It's time for my annual rant on the stupidity of marijuana eradication and although it goes on nationally, in no place is it better illustrated than California where they've just completed their yearly attack on harmless plants. [T]he annual Campaign Against Marijuana Planting had uprooted some 3 million plants, wiping out an estimated $11.6 billion worth of weed. That is more than twice the value of the state's largest ...

Marijuana compound shows promise in fighting breast cancer Machines Like Us A compound found in cannabis may prove to be effective at helping stop the spread of breast cancer cells throughout the body. That’s the finding of a new study published in the latest issue of the journal Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. The study, by scientists at the California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute, is raising hope that CBD, a compound found in ...

98 Percent Of All Domestically Eradicated Marijuana Is "Ditchweed," DEA Admits More than 98 percent of all of the marijuana plants seized by law enforcement in the United States is feral hemp not cultivated cannabis, according to newly released data by the Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA) Domestic Cannabis Eradication/Suppression Program and the Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics. According to the data, available online ...

Tell the truth about cannabis and maybe we'll get somewhere Is there any wonder at all that everything which surrounds cannabis information-wise, is mixed up and confused? To illustrate this lets take a look at some news published this week through the worlds press. Cannabis far more toxic to the adolescent brain Just yesterday, a report was published by 'The Independent' newspaper in Ireland, as anti-cannabis an organisation as you'll ever find, in ...

Police in Lincolnshire refused to investigate one in six crimes last year, it has been revealed. Figures released under the Freedom of Information Act show 9,003 crimes were "screened out" as unsolvable within hours of being reported to Lincolnshire Police. Last year 55,277 crimes were reported to the county's force, meaning 16 per cent - or one in six - were not investigated. From the ...

The Vatican has published secret archive documents about the trial of the Knights Templar, including a long-lost parchment that shows that Pope Clement V initially absolved the medieval Christian order from accusations of heresy, officials said Friday. The 300-page volume recently came out in a limited edition -- 799 copies -- each priced at $8,377, said Scrinium publishing house, which prints documents from the Vatican's secret archives. The order of knights, which ...

Police could be given the power to question suspects after they have been charged, the Home Secretary has said.Although MPs are discussing the possibility of giving new powers to police to deal specifically with terror suspects, the Home Secretary has admitted that the Government is considering using the new powers with non-terror suspects too. Jacqui Smith has said the government was also looking at whether to bring in such a change ...

John Andrews The movie Supersize Me has probably had more of an effect than the producers anticipated. Since then, in the fast food industry, there has been a market trend promoting menu items that appear to be healthy. But most of these menu items have ingredients that health conscious consumers would prefer to avoid. Most health conscious consumers consider healthy foods to be things like raw fruits and vegetables, whole grains, ...

By Ciar Byrne Already facing enough problems with the wild fires that have swept California, the state's governor Arnold Schwarzenegger may have stepped into a new row by claiming that marijuana is not a drug. In an interview with GQ magazine, the Hollywood star turned governor of California insisted: "I didn't take any drugs." The interviewer, former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan, put it to the star that he had ...

Critics call the graffiti artist a genius, and Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have paid £1m for his work. But Hackney council has ordered its workers to power-hose his pictures out of sight By Cole Moreton What is the biggest eyesore on the streets of east London? A giant rat with a knife and fork in its paws, apparently. Or a rioter throwing flowers. Hackney council says these subversive ...