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Strains Available From Australia
Big Stone
A product of: Celtic Stone
Type: Indica/Sativa
Family Line: Unspecified
Parentage: Big Indica/Celtic Stone
Yeild: Moderate-High
Flower Time: 50-64 Days
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Price Range: 30-70 €
Continent Origin: Australasia
Biological Origin: Australian
BIG stone is a hybrid crossing an almost pure Indica with our CS male. We're hoping for some time to develop this one more, but for now, she remains as an F1, and slowly moving onto F2's. The mom for this was a heavily producing strain, but was lacking slightly in power. The CS adds that, and as always, the CS traditional higher ratio of females to males. Generally keep to the CS standard for growing tips: * Type: Mainly indica, indoor and outdoor * Vegetate until: 4 - 7 internodes * Flowering time: 7-9 weeks * Average height: 1 meter * Yield: 500 grams / m ² (dried) indoors * Taste: rich, earthy, slightly sweet * High: couched and beaten
Celtic Berry
A product of: Celtic Stone
Type: Indica/Sativa
Family Line:
Parentage: Bad Ass Berry/Celtic Stone
Yeild: Moderate
Flower Time: 65 Days
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Price Range: 30-70 €
Celtic Stone
A product of: Celtic Stone
Type: Indica/Sativa
Family Line: Skunk
Parentage: Dixie crystal/stonehendge
Yeild: Moderate
Flower Time: 55-63 Days
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Price Range: 30-70 €
not sure why the prices are in pounds but i was looking threw some aussie websites and thought this was pretty informative
A product of: Celtic Stone
Type: Indica/Sativa
Family Line: Unspecified
Parentage: Big Indica/Celtic Stone
Yeild: Moderate-High
Flower Time: 50-64 Days
Outdoors:
Indoors:
Price Range: 30-70 €
Continent Origin: Australasia
Biological Origin: Australian
BIG stone is a hybrid crossing an almost pure Indica with our CS male. We're hoping for some time to develop this one more, but for now, she remains as an F1, and slowly moving onto F2's. The mom for this was a heavily producing strain, but was lacking slightly in power. The CS adds that, and as always, the CS traditional higher ratio of females to males. Generally keep to the CS standard for growing tips: * Type: Mainly indica, indoor and outdoor * Vegetate until: 4 - 7 internodes * Flowering time: 7-9 weeks * Average height: 1 meter * Yield: 500 grams / m ² (dried) indoors * Taste: rich, earthy, slightly sweet * High: couched and beaten
Celtic Berry
A product of: Celtic Stone
Type: Indica/Sativa
Family Line:
Parentage: Bad Ass Berry/Celtic Stone
Yeild: Moderate
Flower Time: 65 Days
Outdoors:
Indoors:
Price Range: 30-70 €
Celtic Stone
A product of: Celtic Stone
Type: Indica/Sativa
Family Line: Skunk
Parentage: Dixie crystal/stonehendge
Yeild: Moderate
Flower Time: 55-63 Days
Outdoors:
Indoors:
Price Range: 30-70 €
not sure why the prices are in pounds but i was looking threw some aussie websites and thought this was pretty informative
Californians to vote on legalising pot
Californians to vote on legalising
March 26, 2010, 5:32 am APP
Californians will vote in November on an initiative to legalise marijuana, state election officials have said, setting the stage for a heated campaign on relaxing drug laws.
Using the drug for medical purposes has been legal for 14 years in California.
But the new initiative, which state election officials announced on Wednesday had obtained enough signatures to be on the ballot during this autumn's mid-term elections, also seeks to legalise recreational marijuana use.
The Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010 would allow counties and cities in the state to adopt ordinances to authorise cultivating, transporting and selling marijuana, raising revenue through taxes similar to those on alcohol and cigarettes.
Supporters are hoping the taxes will help garner support for the measure at a time when the Golden State is suffering from a crippling budget crisis.
The initiative would save "up to several tens of millions of dollars annually to state and local governments on the costs of incarcerating and supervising certain marijuana offenders," Secretary of State Debra Bowen said in a statement.
She also pointed to "unknown but potentially major tax, fee, and benefit assessment revenues to state and local government related to the production and sale of marijuana products."
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has already spoken in favour of imposing a tax on marijuana consumption in a bid to bridge the economic gap plaguing the country's richest and most populous state.
Under the measure, people aged 21 and older could own up to one ounce (28 grams) of pot for personal use. Possessing an ounce or less of marijuana has been a misdemeanour with fines of $US100 ($A110) since 1975, when a law was passed that reduced tougher penalties.
It would also allow adults to grow up to two square metres of cannabis per residence or parcel.
According to drug legalisation supporters, arrests for marijuana possession have risen dramatically in California over the past two decades.
"Our current marijuana laws are failing California," said Aaron Smith, California policy director for the Marijuana Policy Project.
"Year after year, prohibition forces police to spend time chasing down non-violent marijuana offenders while tens of thousands of violent crimes go unsolved - all while marijuana use and availability remain unchanged."
Yet polls have shown that while most California voters want to legalise marijuana, there is not a large enough margin to ensure the measure would pass.
March 26, 2010, 5:32 am APP
Californians will vote in November on an initiative to legalise marijuana, state election officials have said, setting the stage for a heated campaign on relaxing drug laws.
Using the drug for medical purposes has been legal for 14 years in California.
But the new initiative, which state election officials announced on Wednesday had obtained enough signatures to be on the ballot during this autumn's mid-term elections, also seeks to legalise recreational marijuana use.
The Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010 would allow counties and cities in the state to adopt ordinances to authorise cultivating, transporting and selling marijuana, raising revenue through taxes similar to those on alcohol and cigarettes.
Supporters are hoping the taxes will help garner support for the measure at a time when the Golden State is suffering from a crippling budget crisis.
The initiative would save "up to several tens of millions of dollars annually to state and local governments on the costs of incarcerating and supervising certain marijuana offenders," Secretary of State Debra Bowen said in a statement.
She also pointed to "unknown but potentially major tax, fee, and benefit assessment revenues to state and local government related to the production and sale of marijuana products."
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has already spoken in favour of imposing a tax on marijuana consumption in a bid to bridge the economic gap plaguing the country's richest and most populous state.
Under the measure, people aged 21 and older could own up to one ounce (28 grams) of pot for personal use. Possessing an ounce or less of marijuana has been a misdemeanour with fines of $US100 ($A110) since 1975, when a law was passed that reduced tougher penalties.
It would also allow adults to grow up to two square metres of cannabis per residence or parcel.
According to drug legalisation supporters, arrests for marijuana possession have risen dramatically in California over the past two decades.
"Our current marijuana laws are failing California," said Aaron Smith, California policy director for the Marijuana Policy Project.
"Year after year, prohibition forces police to spend time chasing down non-violent marijuana offenders while tens of thousands of violent crimes go unsolved - all while marijuana use and availability remain unchanged."
Yet polls have shown that while most California voters want to legalise marijuana, there is not a large enough margin to ensure the measure would pass.
Human rights act canned as election looms
JOEL GIBSON LEGAL AFFAIRS
April 19, 2010
THE federal government is preparing to announce that it will not create a human rights act for Australia despite the recommendations of a report it commissioned last year.
The Attorney-General, Robert McClelland, is planning to outline the government's response to the report, by a human rights consultation committee headed by the Jesuit lawyer Father Frank Brennan, in a National Press Club speech on Wednesday.
Sources say he is likely to promise improved parliamentary scrutiny of new laws for human rights issues, the addition of human rights to the national schools curriculum, and increased funding and functions for the Australian Human Rights Commission.
But, as predicted, the government appears set to sidestep the key reform - a bill or charter of rights - because cabinet is divided on its political implications.
It is unclear whether a bill of rights has been ruled out or simply shelved for further debate if the government wins a second term. Mr McClelland's office would not comment yesterday.
The expected response would be a victory for the federal opposition and Labor figures such as former premier Bob Carr and the NSW Attorney-General, John Hatzistergos, who have campaigned against a bill of rights. Mr Hatzistergos was heard to quip to former Labor MP and rights advocate Susan Ryan at a recent constitutional law conference at the Art Gallery of NSW that he was ''sorry for her loss''.
Although most developed nations have one, resistance to a bill or charter of rights has centred around fears of a power shift from parliaments to judges, who would be asked to assess whether laws are compatible with human rights, although without the power of veto. There have also been fears it could prevent religious institutions such as schools from hiring religious staff.
Cabinet has considered the issue several times, and is reported to remain divided.
Some ministers are said to feel the political battle for a bill of rights is not worth the pain, especially before an election.
But others are said to be concerned about the effect of squibbing the charter issue in marginal inner-city seats where the Greens - who support a bill - are posing a threat to sitting members.
Ms Ryan, the chairwoman of the Australian Human Rights Group, said any government response that fell short of a human rights act ''would be a huge disappointment among all those organisations that work for vulnerable people and are hoping for a better deal from the government''.
If not this week, she said she expected it would happen in the future.
The Brennan report's recommendations were based on public consultations across the country and 35,014 written responses, of which 27,888 supported a charter or human rights act, while 4203 were against it.
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald
April 19, 2010
THE federal government is preparing to announce that it will not create a human rights act for Australia despite the recommendations of a report it commissioned last year.
The Attorney-General, Robert McClelland, is planning to outline the government's response to the report, by a human rights consultation committee headed by the Jesuit lawyer Father Frank Brennan, in a National Press Club speech on Wednesday.
Sources say he is likely to promise improved parliamentary scrutiny of new laws for human rights issues, the addition of human rights to the national schools curriculum, and increased funding and functions for the Australian Human Rights Commission.
But, as predicted, the government appears set to sidestep the key reform - a bill or charter of rights - because cabinet is divided on its political implications.
It is unclear whether a bill of rights has been ruled out or simply shelved for further debate if the government wins a second term. Mr McClelland's office would not comment yesterday.
The expected response would be a victory for the federal opposition and Labor figures such as former premier Bob Carr and the NSW Attorney-General, John Hatzistergos, who have campaigned against a bill of rights. Mr Hatzistergos was heard to quip to former Labor MP and rights advocate Susan Ryan at a recent constitutional law conference at the Art Gallery of NSW that he was ''sorry for her loss''.
Although most developed nations have one, resistance to a bill or charter of rights has centred around fears of a power shift from parliaments to judges, who would be asked to assess whether laws are compatible with human rights, although without the power of veto. There have also been fears it could prevent religious institutions such as schools from hiring religious staff.
Cabinet has considered the issue several times, and is reported to remain divided.
Some ministers are said to feel the political battle for a bill of rights is not worth the pain, especially before an election.
But others are said to be concerned about the effect of squibbing the charter issue in marginal inner-city seats where the Greens - who support a bill - are posing a threat to sitting members.
Ms Ryan, the chairwoman of the Australian Human Rights Group, said any government response that fell short of a human rights act ''would be a huge disappointment among all those organisations that work for vulnerable people and are hoping for a better deal from the government''.
If not this week, she said she expected it would happen in the future.
The Brennan report's recommendations were based on public consultations across the country and 35,014 written responses, of which 27,888 supported a charter or human rights act, while 4203 were against it.
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald
Amsterdam's biggest marijuana cafe busted
A Dutch court fined the owner of the Netherlands' biggest cannabis-vending coffee shop 10 million euros ($A14.7 million) after police seized more than 200 kilograms of the drug on its premises.
The 13-million-dollar penalty would have been larger, the district court of southwestern Middelburg said in a statement, had it not been for the authorities' apparently contradictory approach to soft drug vending and use.
While finding that coffee shop Checkpoint was a criminal organisation that had transgressed the Opium Act, the court said "the role of the authorities weighed heavily in the determination of the sentence".
26 March 2010 | 12:04:56 PM | Source: AFP
'Years of non-enforcement'
This included the "facilitating role of the municipality, of which the prosecution service had been aware, and years of non-enforcement of the law", according to the judgment.
The prosecution had sought a 28-million-euro fine for Checkpoint owner Meddy Willemsen, but the court said the authorities' role in the establishment's longstanding success justified a lighter punishment.
Willemsen, 58, was tried with 15 others, including former employees and suppliers of his coffee shop in Terneuzen near the Belgian border, for drug trafficking and involvement in a criminal organisation.
He also received a nine-week effective prison sentence, which he had already served while awaiting trial.
Jail terms
Sentences for the other 15 ranged from mere warnings for those who "rolled the joints" and delivered the cannabis, to six-week jail terms, already served, for the manager and three vendors, Willemsen's lawyer Andre Beckers told AFP.
Police seized over 200 kilogrammes (440 pounds) of cannabis on Checkpoint's premises in 2007 and 2008.
The Checkpoint trial, described by prosecutors as the biggest of its kind, was widely viewed as a test case in a country that has been toughening its stance on soft drug use.
The government mooted plans last year to transform coffee shops near the Belgian border into private clubs, to address what critics describe as the nuisance created by millions of drug tourists a year.
Number of cafes halved
The capital, Amsterdam, has said it will halve its number of coffee shops, citing criminality, while other cities are closing shops within a certain distance from schools.
Though it remains technically illegal, the Netherlands decriminalised the consumption and possession of under five grams of cannabis in 1976 under a"tolerance" policy.
Cannabis cultivation and mass retail remain illegal and are in the hands of criminal organisations in a black-market business worth some two billion euros per year.
About 700 licenced coffee shops countrywide are permitted to stock no more than 500 grammes of the soft drug at any given time, but this limit is often flouted.
Thousands of customers a day
Before shutting its doors in May 2008, Checkpoint counted up to 3,000 customers a day, mainly French and Belgian.
The judges said police had known for years that Checkpoint had thousands of daily visitors a day, and the proof of its growth was evident in regular tax filings.
"It surprises the court that in spite of the information the authorities had about Checkpoint, they never acted", until an "unexpected" shift led to the raids.
"The court has searched the dossier in vain for a reason for the change in the authorities' thinking," said the judgment.
The 13-million-dollar penalty would have been larger, the district court of southwestern Middelburg said in a statement, had it not been for the authorities' apparently contradictory approach to soft drug vending and use.
While finding that coffee shop Checkpoint was a criminal organisation that had transgressed the Opium Act, the court said "the role of the authorities weighed heavily in the determination of the sentence".
26 March 2010 | 12:04:56 PM | Source: AFP
'Years of non-enforcement'
This included the "facilitating role of the municipality, of which the prosecution service had been aware, and years of non-enforcement of the law", according to the judgment.
The prosecution had sought a 28-million-euro fine for Checkpoint owner Meddy Willemsen, but the court said the authorities' role in the establishment's longstanding success justified a lighter punishment.
Willemsen, 58, was tried with 15 others, including former employees and suppliers of his coffee shop in Terneuzen near the Belgian border, for drug trafficking and involvement in a criminal organisation.
He also received a nine-week effective prison sentence, which he had already served while awaiting trial.
Jail terms
Sentences for the other 15 ranged from mere warnings for those who "rolled the joints" and delivered the cannabis, to six-week jail terms, already served, for the manager and three vendors, Willemsen's lawyer Andre Beckers told AFP.
Police seized over 200 kilogrammes (440 pounds) of cannabis on Checkpoint's premises in 2007 and 2008.
The Checkpoint trial, described by prosecutors as the biggest of its kind, was widely viewed as a test case in a country that has been toughening its stance on soft drug use.
The government mooted plans last year to transform coffee shops near the Belgian border into private clubs, to address what critics describe as the nuisance created by millions of drug tourists a year.
Number of cafes halved
The capital, Amsterdam, has said it will halve its number of coffee shops, citing criminality, while other cities are closing shops within a certain distance from schools.
Though it remains technically illegal, the Netherlands decriminalised the consumption and possession of under five grams of cannabis in 1976 under a"tolerance" policy.
Cannabis cultivation and mass retail remain illegal and are in the hands of criminal organisations in a black-market business worth some two billion euros per year.
About 700 licenced coffee shops countrywide are permitted to stock no more than 500 grammes of the soft drug at any given time, but this limit is often flouted.
Thousands of customers a day
Before shutting its doors in May 2008, Checkpoint counted up to 3,000 customers a day, mainly French and Belgian.
The judges said police had known for years that Checkpoint had thousands of daily visitors a day, and the proof of its growth was evident in regular tax filings.
"It surprises the court that in spite of the information the authorities had about Checkpoint, they never acted", until an "unexpected" shift led to the raids.
"The court has searched the dossier in vain for a reason for the change in the authorities' thinking," said the judgment.
Caught with a pound of reefer, "NJ Weedman" says cops "racially profiled" him
MOUNT HOLLY —“NJ Weedman” Ed Forchion said he wishes he hadn’t been driving with a pound of herb in his car on April Fools’ Day. But he’s also charging police with racially profiling him.
Forchion, 45, was arrested at 10:15 p.m. April 1 on several pot possession charges after getting stopped on Route 38 in Mount Holly, according to state police.
Trooper Ken Rayhan pulled Forchion over on the highway near Pine Street on allegations Forchion stopped his his car at a red light and proceeded to drive before the light turned green.
But the routine traffic stop turned into a criminal investigation when the trooper “smelt burnt marijuana coming from the car” and “saw a glass smoking pipe on the rear floor,” said state police spokesman Sgt. Stephen Jones.
Forchion, who sports a dreadlocks hairdo, admits to possessing the pound of weed — “I clearly use marijuana” — but he accuses Rayhan of initiating a “straight profile stop.”
Rayhan has been on the state police force for about six years. He stopped Forchion “for no other reason than he disobeyed traffic laws,” Jones said.
Forchion was driving in the right lane of the highway and stopped his vehicle “basically in the middle of the intersection” upon realizing the traffic light of his lane was red while the left-hand turn signal turned green, Jones said in explaining the motor vehicle stop.
Forchion is a Burlington County native and self-described “weed capitalist” who moved to the West Coast two years ago to open up a medical marijuana dispensary in Hollywood. He has a history of multiple failed bids for elected office in New Jersey, centering his campaigns around legalizing pot for everyone, not just for the “walking dead.”
“I wasn’t even in town 24 hours and the state arrested me,” said Forchion, a father of five. He services patients, including celebrities, with his legal weed joint in California, but “I come to town every other month to visit my kids.”
The author of “Public Enemy No. 420,” a narrative on pot, Forchion said he “made the mistake of not having a hat on” when he was arrested here last week. He said his hat would have concealed his dreads, which he said would have minimized suspicion of wrongdoing.
Weedman said he will fight to get his charges dropped and he said he will also file a lawsuit against the state to overturn the state’s medical marijuana law. Forchion said he believes the law is unconstitutional for allowing terminally ill people to possess marijuana while state criminal law prohibits anyone else from possessing pot.
“The state should not be able to have two legal descriptions of the same substance,” Forchion said. “How can the state be allowed to have it both ways?”
State police said Forchion was driving while suspended in a 1991 Pontiac Grand Prix that was rented in someone else’s name. Police said they found the weed after scouring through the car on a search warrant.
The pot activist was charged with possession of marijuana over 50 grams, possession with intent to distribute, possession of drug paraphernalia, failure to obey a traffic signal, driving while suspended and driving with a controlled dangerous substance in a motor vehicle, state police said. Weedman was also jailed on two unrelated warrants: one for $10,000 in unpaid child support and a $350 traffic warrant, state police confirmed. Forchion said he was released Monday after paying the $10,000 child support and posting the 10 percent of his $50,000 bail.
Forchion said the state “opened up a can of worms, because I’m gonna fight. I’m looking forward to my day in court.”
Forchion, 45, was arrested at 10:15 p.m. April 1 on several pot possession charges after getting stopped on Route 38 in Mount Holly, according to state police.
Trooper Ken Rayhan pulled Forchion over on the highway near Pine Street on allegations Forchion stopped his his car at a red light and proceeded to drive before the light turned green.
But the routine traffic stop turned into a criminal investigation when the trooper “smelt burnt marijuana coming from the car” and “saw a glass smoking pipe on the rear floor,” said state police spokesman Sgt. Stephen Jones.
Forchion, who sports a dreadlocks hairdo, admits to possessing the pound of weed — “I clearly use marijuana” — but he accuses Rayhan of initiating a “straight profile stop.”
Rayhan has been on the state police force for about six years. He stopped Forchion “for no other reason than he disobeyed traffic laws,” Jones said.
Forchion was driving in the right lane of the highway and stopped his vehicle “basically in the middle of the intersection” upon realizing the traffic light of his lane was red while the left-hand turn signal turned green, Jones said in explaining the motor vehicle stop.
Forchion is a Burlington County native and self-described “weed capitalist” who moved to the West Coast two years ago to open up a medical marijuana dispensary in Hollywood. He has a history of multiple failed bids for elected office in New Jersey, centering his campaigns around legalizing pot for everyone, not just for the “walking dead.”
“I wasn’t even in town 24 hours and the state arrested me,” said Forchion, a father of five. He services patients, including celebrities, with his legal weed joint in California, but “I come to town every other month to visit my kids.”
The author of “Public Enemy No. 420,” a narrative on pot, Forchion said he “made the mistake of not having a hat on” when he was arrested here last week. He said his hat would have concealed his dreads, which he said would have minimized suspicion of wrongdoing.
Weedman said he will fight to get his charges dropped and he said he will also file a lawsuit against the state to overturn the state’s medical marijuana law. Forchion said he believes the law is unconstitutional for allowing terminally ill people to possess marijuana while state criminal law prohibits anyone else from possessing pot.
“The state should not be able to have two legal descriptions of the same substance,” Forchion said. “How can the state be allowed to have it both ways?”
State police said Forchion was driving while suspended in a 1991 Pontiac Grand Prix that was rented in someone else’s name. Police said they found the weed after scouring through the car on a search warrant.
The pot activist was charged with possession of marijuana over 50 grams, possession with intent to distribute, possession of drug paraphernalia, failure to obey a traffic signal, driving while suspended and driving with a controlled dangerous substance in a motor vehicle, state police said. Weedman was also jailed on two unrelated warrants: one for $10,000 in unpaid child support and a $350 traffic warrant, state police confirmed. Forchion said he was released Monday after paying the $10,000 child support and posting the 10 percent of his $50,000 bail.
Forchion said the state “opened up a can of worms, because I’m gonna fight. I’m looking forward to my day in court.”
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