Police have seized more than 400 cannabis plants from a Bibra Lake home that had been converted into an elaborate grow-house setup. Credit:WA Police More than 400 cannabis plants have been seized by police after a raid on a Bibra Lake home this week. Organised Crime Squad detectives with Taskforce Silverdrift executed a search warrant on the Della Drive home on Monday, discovering the house had been converted into an elaborate cannabis-growing setup. A total of 10 rooms in th

A cannabis advocate who pleaded guilty to cultivating nine plants on his property was fined $800 but avoided a conviction. Facing the Ballarat Magistrates' Court, Jason Foster said he worked with organisations and governments "here and abroad" to reform laws around cannabis. Representing himself, he said this was his first time in court, with no prior convictions, and he only intended to use the plants himself. According to the police summary, the Ballarat divisional response

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One of the wooden braziers with burnt stones found in tombs at the Jirzankal Cemetery. (Supplied: Xinhua Wu) Humans smoked cannabis as part of ritualised burial ceremonies 2,500 years ago, according to the latest evidence unearthed at a burial site on the Pamir Plateau in western China. Key points: Archaeologists have found traces of cannabis in wooden pots exhumed from tombs in western China The find provides the strongest and earliest evidence to date, of cannabis being smo

There have been 49 prescriptions of medicinal cannabis in the ACT since it was approved for use in November 2016. ACT Health says it has approved seven doctors to prescribe medicinal cannabis for a total of 28 patients. There have been three occasions - all for patients with chronic pain - where medicinal cannabis was approved for a condition not listed in the ACT Controlled Medicines Prescribing Standards. The ACT Greens say it's too hard for patients in the ACT to access me

Photo: The study will use a baseline dose that uses the non-psychoactive part of medicinal cannabis. (Supplied: BOD Australia) An Australian-first trial using medicinal cannabis to treat returned servicemen and women suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been launched today that targets defence personnel who have not had a response to conventional treatments. Key points: Researchers are seeking 300 people to take part in the national trial, which has attrac

Photo: The ACT Government has made a bid to legalise personal use of marijuana. (Flickr: Nena B) Related Story: 'Legalising' cannabis in Canberra will put more smokers behind bars, police warn Related Story: Canberra wants to become the cannabis capital — but could the laws go up in smoke? On the surface, legalising marijuana in Canberra seems a fairly simple proposition. But if ACT Labor thinks its bill is going to float through the Legislative Assembly, it is mistaken. Poss

A Crescent Head man was ordered to serve 12 months' home detention and an intensive corrections order after he was found guilty of a range of drug related matters. Anthony David Bower, 63 of Crescent Head Road, appeared before Magistrate J Price in Port Macquarie Local Court on April 18, 2019. Bower was charged with, cultivating a prohibited plant, possession of a prohibited drug, dealing with the property of crime, cultivating a prohibited plant and the manufacture or produc

Under the proposed bill, Canberrans possessing up to 50g of cannabis or growing four cannabis plants would no longer be committing a criminal offence. File photo. The ACT Government has been encouraged to collaborate with ACT Policing to adopt a new model of cannabis drug driving tests that determine impairment and not just the presence of the drug if marijuana is to be legalised in the ACT. After four months of scrutinising legislation proposing the legalisation of marijuana

GREEN THUMB: A man has faced Orange Local Court for growing cannabis for his own medicinal use. FILE PHOTO A man has been fined in Orange Local Court for cultivating two marijuana plants that weighed 20 kilograms each. On April 10, police conducted a search warrant at the Warrendine Street home of Kenneth Norman Sharpe, 51, and found two cannabis plants in a raised garden bed that had a mesh fence and laser light roof. One of the plants was 1.5 metres high and the other was b