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Zurich - Swiss federal health officials still favour decriminalising cannabis consumption but political opposition is stiffening after a recent study showed Swiss marijuana is far more potent than previously assumed. A study conducted by a Swiss consumer watchdog showing Swiss cannabis had up to 28 percent of the euphoria-producing active ingredient tetra-hydro cannabinol (THC) has alarmed politicians and health officials and threatens to derail liberalisation. Richard Mueller, director of the Swiss Institute for Substance Abuse, told the SonntagsZeitung newspaper: "We have to revise our verdict. Smoking cannabis isn't as harmless as we thought." According to the s…
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Top Story: Dan Forbes Documents Walters’ Lies About Potency. Understanding That The War On Cannabis Is Built On Lies Is Key to Understanding More Than Just Drug War. Posted by Richard Cowan on 2002-11-20 17:39:18 Source: www.slate.com Posted November 20, 2002 Analysis by Richard Cowan My friend Dan Forbes is one of the few Authentic Journalists – to use Al Giordano’s phrase – covering the war on cannabis. See Dan Forbes Strikes Again! Uncovers Conspiracy By Ohio Governor and the Partnership for An UnFree America to Subvert the Democratic System. and links In an article posted on Slate Magazine yesterday, The Myth of Potent Pot, The drug czar's latest reefer madness…
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Source: Globe and Mail Haarlem, Netherlands — The water pipe stood two metres tall, encircled by people puffing on its 64 mouthpieces. Elsewhere in the room, a new machine rolled out 300 marijuana joints in minutes. Free hash was passed around. It was the start of a three-day Hash and Weed Festival on Friday evening. The aging pioneers of the Dutch marijuana culture, watched by hundreds of young aficionados, gathered in a sports gymnasium to mark the 30th anniversary of the first "coffee shop" that openly sold reefers like cups of coffee. "This celebration honours the world's most successful marijuana experiment: the Dutch coffee shop system," said Pete Brady, an…
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'I'll still open my cannabis cafe'
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This fellow is a legend, won't let the law stop him opening his "cafe"... 'I'll still open my cannabis cafe' A man who plans to set up a cannabis cafe says a report warning of the serious health dangers of the drug will not stop him pressing ahead with his plans. Kevin Williamson, of the counter-culture activist group and publishing house Rebel Inc, plans to challenge the existing law by opening a cafe in Edinburgh where cannabis usage will be tolerated - and where eventually the drug will be put on sale. He said a British Lung Foundation report suggesting that cannabis is every bit as harmful as smoking tobacco does nothing to make him think twice. "This makes…
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Cannabis link to schizophrenia
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Cannabis link to schizophrenia Psychiatrists are calling for caution in the move towards licensing cannabis-based medicines. It follows research into a possible link between cannabis use and schizophrenia. Two recent studies have shown that heavy use of cannabis is associated with a fourfold increased risk of developing the mental illness. "There are some dangers to using high doses of cannabis that people need to know about," said Dr Deepak Cyril D'Souza, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine. He said there was concern in the medical profession that people who smoke large amounts of cannabis for a long period of time are at hi…
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Ottawa -- Criminals are getting off too easy as neighbourhoods across Canada are endangered by huge secret pot-growing operations, police groups charged yesterday. The Liberal government's possible decriminalization of marijuana will only make things worse, charged David Griffin, executive director of the Canadian Police Association. Griffin and others called on the federal government to beef up the Criminal Code and impose minimum jail time for those convicted of turning 50,000 Canadian homes into marijuana "grow houses," including what he said were an estimated 10,000 in the Toronto area. 'WALKING AWAY' The operations, which can generate up to $500,000 a year a…
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What do these six folks have in common? They each contributed about $12,500 to reform efforts simply by having letters to the editor published in Time Magazine. A little more than two column inches of reform oriented letters. Time's rate card says that a two column inch ad would cost you $113,120. 3 more writers were mentioned without names. Time claims that each issue has over 20 million readers, and a 47% market share of all weekly news magazines. Of course all who sent letters to Time contributed to the amount of space our side got. The more letters on a subject received, the more space the issue tends to receive. Every letter sent counts, published or not. The T…
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How many illegal marijuana grow operations would you estimate Vancouver police busted last week? Twenty? 30? Even 40? If you'll pardon the pun, the actual number is much higher. Last week -- in just a seven-day period -- officers uncovered more than 60 grow ops, part of a coordinated nationwide crackdown. The Vancouver raids were part of a massive operation targeting indoor marijuana cultivation. Across the country, 73,000 marijuana plants valued at $73 million were seized, and 163 people arrested. It's the third wave of Operation Greensweep, and police were touting the results Tuesday. But even the officers involved in the initiative wonder if such crackdowns are…
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US Doctors Criticize Canada Medical-Pot
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Source: Wall Street Journal Canada's moves to allow for medicinal use of marijuana have caused unexpected headaches here and prompted health officials to backpedal on some initiatives, angering marijuana users the government had aimed to appease. At the same time, Canadian justice officials are studying the possibility of decriminalizing pot as early as next year -- a prospect that alarms drug-enforcement authorities in Washington, who worry that such a move would increase supplies and depress prices for the drug in the U.S. Canada already is the third-largest supplier of marijuana to the U.S., behind Mexico and Colombia, according to the Canadian government. O…
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By Steve Hager founder of the cannabis Cup. ----------------------------------------------------------- I first visited the Netherlands in 1987 to write an article on the founder of Holland’s first cannabis-seed company. Titled “The King of Cannabis,” the article described how an Australian named Nevil got access to some of the world’s greatest known strains of cannabis, and established a mail-order company in Holland that eventually made him rich. He lived in a mansion filled with growrooms that I dubbed “Cannabis Castle.” While working on the article, I met the founders of Cultivators Choice, an almost defunct American cannabis-seed company. They told me about the spe…
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The lucrative marijuana trade continues to expand in British Columbia, despite almost daily police raids to close down illegal growing operations. U.S. drug chief John Walters appealed to British Columbia authorities earlier this week to curb the province's marijuana trade. He said in Vancouver he had been told that the B.C. crop is worth as much as $6-billion a year and 95 per cent is sent into the United States. Police forces in B.C. have been aggressively pursuing marijuana-growing operations in the past five years. In the most recent campaign, which they called Operation Greensweep, Vancouver police raided several locations this week. Despite their efforts, pol…
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Top Story: British Lung Foundation Cons Media. Blaming Cannabis for Problems Caused By Prohibition. Tripping Over the Party Line. The Media Fell For It, As Usual, But UK Anti-Tobacco Group Does Not. Posted by Richard Cowan on 2002-11-19 13:50:04 Source: http://www.lunguk.org Top Story: British Lung Foundation Cons Media. Blaming Cannabis for Problems Caused By Prohibition. Tripping Over the Party Line. The Media Fell For It, As Usual, But UK Anti-Tobacco Group Does Not. Posted by Richard Cowan on 2002-11-19 13:50:04 Source: http://www.lunguk.org Posted November 15, 2002 Analysis by Richard Cowan This analysis is the intellectual equivalent of scooping up after the cir…
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Source: Slate Magazine Marijuana lost big on Election Day. Nevada's pot legalization proposal took only 39 percent of the vote. An Arizona decriminalization initiative did little better with 43 percent. And a mere 33 percent of Ohioans voted for a measure to treat instead of incarcerate minor drug offenders. One reason for the ballot-box failure may have been the full-throttle, anti-marijuana campaign tour by White House Drug Czar John P. Walters. Walters, whose official title is director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, inveighed against the demon weed in campaign swings through Ohio, Arizona, and Nevada (twice). At the heart of Walters' sermon: "It i…
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Flin Flon's underground marijuana farm has generated more than its share of headlines, but when it was reported this weekend that the operation's entire harvest was to be burned by Health Canada, Flin Flon Mayor Dennis Ballard had just one request: that he be allowed to stand close. "As far as I'm concerned, it's a political story, not a dope story," said Mr. Ballard, who has found himself alternately amused and appalled by the machinations that have surrounded the curious industry that came to his town two years ago: the first crop of marijuana to be grown by a private company under licence for the federal government. On Saturday, a Quebec newspaper reported that th…
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Marijuana is not what it used to be. The Woodstock-era weed smoked by legions of baby boomers has morphed in recent years into a drug whose potency has more than tripled. And that has ignited a debate about whether America's most commonly used illict drug, a substance tried by an increasingly younger audience, has grown more dangerous. Public safety and health experts worry that many of the Bay Staters who voted two weeks ago in a nonbinding referendum to decriminalize pot were unaware of the drug's dramatic change and its potential to harm unsuspecting new users, particularly teens. ``I am sure voters are reaching back to the 1970s and saying, `Weed, it wasn't tha…
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