Der Anytrade-Geschäftsführer geriet in Verdacht, in seinem Laden Hanf zu horten. Doch die Polizei suchte vergebens Drogen.

bernerzeitung.ch

James Cook University researcher Alan Clough, who has been looking at the issue of indigenous drug use for the past five years, found cannabis use in remote communities was now as high as 70 per cent of people, with almost 90 per cent of users claiming to be addicted.

theaustralian.com

Israeli researcher finds the use of marijuana may help post-traumatic stress disorder patients.

The use of marijuana could help post-traumatic stress disorder patients, an Israeli study has found.

The study, carried out by Eti Ganon-Elazar, a research student at the Learning and Memory Lab in the University of Haifa's Department of Psychology, set out to examine the effectiveness of marijuana as a medical treatment for patients coping with post-traumatic stress.

themedialine.org

According to Nutt, the recently fired former chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, there are several changes that need to be made to the UK system. He feels that scientists should have a much freer hand in determining just how risky illegal drugs really are for one. Currently such decisions are made based on the decisions of the council’s minister regardless of the determinations they ask for from scientific advisors like David Nutt.

testcountry.com

It burns like marijuana, works like marijuana and it sort of looks like it, too.

And it's perfectly legal.

It's called K2, and area police confirm that the little bags of dried herbs are starting to pop up among teens and young adults.

K2 contains two synthetic cannabinoids created at Clemson University. Chemistry professor John W. Huffman said an undergraduate student working in his lab actually created one of the compounds, called JWH-018 after Huffman's initials.

mapinc.org

4:20 statt Spice

Meddy Willemsen ist wegen Drogenhandels und Mitgliedschaft in einer kriminellen Vereinigung angeklagt, weil er deutlich mehr Cannabis in seinen Räumen lagerte statt der staatlich erlaubten 500 Gramm.

Im Juni 2007 und im Mai 2008 hatte die Polizei in seinem Coffee-Shop "Checkpoint" und angrenzenden Gebäuden insgesamt 230 Kilogramm Cannabis gefunden. Der Prozess müsse die Frage klären, ob damit die Grundlagen der staatlichen Toleranzpolitik verletzt worden seien, sagte Staatsanwältin Saskia Meeuwis zum Prozessauftakt im südniederländischen Middelburg.

dnews.de

Police Chief Carmen Smith says he knows three things about suspected drug trafficker Artemio Corona: He's from Mexico, prefers a Glock .40-caliber handgun, and is quite possibly growing marijuana on the Indian reservation that Mr. Smith patrols.

Last year, Mr. Smith's detectives identified Mr. Corona as the alleged mastermind behind several large marijuana plantations on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation in central Oregon. These "grows," as police call them, had a harvest of 12,000 adult plants, with an estimated street value of $10 million. Five suspects were arrested and pleaded guilty to federal trafficking charges. But their alleged boss, Mr. Corona, who has not been indicted, remains a "person of interest" to federal authorities and hasn't been found.

wsj.com