Hi Police find cannabis plants in Hook, Chessington, teen drug dealer's garden Monday 9th August 2010 By David Lindsell Police raided the home of a teenage drug dealer and found cannabis plants in his garden, just a few days before he was due to be sentenced for his crimes, a court has heard. The 17-year-old from Hook, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told Kingston magistrates he thought taking and dealing drugs was “the right thing to do”. Police raided his house on March 2 and found in his bedroom 29.3g of cannabis in differently sized wraps and 125 in notes in separate stashes. At first he lied and said the drugs were for personal use...

Hi August 09, 2010 HOPE HODGE It’s everywhere and it’s legal, but spice, a new designer drug gaining popularity in Jacksonville, may not be harmless. Spice, sold by the gram in foil packets and also known as K2 and by a host of other aliases, typically comes with the label “herbal incense — not for human consumption.” But though use and possession of spice is explicitly banned in the Marine Corps, many troops smoke it as a drug substitute that won’t pop positive on a urinalysis. A Marine staff noncommissioned officer based at Cherry Point, who asked not to be identified for fear of disciplinary action, said the substance was ubiquitous...

Hi URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v10/n636/a03.html Newshawk: Dale Gieringer www.canorml.org Votes: 1 Webpage: http://mapinc.org/url/BtMchV4z Pubdate: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 Source: Sacramento Bee (CA) Page: A1, Front Page Copyright: 2010 The Sacramento Bee Contact: http://www.sacbee.com/2006/09/07/19629/sub...the-editor.html Website: http://www.sacbee.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/376 Author: Peter Hecht, Sacramento Bee Cited: Proposition 19 http://www.taxcannabis.org/ Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/topic/Proposition+19 Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?115 (Cannabis - California) WEED GOES MAINSTREAM John Wade, 43, a San Francisco commercial...

Hi Trainee chef gets jail, whipping but twin brother acquitted MARHALIM ABAS Monday, August 9th, 2010 SHAH ALAM: A trainee chef was sentenced to nine years jail and 10 strokes of the rotan after he was found guilty of drug possession at the High Court here today. Teh Ghim Soon, 27, had earlier faced death by hanging but the charge against him was amended to possession during the course of trial. Ghim Soon's twin, Gim Aun, was acquitted of the charge by judge Dr Badariah Sahamid at the end of the prosecution case. The facts of the case stated that police had found cannabis amounting to 450 grammes inside a Honda Accord bearing the registration number WFV 2617 with...

Hi BC Hydro's new digital technology will be able to detect some marijuana growing operations By Scott Simpson, Vancouver Sun August 8, 2010 One of British Columbia's biggest underground industries could find itself short-circuited by a BC Hydro technology upgrade. Hydro is moving ahead with a plan to replace mechanical electricity meters with smart meters across the province that are expected to make it a lot tougher for indoor marijuana growers to conceal their operations. Smart meters represent the first major upgrade on conventional analog electricity meters in a half century. Hydro last month issued a request for proposals for companies to bid on...

Thousands of pot users will flock to the Toronto branch of The Church of the Universe to join if a court recognizes its unlimited marijuana use as religious freedom, a federal prosecutor warned Thursday. Lawyer Nicholas Devlin of the Public Prosecution Service of Canada also told Justice Thea Herman if she grants charter rights to two

For years, Loveland resident Pat Dupree wanted to re-enter the business of selling products all made from hemp. In 1993, Dupree had opened a shop in Chapel Hill, N.C., that lasted only six months because he could not obtain any quality products, he said. Plus, he had a family to raise, he added. In

Sacramento, CA — John Wade, 43, a San Francisco commercial lighting specialist, takes a quick hit from a marijuana cigarette on the golf course to steady himself before putting. Sarika Simmons, 35, of San Diego County, sometimes unwinds after the kids are asleep with tokes from a fruit-flavored cigar filled with

By Mike DeBonis Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, August 7, 2010 District liquor regulators will play a lead role in the city's new medical marijuana program when it debuts Jan. 1, according to draft rules issued Friday by Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D). Under the regulations, the city health department would be responsible for registering legal marijuana users. But the licensing and oversight of the facilities that will grow and distribute medical cannabis would be handled by the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board and its enforcement arm, the Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration. The prospect of having the same regulators overseeing medical marijuana and liquor stores...

hxxp://www.channel4.com/programmes/our-drugs-war/articles/poll-should-drugs-be-legal Probably won't make much, if any difference in the grand scheme of things, but hey, if enough of us vote it may catch someones attention.