Elaborate marijuana farm discovered near Dallas
The News Review:
- Elaborate marijuana farm discovered near Dallas
- Kiwi drugs behaviour revealed
- Outdoor enthusiasts asked to look out for marijuana
- Cannabis too pricy for most
- Italian Courts Single out Rastas for Cannabis
- Cannabis Users Anger at Seed Ban Bill
Elaborate marijuana farm discovered near Dallas
Houston Chronicle, United States
Deputies discovered the operation under the detached garage of a house in Red Oak, about 20 miles south of Dallas. The owner of the house, Dwayne Marshall Nielsen, 46, was charged with possession of marijuana and released from jail on a $40,000 bond, Sheriff’s Capt. Danny Williams said Friday in a report in the online edition of The Dallas Morning News. A task force that included sheriff’s deputies, Red Oak police and the U.
Kiwi drugs behaviour revealed
Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand
Despite recent attention to a supposed P epidemic, the national Illicit Drug Monitoring System report released yesterday showed Christchurch has continued its tradition as a cannabis and opiates stronghold. Opiates, usually morphine sulfate converted into heroin and injected, were the second most commonly used drug in Christchurch after cannabis. They ranked seventh in Auckland and fifth in Wellington. A telling statistic was that 62 per cent of Christchurch drug users felt qualified to talk about opiates compared with only 25 per cent in Auckland and 35 per cent in Wellington. Opiates were Christchurch's "drug of choice" while Auckland's was P and Wellington's was ecstasy. Accordingly, Christchurch had a higher availability of opiates than Wellington and Auckland and a large efficient black market for the drugs, the report said.
Outdoor enthusiasts asked to look out for marijuana
Bay Mills News, MI
“To avoid apprehension and forfeiture of their property, growers often plant marijuana on public land or on the property of others, making it common to find marijuana plants in farm fields, backyards, natural forest openings and the shores of lakes, rivers, streams and swamps. ” Indicators of outdoor grow operations include unusual amounts of traffic; use of camping equipment or recreational vehicles on wooded property with no evidence of recreational activities; persons with little or no farming experience who purchase fertilizer, plastic PVC piping, chicken wire, camouflage netting and clothing; large amounts of PVC piping or irrigation hoses located in heavily wooded areas; and patrolled or guarded woods, swamps and other remote areas. To report a suspected marijuana grow site, call 1-800-235-HEMP (4367). Callers can remain anonymous. Individuals should not attempt to take actions themselves, but instead report the site to law enforcement as soon as possible. Last year, 23,198 plants were found growing outdoors and 12,388 plants were found growing indoors, an increase from the 26,716 plants located in 2006. “Michigan licenses more than 750,000 hunters each year, and there are countless outdoor enthusiasts who enjoy the natural resources found in the nearly seven million acres that make up our state and national forests.
Cannabis too pricy for most
PR CannaZine (press release), UK
Soap-bar is a lot cheaper, but also a lot more dangerous by way of unknown contaminants. Avoid it if you can and feel good about your own efforts to reduce personal harm from cannabis use. Cannabis was always at the bottom of the menu, with drug buyers needing to spend only £10 on average, to score a deal. Heroin and cocaine, "cut" by dealers with adulterants to make up the weight more often than not, started at around £40-£50 per gram. But in the shadow of the governments announcement of their intention to reclassify cannabis back to a class B drug, prices have rocketed, making cannabis the more expensive drug of choice. Wholesale prices for green "herbal" cannabis are higher than they have been for a long time in the UK, with drug dealers in some area's paying their suppliers as much as £160 an ounce for low-to-medium quality flower buds, a deal which is then bulked up with leaf matter, which contains little or no psycho-active THC, (the component which gets the user stoned).
Italian Courts Single out Rastas for Cannabis
PR CannaZine (press release), UK
”Human Rights law acknowledges the Right of people as individuals to choose, to hold and to change, their religion or belief, and to practice those beliefs alone or with others - it says nothing about the need for a belief to be accepted by any authority such as Government or Courts, and is quite specific about when and only when authorities can interfere with that Right: if it can be shown that they are in some way threatening public health, public order, national security or morals, or the Rights of others. ”Therefore it is essential that our Government stop the police from invading people's private lives and preventing them from practicing their beliefs and in this case we refer to the consumption of cannabis so long as it does no harm to others. " Winston Matthews of Surrey, a spokesman for the LCA, said: "This has been ground breaking in that cannabis is now been recognised as a sacrament. Members of The Coptic church also use cannabis in this way. , as do Sadhu's in India, and members of other Churches. People use cannabis all over the world for this reason. “It could also be used recreationally and medicinally as its a very useful plant.
Cannabis Users Anger at Seed Ban Bill
PR CannaZine (press release), UK
Ingo Wagenknecht, a spokesman for the Legalise Cannabis Alliance (UK) said: “Such a bill will not only be unenforceable, impractical and an outright waste of taxpayers money to enforce. It will diminish our agricultural choices and introduce a Government-led cartel regime as to what species can be grown. Farmers, just as with GMO’s, currently growing hemp for industrial and medicinal purposes under Government license, would have to agree not to sell or save seeds for the next year, a ludicrous suggestion that belies Lib Dem unity on their policies. ”He added: ”The Hemp genus is far too valuable to us to have it further prohibited, indeed it is criminal to withhold it from society when it could benefit us so much, never mind the drugs that can be won from it. "Whilst splitting the Lib Dems and self-deluding us into believing that they are tough on drugs, especially at this point in time when we are looking for real alternatives to our oil based economies when we want to cut down on CO2 and want to reduce harm to our youngsters, our future taxpayers and pension providers, this proposal does nothing to forward debate. It perpetuates the same old prohibitive messages that have served to proliferate drugs and keep it in the hands of criminals. ”“How can you have a policy wanting to legalise cannabis and then ban the seeds?"Until this bill 136 falls, we will be advising our members to only vote for candidates that have voiced their support for the equal application of the Human Rights act, the legalisation and control over cannabis and for real harm reduction in society”"The LCA urges all MP’s to deny this bill a second reading on October 17th.