Snoop Dogg and reality-TV star Paris Hilton are endorsing a new pot-flavored candy that is stirring up controversy and generating criticism among New York City politicians.
Presently found in 43 stores across the Big Apple, Chronic Candy, hemp-rooted lollipops and gumdrops promises that "Every lick is like taking a hit." It's quickly becoming top choice for local costumers with the munchies, while drawing criticism from politicians who feel the candy promotes drug use to the youth.
Posted by ngiorgio on Lunedì, dicembre 27 @ 20:16:35 CET (274 reads)
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Joints aren' stronger than 25 years ago - euro drugs expert
THE average cannabis joint is no stronger than it was 25 years ago, say EU experts.
They have analysed official data from across the EU and concluded there have been no significant changes in cannabis potency.
Levels of the drug's active ingredient - D9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) - has remained virtually constant.
Cannabis resin (hashish) produced overseas comprised about 70 per cent of the UK market, with the rest being marijuana, around half of which was imported.
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Cops smash cannabis.com
By MIKE DARVILL
BRITAIN’S first suspected internet drug dealing ring has been smashed, it was revealed yesterday.
The million business is thought to have sold cannabis across the UK.
Customers used a secret password to access the site, which had pictures of drugs on offer. Orders were despatched by post.
Three people were arrested, several bank accounts were frozen and the suspect website was shut down during a police operation yesterday. The arrests followed an eight-month investigation.
Posted by ngiorgio on Mercoledì, dicembre 24 @ 10:07:54 CET (146 reads)
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Police crash marijuana cafe's opening, Two arrested at Montreal
MONTREAL (CP) -- Police arrested two people on Saturday as dozens of people celebrated the opening of a pot cafe by passing around joints and breathing in air thick with marijuana smoke.
Several police officers from a station less than a block away squeezed into Chez Marijane and arrested two men who were holding joints, said Hugo St-Onge, president of the Bloc Pot party.
"To tell you the truth, I'm surprised," St-Onge said when reached on his cell phone at the police station where he was helping the two men, aged 26 and 51.
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Rizla ad banned over drug reference
A promotion for cigarette papers has been banned by the advertising watchdog because it could be seen as condoning the use of cannabis.
The advert had the words "Twist and" above a packet of Rizla papers with a turn at one end and "burn" on one side.
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) carried out an investigation after receiving a complaint from a rival manufacturer who claimed the promotion "condoned the product's use for the consumption of illegal drugs".
Posted by ngiorgio on Giovedì, novembre 20 @ 14:41:34 CET (233 reads)
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Court Denies Alaska's Marijuana Case Appeal
Nov 16, 2003. The Alaska Court of Appeals has refused to reconsider its earlier ruling which allowed adults to possess small amounts of marijuana in the privacy of their homes for personal use. The state's Attorney General requested a rehearing of the court's August ruling in the case of a North Pole man.
David Noy of North Pole, Alaska appealed his 2001 conviction of possession of marijuana to the appeals court based on the Alaksa Suupreme Court's 1975 ruling in Ravin v State, in which it ruled that the state's constitution establishes a board right to privacy.
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Dutch May Ban Foreigners from Cannabis Coffee Shops
Responding to international pressure, the Netherlands is considering a proposal that would prohibit foreigners from patronizing the country's cannabis cafes, the Drug War Chronicle reported Oct. 31.
The issue was raised by German Interior Minister Otto Schily, who said many of Germany's citizens cross the border each day to consume and purchase cannabis. Americans and Britons also frequent the pot-selling "coffee shops."
