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Fuck that's depressing

Canberran drivers who smoke marijuana or drink alcohol in the hours after getting out of a crashed car can still be charged, a court says. Nigel Stuart Hill, 37, lost control of his car and crashed into a tree early one July morning in 2012. He went home but had no painkillers, so he smoked marijuana instead. The pain persisted and he went to Calvary Hospital three hours after the crash. He was blood tested an hour later, and THC was detected. Hill was charged with a drug driving offence and called before the ACT Magistrates Court, despite there being no evidence that he consumed the drugs before getting behind the wheel. Drivers can be charged with the offence even if they innocently consume drugs post-driving, but test positive within a relevant period. That is thought to be an inevitable side-effect of the blood testing regime, which makes it near impossible to distinguish whether someone has consumed the drugs before or after driving. Typically, prosecutorial discretion is used in such cases, or the courts simply give the offender a lighter sentence. But Hills lawyer, Paul Edmonds, argued that in this case the blood sample was taken outside the two hour time limit he said was permitted by law. He also argued his client was not defined as a driver involved in an accident because he broke the continuity between the crash and the hospital by going home. The magistrate accepted that argument and threw out the charge against Hill. But the decision was appealed by the Crown to the Supreme Court, which handed down its decision on Friday morning. It overturned the magistrates decision, and Hill will now be forced back to the Magistrates Court to deal with the drug driving charge. They found there to be a much longer time limit than the two hours Hill claimed. The Supreme Court found an offence had been committed when a person crashes their car, attends hospital within six hours, gives a blood sample within the next two hours, and drugs are detected. Hill will now face the ACT Magistrates Court at a later date. http://canberratimes.com.au/act-news/man-who-smoked-joint-after-car-crash-to-face-court-for-drugdriving-20140516-zrf1z.html

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Anitacetam worked wonders for me in the medium-term... that or it was a placebo effect

On reflection I think it's probably a case of individuals being able to import noopept in three month batches, but not being able to onsell it (since it is an unscheduled medicine...)

NHS told me the same thing a year or so ago about their aniracetam... After looking (briefly) at the SUSMP weeks ago, I was under the impression that the only analogue clause for s4 specifically applied to anything that could be classed as a "benzo".

I want those seeds! Will PM you shortly and will add that I am very grateful for anything I receive.

I think this question belongs in the legal matters forum. I'd suggest that domestic orders (as a rule of thumb)should always be tried first before even considering importation.

You assume (incorrectly) that politicians (and the wider public) will dispassionately and logically think about these issues and deal with the risks associated with psychoactive plants - they won't. Until the "war on drugs" ends, the best course of action for everyone interested in ethnobobotany is to: 1. Act within the law. 2. Keep knowledge within a close-knit community so it doesn't become "common knowledge". 3. Advocate for law reform as a law-abiding citizens.That sounds overly negative but I think I'm just being realistic. However, further debate on this topic is needed!

Exactly. Many eople grow plants for their rarity or conservation value (or even just to collect something that is hard to obtain). We aren't just "druggos" out to get high!

You are (of course) referencing Bruce not Adolf!

Makes heaps of sense and details exactly why this crap makes it into bags. It's a shame it happens at all

Very very cool.

Does anyone have experience growing these "other" species? I'd love to have a go at growing these but I'm not even sure if they are in circulation in Australia (and if I'd be wasting my time trying to grow them ).

http://canberratimes.com.au/act-news/high-numbers-of-death-cap-mushrooms-around-canberra-20140429-37fiv.html I found the last part of this article from the Canberra Times particularly irritating. Every busybody in Canberra has been put on notice to interfere this season.

The fuckers lurk around every corner. I've comes across several and it can be hard to spot them immediately.

Exactly

It is one thing to build a moment with an obscure message, it is quite another to reduce the world's population by over 90 per cent. The topic is interesting but the analysis is shallow. Roflmao :-)

I'd imagine that some of the more forward-looking consumers of these substances were already using the relatively straight-forward legal situation to stock up beforehand. This will just shift naive drug-users back to whatever is sold illegally. Admittedly most people will shift back to using pot, which is probably a good thing in many ways. Others won't find it easy to get high off normal weed anymore and choose "harder" drugs.

If the search capabilities of this project are made public, I don't have a problem with this. Easy access to information is important for everyone, not just secret intelligence agencies, ethnobotanists even.

I'm very jealous. That second pic. drool

The 12 year olds will be bringing the stats down significantly. Measure 15 to 17 and it will be closer to 95%, for 18 to 25 it will be 99%.

Interestingly enough I just put a few seeds in a huge-arse pot today. I wasn't expecting to see them until September(ish) when things warm-up but now I'm not sure if they will germinate at all. I will hold onto the pot and update if there is any progress.