PSNI seizes cannabis plants in Derry
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- PSNI seizes cannabis plants in Derry
- Medical marijuana festival in California draws crowd.
- Hemp Is At Hand
- Locked up: Cannabis farmers in triad link.
- Voters in Colorado, Nevada ponder proposals on pot
- ‘Good people who?need it’ protest Rx pot arrests: 30 activists…
PSNI seizes cannabis plants in Derry
Irish Times – Sep 30, 2006
About 30 cannabis plants and a large quantity of cultivation equipment were found in a search of a flat on the promenade in Portstewart. Login or subscribe for more » Choose a Subscription type – required… About 30 cannabis plants and a large quantity of cultivation equipment were found in a search of a flat on the promenade in Portstewart. Login or subscribe for more » Choose a Subscription type – required.
Medical marijuana festival in California draws crowd.
Free with registration – America's Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Sep 30, 2006
Medical marijuana festival in California draws crowd. | The America’s Intelligence Wire (September, 2006). Organizers of the event said they strongly d.
Hemp Is At Hand
Vive Le Canada – Sep 30, 2006
An oft-quoted statistic is that hemp has more than 25,000 natural uses – ranging from food and oil supplements, made from its seeds, to strong industrial materials processed from its woody outer core. It is fast-growing and can thrive in British soil with little water and with no pesticides or other soil-polluting chemicals. The ban on hemp cultivation, imposed in 1971 under the Misuse of Drugs Act, was finally overturned in 1993. Campaigners successfully argued that although industrial hemp was a variety of the cannabis plant, it could be grown as a legitimate crop as it contained practically no tetrahydrocannabinol, the property that gives marijuana – a different strain of cannabis – its potent effect… It is fast-growing and can thrive in British soil with little water and with no pesticides or other soil-polluting chemicals. The ban on hemp cultivation, imposed in 1971 under the Misuse of Drugs Act, was finally overturned in 1993. Campaigners successfully argued that although industrial hemp was a variety of the cannabis plant, it could be grown as a legitimate crop as it contained practically no tetrahydrocannabinol, the property that gives marijuana – a different strain of cannabis – its potent effect. Pugh says: “It’s tragic when you think of the waste of natural resources – the thousands of trees that have been cut down to make paper when hemp could have been used, the tonnes of carbon dioxide that have been released into the air, the economies crippled by the cotton industry. All of this could have been avoided by using hemp. ”
Since 1993, the growth of the hemp industry has mostly been a matter of research and development. New farming and processing technology, and a lot of investment, are now needed to help industrial hemp to compete with other commercial crops.
Locked up: Cannabis farmers in triad link.
Free with registration – Europe Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Sep 30, 2006
–> COPYRIGHT 2006 Financial Times Ltd. (From The Northern Echo) Byline: Catherine Jewitt EIGHT people who ran three North-East drugs factories believed to be linked to Londonbased triads were given jail sentences yesterday. The seven men and one woman, who are all of Vietnamese origin, had been involved in the large-scale cultivation of cannabis at three houses in County Durham. Newcastle Crown Court heard that each cannabis factory had the potential to yield crops worth GBP200,000 a year. Police were alerted to the operation when a member.
Voters in Colorado, Nevada ponder proposals on pot
Rocky Mountain News – Sep 30, 2006
“Everybody likes to look at the states as laboratories,” McGuiresaid. “One state has a lower tax rate, so it has a leg up oncompetition for attracting business. Same is true with the legalizationof marijuana. If they succeed here, Colorado becomes a drug destinationand other movements in other states see it as they have a chancenow. Polling shows measures in both states failing. In Nevada, the Las VegasReview-Journal had a poll showing Question 7 failing 56 percent to34 percent.
‘Good people who?need it’ protest Rx pot arrests: 30 activists…
Free with registration – Modesto Bee – AccessMyLibrary.com – Sep 30, 2006
| Modesto Bee (Modesto, CA) (September, 2006). 30–Medical marijuana users took to the streets outside the Modesto Police Department on Friday to protest raids that shut down a McHenry Avenue clinic this week… –> COPYRIGHT 2006 The Modesto Bee Byline: Adam Ashton Sep. 30–Medical marijuana users took to the streets outside the Modesto Police Department on Friday to protest raids that shut down a McHenry Avenue clinic this week. Some of the roughly 30 protesters said they bought cannabis from the California Healthcare Collective, whose directors were arrested Wednesday by Drug Enforcement Administration agents on suspicion of federal marijuana distribution offenses. “The good people who really need it are being left out,” said Mark Conrad, 50, a Modesto man who said he uses medical marijuana to ease continual pain in his legs. Also Friday, Healthcare Collective directors Luke Scarmazzo and Ricardo Montes, both 26, pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking charges in federal court in Fresno. Two of their employees, brothers Jose Malagon,.