A professor of the professional institute Marco Polo of Florence, Italy, is in trouble for an amateur video that is finished on Youtube. In the video (that you can see here) the professor smoke a big handmade sigarette. Further, the girl that is shooting the video with her mobile phone is saying “even a joint now…if somebody enter now they arrest you”. No doubt that the prof has received the help of all its student: now that the prof is suspended and under accuse, all of them have answered that it was not a joint. We haven’t had any doubt.
The creativity of the nederlanders is second to none, and this news confirm it 100%. A few days ago, two employees of the energy company, have found an illegal cable stealing 10000 v electricity. Following the cable, the police have found that the whole inside of a bridge, the Prins Willem Alexanderbrug, long about 1 km, was prepared as a giant growroom. The bridge is located between Echteld and Beneden-Leeuwen, in the province of Gelderland. Such a growroom was able to generate, according to the experts, a minimum of 1 million euro per harvest. However it seems that the operation was discovered even before that the production could start.
The italian police has completed the seize of a serie of 6 estates that contained a total of 1.5 million plants. These places, owned and operated by the same 6 people, all arrested, are located in Sicily, between the villages of San Giuseppe Jato, San Cipirello and Monreale.
The proposals to re-insert the cannabis into Class B has generated a fight between the British government and the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD). Les Iversen, pharmacologist at Oxford University and member of the Council said to the press that he was not happy with “what appears to be a deliberate leak about the government’s alleged intention to reclassify cannabis or marijuana”, and ignoring the Council recommendations while doing that. “There is no significantly new evidence to suggest that cannabis is any more harmful than in the last review we did 18 months ago,” said the Rev. Martin Blakeborough, founder of the association Kaleidoscope,that helps people that have troubles with drugs. It seems that every new home secretary want to show how tough he is. Tough? Or weak?
Jacqui Smith, Home Secretary of the government of Gordon Brown, has announced that she wants to reserve the the choice of his predecessor to downgrade the prducts derived from Cannabis from class C back to class B. In this way every offender risk up to 14 years of jail. Ms Smith said: “Though statistics show that cannabis use has fallen significantly, there is a real public concern about the potential mental health effects of cannabis use.” Question: what are the scientific evidence of these potential mental health effects? Which data about consumers, increment or decrement of the use etc have been used and why aren’t they released to the public? You know the answer. And if you live in UK,you know what to do.
Unlucky day for a student, probably a minor: the militaries of the italian Guardia di Finanza of Milan have catched the guy during a control using a dog. The animal went crazy once arrived close to the guy. The police then found 40 gr of hashish hidden in his underwear. Later, at home, they have found other 170 gr. and 1000 euro cash. Periodical check with the use of dogs are becoming more and more popular in Italy. And just yesterday the Corte di Cassazione, the italian higher court, have changed his opinion, deciding that growing one plant on the balcony is a crime. During the last half year instead, the same supreme court stated that a few plant are equivalent to personal user (so not punishable).
A Greek Orthodox nunnery was turned into a marijuana garden by 2 men that are currently hunted by the Greek police. The muns told the a few months ago 2 men introduces themselves into the nunnery, offering to the nuns to take care of their plants and flowers. But instead of curing their garden, the 2 men fulfill it with marijuana plants. “The nuns did not know what they were and assumed they were large decorative plants,” said the chief of the Greek police while his men are completing the cleaning of the garden. Of course none of the nuns has been arrested and the police has launched a hunt to catch the men.
Three cannabis-flavoured drinks have been removed from sale after a serie of complaints. These 3 drinks, produced by Beveland SA products are the Perigan’s Cannabis-Flavoured Gin, Iganoff Cannabis-Flavoured Vodka and Rodnik’s Cannabis-Flavoured Absinthe. All of them shows a cannabis leaf on the label. The Portman Group, the watchdog of the alcohol industry, has ruled that the drinks breach one of its codes of practice: “Too many young adults these days regard alcohol and illicit drugs as interchangeable, the industry must not contribute to this attitude, but instead distance itself totally from illegal drugs”, says David Poley, chief executive of the Portman Group.
Right, let’s go on with this ridiculous farce, cannabis is so banned that a leaf cannot even be shown on a label. The alcohol, the substance that has killed more than evey other substance in history, is perfectly legal.
Now is given to the alcohol industry even the power to draw the moral for everybody, and decide wheter or not a cannabis leaf can or cannot be shown. Nice world, our world.
French government have decided to study the cannabis “problem” better, and to start in the good way they have decided to do a little calculation about the profit that a cannabis smuggler/seller can make in one year. “Although the average street dealer hardly makes the minimum wage out of selling cannabis, the middlemen get away with an average of 550,000 euros. That’s an annual income similar to that of a managing director in a company of 2,000 workers”. Then they have analysed the market in its complexity: “One in ten boys and one in sixteen girls aged 17 year consider themselves regular smokers. Over half a million French smoke cannabis every day. The total market consists of 1.2 million users, who consume 208 tonnes of cannabis, and spend 832 million euros on it”.
Everybody can understand how this number are little compared to the reality. French people are believed the heavier cannabis user in Europe with a population of smokers/users of about 10 million people. However it is even forbidden to speak about cannabis (unless you speak bad about it) and this prohibition is ennforced by the criminal laws. It seems difficult to start a debate about cannabis under such a law. Sad time for a nation that gave us in the past l’Etat de Droit, l’Illuminisme and many other contributes to the European Civilisation.
Albanian police has arrested one person and seized 2040 kg of marijuana. The weed was hidden in a truck that has been stopped while it was trying to enter in Greece crossing the Kakavie border. Post communist Albania is often used as transit point for drugs and weapons. Criminals target Albania because of its lax border controls, a weak judiciary and corrupt police force. But now the Albanian government is trying to joint the NATO and the EU: lower the corruption and stop illicit trafficsis the first condition requested by EU and NATO to go on with the negotiation: a big problem for the Albanian government.
