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  • Dope to your door

    Friday, 20 June 2014

    Evan Cox used to deliver pizza. But 18 months ago, as he was running out of money at college in Seattle, he had a new business idea. The state of Washington was in the process of legalising the sale ...

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  • Barcelona is fighting an overdose of cannabis clubs

    Thursday, 12 June 2014

    Barcelona has a new tourist attraction that some locals wish would disappear: a burgeoning number of "cannabis clubs," where people can legally buy and smoke pot. Although selling marijuana is agains ...

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  • Kazakhstan wants to attract Big Pharma to its ‘Cannabis Klondike’

    Wednesday, 15 January 2014

    Despite a heavy-handed campaign against drug trafficking and related crime in the country, one Kazakh lawmaker thinks it’s time to cash in on some 140,000 stubborn hectares of wild cannabis that can ...

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    kyrgyzstan | kazakhstan | cannabis industry | medical cannabis | cannabis
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  • Banks say no to marijuana money, legal or not

    Tuesday, 14 January 2014

    Legal marijuana merchants — mainly medical marijuana outlets but also, starting this year, shops that sell recreational marijuana in Colorado and Washington — are grappling with a pressing predicamen ...

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  • Greener marijuana: can a budding industry grow sustainable agriculture?

    Tuesday, 29 October 2013

    The growing societal acceptance of cannabis in the U.S. has sparked what some call a "green rush" of people trying to cash in on what is already a multi-billion-dollar business. And as the marijuana ...

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  • Will legalised marijuana lead to an economic boom?

    Monday, 06 May 2013

    Many Washington residents are looking to cash in on the newly legal and potentially lucrative marijuana market, which they hope will give them a new start, create jobs, and boost Washington's slumpin ...

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  • The present continuous of cannabis clubs in Catalonia

    Friday, 29 March 2013

    The exponential proliferation of the number of associations, clubs and other groups that distribute cannabis among their members and create new spaces for socialising, has surprised even the most opt ...

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  • Wall Street sees opportunity in marijuana

    Friday, 22 March 2013

    A number of businesses in the burgeoning U.S. cannabis industry are trying to enlist Wall Street's help. Some entrepreneurs see marijuana heading down the same path as Prohibition, which banned the m ...

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  • State chief consultant Mark Kleiman knows in, outs of pot legalization

    Tuesday, 19 March 2013

    Washington state’s chief pot consultant remains a bit mysterious, but Mark Kleiman's views on legalizing pot are no mystery. He lays them out in “Marijuana Legalization,” a 2012 book he wrote with th ...

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  • Will high marijuana taxes encourage black markets?

    Friday, 22 February 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 different stages of cannabis production: from the gr ...

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  • Two letters expose rift over new pot law

    Wednesday, 06 February 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 as required under voter-approved Initiative 502. A ...

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  • Groups seek to influence new rules for growing, selling pot

    Saturday, 05 January 2013

    The Washington state Liquor Control Board (LCB), charged with launching the world's first regulated marijuana market for social use, expects to begin accepting applications for grower licenses April ...

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  • Rocky Mountain high: Pot a $200M industry in Colorado

    Friday, 04 January 2013

    Vigorous regulation of a thriving medical-marijuana industry in Colorado offers the best glimpse of what is coming to Washington when it launches its voter-approved social-use market. With continuous ...

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  • Investors see profit potential in new pot law

    Friday, 30 November 2012

    Votes in Washington and Colorado last month to legalize pot for recreational use turbocharged marijuana as a legitimate business opportunity. Business people packed a marijuana-industry conference in ...

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  • U.S. marijuana vote threatens to nip B.C. market in the bud

    Wednesday, 07 November 2012

    British Columbia’s multibillion-dollar marijuana industry could take a “significant” blow now that two U.S. states – including its closest neighbour to the south – have voted to legalize marijuana. “ ...

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  • Pot dispensaries clouding medical marijuana's image

    Friday, 05 October 2012

    Seattle's first-ever Medical Cannabis Cup — part gourmet weed contest, part trade show, part smoke-in — showcased the entrepreneurial drive and explosive growth of the local medical-marijuana industr ...

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  • Between collective organisation and commercialisation

    Wednesday, 08 August 2012

    The last few years have witnessed a boom in new cannabis user associations in Spain. Although there are no reliable figures for them, most are known to have been created for the collective cultivatio ...

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    Willful blindness: INCB can find nothing good to say on cannabis legalisation
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Inter se modification of the UN drug control conventions to facilitate cannabis regulation


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The Rise and Decline of Cannabis Prohibition

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The History of Cannabis in the UN Drug Control System and Options For Reform


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