Marijuana advocate plans to roll world's biggest joint/Traffickers caught with cocaine Santas

December 2, 2006

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200611/s1797596.htm

Marijuana advocate plans to roll world's biggest joint

A medical marijuana user plans to see in the New Year on an all-time high - by rolling the world's biggest joint.

Los Angeles resident Brett Stone said he aims to usher in 2007 by building a 0.91 metre cigarette using around 112 grams of marijuana.

Mr Stone said he was inspired to try for a record after learning that the previous biggest joint was made with 100 grams.

"I thought the world's largest joint would have been a lot larger," said Mr Stone, 48, who runs the medical marijuana website dabronxnews.com.

Medical marijuana use has been legal in California since 1996, when voters passed a law allowing the drug to be used as a pain reliever.

Mr Stone said he would be careful to ensure that his record attempt would remain legal, indicating that the joint would be smoked in a local medical marijuana collective.

"We're probably going to do it as a fund raiser," he said. "And the mayor and police chief would be most welcome if they have a doctor's note to consume cannabis."

Mr Stone said he plans to roll an even bigger joint to mark the US football final at the Super Bowl next February, and has asked companies if they can provide custom made rolling papers to help the attempt.

"I think a metre would be a good, smokeable size joint," Mr Stone said.

"I'm not looking to make a torpedo, I'm looking to make a smokeable joint."

- AFP

Traffickers caught with cocaine Santas

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200611/s1797786.htmColombian police have arrested two men for moulding figurines of Santa Claus out of cocaine for smuggling to the United States and Europe in time for the holiday season.

The market-savvy artisans also cast festive cups, place mats and other Christmas decorations from the same gelatinous mix, which when dried, looks like plastic, Colombia's intelligence police, DAS, said in a statement.

The men's laboratory was found in Tolima province, 130 kilometres from Bogota.

The two men have been jailed.

- AFP