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Trinidad and Tobago Express Friday 06 Oct 2006 --- Members of the Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard have made a $2.5 million marijuana haul off the coast of Point Lisas. Coast Guard officers got a tip-off from the Customs and Excise Division that a cargo vessel in the Pt Lisas area was...

Friday 06 Oct 2006 --- The largest Marihuana plantation ever found in the province of Málaga has been found in Marbella. The National Police found more than 400 plants in flowerpots and hidden inside the basement of a large Marbella luxury villa. The installation had systems for automatic...

USA -- The Dixie Chicks' difficulties pale in comparison with John Lennon's. The man quoted (incorrectly) as saying the Beatles were more popular than Jesus caused an international uproar thereby. Years of such brouhahas and 24/7 media coverage gave him the false sense that he could say...

California -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's veto of a bill to legalize the growing of industrial hemp as a valuable -- and non-intoxicating -- cash crop is a perfect example of federal control run amok . . . as if we didn't have plenty examples of that in California already. The legalization of...

USA -- On Tuesday, Drug Enforcement Administration agents swooped down upon the premier medical marijuana club in California’s Bay Area, targeting its dispensary and seven ancillary locations in San Francisco and Oakland. By destroying and confiscating property, seizing medical records...

Alberta 05 Oct 2006 by Tony Blais, Not having a smelly dead body in the basement of his north-side home helped a city man get marijuana-growing charges against him dismissed yesterday. [Name redacted] , 30, was accused of producing a controlled substance, possession for the purpose of...

Ontario 05 Oct 2006 More than $6.5 million in marijuana plants were found by drug investigators during a five-day sweep of the area last month. Members of the Kawartha Combined Forces Drug Unit conducted the sweep Sept. 18 to 22 in Peterborough County, City of Kawartha Lakes...

British Columbia 05 Oct 2006 by Ted Colley, Surrey Now, SURREY - City hall is intensifying its hunt for marijuana growing operations. Council has approved more than doubling a five-member team of electrical and fire inspectors that, escorted by police, has been at work for about a year...

British Columbia 05 Oct 2006 by Stuart Hunter, staff writer, 1.84 Million B.C.ers Had Tried Marijuana At Least Once In 2004 We've gone to pot. British Columbians have greater access to marijuana, and smoke it more often, than other Canadians, according to a joint study. The study, by...

Chicago -- Pete Guither's attempt to criticize the war on drugs has become a war of its own. When an exhibition sponsored by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration opened at the Museum of Science and Industry in August, Guither showed up with a sack full of pamphlets denouncing the...

Indiana -- Many studies and statistics show that the effects of alcohol are more harmful, both short- and long-term, than those of marijuana. Organizations like Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation, or SAFER, are attempting to make marijuana laws comparable to alcohol laws. Short-term...

Nevada -- Question 7 on this year's general election ballot has caught the attention of many organizations within Nevada, as well as that of the U. S. Drug Czar's Office. Recently, Deputy Drug Czar Tom Burns visited Pahrump as a guest of the Nye Communities Coalition to discuss the matter. The...

Ontario 03 Oct 2006 by Ian Elliot, Man Shot As Fake Officer Targets His Medicinal Marijuana A man shot during a home invasion is recovering in a Kingston hospital today, while the OPP search for the men who posed as officers in order to steal his medicinal marijuana. Police said he was...

Mississippi -- Research scientists at the University of Mississippi plan to use a recently awarded $11 million grant to develop Tetrahydracannabinol mini-patches and study the euphoric effects of marijuana among other projects in a new neuroscience research center. Ole Miss's School of Pharmacy...

San Francisco - Federal drug agents raided a marijuana dispensary, grow sites and associated businesses in San Francisco and Oakland on Tuesday, arresting 15 people and seizing marijuana, property and cash. The Drug Enforcement Administration conducted raids on five locations in San Francisco...

Kerry McQueeney Redhill & Reigate Life Tuesday 03 Oct 2006 --- A CROYDON mum-of-two who uses cannabis to relieve crippling leg pain said she will be forced to turn to criminals after an organisation providing the drug free of charge for sick people was forced to close. The 52-year-old...

Switzerland 02 Oct 2006 LAUSANNE, Switzerland - The World Anti Doping Agency ( WADA ) has defended the continued inclusion of cannabis on its prohibited list of substances following criticism that the ban is placing unnecessary strain on sporting federations. IAAF council member and...

Monday 02 Oct 2006 --- The RCMP seized more than 20,000 plants in New Brunswick during their annual marijuana eradication program, a force spokesman said Monday. Operation Sabot was conducted between Aug. 22 and Sept. 19. Every year, the RCMP and the military scour New Brunswick for...

Nunavut 02 Oct 2006 by Kent Driscoll, Northern News Services, Iglulik - Nunavut's most outspoken marijuana advocate will serve time behind bars because of the very thing he promotes. After pleading guilty to trafficking and laundering the proceeds of crime, Ed DeVries was sentenced to six...

Nevada -- A dozen Northern Nevada religious leaders plan to announce today they support the initiative to legalize marijuana. "I know of no place else in the country where a group of religious leaders is coming together to speak with a unified voice with regulating marijuana," said Troy Dayton...