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Morocco burns 10 tonnes of hashish

Agence France-PresseMay 10, 2013 12:16
Moroccan customs authorities on Thursday incinerated 9.5 tonnes of cannabis resin in a suburb of Casablanca, official media reported, days after record hashish hauls in neighbouring Spain. The drugs, which were seized in two separate operations last year by customs authorities at Casablanca port, were burned in the presence of government officials, police and members of the royal gendarmerie, the MAP news agency reported.

Cannabis: Pill better than smoking for pain relief

Agence France-PresseApril 22, 2013 12:15
Marijuana provides greater pain relief when taken in pill form than when it is smoked, according to a study published on Monday that touches on a controversial medical issue. Cancer and multiple-sclerosis doctors are looking more and more closely at cannabis for patients seeking relief from pain, and some jurisdictions allow the medical use of the drug for this purpose. But marijuana smoke also carries health risks, for it carries carcinogens and respiratory irritants and users tend to inhale deeply and hold their breath to gain maximum effect.

In Spain's Canaries, cannabis club thrives discreetly

Agence France-PresseApril 18, 2013 23:15
In the garden of the cannabis smoking club in the town of Mogan on Spain's Canary Islands, lush green marijuana leaves with serrated edges bask in the sun before being harvested, dried and processed to be consumed on site. Several members of the club located on the southwest coast of the island of Gran Canaria calmly roll a joint or smoke a water pipe while one man dissects fragrant dried marijuana flowers before storing them in a jar.

France cannabis campaigner convicted, fined

Agence France-PresseApril 18, 2013 12:32
One of France's leading campaigners for the decriminalisation of cannabis was Thursday given a suspended prison term and fined for possession and use of the drug. Dominique Broc is the founder of the cannabis social clubs, a movement that encourages members to grow the herb for their own use and avoid illegal dealers. The 44-year-old gardener said he would appeal his conviction, which came after police who visited his home in western France found 126 plants and 26 grammes of cannabis.

Italy police seize 20 tonnes of cannabis from ship

April 18, 2013 08:45
ROME (Reuters) - Italy seized more than 20 tonnes of cannabis on Thursday from a ship sailing off the island of Sicily. Coastguard officers escorted the boat to the Sicilian port of Marsala and discovered the hashish resin in burlap sacks, police said in a statement. Six crew members of Syrian origin were taken into custody. "This is the most important operation in the Mediterranean Sea in the past 10 years," Cristino Alemanno, of the Guardia di Finanza, said.

Russia takes Wikipedia cannabis article off blacklist

April 11, 2013 05:32
Experts from Russia’s telecoms and drug control regulators have approved new wording of a Wikipedia article on cannabis smoking and will soon remove it from the blacklist of prohibited websites, a telecoms watchdog (Roskomnadzor) representative told RIA Novosti. “We received the new wording of the article on cannabis and sent it to the experts, who have decided that it now meets our requirements,” said Roskomnadzor representative Vladimir Pikov. Last Friday, representatives of Russian-language Wikipedia published the watchdog's notification that it was blacklisting an article o

Italian police find ton of hashish in Dutch truck

April 6, 2013 07:30
Italian police on Saturday uncovered a ton of hashish worth 15 million euros ($19 million) in a frozen foods truck carrying potatoes and arrested its Dutch driver, the police said in a statement. The police said they became suspicious when they noticed the truck on the outskirts of Rome as part of an anti-drug investigation and found out that it was very far from its registered delivery point.

Seven nabbed with liquor

April 4, 2013 15:44
In a special operation, the police arrested seven accused and recovered liquor and hashish from them here the other day. Sources told that police conducted a raid in Shamsia colony and arrested Adnan, son of Bashir with three litres of liquor.In another raid, police nabbed Pervez alias Peiji near Press Club Chowk and recovered three bottles of liquor. Separately, an accused Akhtar Rasul was arrested with one bottle of liquor.

Dutch city wants to cultivate own cannabis

April 3, 2013 14:31
The southern Dutch city of Eindhoven has come up with a proposal it believes will curb the illegal supply of cannabis to the city's so-called coffee shops: they suggest growing it themselves. "The Eindhoven municipality has come out in favour of a pilot project regarding the controlled cultivation of cannabis," Eindhoven's mayor Rob van Gijzel said in a letter, a copy of which was handed to AFP on Wednesday.

Australia takes down drug ring with ties to Spain

March 22, 2013 15:31
Sydney, Mar 22 (EFE).- Australian police dismantled a drug trafficking ring with ties to Spain and other European countries, while seizing 117 kilos (258 pounds) of MDMA, which is used to make ecstasy, authorities said Friday. The confiscated drug could have produced up to 1.37 ecstasy pills with a street value of $54 million (42 million euros), according to a communique from the Australian Federal Police.
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