Items tagged with cannabis
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| Federal bill to legalize marijuana gains support in Congress [21.03.2013] | Maine Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-ME) joined the effort to end marijuana prohibition and start regulating marijuana like alcohol at the federal ... |
| Legal pot: worth a try [21.03.2013] | In 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 ... |
| Colorado lawmakers question proposed marijuana business rules [20.03.2013] | Colorado lawmakers yanked and tugged at the threads of the state's proposals for regulating recreational marijuana, as one legislator hinted to his c ... |
| Portland groups push to legalize pot possession in the city [19.03.2013] | A coalition of political groups and activists say marijuana possession should be legalized in Maine’s largest city, in part because they say the drug ... |
| The next marijuana legalization fight? Copenhagen vs. the rest of Denmark [19.03.2013] | The city of Copenhagen wants to legalize cannabis and, if possible, get supplies of the drug from the United States. Following a Europe-wide trend, D ... |
| State chief consultant Mark Kleiman knows in, outs of pot legalization [19.03.2013] | 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 “Mar ... |
| UCLA expert’s team to advise state on new pot rules [17.03.2013] | Washington has tentatively chosen professor Mark Kleiman at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), to be its official marijuana consultant ... |
| Support for marijuana legalization drags among state’s congressional delegation [15.03.2013] | Washington voters acted boldly last November to begin reforming our nation’s failed policy on marijuana. It was an act of leadership, in stark contra ... |
| Life after cannabis prohibition: The city announces its ambitions [15.03.2013] | The tide is turning against the criminalisation of cannabis. Copenhagen wants to join the movement with a three-year trial to decriminalise the drug. ... |
| Marijuana regulation heads to Colorado Capitol [15.03.2013] | An 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 ... |
| Statement at the 2013 Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) [15.03.2013] | Ann Fordham of the International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC) delivered the NGO Statement to CND Plenary under Item 8: Preparations for the high-lev ... |
| Group forms to oppose Colorado marijuana stores [14.03.2013] | A citizens' group opposed to a large-scale recreational marijuana industry in Colorado has hired two powerhouse lobbyists in preparation for the stat ... |
| Seattle downplays likelihood of sending pot to Copenhagen [14.03.2013] | A 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 l ... |
| Meet state’s ‘go-to guy’ on marijuana [14.03.2013] | Randy Simmons might have the most interesting job in Washington state. He is the ganja guru for the state agency charged with implementing the new le ... |
| Crack down on cannabis, world body tells U.S. [13.03.2013] | The United States must not turn a blind eye to the recreational use of cannabis in states that liberalize drug laws, the International Narcotics Cont ... |
| High-school students twice as likely to smoke pot as cigarettes [13.03.2013] | A University of Washington researcher who supported the new marijuana law said it’s a big improvement over prohibition alone, since the government ha ... |
| Cannabis and the 1961 Convention [12.03.2013] | Over the past years, there have been some soft and hard defections on cannabis control. It is now time to discuss alternatives that are based on fact ... |
| Copenhagen looking to import cannabis from the US [12.03.2013] | Ahead of a City Council cannabis conference on Friday, Copenhagen officials say they are ready to make another push to legalise the substance. Accord ... |
| Holder says little about states’ pot laws; supporters buoyed [05.03.2013] | U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder declined to reveal the Obama administration’s long-awaited policy on legal recreational marijuana in Colorado and W ... |
| Ex-DEA heads, U.N. panel urge feds to nullify Wash., Colo. pot laws [05.03.2013] | Eight former Drug Enforcement Administration chiefs warned the federal government that time is running out to nullify Colorado and Washington's new l ... |
| Mayors reject legal cannabis proposal [04.03.2013] | In Copenhagen, a majority of City Council dreams of legally selling cannabis from pharmacies throughout the city to residents who are over 18 and hav ... |
| Colorado pot task force recommends special sales and excise taxes [28.02.2013] | What Colorado will look like with legal marijuana became significantly clearer when the state task force proposing rules for that new world finished ... |
| Marijuana legalization may be unstoppable [28.02.2013] | US 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 Washi ... |
| Colorado task force ponders how to tax legal pot [28.02.2013] | The Amendment 64 Implementation Task Force regulators are working out the details of exactly how to tax legalized marijuana, so the benefits are shar ... |
| Majority of California voters support legalizing pot, poll finds [27.02.2013] | A record but still narrow majority of California voters, or 54 percent, favor legalizing marijuana for personal, recreational use with age limits and ... |
| Hookahs, hash and the Muslim Brotherhood [26.02.2013] | Sixty-years-old, widowed and strictly religious in a gray-brown scarf draped over her hair and chest, Um Salma is an unlikely guardian of one of Egyp ... |
| More Danes grow their own cannabis [25.02.2013] | A large number of Danes are growing their own cannabis plants at home, according to a new investigation by drug researcher Helle Dahl, a researcher a ... |
| Dominique Broc des Cannabis Social Clubs jugé prochainement [24.02.2013] | L’intense campagne médiatique du porte-parole des Cannabis Social Clubs (CSC), dont le point d’orgue a été le dossier de Libération, a fini par faire ... |
| Pot purchasing limits proposed in CO [24.02.2013] | Rules for Colorado's recreational-marijuana industry have begun to take shape after a marathon meeting of the Amendment 64 Implementation Task Force, ... |
| The great experiment [23.02.2013] | A whiff of change is in the air regarding drug control policy. Officials in two American states, Colorado and Washington, are pondering how to implem ... |
| La police cueille la tête des pro-marijuana [23.02.2013] | La réponse des autorités ne s’est pas fait attendre… Alors que nous annoncions dans Libération que la Fédération des Cannabis Social Clubs (CSC) fran ... |
| Maine, Maryland marijuana legalization bills filed [22.02.2013] | Maine and Maryland became the latest states to see marijuana legalization bills filed this year, with lawmakers in those two states rolling out measu ... |
| Towards a ceasefire [22.02.2013] | Partial reforms have their limits. Most drug crime is not cannabis-related. Moving from punishment to harm reduction may help drug users, but it leav ... |
| Will high marijuana taxes encourage black markets? [22.02.2013] | 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 di ... |
| Pot on the patio? [21.02.2013] | Colorado's Amendment 64 Implementation Task Force is wading through the weeds of marijuana legalization, creating regulations to take pot from the sh ... |
| Democratic and Republican legislators unite on bill to legalize and tax marijuana [20.02.2013] | Lawmakers from opposite ends of the political spectrum unveiled a bill Thursday that would give Mainers the chance to legalize marijuana for recreati ... |
| Maine could become the next state to legalize marijuana for adult use [20.02.2013] | State 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 w ... |
| Pot-related bills advance in Wash. Legislature [20.02.2013] | Two marijuana-related bills advanced in Olympia, with legislative committees giving their OK to one measure that would block police from arresting me ... |
| Mayor Bloomberg makes a small step toward a rational policy on marijuana [19.02.2013] | In his final state of the city address as Mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg, announced that anyone caught in possession of marijuana would no long ... |
| Legalising drugs would be the perfect Tory policy [19.02.2013] | A new poll out today by the campaign group Transform finds a majority now favour permitting cannabis use, while four in 10 Britons favour total decri ... |
| Colorado marijuana task force recommends allowing pot tourism [18.02.2013] | Members of a task force proposing regulations for recreational marijuana in Colorado approved recommendations that would allow for marijuana tourism ... |
| How does a Cannabis Social Club work? [18.02.2013] | What was originally a small group of friends, has become a feasible alternative to the cannabis black market in the north of Belgium. Our guest autho ... |
| Obama drug czar: We will go after marijuana distributors in Wash. and Colo. [17.02.2013] | In an interview with Canadian news magazine Maclean’s, Gil Kerlikowske, President Obama’s Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, sta ... |
| Tirah valley: The land of pure hashish [17.02.2013] | The moderate climate and red soil make it a child’s play for Tirah Maidan’s local farmers to grow cannabis. The crop’s stems are hung for two weeks t ... |
| Les Cannabis Social Clubs forcent la loi [15.02.2013] | Ils sont chefs d’entreprises, éducateurs spécialisés, universitaires, produisent eux-mêmes le cannabis qu’ils fument, et entendent «renverser la proh ... |
| New York City plans to stop booking, arraigning many low-level marijuana suspects [14.02.2013] | Many people arrested on low-level marijuana-possession charges in the nation’s largest city will no longer be booked and held hours for arraignment, ... |
| Up in Smoke: Why the GOP’s Views on Pot are Showing Signs of a Shift [13.02.2013] | As 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, ... |
| Marijuana legalization raises safety questions [11.02.2013] | Marijuana 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 ... |
| Doors swing open for advocates of marijuana legalization on Capitol Hill [11.02.2013] | Advocates for the legalization of marijuana plan to step up their political giving and lobbying efforts now that members of Congress are taking an in ... |
| Christiania task force netting arrests but locals call it harassment [11.02.2013] | Copenhagen Police said that the number of people being charged with possession of cannabis is up 23 percent since the creation of Task Force Pusher S ... |
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