Y Tabloid - Issue 88 - September 15, 2009 - Y-oman.com

Pass the DUTCHYto the left-hand side!As many are aware, Hemp plants look like Cannabis plants, butunlike the latter, have little psychoactive effect due to low levels(only trace amounts) of THC. Dutch police recently touted thediscovery of 47,000 ‘Cannabis’ plants worth a whopping RO2.5 million, and quickly (and very publicly!) set about raidingthe location to destroy the cash crop.The ever-popular ‘clogg’ seems to have worked its way intothe Dutch authority’s thinking process, as only after the cropdestruction did police cotton-on to the plants being rooted inthe grounds of a well-respected school of agriculture. It turnsout the plants were a type of hemp being farmed as a fibre foruse in textiles. In Holland, Cannabis is a controlled and legalsubstance, however, large-scale production is still prohibited.Next thing you know, ‘Frau Antje’ will be behind bars forpedalling dubious cheesy snacks!CURRY BASHINGTRIGGERS CURRY DIPLOMACYAustralian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd stated: “Imagine if we never had Indian foodin Australia. We would be sentenced to 100 years of English cuisine,” during arecent address amidst concerns that ethnic foreign students in Australia arebeing treated as second class citizens. Most Indians are not amused. To addfuel to the already burning fire of racial violence against Indian students,it now seems that key academic institutions favoured by students abroad arecoming under scrutiny for mismanagement and poor funding.Universities and colleges in Australia are in it for big dollars. Overseas studentscurrently contribute RO 4.78 million to the economy, and are now taking to thestreets to protest the recent ‘administration’ of Sterling Collegein Sydney. The institution is just one of the money hungrycentres of education to go under, closing its doors and leavingstudents who have paid thousands of dollars in fees out inthe cold. Rudd and his crew are now heading to India, to clawback the respect of Indians in the hope of salvaging the education‘industry’ Down Under.12