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GARY WILLIAM MEYERHOFF passed away on Sun, 8 Oct 2006 in Western Australia from AIDS related illness. NAPNT greatly misses Gary's incredible vision and committment to Human Rights activism in challenging the perpetrators of the War on Drugs.

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There has been much debate of late around the issue of licit and illicit substances in remote indigenous communities. Petrol sniffing and cannabis are going neck and neck for the title of causing the most havoc, followed by alcohol and kava. Over the past few years, Australians have had to face a relentless anti-cannabis propaganda campaign, part of the ‘reefer madness’ push by the Drug

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The Cannabis Wars have begun and it is the remote indigenous communities in outback Australia that are bunkering down under the weight of the first wave of attacks by anti-cannabis warriors. In the past few weeks, the communities of Alyangula, Mutitjulu and Ngukurr in Australia’s Northern Territory have been raided by police on a cannabis witch-hunt. In Alyangula on Groote Eylandt in the Gulf

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For some reason I didn't publish it when I wrote it in September 2005. Somebody on one of the email lists I am on asked about rumours that they had heard in Darwin regarding a new hybrid version of OxyContin®. The rumours were true; although this new OxyContin® isn’t available yet on the Australian market. “Addicts and abusers are going to find this very undesirable,” said Dr. J. David Haddox,

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I wrote this letter to the editor of the West Australian Newspaper in early January in response to an article on the shortage of bricks in WA, the land of double-brick homes. They didn't publish it. The West Australian Government should be applauded for their attempts to diversify housing construction methods (Is it over for brick and tile dream?, West Australian 04th January). However, the

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Another letter to the editor that the NT News didn't print. B. Baggley of Northlakes is concerned that people like me may start praising the 'pushers' at the school gates for luring our children into drug use (NT News, December 22). I just wanted to let you in on a secret. There are no 'pushers' at school gates and there never have been in Australia. The image of the 'drug pusher' is a

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Howard Young believes that the Parap hangman story was not seditious (NT News, November 10). Section 44 of the NT Criminal Code defines a seditious intention as an intention "to promote feelings of ill-will and hostility between different classes of persons so as to endanger the peace order or good Government of the Territory." One of the tactics of the US-led War on Drugs is to promote

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The Federal Government's inaction over the pending doom faced by Nguyen Tuong Van is sickening. The Government can and should do more. The worse part about it is that the Federal Government is threatening trade sanctions on countries that allow vessels flagged in their countries to fish in our waters. But there are no trade sanctions for Nguyen Tuong Van. It seems fish stocks are more

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Victorian man Ngyuen Tuong Van is on death row in Singapore over a drug smuggling conviction. ABC News Online - Friday, October 21, 2005. 8:37pm (AEST): Melbourne man to be hanged Melbourne man Nguyen Tuong Van, 25, lost his final bid to be spared from execution when the Singaporean Government today rejected a plea from the Australian Government for clemency. He was convicted for smuggling a

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Nguyen has lost his plea for clemency and will be executed some time in the next 10 days. We MUST do something. We should try and coordinate protest actions around Australia and the Globe. When should we do it and how are we gonna arrange this? Here's the latest from the Age and news ltd: Death row Australian loses clemency bid By Staff reporters, the Age October 21, 2005 - 3:53PM A plea

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Indonesian gets death for dadah trafficking By A. Hafiz Yatim, New States Times - Malaysia (Gaz note: I've added the links in the story) KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 16: "You should be ashamed of yourself and apologise to your country and countrymen who come here to find a job and earn an income legally." High Court judge Datuk Abdull Hamid Embong said this to Mardani Hussin, 29, an Indonesian charged

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Compliments of http://medpot.net/forums http://www.medpot.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=25969 Malaysia sentences Indonesian to death for drug trafficking: Report KUALA LUMPUR (AFP): A Malaysian court has sentenced an Indonesian man to death by hanging for trafficking cannabis, local media said Saturday. Mardani Hussin, 29, a laborer from Aceh province, Indonesia, had entered Malaysia

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By Gary Meyerhoff, September 5, 2005 As a former youth worker working over the mid to late nineties with a large number of chronic ‘chromers’, and a two-year stint facilitating an illicit drug program for the Danila Dilba Medical Service, I have a unique insight to the petrol sniffing issue. According to the Concise Oxford Dictionary, petroleum is a: “hydrocarbon oil found in upper strata of

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Members of the NT Police Association are worried that they may have to “quell resistance to unpopular, unnecessary, and socially divisive legislative changes” (Northern Territory News, August 4). Someone should remind them that this is their job. Police are not workers, they are officers of the law. Their primary role is to protect the rich and subdue the poor. As our society moves further

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"But they shouldn't be allowed to treat me like a criminal just because I'm under 16." A 15-year-old boy has won a landmark High Court challenge to the legality of child curfew zones used to tackle anti-social behaviour. The teenager said the use of dispersal zones in Richmond, south-west London, breached his rights under the European Convention on Human Rights. Unaccompanied under-16s found

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From SF Bay Area Indymedia: Cal NORML is sad to report that San Diego medical cannabis patient activist Steve McWilliams has taken his life. McWilliams, who had been fighting federal charges for growing a modest home garden for the Shelter from the Storm Collective, was depressed over the Supreme Court decision and in terrible pain, having been denied access to medical marijuana since his arrest

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The NT Police Association have hit out at plans to lock up prisoners at the Darwin watch house (Police slam jail plans, NT News, July 12, 2004). A prison source told the NT News about the problem over a month ago (Prisons overcrowded, NT News, June 4). Members of the Network Against Prohibition share the concern of the police and prison staff. The Northern Territory has the dubious distinction

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The latest from the NT Drug News Vault: "A 2004 NT Government report found about 360 young Territorians sniff petrol - mostly in remote communities. It also found children as young as five were sniffing and some mothers were using petrol-soaked rags to calm their babies. Following the report, the Territory Government developed a $10 million plan to tackle the problem - including new laws

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Responding to the outcome of the G8 summit World Development Movement (WDM) Head of Policy, Peter Hardstaff said: The final communiqué is an insult to the hundreds of thousands of campaigners who listened in good faith to the world leaders' claim that they were willing to seriously address poverty in Africa. More importantly it is a disaster for the world's poor. The agreements on trade, debt,

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It is obvious that members of the Northern Territory judiciary need to be educated with regards to the provisions of the Misuse of Drugs Act. I am referring to “Butter is better” (NT and Beyond, July 2). A person facing a charge of possessing 50g of cannabis butter had that charge dropped after a confusing exchange between Magistrate John Lowndes and the prosecutor. Mr Lowndes said he did not

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Dear Sir On Thursday, June 30, you reported on a Palmerston mother’s brush with the law, “Mum of two fined $500 for cannabis”. The woman’s defence lawyer, Ian Read, told the court “she has not been going out peddling and pushing it and there is no suggestion of selling to kids”. I was hoping that Ian may be able to tell me where I can find these drug dealers who are peddling and pushing their

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Dear Editor I note with interest the recent outcry over barking dogs. Perhaps Clare Martin should implement a zero-tolerance policy on this issue. Although the vast majority of dog owners are responsible, loving, law-abiding citizens and provide a more than adequate level of care for their pets, it seems there will always be a small anti-social minority who abuse dogs. The Government and the

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Dear sir For me the saddest thing about elections is that they remind me that the vast majority of Australians still believe that their vote counts. It really doesn't matter who is elected on June 18, the same Corporations will still be running the Territory, and the world for that matter. But how have our 'leaders' managed to fool the masses for so long? Mussolini told The London Sunday

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Hi people My name is Gary Meyerhoff. I am one of the founding members of the Network Against Prohibition and one of the core members of this ground-breaking Darwin-based drug law-reform/human rights group. I already have two web logs, but I only use those to record articles that I have written myself or media articles that I feature in that have been published somewhere. You can read more

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