The New Mexico Department of Health on Friday announced changes to its medical marijuana regulations, one of which will add to the supply of legally grown marijuana by increasing the number of plants licensed producers can grow from 95 to 150.

Another change will create a permanent revenue stream to allow the program to pay for itself by increasing producer fees.

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Vor der Internationalen Presse eingehüllt in seine intellektuelle Würde waren dem Pariser Verleger Michel Sitbon keine Worte hart genug, um den Fall Rappaz zu kommentieren. Seit einigen Wochen ist er Koordinator des Internationalen Komitees zur Unterstützung des Walliser Hanfbauer. Sein Aufruf ist von Daniel Cohn-Bendit, José Bové und Mgr Jacques Gaillot unterschrieben worden, um nur die bekanntesten zu nennen. Er war gestern in Genf an der Seiten von Jean Ziegler, Jean-Charles Rielle und Christian Brunier. Sie alle verurteilen die schwere der Strafe die gegen Bernard Rappaz verhängt wurde und vor allem den unverständlichen Mangel an Flexibilität des Bundesgerichts aber auch der Walliser Justizbehörden.

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Die Anhänger des Hanfbauers haben am 17.12.2010 die Internationale Presse eingeladen

POLICE busted a "significant" cannabis factory because its grow lights melted all the SNOW on its roof.

Officers responding to reports of suspicious behaviour said the house was the only one not thickly blanketed after last week's snowfall.

On Thursday they raided the house in Aylestone, Leicester, and found more than 300 cannabis plants.

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A Crevillent man used clothes lines to dry the marihuana plants he had grown in his home

A man from Crevillent, Alicante, has been arrested by the Guardia Civil for growing 198 marihuana plants in the interior patio of his home.

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.. was seized by U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the Rio Grande Valley Sector over a six-day span that began last Friday and ended Wednesday.

In multiple, unrelated incidents that occurred throughout the sector, agents confiscated nearly 8 tons of marijuana.

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In what the police called a rare type of seizure, a routine traffic stop early Sunday in Queens led officers to more than a quarter of a ton of marijuana.

Two officers in an unmarked car noticed a white 2010 Dodge Caravan run a red light and make a quick turn without signaling about 4 a.m. Sunday at the intersection of Merrick Boulevard and Farmers Boulevard. The officers, members of the anticrime unit in the 113th Precinct, followed the vehicle and tried to get the driver to pull over. Instead, the driver sped off, leading the officers on a five-block chase, according to the police.

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Almost $20 million worth of the drug ecstasy has been uncovered inside a van in northern NSW.

The van was stopped on the Kamilaroi Highway at Quirindi for a random breath test about 2pm (AEDT) last Wednesday.

A search of the van allegedly uncovered seven cardboard boxes of chemical glassware used to make drugs.

Two Sydney men, both aged 27, were charged with possessing drug manufacturing apparatus. They appeared in court later that day and were granted conditional bail.

Meanwhile, the van was forensically examined by police attached to the Chemical Operations Unit.

They allegedly located 19.5kg of MDMA, otherwise known as ecstasy, hidden in the van and a search was immediately launched for the two men.

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A Thai woman swallowed more than 1,200 ecstasy pills wrapped in plastic and tried to smuggle them into the Indonesian resort island of Bali, officials said Monday.

Customs officials said Ueamduen Sophawat, 24, appeared nervous and was found to have a hard stomach during a body search at Bali's international airport as she arrived Thursday on a flight from Bangkok.

She was taken to hospital and 1,280 ecstasy pills were found in her stomach, Bali customs chief I Made Wijaya told a press conference.

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