Posts Tagged ‘marijuana’

New Corby lawyer working on clemency bid

December 21st, 2009
Imprisoned drug smuggler Schapelle Corby will spend her sixth Christmas behind bars in Kerobokan Jail in Bali, Indonesia, as her family claims she is not mentally fit. Lawyers representing Corby are not working on a new campaign to seek clemency or having her sentence cut. Corby’s sister, Mercedes, has claimed that Schapelle ...

Parents using cannabis to sedate misbehaving children

September 7th, 2009
Parents in Sydney and Melbourne are harming their young children’s mental well being by giving them cannabis as a sedative. Melbourne social workier Les Twentyman said the worrying trend is becoming more prevalent in impoverished areas of Melbourne and Sydney. He said that parents were unable to afford prescription medications for their ...

Schapelle Corby in downward spiral

August 25th, 2009
A top Australian psychiatrist has warned that convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby will not survive her 20-year prison sentence in Bali’s Kerobokan prison unless she is moved out. Associated Professor Jonathan Phillips visited Corby this month saying that she was “hanging by a thread”. ''She is lost in her own bewildering world ...