Items tagged with uruguay
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Uruguay: Marijuana law gets boost in presidential vote [01.12.2014] | Uruguay's politicians who led the charge to legalize marijuana and same-sex marriage appeared to win another ringing endorsement from voters in the S ... |
Uruguay pushes back start of marijuana sale in pharmacies [25.11.2014] | Uruguay could start selling marijuana in pharmacies in March 2015, the head of the National Drugs Board said, although the government had initially b ... |
Marijuana’s big-money Marley Brand makes a splash [24.11.2014] | Last week, NBC’s Today Show giddily announced an exclusive: Privateer Holdings, the Seattle marijuana company long acclaimed locally for its straight ... |
Uruguay cannabis growers' clubs: Registration begins [31.10.2014] | In Uruguay, licensed cannabis clubs of up to 45 members will be allowed to grow a maximum of 99 plants each year. In August, growing up to six plants ... |
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 ... |
Uruguay marijuana law under fire [11.09.2014] | When Uruguay's historic marijuana regulation law passed the Senate in December, it was a major victory for drug policy reform in Uruguay and around t ... |
IDPC response to the 2013 Annual Report of the International Narcotics Control Board [14.08.2014] | The publication of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) Report for 2013 took place in the context of major shifts in the drug policy land ... |
Uruguay delays implementation of legal framework for marijuana sale [06.08.2014] | In December 2013, Uruguay became the first country in the world to legalize the production and sale of marijuana. But this pioneering decision is pre ... |
The Guardian view on overdue overhauling of US and global drug laws [27.07.2014] | The war on drugs has been a losing fight for 40 years. The response to unending failure has always been to demand more law enforcement and more priso ... |
In Search of Rights [09.07.2014] | The Research Consortium on Drugs and the Law (Colectivo de Estudios Drogas y Derecho, CEDD) has published a new study that assesses state responses t ... |
Uruguay legal cannabis sale delayed to next year, says president [08.07.2014] | Uruguayan President Jose Mujica has said the start of legal cannabis sales will be delayed until next year due to "practical difficulties". Sales in ... |
Reimagining Drug Policy in the Americas [27.06.2014] | Latin America is now at the vanguard of international efforts to promote drug policy reform: Bolivia has rewritten its constitution to recognize the ... |
The difference between legalisation and decriminalisation [17.06.2014] | The war on cannabis seems to be slowly burning out. On June 12th Jamaica announced that it plans to decriminalise possession of small amounts of the ... |
Global drug policy is still deadly and ineffective [02.06.2014] | If you actually read the treaties, while they do set firm limitations on the legal, "non-medical" or "non-scientific" sale of schedule drugs — limits ... |
Going to pot: legalised cannabis edges nearer in west after US states end ban [22.05.2014] | Legalisation of cannabis is making slow but unstoppable progress across much of the developed world, many experts believe, following the end of prohi ... |
Cannabis regulation: high time for change? [20.05.2014] | Cannabis is the world’s most widely used illicit drug. But for how much longer? In a short space of time we have moved from absolute global prohibiti ... |
Why reports of Uruguay's 'tax free' marijuana are misleading [19.05.2014] | A new report stating that Uruguay will not tax the sale or production of marijuana has received widespread attention, yet the depiction of the legali ... |
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 to allow pot users to buy up to 20 joints a week [23.04.2014] | Uruguayans will be able buy up to 10 grams of pot a week, enough to roll 20 joints, under new rules governing the recently legalized marijuana trade ... |
Uruguay not a ‘pirate’ [17.04.2014] | The Uruguayan government has made a controversial move to regulate the production and sale of cannabis, believing that this will help in the fight ag ... |
Uruguay to track pot by genetic markers [27.03.2014] | Uruguay's drug czar says every legal marijuana plant in Uruguay will be registered and tracked using radio frequency tags, and that state-grown marij ... |
The Rise and Decline of Cannabis Prohibition [10.03.2014] | The cannabis plant has been used for spiritual, medicinal and recreational purposes since the early days of civilization. In this report the Transnat ... |
The battle against 'pasta base' [05.03.2014] | In December, Uruguay became the first nation in the world to legislate for the production, sale and state regulation of marijuana. Many hope that whe ... |
INCB speaks out against death penalty [05.03.2014] | UN’s International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) unprecedented condemnation of the use of death penalty for drug-related offences is welcome if long ... |
UN: cannabis law changes pose 'very grave danger to public health' [04.03.2014] | The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) has launched a counter-offensive against moves to liberalise drug laws around the world, warning tha ... |
Uruguay surrenders to win [31.01.2014] | José Mujica has attempted to change the premises and conditions of the drugs wars through the legalisation of marijuana. Although even the people of ... |
Summary of Drugs & Democracy Activities October-December 2013 [07.01.2014] | In December 2013 we had undoubtedly the biggest news of the last few decades concerning drug policy: Uruguay became the first country in the world to ... |
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 ... |
Uruguay President Mujica signs marijuana law [24.12.2013] | Uruguay's President Mujica has quietly signed into law the government’s plan to create a regulated, legal market for marijuana. He signed the legisla ... |
Uruguay's neighbors now considering legalization of pot [24.12.2013] | Argentina has given the first sign that Uruguay’s groundbreaking cannabis reform just may have started a domino effect across Latin America. Followin ... |
Légalisation du cannabis au Maroc [23.12.2013] | L’Istiqlal a présenté un projet de loi pour la légalisation du cannabis. «L'objectif est d'utiliser ce produit dans l'agriculture afin de promouvoir ... |
Uruguay: Yes we cannabis [20.12.2013] | When Uruguay recently became the first country in the world to legalise and regulate the production, distribution and sale of marijuana, it was a lon ... |
INCB vs Uruguay: the art of diplomacy [17.12.2013] | International tensions over Uruguay’s decision to regulate the cannabis market reached new levels when Raymond Yans, president of the International N ... |
The architect of Uruguay's marijuana legalization speaks out [15.12.2013] | The call for drug policy reform has moved from flower-power communes into the halls of power. Starting next year Uruguayans will be able to buy marij ... |
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 ... |
'Stop lying': Uruguay president chides UN official over marijuana law [14.12.2013] | Uruguay’s president has accused the head of the UN’s International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), Raymond Yans, of lying and double standards, after ... |
Uruguay's Prez rips into UN official over marijuana law: 'Stop lying' [12.12.2013] | Uruguay's President Mujica shot back at the president of the International Narcotics Control Board, a U.N. agency, for saying that his administration ... |
Weed all about it [12.12.2013] | “A critical turning point in the failed war against drugs,” is the verdict of Martin Jelsma of the Drugs and Democracy Programme at the Transnational ... |
Heroic Uruguay deserves a Nobel peace prize for legalising cannabis [11.12.2013] | The response of the UN's International Narcotics Control Board to Uruguay's new drug regime has been to incant futile bromides. According to its chie ... |
Finally, a nation legalizes pot [11.12.2013] | In a closely watched vote, Uruguayan lawmakers approved a proposal to make recreational marijuana legal for adults and to regulate its production, di ... |
Uruguay becomes first nation to legalise marijuana trade [10.12.2013] | Uruguay has become the first country in the world to make it legal to grow, sell and consume marijuana. After nearly 12 hours of debate, senators gav ... |
Uruguay legalizes pot, recasting drug war [10.12.2013] | The Uruguay Senate approved a bill to legalize marijuana and put its trade into state hands, in what many experts said marks a new model for the war ... |
Infographic: How will Uruguay's regulation of cannabis work? [10.12.2013] | On December 10, 2013, the General Assembly of Uruguay approved a law that made the country the first one in the world to fully regulate the cultivati ... |
Infographic: Why is Uruguay regulating; not criminalising cannabis? [10.12.2013] | "The approval of regulation under state control in Uruguay marks a tipping point in the failed war against drugs. The trend is becoming irreversible: ... |
Uruguay’s pioneering cannabis regulation marks the tipping point in the failed war on drugs [10.12.2013] | Uruguay’s senate voted today (10 December) to approve the world’s first national legal framework regulating the cultivation, trade and consumption of ... |
Uruguay establishes the basis for a new paradigm in drug policy [10.12.2013] | The signatory organisations below wish to congratulate the Uruguayan Deputies and Senators that have voted in favour of the law regulating marijuana, ... |
‘Het Nederlandse systeem heeft gaten’ [09.12.2013] | Interview Sebastián Sabini: "Het gaat ons om een totaalaanpak. Legalisering moet samengaan met preventie, met voorlichting en een sterke naleving van ... |
Open letter to Ministers Responsible for Public Security in the Americas [25.11.2013] | We, the undersigned human rights organizations, address you on this Fourth Meeting of Ministers Responsible for Public Security (MISPA) to follow up ... |
Uruguay's likely cannabis law could set tone for war on drugs in Latin America [18.11.2013] | The marijuana regulation bill, which has been passed by the lower house of the Uruguayan parliament, will allow registered users to buy up to 40g a m ... |
Uruguaian law proposal to regulate the cannabis market [13.11.2013] | |
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