Items tagged with cannabis

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Controlled cannabis sale in Zurich greenlighted [22.03.2023] The Zurich city government and the Zurich University Hospital said that the Federal Office of Public Health approved the conditions for the organic p ...
Malawi cannabis: Farmers' high hopes fail to materialise [22.03.2023] Malawian farmer Ethel Chilembwe has paid out hundreds of dollars, cleared six hectares of land and got ready for the training, but after two years of ...
Major alcohol industry association calls for federal marijuana legalization, recommending regulatory framework [22.03.2023] A major alcohol industry association is officially backing federal marijuana legalization, sending a letter to congressional leadership that implores ...
Raphael Mechoulam, ‘Father of Cannabis Research,’ dies at 92 [22.03.2023] Raphael Mechoulam, a pioneering Israeli chemist who is credited with opening the field of cannabis science after identifying the structure and functi ...
France to keep a cautious watch on German cannabis bill [21.03.2023] Germany is looking into legalising the sale of cannabis for recreational purposes from next year, according to a draft plan Health Minister Karl Laut ...
Australia spends billions ‘failing to police’ cannabis that earns black market $25bn a year, Greens say [17.03.2023] Australia’s cannabis industry could be earning the black market $25bn a year and, rather than policing it, we could be gaining revenue from it by leg ...
Legal cannabis plans breach international law – State Council [16.03.2023] Luxembourg's plans to allow residents to grow four cannabis plants at their home have been thrown into question after the country's de-facto upper ch ...
These are the rules cannabis associations will have to follow [15.03.2023] Cannabis associations that sell to non-members or minors will face fines of up to €10,000, with the associations also required to cough up money for ...
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 ...
Lauterbach wants to present new proposal [14.03.2023] Germany's Health Minister Karl Lauterbach is sticking to his legalisation plans. In the coming weeks, he will present a proposal for cannabis legalis ...
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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 ...
À Chefchaouen, les coopératives s’apprêtent à lancer la saison de culture du cannabis légalisé [07.03.2023] Un atelier de travail s’est tenu, le 6 mars au siège de la province de Chefchaouen, afin d’examiner les modalités concrètes de soutien aux coopérativ ...
Farmers say making dagga legal has only made them poorer [01.03.2023] Small-scale cannabis farmers in the rural parts of the Eastern Cape are feeling the pinch of obtaining farming licences. This is particularly difficu ...
Is legalisation a human rights imperative? [01.03.2023] Does the cannabis legalisation planned by the German government's traffic lights coalition violate European law and relevant UN agreements? While Bav ...
Jamaican ganja farmers outraged after licence granted to import Canadian herb [26.02.2023] Some local ganja farmers are fuming over reports that a licence has been granted to a company to import Canadian cannabis into Jamaica. Speaking insi ...
Talks with bank to offer services to cannabis associations [22.02.2023] The authorities are having talks with a leading bank with a view that it could offer services to non-profit organisations running cannabis associatio ...
Tilburg and Breda to kick off regulated marijuana experiment [22.02.2023] Coffee shops in Tilburg and Breda may be able to take part in the experiment with regulated marijuana as early as October, ministers have agreed. The ...
Is legal cannabis available in Cape Town? [19.02.2023] While cannabis is being legalised in many countries around the world, South Africa still finds itself in a state of legislative limbo, with more and ...
Cannabis associations will need to have salaries approved by regulator [18.02.2023] Salaries paid out by cannabis associations will have to be approved by the regulator to ensure they are in line with market rates, ARUC boss Leonid M ...
Oxford study to trial cannabis-based medicine as treatment for psychosis [16.02.2023] Oxford scientists are to launch a major global trial to investigate whether cannabis-based medicine can treat people with psychosis or psychotic symp ...
Canadian wholesale cannabis prices are off more than 40% in 2022 [15.02.2023] Canadian cannabis wholesale prices tumbled more than 40% last year as companies continued to work through stubborn supply gluts and struggling cultiv ...
Why is Lesotho’s cannabis boom failing to deliver the prosperity it promised? [15.02.2023] Even though legislation in 2008 made it possible to grow cannabis for medical or scientific purposes in Lesotho, doing so without a licence from the ...
Amsterdam to outlaw cannabis-smoking in red-light district streets [10.02.2023] Smoking cannabis on the street in Amsterdam’s red light district will soon be illegal, the city council has announced, as part of a range of bylaws d ...
Cannabis producer Canopy cutting 800 jobs, closing flagship Canadian facility [09.02.2023] Canadian cannabis producer Canopy Growth said it is closing its flagship cultivation facility in Smiths Falls, Ontario, and cutting more than a third ...
Legalising cannabis: Germany first, Europe next? [09.02.2023] The German 'traffic light' coalition of the SPD, Greens, and Liberals promised in their 2021 post-election governing manifesto to not just decriminal ...
Editorial: No grass without the roots [06.02.2023] The Authority for the Responsible Use of Cannabis recently held a conference where it outlined the rules for social clubs and the sale of home-grown ...
Inside New York’s struggling weed real estate experiment [05.02.2023] Roland Conner never imagined that getting arrested for marijuana in the ‘90s would lead to where he is now: the owner of a new cannabis dispensary in ...
In the weeds: Germany's plan to legalise cannabis in 2024 likely delayed [27.01.2023] Germany's plans to legalise cannabis consumption in 2024 are looking increasingly unlikely as it has yet to submit its proposals to the European Comm ...
Cannabis 'Harm Reduction' clubs can apply to sell home-grown drug from February [27.01.2023] Cannabis clubs - dubbed Cannabis Harm Reduction Associations - can apply to sell home-grown marijuana from next month but must abide by a list of reg ...
New Yorker jailed during ‘war on drugs’ becomes cannabis pioneer [26.01.2023] As a New York City teenager, 50-year old Roland Conner found himself harshly punished for minor offenses related to marijuana. A 1991 arrest resulted ...
Marijuana legalization not associated with increased rates of psychosis, American Medical Association study of 63 million people finds [26.01.2023] There is “no statistically significant increase” in psychosis-related diagnoses in states that have legalized marijuana compared to those that contin ...
Illegal weed delivery start-up Dispenseroo sees meteoric growth in the UK [05.01.2023] An illegal cannabis delivery start-up in the UK is generating millions of pounds in revenue less than a year after it was created, according to its f ...
‘This is another revolution’: could legalisation of cannabis transform Mexico’s economy? [05.01.2023] The pungent aroma of cannabis and the sound of dub music fill the air at a hacienda as about 150 smokers, users, growers, activists and business peop ...
Pass cannabis controls now [04.01.2023] Since December, MPs in Thailand have been working on getting the long-awaited cannabis and hemp control bill to pass its second reading. This push is ...
French court overturns ban on sale of CBD-enriched cannabis [30.12.2022] France's highest administrative judicial body has annulled a Government decree that banned the sale of hemp flower and leaf enriched with CBD, the no ...
Now you can legally buy recreational cannabis in New York [29.12.2022] Kenneth Woodin, a stay-at-home dad, was first in line at the cannabis dispensary in Greenwich Village in Manhattan. He said he wanted to be a part of ...
Joint decision: How Brussels could rain on Germany’s cannabis parade [29.12.2022] It's cannabis crunch time in Brussels. In October 2022, Germany laid out a bold plan to fully legalize recreational cannabis for people aged 18 and o ...
Is legal weed doomed to be run by big business? [28.12.2022] If the federal government legalizes cannabis, lawmakers should beware of monopolization by national corporations, says Shaleen Title, chief executive ...
Marijuana law reached peak absurdity in 2022 [24.12.2022] Banning a plant with hundreds of industrial and medical uses was never going to work out well, but 2022 saw marijuana prohibition reach peak absurdit ...
EU is skeptical about legalizing cannabis [22.12.2022] Health Minister Lauterbach's prestige project is one of the few issues on which the traffic light parties in Germany agree. But they are meeting with ...
Average age of French marijuana users has increased, study shows [20.12.2022] The latest study on cannabis use among the adult population by the French Observatory of Drugs and Addictive Tendencies (OFDT) is painting a picture ...
A proposal to regulate cannabis is imminent in the Czech Republic. The People's Party is concerned [19.12.2022] In mid-January, the Czech National Drug Coordinator Jindřich Vobořil plans to introduce a bill to free up the cannabis market. The exact form of regu ...
Legal uncertainty dampens Thailand's thriving weed business [18.12.2022] Thailand legalized the growing of marijuana and its consumption in food and drinks on June 9 and removed cannabis from its list of banned narcotics. ...
'We must move on from the repressive drug policies of the past', says Minister of Justice [17.12.2022] Minister of Justice Sam Tanson of Luxembourg defended the government's decision to regulate recreational cannabis consumption, pointing out that this ...
Colombia’s Congress agrees to final marijuana legalization bill, which key senator expects to be enacted by June [15.12.2022] Colombia’s Chamber of Representatives and Senate have voted to reconcile their respective versions of marijuana legalization bills that recently adva ...
Cannabis industry has huge economic value for South Africa, but government dragging its feet [13.12.2022] The Draft South African Cannabis Masterplan states that there are up to 900,000 traditional dagga growers in South Africa and that they and ‘dagga’ n ...
Decriminalising cannabis could save Australian taxpayers $850m a year, report finds [08.12.2022] Australia is not keeping pace with global best practice cannabis policy, a report from the public health research organisation the Penington Institut ...
Germany: Flirting with Plan B? [07.12.2022] Two articles published this week, in Der Tagesspiegel and LTO, throw cold water on expectations that the European Commission could give green light t ...
Study: Most Czechs want easing of laws on cannabis [07.12.2022] Most Czechs would favour an easing of the current legalisation on possession and cultivation of cannabis, suggests a study by the firm Behavio for th ...
Regulated cultivated cannabis experiment delayed again; could start in 2024 [03.12.2022] Health Minister Ernst Kuipers said that the experiment in regulated cultivated cannabis will be postponed again. He expects that "as it stands now" o ...

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