Items tagged with cannabis
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| Holder says little about states’ pot laws; supporters buoyed [05.03.2013] | U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder declined to reveal the Obama administration’s long-awaited policy on legal recreational marijuana in Colorado and W ... |
| Ex-DEA heads, U.N. panel urge feds to nullify Wash., Colo. pot laws [05.03.2013] | Eight former Drug Enforcement Administration chiefs warned the federal government that time is running out to nullify Colorado and Washington's new l ... |
| Mayors reject legal cannabis proposal [04.03.2013] | In Copenhagen, a majority of City Council dreams of legally selling cannabis from pharmacies throughout the city to residents who are over 18 and hav ... |
| Colorado pot task force recommends special sales and excise taxes [28.02.2013] | What Colorado will look like with legal marijuana became significantly clearer when the state task force proposing rules for that new world finished ... |
| Marijuana legalization may be unstoppable [28.02.2013] | US Attorney General Eric Holder told America to expect a decision "soon" on how he'll respond to the recent legalization of pot by Colorado and Washi ... |
| Colorado task force ponders how to tax legal pot [28.02.2013] | The Amendment 64 Implementation Task Force regulators are working out the details of exactly how to tax legalized marijuana, so the benefits are shar ... |
| Majority of California voters support legalizing pot, poll finds [27.02.2013] | A record but still narrow majority of California voters, or 54 percent, favor legalizing marijuana for personal, recreational use with age limits and ... |
| Hookahs, hash and the Muslim Brotherhood [26.02.2013] | Sixty-years-old, widowed and strictly religious in a gray-brown scarf draped over her hair and chest, Um Salma is an unlikely guardian of one of Egyp ... |
| More Danes grow their own cannabis [25.02.2013] | A large number of Danes are growing their own cannabis plants at home, according to a new investigation by drug researcher Helle Dahl, a researcher a ... |
| Dominique Broc des Cannabis Social Clubs jugé prochainement [24.02.2013] | L’intense campagne médiatique du porte-parole des Cannabis Social Clubs (CSC), dont le point d’orgue a été le dossier de Libération, a fini par faire ... |
| Pot purchasing limits proposed in CO [24.02.2013] | Rules for Colorado's recreational-marijuana industry have begun to take shape after a marathon meeting of the Amendment 64 Implementation Task Force, ... |
| The great experiment [23.02.2013] | A whiff of change is in the air regarding drug control policy. Officials in two American states, Colorado and Washington, are pondering how to implem ... |
| La police cueille la tête des pro-marijuana [23.02.2013] | La réponse des autorités ne s’est pas fait attendre… Alors que nous annoncions dans Libération que la Fédération des Cannabis Social Clubs (CSC) fran ... |
| Maine, Maryland marijuana legalization bills filed [22.02.2013] | Maine and Maryland became the latest states to see marijuana legalization bills filed this year, with lawmakers in those two states rolling out measu ... |
| Towards a ceasefire [22.02.2013] | Partial reforms have their limits. Most drug crime is not cannabis-related. Moving from punishment to harm reduction may help drug users, but it leav ... |
| Will high marijuana taxes encourage black markets? [22.02.2013] | The cannabis industry is an easy target for legislatures to saddle with heavy taxes. In Washington State for instance, there is a 25% tax at three di ... |
| Pot on the patio? [21.02.2013] | Colorado's Amendment 64 Implementation Task Force is wading through the weeds of marijuana legalization, creating regulations to take pot from the sh ... |
| Democratic and Republican legislators unite on bill to legalize and tax marijuana [20.02.2013] | Lawmakers from opposite ends of the political spectrum unveiled a bill Thursday that would give Mainers the chance to legalize marijuana for recreati ... |
| Maine could become the next state to legalize marijuana for adult use [20.02.2013] | State Rep. Diane Russell (D-Portland) was joined by Rep. Aaron Libby (R-Waterboro) at a press conference to unveil the details of her new bill that w ... |
| Pot-related bills advance in Wash. Legislature [20.02.2013] | Two marijuana-related bills advanced in Olympia, with legislative committees giving their OK to one measure that would block police from arresting me ... |
| Mayor Bloomberg makes a small step toward a rational policy on marijuana [19.02.2013] | In his final state of the city address as Mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg, announced that anyone caught in possession of marijuana would no long ... |
| Legalising drugs would be the perfect Tory policy [19.02.2013] | A new poll out today by the campaign group Transform finds a majority now favour permitting cannabis use, while four in 10 Britons favour total decri ... |
| Colorado marijuana task force recommends allowing pot tourism [18.02.2013] | Members of a task force proposing regulations for recreational marijuana in Colorado approved recommendations that would allow for marijuana tourism ... |
| How does a Cannabis Social Club work? [18.02.2013] | What was originally a small group of friends, has become a feasible alternative to the cannabis black market in the north of Belgium. Our guest autho ... |
| Obama drug czar: We will go after marijuana distributors in Wash. and Colo. [17.02.2013] | In an interview with Canadian news magazine Maclean’s, Gil Kerlikowske, President Obama’s Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, sta ... |
| Tirah valley: The land of pure hashish [17.02.2013] | The moderate climate and red soil make it a child’s play for Tirah Maidan’s local farmers to grow cannabis. The crop’s stems are hung for two weeks t ... |
| Les Cannabis Social Clubs forcent la loi [15.02.2013] | Ils sont chefs d’entreprises, éducateurs spécialisés, universitaires, produisent eux-mêmes le cannabis qu’ils fument, et entendent «renverser la proh ... |
| New York City plans to stop booking, arraigning many low-level marijuana suspects [14.02.2013] | Many people arrested on low-level marijuana-possession charges in the nation’s largest city will no longer be booked and held hours for arraignment, ... |
| Up in Smoke: Why the GOP’s Views on Pot are Showing Signs of a Shift [13.02.2013] | As the push to legalize pot migrates from the margins to the mainstream, it is mellowing some Republicans in the process. “If it was a secret ballot, ... |
| Marijuana legalization raises safety questions [11.02.2013] | Marijuana may be coming out of the black market in Colorado and Washington state, but the drug, at least for now, will retain a decidedly underground ... |
| Doors swing open for advocates of marijuana legalization on Capitol Hill [11.02.2013] | Advocates for the legalization of marijuana plan to step up their political giving and lobbying efforts now that members of Congress are taking an in ... |
| Christiania task force netting arrests but locals call it harassment [11.02.2013] | Copenhagen Police said that the number of people being charged with possession of cannabis is up 23 percent since the creation of Task Force Pusher S ... |
| Denver City Council to vote in April whether to opt out on marijuana [10.02.2013] | The Denver City Council will vote in April on whether the state's largest city will opt out of licensing recreational marijuana sales — a move that c ... |
| The U.S. drug czar weighs in on Canada’s pot habit [10.02.2013] | Kerlikowske: "I think a patchwork of policies would create real difficulties. We still have federal law that places marijuana as being illegal. The a ... |
| Two letters expose rift over new pot law [06.02.2013] | A handful of legislators recently drew up a letter raising questions and concerns about the law, including whether it can be implemented by December ... |
| Pot plans: Efforts surge in Congress to reform marijuana laws [06.02.2013] | Driven by a groundswell of public opinion, Colorado and Washington State last November became the first states in the U.S. to legalize the recreation ... |
| California high court seems inclined to uphold bans on pot shops [06.02.2013] | The California Supreme Court appeared inclined to uphold municipal bans against medical marijuana dispensaries. Meeting for oral arguments, the state ... |
| Federal marijuana tax and regulate bills introduced in Congress [04.02.2013] | Members of Congress introduced bills to end marijuana prohibition and start regulating and taxing marijuana like alcohol at the federal level. Rep. J ... |
| Effort building to change US pot laws [03.02.2013] | An effort is building in Congress to change U.S. marijuana laws, including moves to legalize the industrial production of hemp and establish a hefty ... |
| La nouvelle révolte du kif dans le Rif [31.01.2013] | Des milliers d’habitants des communes de Beni Jmil et de Ketama, province d’Al Hoceima, ont bruyamment manifesté, samedi 26 janvier 2013, devant les ... |
| WA officials: Challenges still exist on marijuana [28.01.2013] | Officials tasked with creating a regulated marijuana system in Washington state said they are moving forward with a timeline of issuing producer lice ... |
| Will States lead the way to legalizing marijuana nationwide? [27.01.2013] | While it seems unlikely that the federal government will make much of an effort to arrest pot users in Colorado or Washington—Obama has said he has “ ... |
| Legalize pot and reap the benefit from influx of toking tourists: Liberals [26.01.2013] | Canada’s economy could benefit from an influx of toking tourists if weed is legalized, the Liberal Party of Canada says in a new analysis that backs ... |
| The DEA's marijuana mistake [24.01.2013] | A pro-marijuana group lost its legal battle when a federal appellate court ruled that marijuana would remain a Schedule I drug, defined as having no ... |
| Marijuana still a drug with no accepted medical use, court says [23.01.2013] | Marijuana will continue to be considered a highly dangerous drug under federal law with no accepted medical uses, after a U.S. appeals court refused ... |
| Inslee: Wash. to keep moving forward on legal pot [21.01.2013] | Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and Attorney General Bob Ferguson met with U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday, but came away no further enlighte ... |
| Strict pot controls needed, state says [20.01.2013] | Washington State officials are looking to build a strictly regulated marijuana system that could forestall federal concerns about how the drug will b ... |
| Bill to legalize marijuana introduced in legislature [18.01.2013] | Hawaii could join Colorado and Washington as states that have legalized the use of marijuana by adults, under a measure introduced by state House Spe ... |
| We enforced Ottawa’s pot laws. They don’t work [17.01.2013] | It is time to put ideology and politics aside in favour of a level-headed, evidence-based discussion about the failure of marijuana prohibition and t ... |
| Legalization's biggest enemies [16.01.2013] | The biggest immediate threat to legalization in Washington and Colorado is the federal government, but even the feds might be hard-pressed to stomp o ... |
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