Items tagged with self-cultivation
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Uruguay’s Cannabis Law [23.03.2018] | Uruguay is the first country to legalize and regulate its domestic non-medical cannabis market. In light of this pioneering role, the choices and exp... |
The facts about ganja in Jamaica [21.01.2018] | When the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 2015 came into effect on April 15, 2015, new provisions were put in place regarding the possession and smoki... |
How Uruguay made legal highs work [10.12.2017] | Uruguay’s switch to a legal marijuana market has not been without its hitches. Notably the resistance of most pharmacists to act as outlets for the r... |
Israel eases sanctions on home marijuana growers [04.12.2017] | When it comes to throwing the book at marijuana growers, police are distinguishing between those growing pot for their own use and those growing it f... |
Socialists propose bill to regulate cannabis [19.09.2017] | The Socialist Party (PS) has submitted a bill to the Chamber of Representatives proposing a Belgian model for regulating cannabis. The draft law aims... |
Uruguay’s marijuana law turns pharmacists into dealers [19.07.2017] | The rules are a bit of a buzzkill. Drug users must register with the government. Machines will scan buyers’ fingerprints at every purchase, and there... |
In Uruguay’s marijuana experiment, the government is your pot dealer [07.07.2017] | In coming weeks, cannabis-seeking citizens in Uruguay will be able to walk into a pharmacy and buy government-approved marijuana for the state-mandat... |
Uruguay, the first country where you can smoke marijuana wherever you like [27.05.2017] | Not everyone is pleased with how legal marijuana is being implemented in Uruguay. “I’m happy because now you can plant without going to prison,” says... |
Uruguay is creating the world’s first nationwide regulated cannabis market [01.05.2017] | Beginning on May 2, Uruguayan adults interested in legally purchasing cannabis for non-medical uses can register to do so at post offices around the ... |
Dagga ban goes up in smoke - and so do some cases [01.04.2017] | Dagga aficionados - users of the intoxicating plant - may now legally grow and consume it in the privacy of their homes, without fear of arrest. In o... |
Dagga can be used at home, Cape court rules [31.03.2017] | In a much celebrated outcome, Judge Dennis Davies ruled that an adult may cultivate and use cannabis in the privacy of their own home. “The order als... |
Uruguay's legal marijuana policy en route to next phase of regulation [23.03.2016] | Legal sales of cannabis through pharmacies are expected to begin in the second half of this year. This month the government opened the registry for p... |
Cannabis policy in the Czech Republic [31.08.2015] | The Czech drug related legislation is quite extensive and includes laws as well as various by-laws. The most important feature of the Czech legislati... |
Chile considers cannabis decriminalization [17.08.2015] | With its proposed changes to Ley 20.000 (Law 20,000), Chile joins a growing list of Latin American countries decriminalizing marijuana. The initiativ... |
Colombia decriminalizes marijuana cultivation up to 20 plants [11.08.2015] | Colombia’s Supreme Court ruled that growing up to 20 plants of marijuana is not a crime. The possession of small amounts of the drug had already been... |
Uruguay cannabis market still struggles for legitimacy a year after historic ruling [12.07.2015] | In May 2014, then-president Mujica signed far-reaching regulations for Uruguay’s marijuana market, making the nation the first country in the world t... |
Chile takes step toward cannabis decriminalisation [08.07.2015] | Chile has taken a step forward in decriminalising the use of cannabis after the lower house of congress approved by a wide margin a bill that seeks t... |
Les jardins secrets du cannabis [18.06.2015] | L’Observatoire français des drogues et des toxicomanies ( OFDT ) parle d’un «bouleversement global du marché à l’échelle continentale». L’Europe, sit... |
Chile opens debate on marijuana bill [07.04.2015] | Chile's congressional health committee approved a bill that would legalize the cultivation of marijuana for private recreational or medicinal use, se... |
D.C. hosts nation’s biggest legal marijuana giveaway [26.03.2015] | With D.C. police officers looking on, hundreds of city residents lined up and then walked away from an Adams Morgan restaurant carrying baggies conta... |
Can Washington’s gift economy in marijuana work? [20.03.2015] | In Washington DC it’s now legal to possess marijuana, to grow it, to smoke it and to give it away. But you’re not allowed to trade in it. You can giv... |
February 23: A big day for Uruguay’s marijuana experiment [23.02.2015] | Uruguay’s experiment with legal domestic cannabis cultivation is about to enter a new phase, marking a key opportunity for the country to demonstrate... |
Uruguay’s year in weed: 3 big successes, 3 burning questions [05.01.2015] | It’s been just over a year since Uruguay’s President Jose Mujica signed a law creating the world’s first nationalized market for the cultivation, sal... |
One year after law's approval, Uruguay waits for commercial cannabis sales [02.01.2015] | A year after Uruguay's historic marijuana law was signed, officials have green-lighted homegrown cannabis, cannabis clubs, and hemp cultivation, but ... |
Legal marijuana could be $130 million a year business in D.C., study finds [29.10.2014] | If D.C. residents vote to legalize marijuana possession next week, it wouldn’t just mean a sea change in drug policy in the nation’s capital. It coul... |
Grow your own marijuana law [25.10.2014] | Retail marijuana sales for adults are now legal (at least at the state level) in Colorado and Washington. Next month, voters in Alaska and Oregon may... |
5 interesting things we learned from the man in charge of Uruguay’s weed [11.09.2014] | Julio Calzada is the top drug official in the little nation of Uruguay, which has gained notoriety over the last year for becoming the first country ... |
L'émergence d'un cannabis made in France [12.05.2014] | Les consommateurs du cannabis en France préférant de plus en plus l'herbe, facile à cultiver en France, à la résine marocaine, le marché s'adapte, re... |
Uruguay unveils marijuana regulation details [02.05.2014] | The Uruguayan government has unveiled long-awaited regulations for its recreational marijuana market — a move that steers the tiny nation of 3.3 mill... |
Uruguay’s marijuana growers come out into open [27.12.2013] | Juan Andres Palese was using a fake name in public when he opened Uruguay’s first store dedicated to cultivating marijuana, where he offered growing ... |
Multinational overview of cannabis production regimes [14.12.2013] | The vast majority of countries are signatories to international treaties that prohibit the production, distribution and possession of cannabis for no... |
France cannabis campaigner convicted, fined [18.04.2013] | One of France's leading campaigners for the decriminalisation of cannabis was given a suspended prison term and fined for possession and use of the d... |
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... |
Uruguay government aide defends marijuana plan [22.11.2012] | Juan Vaz, an Uruguayan activist and government aide who has been jailed for growing marijuana in his home, says it's time to end a contradiction that... |
Uruguay lawmakers consider legalization of marijuana with goal of outselling pot dealers [15.11.2012] | Uruguay came one step closer to turning the government into the country’s leading pot dealer, as lawmakers formally introduced to Congress a framewor... |
Portugal progresses toward integrated cannabis regulation [25.10.2012] | In recent years there has been much talk of the so-called “Portuguese model,” based on an initiative that led to the use of illicit drugs being decri... |
Le TF annule le concordat latin sur la culture du chanvre [05.10.2012] | Le Tribunal fédéral (TF) a jugé qu'il empiétait sur la compétence exhaustive de la Confédération en matière de réglementation des stupéfiants. Très d... |
Chilean president signs drug prevention law into effect [12.08.2012] | President Sebastián Piñera signed the new Drug and Alcohol Prevention Act into law on Monday, which sets up an educational program to warn schoolchil... |
Experts debate what to do about cannabis [22.07.2012] | Should pot be outlawed, controlled, or just legalised? For anti-addiction experts, regulating consumption would counter a drug market associated with... |
Cannabis regulation in Uruguay: "Someone has to be first ..." [17.07.2012] | Uruguay may be poised to become the first country to opt for a state controlled and legally regulated cannabis market for medical as well as recreati... |
Drugs and Prisons in Uruguay [17.07.2012] | In Uruguay, the consumption of drugs, including marijuana, is not punishable with prison time. Even so, the cultivation of marijuana for personal con... |
Uruguay mulls government marijuana sales [21.06.2012] | Uruguay is planning a novel approach to fighting its rising crime: having its government sell marijuana to take drug profits out of the hands of deal... |
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