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Despite the Netherlands liberal reputation for allowing ‘coffee shops’ the small scale cannabis growers who supply them are being threatened with extinction due to increased police harassment.
The result is that coffee shops in Amsterdam and elsewhere in the Netherlands are now selling lower quality, and even dangerously adulterated merchandise sourced from major criminals,...
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A jury in Texas has found a man guilty of possession of less than five pounds but more than four ounces of marijuana in a ‘drug-free zone’. The jury in the 7th District Court with Judge Kerry Russell presiding then sentenced Henry Walter Wooten, 54, to 35 years confinement in prison. They did not...
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As over 300 people sit on death row in Malaysia, many of them for relatively minor cannabis dealing charges, a delegation of protesters against the death penalty, especially for social drug offences such as cannabis dealing, had a brief but friendly meeting with Malaysian Embassy officials today in London.
A statement from ENCOD which is...
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Flying into Kuala Lumpur with Malaysia Airlines there is an announcement: “Drug Trafficking carries a mandatory death penalty. Welcome to Malaysia.” Malaysia would definitely kill for pot.
In Malaysia, as in 21 other countries in the world, people who use or possess relatively small quantities of drugs, including cannabis, are sentenced to death. These...
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Marc Emery, publisher of Cannabis Culture Magazine, could be finally extradited from Canada to the inhuman US Gulag prison system as early as this week.
Marc is currently out on bail after 52 days waiting in a Canadian jail to be extradited (see interview below). However, unless the Canadian authorities have a last minute change...
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All over Britain people are being ‘itemised’ by a new machine called the Itemiser which is being used by the police to test for drugs and explosives.
More than 400 people were ‘Itemised’ in one night by police in Reading recently.
The Itemiser is a desktop testing lab which can detect traces of all kinds of...
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Medical marijuana advocates and users confront Los Angeles police during a Drug Enforcement Administration raid of a medical marijuana dispensary on July 25, 2007.
Years of campaigning, thousands of busts, lives ruined, and untold needless pain may be coming to a close in the US as it seems that the strange medical and legal...
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There’s a lot of bad dope on cannabis going round at the moment, enough to make any decent cannabis user suffer from paranoia.
The worst strain of bad stuff is of course the government’s decision to make their cannabis policy ‘Class B’ for baloney. This comes into effect tomorrow and has cannabis users...
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schmoo has just heard that the massive ‘Hemp Expo 2006′ organised by the cannabis magazine ‘Weed World’ at the newly opened Ricoh Arena in Coventry, has been banned by the local council.
more at schmoo on the run
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