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Chubby potheads with lots of rooms 15.05.2004 By DIANA McCURDY Scared of walking in the dark, dedicated to smoking pot, poor and fat? That's the picture of New Zealanders that has emerged from a new Australian book, How Australia Compares, which measures 18 developed democracies against the lucky country. In a series of league tables, authors Rodney Tiffen and Ross Gittins deal the New Zealand ego a savage blow. Among other things, the book reveals New Zealanders are the most likely to fear burglary and the least likely to feel safe walking in the dark. But we do have some justification for our anxiety. New Zealand's crime rate is second highest after Sweden …
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Pot bill goes ashes to ashes Janice Tibbetts CanWest News Service Friday, May 14, 2004 OTTAWA -- A bill to decriminalize marijuana has gone up in smoke, failing for the second time in six months and prompting criticism that the Martin government deliberately killed the proposal. "As we speak, it doesn't look too good," Mario Lague, a spokesman for the Prime Minister's Office, said as the House of Commons wrapped up its last voting day before an anticipated election call this month. Critics contend the Liberals lacked the political will to pass the controversial legislation proposing to decriminalize possession of less than 15 grams of pot, making it …
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REFUGEES PLANT NEW AND RISKY CASH CROP Marijuana Found Among Tomatoes FRESNO, Calif. - On the edge of suburbia, the magnificent gardens of Southeast Asian refugees rise and fall. On leased ground no bigger than five or 10 acres - small potatoes to the giant industrial growers - the refugees plant their own long-shot dreams: Chinese bitter melon, Chinese broccoli, Thai chili, ong choy, su choy, daikon and kohlrabi. The best strawberries in the San Joaquin Valley are grown by a tribe of CIA-trained commandos who fled the highlands of Laos after the Vietnam War. Thai eggplant, slightly spicier than its Armenian cousin, is the specialty of the lowland Lao. Th…
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Nepali Caught With Cannabis A women who hid cannabis worth US $ 1.45 million in the heels of her shoes was arrested as she attempted to shuffle past customs officers at Hong Kong’s international airport. The Nepali woman, who had 9.1 kg of cannabis resin stashed in her footwear and luggage, was apprehended on Friday (May 7) on arrival from Kathmandu after high-tech scanners pinpointed the contraband. She was scheduled to appear before magistrates on Monday on charges of trafficking dangerous drugs. If convicted, the woman faces a possible life prison sentence. The Himalayan Times daily reports. Source
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LONDON (AFP) - The launch in Britain of a home drug-testing kit next week has led experts to caution against the over-the-counter product which, they say, will lead to parents spying on, and confronting, their children rather than offering discussion and support. The Six-Drug MultiTest, manufactured by the Irish firm Hunter Diagnostics, can detect the presence of six drugs in urine, including cannabis, heroin, cocaine and ectasy. It will cost just over 12 pounds (18 euros, 21 dollars) and some 11,000 units have already been sold in Ireland over the past year -- 50 percent of them to parents, with police, hospitals and school among the other buyers. "Obviously a child's…
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Elderly couple fined for cannabis stash 14 May 2004 A biscuit is not always just a biscuit, as Marion Chitty found out when her home cooking landed her in court on drug charges this week, along with her partner who grew the special ingredient. But it was the age of the offenders – not their crime – that surprised New Plymouth police. Chitty is 67 years old, and her partner Ronald John Henry Stratford is 56. They were caught with 6kg of cannabis, some of which was frozen and stored in a deep freeze. Drug squad boss Detective Sergeant Greg Gray said two of the local police's biggest cannabis seizures recently had involved elderly people. "It's not the …
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More evidence is required to associate cannabis use with negative psychosocial effects Posted By: News-Medical in Medical Research News Published: Friday, 14-May-2004 University of Birmingham researchers conclude that more evidence is required to determine the nature and extent of associating cannabis use with negative psychosocial effects. Their systematic review of research in this area was commissioned by the Department of Health and is published in this week's issue of The Lancet. The use of cannabis and other illicit drugs by young people is linked to psychosocial harm including psychological health problems, the use of other illegal drugs, reduced educational…
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Which side is winning war on drugs? By Doug Bandow May 13, 2004 The war on drugs is going badly. A D V E R T I S E M E N T The current and previous presidents of the United States used marijuana. So has presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry. California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has admitted to drug use. Radio host Rush Limbaugh, who once beat the drums for jailing white junkies, has been through drug treatment. Some 75,000 Californians now use marijuana under a doctor's care. The U.S. Supreme Court let stand a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling barring Uncle Sam from punishing doctors who prescribe medical ma…
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Experts and officials from government-sanctioned medical marijuana programmes in The Netherlands, Canada, and the United States will be visiting New Zealand 26-30 May. In recent years, governments around the world have begun re-legalising the use of marijuana (cannabis) by patients with chronic pain and other forms of suffering, such as muscle spasms due to multiple sclerosis, appetite enhancement in patients with terminal conditions, and nausea due to chemotherapy. A parliamentary health select committee recently recommended that New Zealand consider making cannabis-based medicines available to suffering patients. However, no consensus yet exists on how to proceed. …
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SRI Lanka plans to lift a ban on growing cannabis and begin government cultivation of the plant, which is a key ingredient in traditional medicine, a minister was quoted saying today. Indigenous Medicine Minister Tissa Karaliyadde said he hoped to introduce a bill in parliament to allow practitioners of herbal medicine known as ayurveda to grow at least five plants each. The state itself hopes to start cultivation and land has already been earmarked for the pilot project, The Island newspaper quoted Karaliyadde saying. Despite an official ban on cannabis in Sri Lanka, it is easily available on the clandestine market both for traditional healers and smokers. By Col…
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Pharmaceutical giant Bayer HealthCare has applied to market a marijuana-based drug in Canada. If approved, it would be the first cannabis-based drug legally available in this country for the relief of debilitating symptoms of multiple sclerosis and severe neuropathic pain. Bayer and GW Pharmaceuticals of Britain announced Tuesday they had filed a new drug submission to Health Canada for Sativex, an oral spray developed by GW Pharmaceuticals and licensed to Bayer. A spokesperson for Health Canada said it typical takes about 18 months for the department's therapeutic products directorate to review and rule on a submission. Bayer's vice-president for public policy a…
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JUDGES UNAFRAID TO SIDE WITH ACCUSED OVER COPS Arrested at least 36 times before, Frederick Davis could have faced 10 years in prison after deputies said a search of his vehicle turned up drugs last winter. This week, Davis is a free man. U.S. District Judge Gregory A. Presnell ruled in favor of the "very street-smart" suspect over the testimony of two Orange County deputy sheriffs, court records show. "It wasn't a question of just raising a reasonable doubt that they weren't telling the truth," said Davis' lawyer, Peter W. Kenny of the Federal Public Defender's Office. "The judge simply did not believe the police." Such rulings are uncommon, but prosec…
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Vancouver Mayor Larry Campbell has weighed in on the marijuana debate, and left no doubt where he stands. Speaking at a conference on legalizing pot Saturday, Campbell said he supports the plan but added it pot were available legally, he would "tax the hell out of it." Campbell said every tax dollar would go to health care, noting that without the pot industry, British Columbia would be in a recession. If pot ever is legalized, don't expect Campbell to spark up. "In fact, I've never even smoked marijuana," the mayor told the conference. "My biggest fear is that I may like it more than cabernet, and then what the hell am I going to do?" Campbell says it's time …
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EDMONTON -- Usually, says Don Dickson of the Calgary Real Estate Board, only the Christmas lunch is so well-attended. But last month, 526 real estate agents showed up at one of the board's seminars. The topic? Marijuana grow-ops. "It was pretty amazing," said Mr. Dickson, president of the board. "It's obviously a topic of great concern." Real estate agents aren't the only ones alarmed by the increasing number of quiet, suburban homes being used to grow lucrative crops of high-quality marijuana. No longer solely the concern of law enforcement, the rapid spread of such grow-ops is changing the way agencies from insurers to municipalities do business. "What origin…
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Ottawa ? The federal election will kill the bill to decriminalize marijuana, leaving one of Jean Chrétien's legacy issues out in the cold and pot smokers still facing potential jail terms, government insiders say. The controversial legislation, which is awaiting a final vote in the House of Commons, will not make it through Parliament in the one week left in the session before Prime Minister Paul Martin is expected to drop the writ to begin an election campaign. The proposed law, Bill C-10, would have removed jail terms for the simple possession of less than 15 grams of marijuana. Those caught with pot in that quantity would have faced the equivalent of a traffic tick…
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