Wire Stories on Hemp and Drug Policy
Volume II: Issues 19-28, 1994.

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Hemp News No. 28

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December 1, 1994 through January 24, 1995: New ACT Cannabis Laws Welcomed By Perth User; NSW MP Calls For Matching Cannabis Legislation; Marijuana Festival; Australia-Marijuana; Lawn; Reno - No Evidence On Drug Allegations; Japanese Man Seeks New Trial In Philippines; Chernobyl Zone Yields Drugs; Man Charged In Officers' Deaths; Teen Survey - Marijuana, Cocaine Use Up; Cannabis - The Facts; Dutch Govt To Lodge Protest Over U.S. Drug Report; Parental Oversight Lowers Drug Risk; Study Finds Parental Monitoring Affects Kid's Early; Marijuana Defendant Commits Suicide; Drug Comeback - One Sad Trend Lost In Shuffle; Canadian Province To Study Decriminalizing Drugs; Tattletale Son; Dutch Minister Proposes Regulating Soft Drugs; High Court To Hear Case Of Ex-Prisoner Who Accused Quayle; Marijuana Target Of New Ad Campaign; Clinical Use Of Cannabis Derivative Sanctioned - Report.

Hemp News No. 27

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October 13 through November 30, 1994: Britain Bars American Marijuana Smoker; Now Virgin Looks At Financial Services...And Dope; Marijuana Used As Medicine 'Banned'; Singapore Premier Says West Coddles Citizens; untitled [Boat Wreck Yields 77 Pot Bales]; State Pot Busts Net 82,700 Plants; Capital Notebook - Getting Plowed - A Token Crop Meets the Task Force; MP Calls For Hemp Industry In NSW; State Pot Busts Net 82,700 Plants; German Court Finds Hashish Safer Than Alcohol; Conservatives, Police Blast German Hashish Ruling; Clinton Warns Students Against Drug Use; Clinton To American Youth - Don't Inhale; Drug Survey; Many Flout Marijuana Laws In National Rally; Cannabis Seeds Expensive Bait For Scots Anglers; German Minister - Sell Hashish In Cafes; Cops Smell Something Fishy About Pot-seed Bait; Colombia- Legalized Drugs; Patch Cops Catch Political Pothead; Scientists Advocate Marijuana For The Ill; Pot Use Rises Among Mich. Youths; U.S. Scientists Advocate Medical Marijuana Use; White House-Marijuana; Netherlands-Hash Taxi; Briton Arrested For Possible Record Drug Swallow; Gesundheitsminister - Weiche Drogen Neu Bewerten - Modelle Pruefen; Thai Police Net Drug Pushers, Tourist From Full Moon Party; Dutch MPs Like A Drink, One In Four Has Tried Pot; One In Three Australians Say Legalise Marijuana; Highway Patrolman Arrested For Drug Smuggling; Hemp As A Kentucky Crop Under Study; High Times At Amsterdam Dope "Harvest Festival"; Speaker Gingrich; High Court To Decide School Drug Tests Of Athletes; Court To Review Ark. Door Knockdown; Dope Smoking OK For Medicinal Purposes Only; Drug Scandal Rocks Lebanon; Australia-Marijuana.

Hemp News No. 26

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September 9 through October 12, 1994: Seized 'Cocaine' Is Really Marijuana; Early Harvest For Marijuana Farm; 15 Years for a 17-Year-Old's First Drug Sale; Cannabis Pollen Clue To Smiles Of Italian Town; Drug Survey Finds Use Up; Customs Detector Dogs Celebrate 25 Years Of Service; Roadside Weed Drug Of Choice For Some U.S. Teens; Court Rules For Drug Tax Defendant; Jailed Police To Stay On Force Pending Appeal; Pro-pot Rally Wins Boston Permit; Bid To Legalise Pot Renews Old Campaign; Ashdown Jolted As Lib Dems Back Cannabis; Britain's Third Party Votes To Decriminalise Cannabis; Six Tourists Arrested For Drugs On Thai Island; Middle-aged Hippies Burst Into Danish Parliament; Bulls Media Director Arrested; Marijuana Festival This Weekend; Drug Policy; Paraguayan Anti-drug Chief Slain; Foreign Teachers Protest Drug Test Plans; Interpol Calls For Decriminalization Of Drug Abuse; Interpol Boss Clashes With France Over Drugs; Decriminalisation Doesn't Increase Cannabis Use - Study; Customs Concerned At Fall In Drug Busts.

Hemp News No. 25

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July 31 through August 28, 1994: Hong Kong Judges Want Cannabis Legalised; Drug Traffickers Buy Up Colombia's Farmland; Tas Greens Legislation To Liberalise Marijuana Laws; US-Lollapalooza; Slovaks Turn To FBI Curb Tonnes Of Smuggled Drugs, Arms; Drugs War Will Never Be Won - Customs; Mexico-Marijuana; Students To Be Disciplined For Alleged Pot-smoking; Apartment Renters Tested For Drugs; Policeman Arrested In Huge Australia Cannabis Haul; Workplace Drugs; SA Democrats Call For End To Marijuana Prohibition; Northwest-Marijuana; State Legislators Rethink '3 Strikes' Laws As Costs Begin To Hit Home; Netherlands-Drug Tourism; Man Accused Of Cannabis Plot Allowed Bail On Gold Coast; Man Due To Start Radiation Treatment Refused Bail; Indonesia Claims Rebel Group Funded By Drug Trade; Man Convicted Of Smuggling Marijuana; Malawian Man Says Drugs Were Cure For Evil Spirits; Three In Court After Outback Drug Crop Raid; Police Trainee In Court Over Cannabis; Crime Bill-Provisions; Dutch Drugs Policy Curbed In Borderless Europe; Medical Marijuana Bill Goes To California Governor; Cannabis Greenhouse Raid - Man Charged; Marijuana Plants Found At Hewlett- Packard Facility; Thai Full-Moon Frolics Must Cease, Police Say; Dutch Clamp Down On Soft Drug "Coffee Shops"; DEA Plane Destroyed In Peruvian Jungle.

Hemp News No. 24

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July 20 through July 28, 1994: Tx-Jail; Drug Use; Police Seize Drugs Worth $100,000; Minister Rejects Legalising Cannabis; Report - Poland Major Drug Producer; Police Grab Drugs From Pakistan Worth $23 Million; Singapore Charges Burmese Man After Heroin Haul; Business On Canabis Charges; Canadians High On Hemp's Market Potential; Two Charged Over Police 'Corruption' Claims; Readers Polled Want Marijuana Legalized; Australian Film Crew Caught With Drugs; Man Accused Of Being Mafia Chief Committed For Trial; Limo Riders Go Into Court; Thai FM Says Politician Gained $400 Mln From Drugs; Key Compromises - A Democratic Proposal For A Compromise Crime Bill Includes The Following Key Provisions, Which Would Cost $30.2 Billion And Would Terminate After Six Years.

Hemp News No. 23

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June 30 through July 19, 1994: Police In A Pickle Over Plastic Pot Plant; U.K. To Promote Non-food Crops For Industrial Use; Drugs-Drivers' Licenses; Two Europeans Could Face Death Penalty; Psychemedics (PCMCO) Hair Drug Test Gets Patent; Thai MP Threatens U.S. Over Drug Charge; China Says English Prisoner "Content"; Raids Net 2,070 Marijuana Plants; untitled [Sickle Cell Patient Arraignment]; Singapore To Hang Malaysian For Drugs - Newspaper; Irish Police Seize $15 Million Cannabis Cargo; Indonesia Uncovers Marijuana Field; Anti-drug Campaign Working, Lebanon Minister Says; Leader Of Drug Ring Sentenced To 40 Years; Democratic Party Leader Arrested; Bob Dylan Meets Havel, Dazzles Czech Audience; untitled [Sunday Telegraph Reports Bill Clinton Inhaled]; Let's Get Soft On Criminals!; Put the Nonviolent to Work; Burmese Burn Mountain Of Drugs; Nearly Two Tonnes Of Drugs Torched In Burma; Marijuana Ban; untitled [Mexico Seizes 4 Tons of Pot].

Hemp News No. 22

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May 20 through June 10, 1994: Counterculture "Beats" Celebrate 50th Anniversary; 600 Pot Plants in Hastings House; Yacht Found in Channel With Cannabis And No Crew; Criminalizing Jennifer Capriati; Dutchmen, Spaniard Convicted in British Drug Case; U.N. Unveils Anti-drug Plan for Kazakhstan; Stubborn (and Wrong) on Sentences; Weedstock; Australian Doctors Urge Cannabis Decriminalisation; Feud Hurts Bid to Stop Drug Flow; State, Defense Battle Cuts Peru, Colombia From Radar Access; Australia Stirs Political Pot On Marijuana; Porno-watching Bishop Resigns In Seychelles; Loose Borders Within Ex-USSR Help Drug Drug Smugglers; Colombia-Drugs; Dutch Preacher Opens Church To Drug Dealers; U.S. Drug Allegations Upset Thais - 3 Legislators Accused In Trafficking Cases; U.S. Prison Population Sets Record In 1993; Prisons Hold A Record 948,881 - Since '80, Inmate Total Has Nearly Tripled; Prisons; Belgian Police Seize 13.5 Tonnes Of Marijuana In Antwerp; Supreme Court Strikes Down Tax On Marijuana; Drug Tax; Almost a Million; Court Voids Tax On Illegal Drugs, Casting Doubt on a Popular Levy; UB40 To Complete N. Zealand Tour Despite Drug Find; Britain Rejects Police Call To Decriminalize Drugs; Interpol Chief Urges Decriminalization Of Drugs; Albania Begins Anti-drug Campaign; Ibero-American Summit To Tackle Drug Problem; Man Sentenced For Transporting Marijuana; Boot Camp Suspended; U.N. Mission Says No Drugs Cultivation In Lebanon; Singapore To Hang Nigerian Drug-trafficker.

Hemp News No. 21

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May 10 through May 18, 1994: Singer Willie Nelson Arrested on Marijuana Charge; Drug Use in U.S. On Rise, Government Says; Helpful Jurors; Thai Politician in Drug Scandal Faces Expulsion; U.S. Offers To Assist Thai Politician's Travel; Morocco Seizes More Than a Tonne of Hashish; Thai Pot Smuggled To Poland Ends Up Back In Bangkok; Rodham Qualifies; Senior Citizen Jailed For Pot Growing; untitled [Singapore Hangs 6 for Drugs]; Singapore Hangs Six Malaysian Drug Traffickers; Stronger British Drug Law Faces Many Critics; Festnahmen Bei Verbotenem Haschisch-Happening - Einer Hatte 436 Gramm Dabei - "Das Geht Ja Wohl Ueber Den Eigengebrauch Deutlich Hinaus"; Koalition Beschaeftigt Sich Mit Karlsruher "Haschisch-Urteil" - Lintner - NRW - Beschluss Unverantwortlich; Capriati Arrested; Germany Rejects Drug Decriminalization; Romania Police Claim Inroads Into Drug Smuggling; More Thai Politicians Face U.S. Drug Suspicion; Germany-Drugs.

Hemp News No. 20

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April 16 through May 9, 1994: untitled [College Students in Survey Favor Legalization]; Irish Farmers Seek Permission To Grow Cannabis; Crime Bill; untitled [Three Strikes]; untitled [Alice in Chains Member Sentenced for Pot, Theft]; Firefighters Discover Marijuana; Clinton Talks to Teenagers About Guns and Music; Smelly Deposit; Around the Statehouse; Cocaine-Double Agent; German, Swiss Could Face Death Penalty; S. Africa's Soccer Party Pledges Sex and Drugs; untitled [Memory Lapse?]; Darmstadt Verbietet Geplantes "Haschisch-Wochenende"; PharmChem Reports Improved First Quarter Results; European Drug Agency Launched; Sheriff Sentenced; AP Arts - High Times 20th; German Supreme Court Loosens Anti-Hashish Laws; Karlsruhe - Haschisch-Erwerb in Geringen Mengen Straffrei; Karlsruhe lockert Haschisch- Verbot; Student Drug Use and Abuse Grows; Switzerland-Money Laundering; German Officials, Police Split Over Hashish Ruling; German Conservatives Say "No" To Pro-Hashish Ruling; Unionspolitiker kritisieren Haschisch-Urteil - Kriminalbeamte - Nach Haschisch Auch Einbruch Freigeben? - Warnung vor Drogen im Verkehr; Unionspolitiker kritisieren Haschisch-Urteil; Aids-Hilfe Begruesst Haschisch-Urteil - Strafrechtler fuer Freigabe; Tyler Seeks Extradition of Louisiana Man for Possessing Hemp Seed; Karlsruher Haschisch-Urteil Weiter Umstritten; untitled [49 Lbs. of Pot Found in Grupo Mazz Truck]; U.S. Seeks Freezing of Thai Politician's Assets; Court Nixes Drug Tests for Prep Athletes; Keine Einigung Der Laender-Justizminister Ueber Umgang Mit Karlsruher Haschischurteil - Seehofer Rechnet Mit Loesung "In Einiger Zeit"; German Government Denies Court Legalized Drugs; Seehofer Versucht Erwartungen Nach Haschisch-Urteil Zu Daempfen - "Kein Recht Auf Rausch" - Laender Muessen Richtschnur Festlegen; Interpol To Help East Europe Police Fight Crime; Thai MP Denies Drug Charges; Colombia-Drugs; Barney Trial; Colombian President Rejects Drug Ruling; untitled [Ken Kesey Addresses Springfield High School Students]; Colombia-Drugs; Marijuana Pipe; Colombia-Drugs.

Hemp News No. 19

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February 16 through April 15, 1994: Bloomington Sees Record Pot Bust, Makes Marijuana a Ticketable Offense; Medical Marijuana; untitled [Allen Ginsberg Retrospective]; San Diego Favors Lifting Ban on Medical Marijuana Use; Strip Searches; Grandparents Caught With 100 Pounds of Pot; Eight Indicted on Drug Charges; Chiropractor Who Grew Pot For Patient Convicted; War On Drugs A Failure, Says Colombian Law Official; untitled [Dr. Hook Pot Bust]; U.N. Agency Rejects Any Legalization Of Abuse Drugs; Colombia To Shoot Down Drug Planes - Minister; Chicago Alderman Proposes Decriminalizing Pot; New Age Hippies Follow Old Drug, Sex Trail To Goa; Gubernatorial Candidates Wary of Inmate Early Release Programs; Ranch Raid; One Of "15 Most Wanted" Fugitives Nabbed In Oregon; Canadian Government Wants To Allow Hemp Farming Again; Canadian Government Wants to Allow Hemp Farming Again; Two Spartans Arraigned For Selling Dope; Housekeeping-Drugs; Enforcement Sought At 'Hash- Bash'; Drug Sales Tax; 69 Arrested At Michigan's Hash Bash; Views On Marijuana Clash in Lansing; Little Debbie Makers Fuming At Little Doobie Shirts; Drug Sentence Of Former DA Upheld; Little Debbie; Ambassador's Sons Charged With Marijuana Smuggling; Dutch Leader Cuts Short Jakarta Visit; untitled [Wesley Snipes Incident]; Dutch Official Admits Drug Probe Errors; California Cash; Mitchell, Cabranes Said to Top High Court List; Senate Majority Leader, Hispanic Judge Offer Clinton Choices on Opposite Ends of Spectrum; Drug Ads; Danish Illegal Hash Traders End Drugs Law Protest; Survey Finds Teens See Little Risk in Occasional Drug Use; Marijuana - A Cambodian Surprise For Tourists; Puerto Rico-Drugs; Moroccan Police Seize 1.6 Tonnes of Cannabis; Elderly-Drugs; Schoolchildren Claim Right To Carry Knives.