A CANNABIS crop with an estimated street value of $18 million has been found growing on leased land in a national park in northern NSW.

Two men have been charged with cultivating about 9,000 cannabis plants on two leased rural properties within the Chaelundi National Park near Dorrigo.

northernstar.com.au

Police have seized 1,250 plants in just one week from houses on Lambert Road, Grimsby, Stallingborough Road, Healing and Cartergate, Grimsby.

.thisisgrimsby.co.uk

1. Consumption and possession

By legal definition, the ‘use’ of Cannabis is not illegal but any other form of dealing with the substance is; especially production, possession, taking it across national borders and passing it on to others. So in practice, only smoking in an unconscious condition would not be illegal. The police have to report offences to the public prosecutor. Then the case may be put aside under probation or you are „invited“ to see the public health medical officer who then decides if you need any kind of therapy. If you do not agree to undergo the suggested therapy you will be formally convicted by court to pay a fine. The Administrative Court has ruled 1999 und dozens of times since then that consuming cannabis from time to time does not endanger your driving license, unless you drive in an intoxicated condition.

encod.org

On Thursday, 28th of January, 2010, the Antwerp Court of Appeal (Waalse Kaai 35A, 13e Room, Hall B, from 09.00 hs) will deal with the courtcase in appeal on the verdict against Trekt Uw Plant that was sentenced in february 2009 by the local Antwerp court. The case was scheduled earlier on 1st and 15th of October 2009, but on the request of the prosecutor general, it was postponed twice.

encod.org

After 40 years of defeat and failure, America's "war on drugs" is being buried in the same fashion as it was born – amid bloodshed, confusion, corruption and scandal. US agents are being pulled from South America; Washington is putting its narcotics policy under review, and a newly confident region is no longer prepared to swallow its fatal Prohibition error. Indeed, after the expenditure of billions of dollars and the violent deaths of tens of thousands of people, a suitable epitaph for America's longest "war" may well be the plan, in Bolivia, for every family to be given the right to grow coca in its own backyard.

independent.co.uk