Items tagged with uruguay
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| Drug Decriminalisation Across the World [31.12.2030] | The criminalisation of people who use drugs compounds drug-related challenges and worsens health and welfare outcomes. Across the world, there is a g ... |
| Willful blindness: INCB can find nothing good to say on cannabis legalisation [14.03.2023] | In its report for 2022, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), the “independent, quasi-judicial expert body” that monitors the implementat ... |
| Legal marijuana, but Uruguayans still prefer black market [30.09.2022] | In 2013, Uruguay became the first country in the world to legalize recreational marijuana -- which came into effect four years later -- permitting it ... |
| A roundup of countries that permit recreational cannabis [15.10.2021] | Marijuana may be an issue of easy agreement in the ongoing coalition talks between Germany's leading parties. Despite numerous points of contention, ... |
| Uruguay [31.12.2019] | Overview of drug policy, drug law and legislative trends in Uruguay Drug consumption is not a crime in Uruguay. On 20 December 2013, Uruguay became t ... |
| Regulating Drugs: Resolving Conflicts with the UN Drug Control Treaty System [29.11.2019] | There are good reasons to legally regulate drugs markets, rather than persist with efforts to ban all non-medical uses of psychoactive substances. Re ... |
| Facing stiff competition, will Colombia's marijuana industry go up in smoke? [07.10.2019] | Cannabis company Clever Leaves has only managed to export a few marijuana derivatives because of the tight regulations threatening to choke Colombia’ ... |
| Medicinal cannabis policies and practices around the world [24.04.2018] | Although cannabis remains a prohibited substance worldwide, in recent decades a series of political, legislative and judicial processes in various pa ... |
| Hearing on Bill C-45 as it relates to Canada’s international obligations [19.04.2018] | The international dimensions of Bill C-45 are of utmost importance not only for Canada itself but for many countries around the world that are moving ... |
| 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 ... |
| Uruguay leads world in cannabis regulation but US law intrudes [28.02.2018] | Uruguay was the first country in the world to fully regulate the cannabis market and so break free from a global prohibitionist regime that has preva ... |
| Canadian cannabis companies set their sights on South America [31.01.2018] | Much has been made of the marijuana M&A spree afoot in Canada. Just this year alone, licensed producer Aurora Cannabis Inc. agreed to acquire CanniMe ... |
| If the U.S. legalizes marijuana, what happens to its international drug treaties? [10.01.2018] | When Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded a Barack Obama-era federal policy that allowed recreational marijuana in Colorado and Washington, he di ... |
| Yes, legalizing marijuana breaks treaties. We can deal with that [11.12.2017] | Buzzing in the background of Canada’s debate on cannabis legalization is the issue of the three UN drug control treaties, and what to do with them. T ... |
| 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 ... |
| IDPC response to the INCB Annual Report for 2016 [30.09.2017] | The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) Annual Report for 2016 is, as usual, a mixed bag of high quality data and sometimes doubtful politic ... |
| Uruguay setting up dedicated cannabis dispensaries after banks scare off pharmacies [14.09.2017] | Uruguay’s government announced that it is changing its retail system for legalized marijuana because banks are making it difficult for pharmacies to ... |
| Pot was flying off the shelves in Uruguay. Then U.S. banks weighed in [25.08.2017] | The pharmacies selling pot were doing a brisk business. After Uruguay became the first country in the world to fully legalize marijuana sales for rec ... |
| Uruguay finds no banks for the bongs [22.08.2017] | Understated and simpatico, former Uruguayan president Jose Mujica isn't easily rattled. Just don't mess with his reefer. That was the message from Mo ... |
| Legal marijuana sale faces challenges by banks in Uruguay [18.08.2017] | The legal sale of marijuana in Uruguayan pharmacies is facing challenges as banks refuse to deal with companies linked to the drug in order to follow ... |
| 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 sets path for Canada on marijuana legalization within international treaties [06.06.2017] | Uruguay‘s envoy to Ottawa says his small South American country has opened up some breathing room for marijuana legalization within international tre ... |
| 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 ... |
| Uruguayan pharmacies will start selling cannabis [04.05.2017] | On the outskirts of Libertad, a small town an hour’s drive from Montevideo, barbed wire and guard towers surround a ten-hectare plot of state-owned l ... |
| 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 ... |
| Uruguay to sell cannabis in pharmacies from July [07.04.2017] | Uruguay will begin selling cannabis in pharmacies from July, the final stage in the country's pioneering regularisation of the drug. "Cannabis will b ... |
| People in Latin America are starting to turn against outlawing marijuana [27.02.2017] | Sentiments in Latin America in favor of outlawing marijuana appear to be undergoing shifts in some countries, according to a study published the Inte ... |
| Regulating Cannabis Social Clubs [15.02.2017] | Cannabis Social Clubs (CSCs) are a model of non-profit production and distribution of cannabis among a closed circuit of adult cannabis users. CSCs a ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Panel: Advances towards Cannabis Regulation [04.10.2016] | In spite of the prejudices and legal obstacles that persist in relation to a legal market for cannabis, it is undeniable that a strong movement towar ... |
| Cannabis in Latin America and the Caribbean [15.09.2016] | Cannabis (or marihuana) is one of the most widely consumed psychoactive substances in the world. According to the United Nations World Drug Report, 1 ... |
| Cannabis clubs in Uruguay [30.08.2016] | The Uruguayan Cannabis Clubs (UCCs) constitute one of three ways to obtain cannabis under the new cannabis regulation laws. These organizations, form ... |
| Uruguay's cannabis law makes big strides, but faces serious challenges [29.04.2016] | Nearly two and half years after becoming law, Uruguay’s pioneering plan to regulate every level of the national market for cannabis is finally on the ... |
| 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 ... |
| A Quiet Revolution [14.03.2016] | This is the second edition of ‘A Quiet Revolution: Drug Decriminalisation Across the Globe’. The first edition was released in July 2012 and has sinc ... |
| Three types of marijuana to hit Uruguayan pharmacies in 2016 [05.12.2015] | Uruguayans will be able to choose from three varieties of state-sanctioned cannabis when marijuana starts being sold in pharmacies next year, the Nat ... |
| Latin America’s crackdown on drugs defies its progressive rhetoric [12.11.2015] | “We were having dinner—my daughter, grandchild, and me,” says Ramona, a 67-year-old Mexican woman who is serving a sentence of four-and-a-half years ... |
| 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 ... |
| So you want to legalize weed? [27.06.2015] | Up and down the Western Hemisphere, marijuana policy is a growing topic of discussion, and laws are starting to change. In 2014, retail marijuana sto ... |
| More South America teens using cocaine: Report [04.05.2015] | The Organization of American States' (OAS) latest drug consumption report highlights shifting trends in drug use among youths in the Western Hemisphe ... |
| Improving global drug policy: Comparative perspectives and UNGASS 2016 [28.04.2015] | As the world prepares for the 2016 Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly on the World Drug Problem (UNGASS 2016), an increasing numb ... |
| UN drugs body warns US states and Uruguay over cannabis legalisation [03.03.2015] | The United Nations has renewed its warnings to Uruguay and the US states of Colorado and Washington that their cannabis legalisation policies fail to ... |
| Reguleer wiet, en niet alleen de achterdeur [25.02.2015] | De advocaten Spong, Smeets en Vis houden een pleidooi voor het reguleren van de achterdeur van de coffeeshops in een opiniestuk in het NRC. Zij zette ... |
| 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 ... |
| The year in drug policy: Movement at a crossroads [26.12.2014] | The 43-year-old war on drugs had never seen such a barrage of opposition as it did in 2014, with successful marijuana legalization initiatives in sev ... |
| Pourquoi Terra Nova veut légaliser le cannabis [18.12.2014] | Le groupe de réflexion Terra Nova, proche du PS, a publié un rapport, révélé par Le Monde, intitulé «Cannabis : réguler le marché pour sortir de l’im ... |
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