Tag: regulation
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Colorado lawmakers may let pot growers and sellers operate separately
Tuesday, 09 April 2013Colorado lawmakers stood the state's current model for marijuana businesses on its head, endorsing a proposal that would allow recreational pot stores and commercial growers to operate independently. ...
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Dutch city of Eindhoven wants to grow their own marijuana
Thursday, 04 April 2013The Dutch city of Eindhoven has come up with a proposal it believes will curb the illegal supply of cannabis to the city’s cannabis coffee shops: they suggest growing it themselves. “The Eindhoven mu ...
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De wankele 'Weense consensus' over drugsbeleid
Sunday, 31 March 2013
??Nederland is met zijn drugsbeleid in de achterhoede terecht gekomen, zo stelt Martin Jelsma. Zo zijn Uruguay en de Amerikaanse staten Washington en Colorado met hun besluit om de cannabismarkt van ...
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The present continuous of cannabis clubs in Catalonia
Friday, 29 March 2013The 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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Consultant: Tax revenues on pot won’t be half of what’s projected
Friday, 29 March 2013Washington’s new pot consultant has one overarching, discouraging message for lawmakers and state budget writers: don’t look at weed as an ATM. Potential tax revenues will probably be less than half ...
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Scathing audit throws Colorado recreational marijuana rules into chaos
Wednesday, 27 March 2013Colorado's under-construction plan for regulating recreational marijuana nearly came unglued when lawmakers questioned whether the agency that would enforce the rules is up to the task. The plan call ...
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Yes we cannabis
Tuesday, 26 March 2013Last November ballot initiatives legalizing, taxing, and regulating recreational marijuana use passed for the first time ever in Colorado and Washington state. Now marijuana reform is popping up in s ...
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Audit: Serious flaws in Colorado's regulation of medical marijuana
Monday, 25 March 2013State regulators charged with watching over Colorado's medical marijuana industry have fallen short on everything from tracking inventory and managing their budget to keeping potential bad actors out ...
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Pot is legal in Washington: Q&A with the man who is making weed legit
Monday, 25 March 2013Washington state gets ready to regulate legal marijuana with the help of one of America’s top drug policy analysts. Mark Kleiman is professor of public policy at the University of California in Los A ...
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Medical marijuana dispensaries: High-tech tracking system unfulfilled
Sunday, 24 March 2013The technology was supposed to efficiently track medical marijuana from seed to sale — the catch-phrase that came to define Colorado's efforts to regulate what had been an outlaw business. Field inve ...
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Wall Street sees opportunity in marijuana
Friday, 22 March 2013A 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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No consensus on changes to Washington marijuana law
Thursday, 21 March 2013House Bill 2000, the bill by Rep. Chris Hurst, D-Enumclaw, to modify Initiative 502, marijuana legalization, offers a mix of changes that could help create a functioning market and things that might ...
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Federal bill to legalize marijuana gains support in Congress
Thursday, 21 March 2013Maine Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-ME) joined the effort to end marijuana prohibition and start regulating marijuana like alcohol at the federal level. Rep. Pingree, as well as Rep. Eric Swalwell ...
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Legal pot: worth a try
Thursday, 21 March 2013In a country that regulates the sale of over-the-counter painkillers, you’d have thought that a reasonable way to decriminalise the sale of cannabis would have long since been rolled out, perfected a ...
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Colorado lawmakers question proposed marijuana business rules
Wednesday, 20 March 2013Colorado lawmakers yanked and tugged at the threads of the state's proposals for regulating recreational marijuana, as one legislator hinted to his colleagues that pulling too hard could unravel the ...
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Portland groups push to legalize pot possession in the city
Tuesday, 19 March 2013A coalition of political groups and activists say marijuana possession should be legalized in Maine’s largest city, in part because they say the drug is significantly safer than alcohol. The effort c ...
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The next marijuana legalization fight? Copenhagen vs. the rest of Denmark
Tuesday, 19 March 2013The city of Copenhagen wants to legalize cannabis and, if possible, get supplies of the drug from the United States. Following a Europe-wide trend, Denmark’s capital has been planning a three-year ex ...
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State chief consultant Mark Kleiman knows in, outs of pot legalization
Tuesday, 19 March 2013Washington 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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UCLA expert’s team to advise state on new pot rules
Sunday, 17 March 2013Washington has tentatively chosen professor Mark Kleiman at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), to be its official marijuana consultant. His firm Botec Analysis is based in Cambridge, M ...
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Support for marijuana legalization drags among state’s congressional delegation
Friday, 15 March 2013Washington voters acted boldly last November to begin reforming our nation’s failed policy on marijuana. It was an act of leadership, in stark contrast to the inertia that has perpetuated the failed ...
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Life after cannabis prohibition: The city announces its ambitions
Friday, 15 March 2013The tide is turning against the criminalisation of cannabis. Copenhagen wants to join the movement with a three-year trial to decriminalise the drug. But while city officials envisage Copenhagen unde ...
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Marijuana regulation heads to Colorado Capitol
Friday, 15 March 2013An ad-hoc committee of 10 House and Senate members started work reviewing 165 pages of recommended regulations from a task force that worked for more than three months to suggest rules for the newly ...
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Group forms to oppose Colorado marijuana stores
Thursday, 14 March 2013A citizens' group opposed to a large-scale recreational marijuana industry in Colorado has hired two powerhouse lobbyists in preparation for the state legislature's coming pot fight. Smart Colorado f ...
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Seattle downplays likelihood of sending pot to Copenhagen
Thursday, 14 March 2013A Seattle city official has poured cold water on Co enhagen's idea of importing cannabis from the US. One of the elements of the city's proposal to legalise cannabis on a three-year trial basis is to ...
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Meet state’s ‘go-to guy’ on marijuana
Thursday, 14 March 2013Randy Simmons might have the most interesting job in Washington state. He is the ganja guru for the state agency charged with implementing the new legal pot system, which is untested on the planet. W ...
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Crack down on cannabis, world body tells U.S.
Wednesday, 13 March 2013The United States must not turn a blind eye to the recreational use of cannabis in states that liberalize drug laws, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) said, urging the country to live ...
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High-school students twice as likely to smoke pot as cigarettes
Wednesday, 13 March 2013A University of Washington researcher who supported the new marijuana law said it’s a big improvement over prohibition alone, since the government has done a lousy job of educating young people about ...
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Copenhagen looking to import cannabis from the US
Tuesday, 12 March 2013Ahead of a City Council cannabis conference on Friday, Copenhagen officials say they are ready to make another push to legalise the substance. According to prepared documents from the council, the ci ...
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Holder says little about states’ pot laws; supporters buoyed
Tuesday, 05 March 2013U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder declined to reveal the Obama administration’s long-awaited policy on legal recreational marijuana in Colorado and Washington at a Senate committee hearing. Holder sa ...
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Ex-DEA heads, U.N. panel urge feds to nullify Wash., Colo. pot laws
Tuesday, 05 March 2013Eight former Drug Enforcement Administration chiefs warned the federal government that time is running out to nullify Colorado and Washington's new laws legalizing recreational marijuana use, and a U ...
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Generic legislation of new psychoactive drugs
Thursday, 28 February 2013
New psychoactive drugs (NPDs, new psychoactive substances) enter the market all the time. However, it takes several months to ban these NPDs and immediate action is generally not possible. Several Eu ...
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Colorado pot task force recommends special sales and excise taxes
Thursday, 28 February 2013What Colorado will look like with legal marijuana became significantly clearer when the state task force proposing rules for that new world finished its work. Under proposals endorsed by the Amendmen ...
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Marijuana legalization may be unstoppable
Thursday, 28 February 2013US Attorney General Eric Holder told America to expect a decision "soon" on how he'll respond to the recent legalization of pot by Colorado and Washington state. Legislative committees in New Mexico ...
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Colorado task force ponders how to tax legal pot
Thursday, 28 February 2013The Amendment 64 Implementation Task Force regulators are working out the details of exactly how to tax legalized marijuana, so the benefits are shared statewide in the form of increased revenue. The ...
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Kiwis on drugs: a blueprint for the future?
Wednesday, 27 February 2013This week New Zealand publishes its Psychoactive Substances Bill, legislation which some believe will transform the international debate on drugs policy when it comes into force in August. The new la ...
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Pot purchasing limits proposed in CO
Sunday, 24 February 2013Rules for Colorado's recreational-marijuana industry have begun to take shape after a marathon meeting of the Amendment 64 Implementation Task Force, which recommended marijuana purchasing caps. Adul ...
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The great experiment
Saturday, 23 February 2013A whiff of change is in the air regarding drug control policy. Officials in two American states, Colorado and Washington, are pondering how to implement their voters’ decisions last November to legal ...
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Maine, Maryland marijuana legalization bills filed
Friday, 22 February 2013Maine and Maryland became the latest states to see marijuana legalization bills filed this year, with lawmakers in those two states rolling out measures this week. They join Hawaii (already defeated) ...
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Towards a ceasefire
Friday, 22 February 2013Partial reforms have their limits. Most drug crime is not cannabis-related. Moving from punishment to harm reduction may help drug users, but it leaves gangsters in control of supplies and revenues. ...
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Will high marijuana taxes encourage black markets?
Friday, 22 February 2013The 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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Pot on the patio?
Thursday, 21 February 2013Colorado's Amendment 64 Implementation Task Force is wading through the weeds of marijuana legalization, creating regulations to take pot from the shadows out into the open. In the wake of the decisi ...
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Maine could become the next state to legalize marijuana for adult use
Wednesday, 20 February 2013State Rep. Diane Russell (D-Portland) was joined by Rep. Aaron Libby (R-Waterboro) at a press conference to unveil the details of her new bill that would make Maine the third state in the nation to m ...
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Pot-related bills advance in Wash. Legislature
Wednesday, 20 February 2013Two marijuana-related bills advanced in Olympia, with legislative committees giving their OK to one measure that would block police from arresting medical marijuana patients and another that would le ...
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Colorado marijuana task force recommends allowing pot tourism
Monday, 18 February 2013Members of a task force proposing regulations for recreational marijuana in Colorado approved recommendations that would allow for marijuana tourism but block out-of-state pot shop owners. The Amendm ...
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Obama drug czar: We will go after marijuana distributors in Wash. and Colo.
Sunday, 17 February 2013In an interview with Canadian news magazine Maclean’s, Gil Kerlikowske, President Obama’s Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, stated that despite recreational legalization in Wash ...
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Up in Smoke: Why the GOP’s Views on Pot are Showing Signs of a Shift
Wednesday, 13 February 2013As the push to legalize pot migrates from the margins to the mainstream, it is mellowing some Republicans in the process. “If it was a secret ballot, the majority of Republicans would have voted to l ...
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Marijuana legalization raises safety questions
Monday, 11 February 2013Marijuana may be coming out of the black market in Colorado and Washington state, but the drug, at least for now, will retain a decidedly underground feel: Users may not know what's in it. Less than ...
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Doors swing open for advocates of marijuana legalization on Capitol Hill
Monday, 11 February 2013Advocates for the legalization of marijuana plan to step up their political giving and lobbying efforts now that members of Congress are taking an interest in changing federal drug laws. The lobbyist ...
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Battle over medical marijuana
Monday, 11 February 2013More than a decade ago, after several court rulings, the federal government was forced to create regulations allowing people with legitimate needs to possess or grow cannabis for personal medical use ...
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Denver City Council to vote in April whether to opt out on marijuana
Sunday, 10 February 2013The Denver City Council will vote in April on whether the state's largest city will opt out of licensing recreational marijuana sales — a move that could dramatically affect legalization efforts in C ...
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