearing on chat shows such as Richard and Judy and intends standing at the forthcoming General Election. But at Newcastle Crown Court yesterday she pleaded guilty to having 242 grammes of high quality cannabis at her home at Humshaugh, near Hexham, Northumberland in December. When police raided the ho…
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Cannabis may slow heart disease.
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Swiss Boffins have found that Cannabis has positive affects on mice with heart-disease by causing an "anti-inflanmatory" affect. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12780368-13762,00.html
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Britain to rethink Cannabis policy...
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This shits me... You don't find them classifying alcohol as a "dangerous drug" because of it's affects on people who are pre-disposed to mental disorders http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/0...reut/index.html
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Project for distributing medical marihuana failed. By our parliamentary redaction. The Hague, Friday, March 18. - Health Minister Hoogervorst will most likely stop the distribution of softdrugs for medical use. Yesterday, during a debate in the Second Chamber, he stated that doctors hardly prescribe mediweed because of their lack of confidence in the drug. The cannabis is supposed to relieve the pain of patients suffering from cancer, for instance. On top of that, the medical grade cannabis that is being produced under the supervision of the department has nasty side effects, like psychosis. An other reason to stop the project is the competition by coffeeshops, whic…
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Translation: Nol van Schaik. Leers wants to tolerate growing weed too!! Maastricht. Mayor Leers of Maastricht wants to tolerate the production and supply of softdrugs. That should decrease criminality. At present cannabis can be sold from coffeeshops, but production and supply of the shops is forbidden. According to Leers this stimulates criminal activities. Tolerating the production must come with serious check-ups on quantities and quality of the drugs. This can only take place if the neighboring cities in Belgium and Germany cooperate in this culture of tolerance. Source: Teletext NOS, Dutch News Broadcaster. So much for those who announce the end of the Dut…
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