Asia

25yr-old Gets Death For Trafficking Ganja in Malaysia

jeremiah — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:55:26 -0700

Skyline of the Malaysian city Johor Baru, where a man has been sentenced to death for trafficking marijuana.JOHOR BARU: A 25-year-old man was sentenced to death by at a High Court here after he was found guilty of trafficking over 1kg of cannabis three years ago.

Khalil Anuar Sukirman was charged with trafficking 1,942.9g of cannabis at Jalan Dataran 4/5, Taman Kempas here at around 12.30am on Oct 4, 2006.

43-year-old Woman Faces Death for Personal Marijuana

karlis — Mon, 22 May 2006 00:00:00 -0700

Barbara Higgis and her husband in courtIndonesia ? The outfit is a familiar one for an Australian female facing drugs charges in Indonesia. But Barbara Kathleen Higgs' scarf was not in aid of a claimed conversion, or return, to Islam, or even an affinity with the religion.

South Australia To Ban Hydroponic Gardening Equipment

karlis — Wed, 10 May 2006 00:00:00 -0700

Hydroponic systems grow legal plants tooThe Official announcement from Premier Rick Rann of the South Australia Government: In a second term of Government, we will make it an offence to have hydroponic equipment without a lawful excuse. New legislation will require hydroponic-equipment retailers to maintain a record of sales.

Australia: Cannabis Prohibitionists Gone Mad

karlis — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 00:00:00 -0800

Reefer Madness returnsCourts must impose tougher sentences for cannabis-related crimes because of the damage it does to the mental health of marijuana smokers, South Australia's Director of Public Prosecutions has demanded.
From The Australian

Summer travel ganja guide

karlis — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700

European Dreaming
The unified Europe is good for pot travelers because the Union has eliminated passport controls and formal airport border crossings between most countries. Many cannatourists begin their European vacations in Holland, procure cannabis, and then travel to other European destinations.

Ganja Guide

karlis — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 00:00:00 -0700

POT PARADISE LOSTINTRO BY MARC EMERY

The year was 1993. I had been living the soft life of a jaded ex-patriot in the brilliant green lakeside villages of Sumatra, Indonesia. Most tourists go to Bali when in Indonesia, but I fell in love with West Sumatra.

Acquiring pot was a chore, and it was low-grade, hard to find, and overpriced. Occasionally I would complain to my Indonesian friends about the frustration of being unable to get good weed conveniently.

Superbly amusing herbal music

karlis — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 00:00:00 -0700

Herb Superb, the Australian pot-loving songwriter, adds a healthy dose of humor to his music. Doing so, he's won weedy fans around the world and in his native homeland.
"This is the funniest stuff we've ever heard" said Michael Balderstone, spokes-person for the Nimbin Hemp Embassy, of Herb's music.

The passion of Corby

karlis — Mon, 30 May 2005 00:00:00 -0700

Schapelle Corby: languishing in an Indonesian prison over potSchapelle Corby, 27, is a telegenic symbol of the global drug war's ultimate goal: to kill people who use plant drugs, and to kill their plants.

Death for pot

karlis — Mon, 16 May 2005 00:00:00 -0700

Somewhere in Bali a young Australian woman sits alone in a cold, dark cell, awaiting a decision on her execution.
27-year-old Schapelle Leigh Corby has been charged with smuggling marijuana into the Indonesian island of Bali, and now Indonesian authorities wish to see her murdered, shot to death by a firing squad of 12 men. Corby's life and the lives of those who love her have become a living nightmare.

Nimbin MardiGrass 2005

karlis — Mon, 02 May 2005 00:00:00 -0700

The Nimbin Hemp Embassy organisers of the annual MardiGrass Cannabis Law Reform weekend say it was probably the biggest crowd ever though nobody was counting! "The rubbish skips were all full by Sunday morning which has never happened before and that's a fair indication."

Marching for freedom

karlis — Fri, 03 Dec 2004 00:00:00 -0800

Leaf lovers in LondonThe sixth annual Million Marijuana March was a great success. On May 1, 2004, activists around the globe held marches, rallies, parties, concerts, and festivals raging against prohibition and calling for legalization.

Varieties for the equator

karlis — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 00:00:00 -0800

What are the best strains for growing in a region of the world where the photoperiod is 12/12 ? Can you use a strain outdoors that is mostly Sativa but is 25% Indica? What percentage Sativa is needed to grow and flower in a 12/12 photoperiod near the equator?
Peter D,
Sri Lanka

Ganja decrim sweeps the globe!

karlis — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 00:00:00 -0700

Russian tokers holding Putin`s photo while celebrating his new decrim law.Over-policed streets, overbooked courts, overstuffed prisons and overtaxed citizens has made the drug war a miserable failure. Governments can see little choice but to decriminalize marijuana, and several have recently changed their country's laws.

Global Decrim sweeps the world!

karlis — Wed, 19 May 2004 00:00:00 -0700

The war on weed is failing worldwide, and some states and countries are seeking new alternatives. Russia, Venezuela, Canada and the US state of Alaska are the latest to jump on the reform bandwagon.

The great global ganja march

karlis — Tue, 27 Jan 2004 00:00:00 -0800

Colorful people celebrating their freedom at the Vancouver rally.On May 3, 2003, the global community of pot-people came together for the fifth annual Million Marijuana March. Around the world, ganja-lovers marched against drug war atrocities, protested to end prohibition, and toked to demonstrate their freedoms.

Censorship in New Zealand

karlis — Sun, 20 Apr 2003 00:00:00 -0700

On February 1, 2002, at 6:30am, five New Zealand Customs officers executed a search warrant at the home of John and Daniela Setter.

Rasta MP gets narked

karlis — Fri, 18 Apr 2003 00:00:00 -0700

Nandor TanczosNew Zealand's Rastafarian Green Party MP Nandor Tanczos does not seek the spotlight, but it finds him anyway. Recently one of his parliamentary colleagues tried to have him arrested because he admits to using cannabis.

NZ pot reform gets shafted

karlis — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 00:00:00 -0700

New Zealand's recent federal election produced bad results for the Kiwi cannabis culture. The governing Labour party was re-elected, forming a coalition government with United Future, a born-again Christian party. A key point in the coalition agreement was continued repression of marijuana users.

Mardi Grass madness

karlis — Wed, 05 Mar 2003 00:00:00 -0800

It has been called a "hippie haven," "doper's paradise," and "a flawed experiment in alternative living."
Australian governments send police to invade it.

Social scientists and social workers study it, trying to penetrate its convoluted counterculture core.

Grow Australia!

karlis — Thu, 13 Feb 2003 00:00:00 -0800

What's the difference between a wombat and a wallaby?
According to KoalaMan, a 30-year-old former opal miner who has spent most of his adult life growing cannabis in rugged Australian backcountry, "The wombat is a tiny, furry bugger that digs massive burrows under your plants and eats their roots."

War Down Under

karlis — Mon, 10 Feb 2003 00:00:00 -0800

Nimbin cops: harrassing the Hemp Embassy aggressively.There's a green ganjafied place in the Southern Hemisphere that Cannabis Culture has traveled to year after year, a place called Nimbin, where Aussies are smoking locally-grown Sativa instead of drinking beer.

Global ganja celebration

karlis — Mon, 28 Oct 2002 00:00:00 -0800

David Malmo Levine: rallying the masses at Vancouver`s rally.On May 4, almost 100,000 people in over 190 cities around the world took to the streets to protest for pot.

Censorship in New Zealand

karlis — Thu, 17 Oct 2002 00:00:00 -0700

On February 1, 2002, at 6:30am, five New Zealand Customs officers executed a search warrant at the home of John and Daniela Setter.

Death penalty for pot

karlis — Wed, 10 Apr 2002 00:00:00 -0700

An Indonesian man was sentenced to death for possession of marijuana by the Sumatra High Court in December 2001. Kiagus Zainal Abidinagainst, accused of possessing over 50 kilos of pot, had appealed an 18 year prison sentence imposed by a lower court. The four judges of the higher court unanimously agreed to increase his sentence to execution.

Down under the influence

karlis — Wed, 27 Feb 2002 00:00:00 -0800

As Barge, our CC photographer, lit the first solar bowl under the searing Aussie sun, my wife Donna, our Aussie driver James and myself were about to embark upon a journey of discovery that would cover thousands of kilometers, have us consume over 100 different kinds of pot and test the limits of an otherwise perfectly good Winnebago. Our purpose, if we needed more than that, was to eventually end up at the Mardi Grass Festival in Nimbin.