Items tagged with cannabis
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| Georgia eases draconian law on cannabis use in landmark ruling [24.01.2017] | Until recently anyone caught with cannabis twice in 12 months in Georgia faced up to 14 years behind bars. Today you can carry enough for over 200 jo ... |
| Delays in Uruguay marijuana law leave door ajar for drug trafficking [23.01.2017] | Three years after Uruguay became the first South American country to create a legal market for marijuana, seven out of every ten cannabis consumers s ... |
| Gangs less involved in cannabis compared with other drugs: Statscan [23.01.2017] | Canada’s organized crime groups and gangs are much less likely to produce and traffic marijuana than they are other illicit drugs such as cocaine and ... |
| Seiveright urges ganja farmers to look beyond ‘so so weed’ [19.01.2017] | Delano Seiveright, a director of the Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA), says that ganja growers should look beyond farming “so so weed” in seeking t ... |
| A new era for cannabis clubs in Spain [13.01.2017] | Following the Supreme Court's judgements against cannabis clubs in 2015, ordinary courts have started interpreting them. Spain's major clubs, above a ... |
| Marijuana reforms flood state legislatures [13.01.2017] | Legislators in more than a dozen states have introduced measures to loosen laws restricting access to or criminalizing marijuana, a rush of legislati ... |
| Report spurs call to study marijuana’s potential in opioid-crisis fight [12.01.2017] | A new U.S. government-funded report showing clear evidence cannabis is an effective remedy for those with chronic pain underscores the need for more ... |
| Canada’s marijuana industry needs innovation to thrive, not protection [11.01.2017] | The Task Force on Marijuana Legalization and Regulation did not say, “create a marijuana marketing board.” Yet its recommendations would, if implemen ... |
| Governor introduces bill to legalize recreational marijuana [10.01.2017] | As promised and just in the second week into the new year, Governor Eddie Calvo of Guam has introduced legislation for the recreational use of mariju ... |
| Cannabis : 150 personnalités marseillaises demandent la "légalisation contrôlée" [08.01.2017] | Ils veulent la fin de la "prohibition du cannabis" qui est pour eux "un échec". 150 personnalités marseillaises, dont les députés socialistes Patrick ... |
| Albania: Europe's cannabis paradise [02.01.2017] | Despite all its promises, the Albanian government under Prime Minister Edi Rama has not managed to significantly reduce poverty in the country. Unemp ... |
| Amsterdam’s ‘oldest’ cannabis cafe closes because of school rule [30.12.2016] | An Amsterdam coffeeshop which can trace its roots back to 1973 will open for the last time because of city rules preventing the sale of marijuana clo ... |
| Gang-ravaged Mexico stuck in weed ban as U.S. opens up [29.12.2016] | Mexican advocates for drug reform are voicing alarm about the country's widening gap with the United States on marijuana legislation, as criminal vio ... |
| Ten scientific studies from 2016 showing marijuana is safe and effective [29.12.2016] | While no psychoactive substance is completely harmless, modern science continues to prove that cannabis is one of the safer and more effective therap ... |
| Mexican attitudes to marijuana mellow [24.12.2016] | In november 57% of Californians voted to legalise the growing and use of marijuana for recreational purposes. Liberalisation in the most populous bor ... |
| The growing movement for marijuana amnesty [22.12.2016] | With an estimated $7 billion in sales in 2016 and potentially exponential growth due to recent ballot initiatives on recreational use, the legal mari ... |
| After legalization, teen marijuana use drops sharply in Colorado [21.12.2016] | Teen marijuana use fell sharply in Colorado in the years 2014 and 2015, after the opening of that state's recreational marijuana market, new federal ... |
| Ship sails 450 kg of cannabis to Tel Aviv to fight drug ban [20.12.2016] | A ship carrying 450 kilograms of cannabis set sail for Tel Aviv on Tuesday. Activists aboard claimed they were protesting the government’s refusal to ... |
| Mellow drivers? [20.12.2016] | States with medical-marijuana laws have fewer traffic fatalities than those without, especially among younger drivers, a new study has found. You wou ... |
| Copenhagen to once again push for legal cannabis trial [15.12.2016] | After three spurned attempts to get a trial programme for legal cannabis off the ground, city officials in Copenhagen will try once again. Led by May ... |
| Pot task force recommends legal cannabis sales be limited to users over 18 [13.12.2016] | The task force appointed by the federal government to study the legalization of marijuana said cannabis sales should be restricted to those 18 and ol ... |
| Top anti-drug body recommends pot decriminalization [13.12.2016] | Minister of Public Security Gilad Erdan is expected to deliver a formal dressing down to the heads of Israel’s leading anti-drug organization after t ... |
| Cannabis users want same rights as smokers, drinkers [13.12.2016] | Cannabis users in South Africa want the same rights as alcohol drinkers and cigarette smokers to use the herb without fear of arrest, Dagga Party lea ... |
| Chuck promises Rastas speedy approval of ganja requests [12.12.2016] | Justice Minister Delroy Chuck has moved to assure members of the Rastafarian faith in Jamaica that their requests to transport ganja to be smoked as ... |
| Colombian leader: "It makes no sense" to jail peasant over marijuana [10.12.2016] | Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos used the Nobel podium in Norway to reiterate his call to "rethink" the war on drugs. "It makes no sense to imp ... |
| Ganja debate gone up in smoke [09.12.2016] | Why, after all the excitement occasioned by the forthrightness of Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, the one who first broached the issue at a regio ... |
| 7 reasons President Trump is unlikely to fight legal marijuana [07.12.2016] | With Donald Trump nominating Cabinet members who have spoken out against legal marijuana, some are arguing that the war on drugs may make a comeback. ... |
| The next big bubble could be in Canada’s soaring pot market [07.12.2016] | The surge of capital into Canada’s nascent marijuana industry has sent stock prices soaring – and brought warnings it’s a bubble that could soon burs ... |
| Düsseldorf moves forward with plans to legalize cannabis [06.12.2016] | Düsseldorf took the next step in its plan to legalize the regulated sale of recreational cannabis to over 18 year-olds, taking advice from experts i ... |
| Trudeau’s bait and switch on legalization? [04.12.2016] | Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently expressed frustration around the current cannabis landscape, explaining, “Until we have brought in the propose ... |
| The village where cannabis is the only livelihood [03.12.2016] | For centuries, the villagers have been growing the plant that has made Malana one of the world's top stoner destinations, and a battleground – at lea ... |
| Europe's outdoor cannabis capital [01.12.2016] | Albania has become the largest producer of outdoor-grown cannabis in Europe. The potent plant has been described as "green gold" for struggling farme ... |
| The California desert town that plans to be 'a Mecca for marijuana' [01.12.2016] | Desert Hot Springs is the first Southern California city to legalise large-scale cannabis cultivation. With the drug becoming legal for recreational ... |
| Marijuana task force submits report outlining framework for legal system [29.11.2016] | Canada’s new legal marijuana regime is expected to feature a mishmash of provincial rules and a heavily regulated production system that will initial ... |
| Five things to know about weed in Germany [24.11.2016] | The debate about legalizing cannabis continues in Germany - court cases in recent years have granted permission to use the drug for medical purposes, ... |
| Cannabis authority to grant conditional permits by year end [21.11.2016] | The Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA) in Jamaica expects to grant conditional licences by the end of the year for the growing and processing of ganj ... |
| Medical marijuana is legal in California. Except when it’s not [21.11.2016] | California’s multibillion-dollar marijuana industry, by far the nation’s largest, is crawling out from the underbrush after voters opted to legalize ... |
| Donald Trump’s attorney general pick could destroy the recreational pot industry [21.11.2016] | Attorney general nominee Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) is a fervent foe of marijuana legalization. But if he were confirmed as President-elect Trump’s ... |
| Ruling party to support regulated cannabis cultivation after all [21.11.2016] | It seems that ruling party VVD will support regulating cannabis cultivation in the Netherlands. During a VVD conference a vast majority of party memb ... |
| Legalisation of cannabis 'only solution to crime and addiction problems' [21.11.2016] | Cannabis should be legalised in the UK, according to a report that has the backing of several cross-party MPs including the former deputy prime minis ... |
| Turning weed to wine, helping Bekaa farmers go straight [19.11.2016] | Hashish cultivation is widespread in the Bekaa Valley with many relying on the illegal crop for their livelihoods. In an attempt to curb the illicit ... |
| Paiboon stands by delisting pot, krathom plan [18.11.2016] | Justice Minister Paiboon Koomchaya from Thailand is standing firm in his aim to remove krathom and marijuana from the narcotic drugs list and treat t ... |
| Jeff Sessions could reverse years of progress on marijuana policy [17.11.2016] | President-elect Donald Trump has nominated hardline drug policy reform opponent Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) to be Attorney General of the United Stat ... |
| Berlin likely to semi-legalize marijuana [11.11.2016] | A coalition of political parties in the German capital agreed to push for partial decriminalization of cannabis. The initial effects will be limited. ... |
| Marijuana reform went 8 for 9 on the ballot this week [10.11.2016] | Marijuana reform won in eight out of the nine states where it was put on the ballot, the strongest signal to date that the public is ready to embrace ... |
| Getting regulation right [09.11.2016] | After close to three years, the final element of Uruguay’s historic cannabis law is set to be implemented in the coming weeks, as commercial sales ar ... |
| Highs and lows in cannabis policy reform [09.11.2016] | Cannabis is the most widely produced and consumed illicit substance globally. A significant number of states have long engaged in soft defection from ... |
| Silver linings [09.11.2016] | One of the most striking juxtapositions of the 2016 U.S. elections is that on the same day that the nation elected to the presidency a candidate who ... |
| California scrambles to implement new recreational pot law [09.11.2016] | Passage of marijuana-legalization initiatives in California and other states this week has given momentum to a national movement to decriminalize pot ... |
| Marijuana legalization won big on Election Day. It will keep winning [09.11.2016] | In California voters approved legalization. The country’s most populous state and biggest economy will allow people to buy marijuana for recreational ... |
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