Cannabis News on 2nd March, 2006

• Cannabis grower caught with 150 plants at his home
  The Leicester Mercury
  

  A man caught growing more than 150 cannabis plants at his home has been jailed.

• Don't Be Dopey
  Bob Roberts Deputy Political Editor, The Daily Mirror
  

  Scientists say smoking cannabis DOESN’T lead to taking harder drugs

• RCMP bust drug ring, seize 200,000 marijuana seeds
  Ingrid Peritz, The Globe and Mail
  

  Loyal customers around the world knew that Heaven’s Stairway was neither in the funeral business nor offering old Led Zeppelin records for sale. In fact, police say, the Montreal-based outfit was clear about its product: Marijuana seeds.

• Cannabis Destroys Cancer Cells
  Medical Research News
  

  Researchers investigating the role of cannabis in cancer therapy reveal it has the potential to destroy leukaemia cells, in a paper published in the March 2006 edition of Letters in Drug Design & Discovery.

• Growing Problem Of Cannabis Factories
  Hornsey and Crouch End Journal
  

  THE building looks like any that has fallen victim to a fire: charred window frames sit next to a satellite dish, with chairs and a table abandoned in the garden.

• Terror Of The School Yard Feuds That Are Now A Gun War
  James Glover & Mike Hornby, Liverpool Echo
  

  TWO gangs of teenagers hurl insults at one another across a city street - then a gunshot rings out. A teenage boy stands outside a city school, selling wraps of heroin.

• Vote May Make Medical Marijuana Legal in Illinois
  Jamie Smith, Daily Vidette
  

  The Senate Health and Human Services Committee passed a bill last week by a 6-4 vote that could make medical marijuana legal in Illinois if passed by the General Assembly.