Drug war bias in the press

[Al B. Fuct]

News Ltd is the biggest offender when it comes to zero-tolerance drug-warrior slanted news stories. This has to be the biggest shit smear I've seen on a newspaper not yet in a birdcage:

 

Asian gangs develop highly potent cannabis strain

 

By Keith Moor

 

May 14, 2007 07:50am

Article from: The Daily Telegraph

 

POLICE fear a new form of incredibly potent cannabis is destined to hit Australia.

 

Vietnamese criminal gangs in Canada have developed a sophisticated method of growing the plant indoors year round.

 

It greatly increases both the yield and potency of the cannabis and cuts growing time.

 

Latest criminal intelligence suggests that Australia-based Vietnamese drug dealers have travelled to Canada to learn how to cultivate the highly addictive cannabis.

 

They are expected to use this knowledge to grow and sell it in Australia.

 

The new threat was revealed in the Australian Crime Commission's annual Illicit Drug Data Report.

 

Justice Minister David Johnston said the amount of illegal drugs seized had decreased from 13 tonnes in 2004-05 to six tonnes in 2005-06, but the number of drug arrests had increased.

 

"We have more people arrested for less weight,'' Mr Johnston said.

 

The report reveals that cannabis is the most commonly used illicit drug in this country.

 

Cannabis arrests account for almost 70 per cent of drug arrests in Australia.

 

The number of detections of heroin in 2005-06, which reached 300, was the highest annual number on record.

 

But the weight of heroin detected at the Australian border (45.6kg) was the lowest since 1995-96.

 

Heroin arrests now account for fewer than 3 per cent of all drug arrests.

 

Australian Crime Commission chief executive Alastair Milroy said seven criminal syndicates in eastern Australia had recently been smashed.

 

He said criminals often changed the way they obtained amphetamines.

 

"Criminals change their methodology once barriers are put in place ... and there is a likelihood that criminals will try to source these products in Australia by either targeting transport of pseudoephedrine or warehouses,'' Mr Milroy said.

 

Authorities believed outlaw motorcycle gangs did not control all the amphetamine manufacturing and distribution in Australia, he said.

 

"The recent intelligence suggests that there's lots of what ... I think the Chinese call ant-style trafficking, where you have lots of people bringing in smaller amounts and that's to avoid detection,'' Gino Vumbaca, of the Australian National Council on Drugs, said on ABC Radio.

 

The folks in those big seedbanks in the Netherlands would like some of that super-cannabis that the 'Vietnamese crime gangs' are keeping all to themselves... and as IF anyone would need to travel to Canada to learn how to grow weed indoors, year-round.

 

Do you like the tie-up of cannabis with heroin? After all, those Vietnamese crime gangs are big on the smack too...

 

Author Keith is a totally racist Moor-on.

 

ferfuxsake.

 

However, a disturbing trend is going on over at the normally more sober Fairfax.

 

The SMH ran this AAP bureau story, where a grow op is identified as a 'drug lab.'

 

Apparently 'garden' or cultivation' sound a little too placid and harmless and it's got to be tarted up a bit.

 

Identifying a grow op as a "drug lab" makes it sound a bit more like meth or E, dangerous chemical drug scourges which are out of control and in every teenie's lunchbox...

 

Crap.

 

A grow op is a grow op or a garden or 'indoor cannabis cultivation' but it's NOT a 'drug lab.' You can do anon letters to the editor complaining about this drug-war biased language via your fave spare email acct.

[Ruen]

Shit what are we going to do an Asian(who i bet was an Australian citizen) left Australia to go overseas he must be plotting some sort of terrorist or criminal plot. :thumbsup::O

 

what are we going to do?

 

 

Aresset him and claim that cause his job in canada is working for Advance Nutrients he must being planning on doing large scale grows here. wait there's no legal precedence. hmmm lets put it in a report for the public to see.

[Al B. Fuct]

Ruen, wot are you on about?

 

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