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GPS Directs Confused Canuck Into U.S.; He Gets Busted For Pot

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By on Global, News

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​​Welcome to America! A Canadian man is in a U.S. jail after the GPS in his vehicle directed him to a remote border crossing, where agents found a pound of marijuana in his car and busted him.

Darrell Fudge, 54, was driving from British Columbia back to his home in Newfoundland Sunday and said he did not intend to enter the United States. But his GPS gave him the shortest route, which led through northern Maine, authorities said.
Federal agents claimed they found the cannabis in a cooler, according to The Associated Press. They turned the case over to the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency.
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Another Huge Mexico-U.S. Marijuana Tunnel Found At Border

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Graphic: Daily Mail
The half-mile marijuana smuggling tunnel connecting Mexico and the U.S. reportedly held several tons of marijuana

​Border police in Mexico and the United States have discovered another drug smuggling tunnel linking the Mexican city of Tijuana with California. The half-mile tunnel was used to smuggle marijuana into the U.S., police said.

It isn’t far from where authorities found a similar tunnel earlier this month, equipped with rails, ventilation and lights, reports the BBC.
Police are still investigating, but local media are speculating that the new tunnel — almost 2,600 feet long — could be even more sophisticated than the first.
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Canada Supreme Court: No Privacy For Marijuana Grow-Ops

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By on Global, Growing, News

Graphic: Democracy Cell Project

​Electricity usage records are now effectively the property of the police in Canada — and they don’t even need a warrant. Law enforcement did not overstep their powers when they asked a Calgary electricity company to spy on one of its customers by installing a special tracking device to find if he was growing marijuana, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled on Wednesday.

In a 7-2 decision, Canada’s badly split highest court argued over privacy rights, but overturned an Alberta Court of Appeal judgment that ordered a new trial for Daniel Gomboc, reports The Canadian Press.
“As is true of all constitutional rights, the Charter’s protection is not absolute,” Madam Justice Marie Deschamps wrote for the majority, as she sold out the privacy rights of Canadians. “The Constitution does not cloak the home in an impenetrable veil of privacy. To expect such protection would not only be impractical; it would also be unreasonable.”
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Finland: First-Ever Helsinki Smokeout Gets Heavy Police Presence

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Alexandra Sandbäck: “What exactly did they think we would do? Storm the building?”

​‘What did they think we would do – storm the building?’


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Last Saturday the first-ever Radical March and Helsinki Smokeout was held by pro-cannabis advocates in Finland.

At 4:20 p.m., a big group of people lit up joints, bongs and pipes in front of the Parliament Building in Helsinki to support, as the organizers stated, “…decriminalization of the use of cannabis, possession of small quantities and farming for personal use to adults.”
The march, organized by Defenders of Nature (Luonnon Puolustajat), started from Hesperia Park at 4 p.m., gathering a crowd of about 200 to 300 people from all over Finland, journalist/activist Alexandra Sandbäck told Toke of the Town on Tuesday.
“Some of the participants arriving by bus from Pori were held up by police outside the city center for what was called a ‘routine control’ of tires, logs, and whatever else,” Sandbäck told us. “After 30 minutes, they let the bus continue on after giving the driver a fine for something minor. The bus went straight to the Parliament Building where people were getting ready to light up.”
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Farmer Busted With 12 Plants, 11 Lbs. Pot; Said It Was Duck Food

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Photo: The Huffington Post

​A farmer in France has been given a one-month suspended jail sentence for feeding cannabis to his 150 ducks.

Michel Rouyer was arrested after police found 12 cannabis plants and 11 pounds of marijuana during a search of his home in the village of Gripperie-Saint-Symphorien, reports Metro.co.uk.
“There’s no better worming substance for them; a specialist advised me to do it,” the farmer said.
His lawyer, Jean Piot, added, “This is for real; not one [duck]has worms and they’re all in excellent health.”
But authorities thought he was a quack.
“We have never investigated a case like this,” police said. Rouyer was given a one-month suspended jail sentence and fined 500 euros (about $700).
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There Goes An Industry: Dutch To Ban Cannabis Sales To Tourists

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Photo: NORML Blog
What do you do when you have a booming, very profitable marijuana tourism industry? Shut it down, of course! If you’re the conservative Dutch government and have your head up your ezel.

​There goes the tourism industry.

In a hare-brained move, the new conservative government of the Netherlands said on Wednesday it plans to ban tourists from buying cannabis in its famed “coffee shops,” where hash and marijuana are legally sold. The shops have become a very popular attraction for travelers from other countries.
The new government, which took office last month, has agreed to limit the sale of cannabis to Dutch residents only, to curb supposed crime linked to its production and sale.
“No tourist attractions. We don’t like that,” said Ivo Opstelten, the Dutch minister for security and justice on Wednesday, reports Gilbert Kreijger of Reuters.
“The heart of the problem is crime and disturbances surrounding the sale,” Opstolten claimed. “We have to go back to what it was meant for: local use for those who would like it.”
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N.Z.: Cart Of Burning Cannabis Pushed Inside Police Station

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Photo: News 3
New Zealand cannabis protesters targeted Wellington Central police station on Thursday

​Wellington, New Zealand police will decide Friday whether to charge cannabis legalization activists who pushed a shopping cart full of burning marijuana into the central police station foyer.

Officers will study CCTV footage showing the shopping cart loaded with smoking weed being pushed into the central police station at the height of a legalization protest, reports 3 News.
The protest, part of the Armistice Tour, a nationwide push for cannabis law reform, began Thursday morning with more than 100 people gathering on Parliament’s front lawn to promote the benefits of marijuana over legal substances like alcohol and tobacco.
The protesters gathered outside the Wellington police station about 6 p.m., when the “smoke bomb” was pushed into the foyer, according to Julian Crawford, an activist and candidate with the Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party.

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Dutch Cops Distribute Scratch & Sniff Marijuana Cards

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Photo: National Post
“Oh, my. This smells like that nice young man next door.”

​Police in the Netherlands are handing out about 30,000 marijuana-scented scratch and sniff cards to citizens in a laughable effort to uncover illegal urban cannabis gardens.

The cards are being distributed to help people recognize what cannabis smells like, according to authorities in Rotterdam and The Hague, reports BBC.
The cards also include a handy number to call to squeal on your pot-growing neighbors. 
Dutch police routinely look the other way as long as citizens don’t grow more than five marijuana plants for personal use.
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Report: Medical Marijuana Coming Soon To Israeli Pharmacies

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By on Global, Medical

Graphic: IRXMJ.org
IRXMJ.org says it supports Israel’s sick, ill and dying with free medical marijuana.

​The Israeli Health Ministry’s committee on medical cannabis recommended last Wednesday the addition of marijuana to the official list of medicinal drugs. That means it should be available in Israeli pharmacies within six months, if the Health Ministry accepts the recommendation, reports Phillip Smith at StoptheDrugWar.org.

Dr. Yehuda Baruch, who heads up the medical marijuana committee, made the recommendation. Baruch said medical cannabis is helpful for multiple sclerosis, patients undergoing chemotherapy for cancer, and for the relief of chronic pain.
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Pacific Island Almost Legalizes Marijuana, But Chickens Out

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By on Culture, Global, News

Photo: EUCON
Can you say marijuana tourism? As soon as Saipan legalizes marijuana — which it almost did this week — the stoner dollars will start pouring in, mine included.

​Ahhh… Sugar white beaches and sugar-frosted sticky buds.
A tropical Pacific island paradise almost just legalized weed — and no passport is required to visit from the United States, since it is a protectorate. While that stony dream may have just suffered a setback, it lives on and may soon be put up for a popular vote.
The House passed the marijuana legalization bill on Wednesday, but at least five of nine senators are lukewarm to the idea of legalizing marijuana in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), which includes Saipan, Tinian, Ascuncion and Rota islands in the Pacific. This probably means the bill is doomed, reports Haidee V. Eugenio at the Saipan Tribune.
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