Man detained over cannabis haul
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- Men in court over £20000 cannabis find
- Cannabis Seed Issue Causes Voters to Reconsider
Man detained over cannabis haul
BBC News, UK
Strathclyde Police said officers stopped and searched the HGV on the A77, near to Holmston Road, Ayr, at about 1800 BST on Friday. Drugs, believed to be cannabis with an estimated street value of £860,000, were discovered inside. A report will be sent to the procurator fiscal. The man is expected to appear at Ayr Sheriff Court on Monday.
California: Marijuana law goes up in smoke as federal agents raid …
guardian.co.uk, UK
Gyrating opposite the Muscle Beach Gym on the boardwalk at Venice beach, she chanted her mantra in an eastern European accent. “The doctor is here! The doctor is here!”Sitting behind her in a beach chair, an equally bronzed young man repeated the single word: “Caliente!”The saleswoman changed her mantra: “Medical marijuana! Medical marijuana!” she said, proffering cards to the tourists ambling by. “Do you suffer from Aids, glaucoma, insomnia, cancer, migranes [sic], eating disorders, anxiety, depression, nausea, chronic pain or many other disorders?” asks the card. No appointment necessary. “The Medical Kush Beach Club is probably not what the voters of California envisaged when they passed proposition 215 - the Compassionate Use Act - in 1996.
Morphine-cannabis superpainkiller
New Scientist (subscription), UK
For example, it has recently become known that cannabinoids such as. 100-easing-the-agony.
Men in court over £20000 cannabis find
Southern Daily Echo, UK
hoskins@soton-echo. The trio were arrested after almost 25kilogrammes of the drug were found at Regency Logistics run by Christopher Bee. The 42-year-old businessman from Jersey, together with Paul McCarter, 53, from Bootle, Merseyside, and Ian Newbon, 39, also from Jersey, were charged with conspiring to export the cannabis to Jersey, where it is said to be worth £135,000. advertisementBee and McCarter were granted bail but Newbon was remanded in custody. He did not make a bail application.
Cannabis Seed Issue Causes Voters to Reconsider
PR CannaZine (press release), UK
Here we have major UK political party facing up to the realities of drug law prohibition and suggesting new ways forward. Maintaining the classification of cannabis as a Class C drug in the short term, but issuing policy guidance that it is not in the public interest to prosecute individuals for possession of cannabis for their own use, cultivation of small numbers of cannabis plants for their own use, or social supply of cannabis. In the longer term, seeking to put the supply of cannabis on a legal, regulated basis, subject to securing necessary renegotiation of the UN Conventions.