Reefer Madness sweeping OZ

[Oz]

Now if you smoke cannabis you'll probably do ice They have been doing this for months now putting amphetamines and cannabis in the news together even with totally unrelated stories... Wankers

 

Cannabis linked to ice use among young adults

 

By Adam Cresswell

 

July 18, 2007 12:00am

 

PREVIOUS drug use, rather than being depressed or coming from an underprivileged background, is driving the growing use of amphetamines by young adults.

 

A Victorian study has found adolescents who use cannabis and other drugs in their teens are at much higher risk of moving on to amphetamines as young adults.

 

The study, by experts from the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre at the University of NSW, found 12 per cent of nearly 2000 Victorian 24-year-olds who took part had used amphetamines in the previous year, and between 1and 2 per cent were using amphetamines at least weekly.

 

It is the first study to examine what factors in adolescence predict the later use of ice, speed and other amphetamines, use of which has been rising in Australia and around the world.

 

The findings further undermine the view, now widely disputed, that cannabis use is relatively benign and does not lead users to harder drugs.

 

The research findings were published in the international journal Addiction.

Source: The Australian

Copyright: News Limited 2007

[WantDaChronic]

i wonder if they asked them if they had tried alcohol or cigarettes before trying speed as well

[bufo marinus]

If thats the best research those fuckheads at University can come up with for draining funds out of an election year Federal government they should be damn well ashamed of themselves

[mull]

National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre at the University of NSW

 

Isn't this the mob that wanted us to do a survey recently?

 

Sounds like the NDARC 'experts' are cherry picking at their data, for more funding

 

So we're in the gateway drug gateway again, and still the 'experts' wont acknowledge nicotine... or that there's no gateway. Oops no cash in that..

Easier to fling mud on cannabis while it can't be defended.

[MongyMan]

they should be damn well ashamed of themselves

 

Hear Hear

 

Peace MongyMan

[bufo marinus]

National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre at the University of NSW

 

Isn't this the mob that wanted us to do a survey recently?

 

Sounds like the NDARC 'experts' are cherry picking at their data, for more funding

 

So we're in the gateway drug gateway again, and still the 'experts' wont acknowledge nicotine... or that there's no gateway. Oops no cash in that..

Easier to fling mud on cannabis while it can't be defended.

 

Hey mullaway you have a good memory man

https://cannabis.community.forums.ozstoners...01&hl=NDARC

I remember reading and posting my thoughts of distrust in the thread these fuckhead, funding research prostitutes started.

[Al B. Fuct]

Now if you smoke cannabis you'll probably do ice They have been doing this for months now putting amphetamines and cannabis in the news together even with totally unrelated stories... Wankers

 

Hey Ozzie, if you liked that, how about lumping cannabis, heroin, amphetamines, racism and disinformation all in one bag?

 

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.

 

Frightening statistics

The report revealed:

* Two million Australians have used amphetamines and about 5.5million have tried cannabis

* At least 100,000 ecstasy pills are used every weekend in Australia

* Australia has the world's highest rate of ecstasy consumption

* Twenty per cent of Australians aged 20 to29take ecstasy

* Drug users told a national survey that heroin, amphetamines, ecstasy, cannabis and cocaine were easy or very easy to get

* Almost 79,000 people were arrested for drug offences in 2005-06

 

This story is so full of wrongability that it’s a pure zero-tolerance ideological rant, not news- and he pins it all on a single ethnic group, to boot- without so much as a pretense at evidence or proof of anything he says about cannabis or Vietnamese crime gangs. We’ve come a bit full circle here; racism played a large role in the original criminalisation of recreational drugs.

 

Keith Moor is missing only the pointy hat and a crucifix to BBQ.

[Frazz]

The whole news report is dodgy ... this dickwad reporter is short on detail ... I looked very hard on Addiction website ,couldnt find any reference to such a report in this months' edition or last months for that matter .. as they have the topics of each edition listed ... if i had found a report that i wanted to further view, it is by paid subsciption only !...

Addiction is little more than a 'hack' magazine for reports from anywhere, and must be purchased ... here's a quote from their homepage

 

ADDICTION publishes peer-reviewed research reports on alcohol, illicit drugs, tobacco and behavioural addictions, bringing together research conducted within many different disciplines.

 

When submitting papers, please give careful thought to the use to which you would like your paper to be put: stimulating research, guiding research, changing policy, confirming existing policy, changing clinical practice or confirming existing clinical practice.

http://www.addictionjournal.org/

 

 

OK check those dickwads @ UNSW - NDARC who it is claimed actually authored the report and you see they have completed 5 reports this year and only ONE of those was related to Cannabis and that was the Pfizer(pharmecuticals) sponsered report released in Febuary of this year titled 'Australian attitudes towards cannabis' which mentioned nothing about an ice-cannabis link ...

 

So IMO the article in the Australian by Adam Cresswell is crock of steaming hot dogshit !! ;)

 

 

EDIT: yea i sent a copy of this post off to the editor asking for more verification, minus the dogshit references .

[Mushaman]

friggin propaganda ... regretable we have to live with it ... but at least we can slag em off and have a laugh at how simpleminded they are .. hopefully there are some straight members of the public that can see through it as well

[bufo marinus]

yea i sent a copy of this post off to the editor asking for more verification, minus the dogshit references .

 

Nice work Frazzle