Iemma government in cannabis crackdown

[Tom]

People could face up to 20 years' jail for growing cannabis and smokers of the drug forced to undertake counselling on its links to poor mental health under a legislative crackdown.

 

The NSW government is about to introduce what it claims will be the most hardline cannabis laws in Australia, in response to growing concerns of the drug's link to mental illness, according to The Daily Telegraph.

 

People could be jailed for 10 years for growing as few as five higher-strength hydroponic plants, or face a $550,000 fine and/or 20 years' jail for 200 plants.

 

Hydroponic cannabis is between five and seven times stronger than conventionally grown cannabis.

 

NSW Premier Morris Iemma has also called for a review of the cannabis cautioning system, introduced in 2000, requiring offenders to undertake counselling on the drug's mental health impact.

 

"Regular cannabis use can exacerbate mental illnesses and associated criminal activity," Mr Iemma said.

 

Author:ninemsn

Date:Friday Feb 3

Source:ninemsn

Copyright:© 1997- 2006 ninemsn Pty Ltd

 

[Frazz]

Well looks like nsw will be the first state to fall in line with Howard's wishes, seems things will only get worse from here on

Sometime this week Howard is meeting with state officials regarding the Federal Govt.'s

new found concern with mental health and Howard will be offering extra money to the states for mental health...

.But that may dependant on the states reforming thier cannabis laws

[WantDaChronic]

People could be jailed for 10 years for growing as few as five higher-strength hydroponic plants, or face a $550,000 fine and/or 20 years' jail for 200 plants.

 

what are they gonna do, order lab testing of every plant confiscated to determine if its high strength or are they gonna assume growers wont waste time with low strength plants if grown indoors?

 

goddamn i hate being an australian sometimes

[dsyfer]

Hydroponic cannabis is between five and seven times stronger than conventionally grown cannabis.

Who tells these people this shit?

[Frazz]

Hydroponic cannabis is between five and seven times stronger than conventionally grown cannabis.

 

 

WTF....where does this bullshit come from, or is 'Dro really stronger?....i just assumed that potency was pretty much geneticly? pre-determind,

but i keep reading/hearing hydro is stronger....makes me think they already have the "spin doctors" cooking up a big lot of bad press to discredit cannnabis :thumbdown

so what is right? :scratchin

 

edit: beat me on the draw d

Edited February 3, 2006 by Frazzle

[Gush]

Hydro is stronger because it is grown in a better enviroment than most bush....if you include Co2 then it will probably be better than any outdoors, anywhere in terms of trichome production.......But if weed with high THC concentrations are the reason for so many people going nutty, then why dont people who smoke shitloads of hash go crazy?

I believe the chemicals pumped into the average commercial hydro grow have more of an impact than the natural THC. People have been smoking Hash, with a higher potency then any plant could possibly reach for centuries, and yet only with the growing popularity of "hydro labs" is there a growing link between mj and psychosis.

Prohibition is feeding itself. With no regulations or "open" research mj is left to criminals and people wanting to make a Buck. They have little regard for how healthy the product is, and so Mary is pumped full of chemicals with the soul purpose to make more money.......I'm sure if you pumped enough chemicals into a carrot it would have the same effect.

[Brash]

I just got these thoughts on this topic from the Nimbin Hemp Embassy:

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NIMBIN HEMP EMBASSY

 

Collecting thoughts on Premier Iemma's new hydro laws.... the road to hell is paved with good intensions.

 

CANNABIS GROWS FROM A SEED, HOW COME GROWN INDOORS IS 5-7 TIMES STRONGER IN THC!??

 

Prohibition alone has created the hydroponics cannabis industry. Helicopter raids, like the one here this week, and the high value of cannabis making it vulnerable to theft have pushed the supply area indoors, where it's grown in a chemical bath, no regulations, no health requirements....quite possibly the chemicals in the hydro are contributing to psychosis.

 

Why doesn't the government analyse the contents of hydro, any amount of which is in police safes right now. We have some analysis figures which clearly show a totally different mineral content between outdoor and indoor grown cannabis. We have given these results to the government hoping to encourage further research.

 

Young people in Australia have developed a culture under prohibition where they use hydro mixed with tobacco (called spin, for good reason) in a 'bong'. Unhealthy practices developed in the shadow of prohibition, including nicotine addiction driving users back to the bong repeatedly.

 

The harder the push against cannabis, the more people turn to pills and powders which are far harder to detect. Cannabis smoke stinks!

 

Where do city cannabis user's get their supply? The new laws send a strong message that hydro is dangerous but where can city user's grow their pot? WE have to look at regulation of supply, decriminalise thousands of people and create thousands of legal jobs in the stroke of a pen!

 

Far better young people grow their own cannabis than turn to theft to pay $500 an ounce!

 

Drug use is a health and social issue which many parents are concerned about. Rather than seeing their children in jail and with heavy drug addictions they would prefer to see the entire issue of drug use, self medication really, out in a legal environment with rules and proper regulations. Currently it's a world run by organised crime.

 

 

H*E*M*P Embassy 0266891842

www.hempembassy.net

[WantDaChronic]

If you would like to get in contact with Morris Iemma, here are his contact details:

 

Electorate Office:

 

Address: 48 Thurlow Street, RIVERWOOD NSW 2210

Postal: PO Box 1200, RIVERWOOD NSW 2210

Phone: (02) 9584 1788

Fax: (02) 9584 1945

Email: thepremier@www.nsw.gov.au

lakemba@parliament.nsw.gov.au

[nugget]

If you would like to get in contact with Morris Iemma, here are his contact details:

 

Electorate Office:

 

Address: 48 Thurlow Street, RIVERWOOD NSW 2210

Postal:  PO Box 1200, RIVERWOOD NSW 2210

Phone:  (02) 9584 1788

Fax:      (02) 9584 1945

Email:    thepremier@www.nsw.gov.au

            lakemba@parliament.nsw.gov.au

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HAHA good one :thumbsup

 

Hopefully he'll wake up in the morning to an inbox full of mail from angry pot-smokers

[dsyfer]

I just got these thoughts on this topic from the Nimbin Hemp Embassy:

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NIMBIN HEMP EMBASSY

 

...where it's grown in a chemical bath, no regulations, no health requirements....quite possibly the chemicals in the hydro are contributing to psychosis.

 

Why doesn't the government analyse the contents of hydro, any amount of which is in police safes right now.  We have some analysis figures which clearly show a totally different mineral content between outdoor and indoor grown cannabis. We have given these results to the government hoping to encourage further research.

I have to disagree here, there are such things as organic hydroponic nutrients,

not to mention the fact that just growing in soil does not make for less chemicals

how many dirt growers use chemical ferts anyway? same thing

 

People have been consuming hydroponic vegetables and fruit for decades