Hemp dream over
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- Hemp dream over
- Raids net guns, cannabis
- Psychosis link to soft drug laws
- ACT urged to begin hemp production
- Cannabis find followed halt for speeding.
- Cannabis find followed halt for speeding
Hemp dream over
NEWS.com.au - Oct 29, 2005
article-tools –> By CORTLAN BENNETT October 29, 2005 10:00pm RED tape is about to drive a potential $1 billion agri-industry interstate, with local firm Hemp Resources planning to move to Queensland. After lobbying the WA Government for the Industrial Hemp Act, passed in March of last year, the company has failed to secure a licence after 18 months. At issue are the minor convictions of two company directors, Kim Hough and Luu Puoc Nguyen – even though Mr Nguyen’s offences were more than 10 years ago and his record has been wiped under the Spent Conviction Act. Mr Hough’s convictions were minor cannabis-related, as well as possession of an ornamental African blowpipe – found to be an illegal weapon. For these reasons, Agriculture Department registrar of hemp Mark Holland has refused to issue Hemp Resources with a licence to produce hemp in WA. Hemp Resources, which wants to build a hemp-fibre paper mill in WA using advanced Chinese technology, argues all the growing will be subcontracted to local farmers… After lobbying the WA Government for the Industrial Hemp Act, passed in March of last year, the company has failed to secure a licence after 18 months. At issue are the minor convictions of two company directors, Kim Hough and Luu Puoc Nguyen – even though Mr Nguyen’s offences were more than 10 years ago and his record has been wiped under the Spent Conviction Act. Mr Hough’s convictions were minor cannabis-related, as well as possession of an ornamental African blowpipe – found to be an illegal weapon. For these reasons, Agriculture Department registrar of hemp Mark Holland has refused to issue Hemp Resources with a licence to produce hemp in WA. Hemp Resources, which wants to build a hemp-fibre paper mill in WA using advanced Chinese technology, argues all the growing will be subcontracted to local farmers. It has re-submitted its application, which is still being considered. But Mr Hough is not confident it will get it in time to establish a competitive industry.
Raids net guns, cannabis
NEWS.com.au - Oct 29, 2005
A 53-year-old man was arrested and charged with a range of drug and firearm offences. He was bailed to appear at Inverell Local Court on November 17. In Sydney’s south-west 118 cannabis plants were seized as part of an ongoing drug operation. After raiding several homes earlier in the week, police yesterday searched a house at Cabramatta West and seized the cannabis, worth an estimated $236,000. No one had been arrested over the latest seizure, police said. Share this article.
Psychosis link to soft drug laws
NEWS.com.au - Oct 29, 2005
While there are no national statistics for new cases of psychotic illnesses such as schizophrenia, figures this week from South Australia show a disturbing link between drug use and mental health problems - and a further association with criminality. Forensic psychologist Craig Raeside reviewed more than 2000 people facing criminal charges whom he assessed from 2001 to 2005, and found more than 75per cent used marijuana, and 58 per cent amphetamines. Of the marijuana users, 60per cent had a mental illness, compared with 71per cent of the amphetamine users. While 27per cent of Australians aged 14 and over confessed in a national survey in 1985 to having tried cannabis, by last year that had risen to 33. 6per cent - a proportion drug experts claim would have been 10percentage points higher had the question’s wording not been changed in 2001. Amphetamine use also rose, from 7per cent to 9. 1per cent over the same time.
ACT urged to begin hemp production
abc.net.au - Oct 29, 2005
11:00am (AEST)
ACT urged to begin hemp production
The ACT Opposition says it is time Canberra became involved in the production of hemp seeds. The Opposition’s community services spokeswoman, Jacqui Burke, says hemp has many health benefits and the Territory’s economy would get a boost from cultivating the plant. She says the hemp industry is largely untapped in Australia because of the popular misconception that industrial hemp has the same properties as marijuana. “We have to overcome this fear of hemp [which is] what people conceive to be linked with marijuana,” she said. “This product we’re talking about has very low psychoactive ingredient and we shouldn’t dismiss it out of hand. “Hemp seed products really produce.
Cannabis find followed halt for speeding.
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Cannabis find followed halt for speeding. | Europe Intelligence Wire (October, 2005). York Crown Court heard yesterday that Mar.
Cannabis find followed halt for speeding
Yorkshire Post Today - Oct 29, 2005
York Crown Court heard yesterday that Mark Davis had started growing the drug to raise cash to cover debts from a failed business venture. With more than 120 plants producing a sellable crop each quarter he would have hoped to make more than £40,000-ADVERTISEMENTa-year from the enterprise. Davis, 33, pleaded guilty earlier this month to an offence of cannabis cultivation. Sentencing Davis to 150 hours’ community punishment, Judge James Spencer QC told him the amateurish operation was “doomed to failure – like most of your business ventures”. Simon Kealey, prosecuting, said police found four mouldy cannabis plants in bin bags in Davis’s car. They found four more plants, and growing equipment, at the home at Burton Leonard, near Harrogate, which Davis shared with Misty Bell. Letters at the couple’s home led officers to business premises in Starbeck, Harrogate, where they found a further 115 cannabis plants.