Items tagged with regulation
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Vermont House votes to legalize marijuana [04.01.2018] | The Vermont House passed a bill to legalize recreational possession of marijuana just hours after Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded a Departme ... |
Kriminalbeamte fordern regulierten Marihuana-Markt [04.01.2018] | Der Bund Deutscher Kriminalbeamter (BDK) hat sich für eine regulierte Legalisierung von Cannabis in Deutschland ausgesprochen. „Es ist an der Zeit, a ... |
The end of cannabis tolerance in Spain [02.01.2018] | After decades of relative tolerance towards Cannabis in Spain, the Constitutional Court decides that cannabis clubs are criminal. Years of government ... |
California rings in new year with broad legalization of marijuana [01.01.2018] | The arrival of the new year in California brought with it broad legalization of marijuana, a much-anticipated change that comes two decades after the ... |
Steve DeAngelo digs in [01.01.2018] | "We are looking in 2018 and 2019 at an extinction event for 75 percent of the existing cannabis industry in California," says cannabis activist/entre ... |
Hippy dream now a billion-dollar industry with California set to legalise cannabis [30.12.2017] | On Monday, California, the US’s most populous state, and the world’s sixth biggest economy, will officially legalising cannabis. Overnight a shadow i ... |
How Congress unwittingly turned the nation's capital into the Wild West of marijuana [29.12.2017] | It’s not the promise of prompt delivery that has residents of Washington, D.C., spending fifty bucks for nondescript glass jars, nor is it the small ... |
I grow pot in California for a living. I’m worried about legalization [29.12.2017] | As the daughter of a back-to-the-land homesteader and pot farmer, I learned never to speak of what my father did. We lived a simple life in times whe ... |
Californian growers and retailers brace for cannabis competition [27.12.2017] | California has long been a cannabis pioneer. The state became a hub for the drug-induced counterculture of “turn on, tune in, drop out” of the 1960s, ... |
Dutch councils vie to produce cannabis in bid to cut out criminals [27.12.2017] | At least 30 companies want to get into the legal production of cannabis in the Netherlands, according to Paul Depla, the mayor of Breda, whose counci ... |
California's top marijuana regulator talks about what to expect Jan. 1, when legal pot market opens [25.12.2017] | California's legal pot market opens for business on Jan. 1. The day will be a milestone, but what exactly will happen then and, especially, in the we ... |
With legalization ahead, nonprofit’s certification program will test businesses offering pot products [24.12.2017] | Marijuana consumers are likely to have a flood of options when pot becomes legal next summer and now a not-for-profit group is stepping in to help de ... |
Marijuana doomsday didn't come [19.12.2017] | It's been a five years since Colorado's voters approved Constitutional Amendment 64, legalizing recreational marijuana in the state. Sales commenced ... |
Lawmakers, pot growers say California's marijuana cultivation rules favor big corporate farms [18.12.2017] | California’s new rules allowing marijuana cultivation favor large corporate farms despite a promise in Proposition 64 that small growers would be pro ... |
Étude sur le cannabis: nouvelle demande [12.12.2017] | Les Villes de Berne, Bienne, Lucerne et Zurich examinent le dépôt de nouvelles demandes auprès de l’OFSP, après le rejet jugé «surprenant» de la dema ... |
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 ... |
California’s limit on big growers just vanished. Here’s why [06.12.2017] | In an unexpected move that has small cannabis farmers and some state lawmakers up in arms, California regulators have created a licensing loophole th ... |
Portugal’s radical drugs policy is working. Why hasn’t the world copied it? [05.12.2017] | In 2001, Portugal became the first country to decriminalise the possession and consumption of all illicit substances. Rather than being arrested, tho ... |
A taxing problem: how to price, tax legal weed to stamp out the black market [05.12.2017] | Stamping out the illicit market is one of Ottawa’s major goals as the country approaches a July 2018 deadline for the legalization of recreational ma ... |
Legalization of marijuana unlikely to kill Canada’s black market right away [04.12.2017] | From texting a local dealer to dropping into a neighbourhood dispensary or ordering online, Canada’s black market for recreational marijuana has seen ... |
Légalisation du cannabis: oui de Berset aux études [04.12.2017] | L'Université de Berne pourrait être autorisée à mener son étude sur la vente légale de cannabis. L'Office fédéral de la santé publique (OFSP) est en ... |
Federal marijuana legislation approved by House of Commons, moves on to Senate [28.11.2017] | The federal government's plan to legalize marijuana by next summer is a step closer. Bill C-45 received final approval Monday in the House of Commons ... |
Councils call for more experimental approach to cannabis production [27.11.2017] | Councils have pleaded with the Dutch government to give them more autonomy in their experiments with legal cannabis production rather than imposing a ... |
Federal government proposes 'micro' cultivation licences for small growers, rolls out public cannabis consultation [21.11.2017] | The federal government has proposed a licensing program that could allow for more of B.C.'s 'micro' producers to be included in the legal mix. Health ... |
Here are the new rules for legal marijuana in California, effective Jan. 1 [17.11.2017] | Cannabis businesses in California can’t be within 600 feet of schools. Shops have to close by 10 p.m., and they need 24-hour video surveillance. Thos ... |
Le coup de frein à la dépénalisation du cannabis fait tousser les experts [15.11.2017] | Pas question d’analyser les effets d’une vente régulée de cannabis sur les consommateurs et sur le marché illégal. L’Office fédéral de la santé publi ... |
Bern cannabis study rejected for legal reasons [14.11.2017] | The University of Bern cannot conduct a study on the effects of the regulated sale of cannabis in pharmacies on behalf of the city’s authorities. In ... |
L'Uni de Berne ne pourra pas se servir de cannabis [14.11.2017] | Ce projet devait permettre d'étudier les effets de la régularisation de la vente de cannabis sur les consommateurs et sur le trafic de stupéfiants à ... |
Don't 'bank' on ganja! - Lawmaker says J'cans might be clinging to false hopes [09.11.2017] | The viability of Jamaica's legal ganja and hemp industry has been called into question, with lawmaker Marisa Dalrymple Philibert suggesting that Jama ... |
California proposes armored cars to transport pot tax money [07.11.2017] | California should use armored cars to transport hundreds of millions of dollars in cash tax payments expected next year with the state's legal mariju ... |
Dutch councils queue up for regulated marijuana project [07.11.2017] | So far 25 of the Netherlands’ 380 local authorities have come forward to say they wish to take part in trials to regulate marijuana production. The n ... |
Les 500 000 fumeurs suisses de cannabis valent une fortune [05.11.2017] | Le cannabis légal ? La bataille politique promet d’être âpre, mais les vents poussent en ce sens. Le succès commercial de l’herbe en vente légale, le ... |
Ready or not, recreational marijuana use is coming to Canada [04.11.2017] | Proposing legislation to legalize the recreational use of marijuana was the easy part for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. With about eight months to g ... |
Canada government facing resistance from Senate over pot law [03.11.2017] | The Canadian government’s plan to legalize recreational marijuana by next July could be in jeopardy, with opposition brewing among some in the Senate ... |
Réglementer le cannabis: le débat pointe son nez à Genève [31.10.2017] | La politique répressive contre le cannabis va-t-elle opérer un tournant? Genève sera-t-il prêt à changer sa pratique? Ce n’est pas exclu. Dans une in ... |
High taxes on legal pot in California could mean black market will thrive [30.10.2017] | State and local taxes on marijuana could surpass 45% in some parts of California, jeopardizing efforts to bring all growers and sellers into a state- ... |
Überprüfung der Drogengesetze wird gefordert [28.10.2017] | Strafrechtler und die Deutsche Hauptstelle für Suchtfragen (DHS) fordern von den Bundestagsfraktionen die Einsetzung einer Enquete-Kommission Cannabi ... |
Recognized for controversy, Vancouver's former drug czar says the fentanyl crisis requires legalizing heroin [11.10.2017] | “Heroin at your corner store.” That was the title of a speech that Donald MacPherson delivered in acceptance of the 2017 Nora and Ted Sterling Prize ... |
New Dutch cabinet to run trials in regulated marijuana production [08.10.2017] | The new cabinet is to sanction experiments with legal marijuana production to be sold in cannabis cafes. Details are still sketchy, but between six a ... |
What a probable Jamaica coalition means for possible cannabis legalisation in Germany [05.10.2017] | With the SPD out of the picture, Merkel will depend on two smaller parties, the Liberal Democrats (FDP) and Green Party (Die Grünen) to form a govern ... |
Will Canada be able to fully legalize and regulate marijuana by July? [05.10.2017] | Canada is set to become the first industrialized nation to legalize and regulate marijuana from production to consumption by next July, but increasin ... |
Alaska voters reject local bans on legalized marijuana by wide margins [04.10.2017] | Voters in some parts of Alaska rejected efforts to ban commercial marijuana cultivation and retail sales, three years after the nation’s largest stat ... |
Commission makes recommendations for tackling opioid crisis in North America [03.10.2017] | The Global Commission on Drug Policy has issued recommendations on tackling North America's opioid crisis, calling for the immediate expansion of har ... |
Gov't urged to rethink medical ganja policy [02.10.2017] | Two of the Jamaica's leading thinkers have called on the Government to rethink its policy approach towards the development of the medical ganja indus ... |
Quebec to set legal marijuana consumption age at 18 [29.09.2017] | The legal age to buy marijuana in Quebec will be 18, in order to prevent young people from buying their pot on the black market, government sources h ... |
Legal loophole in DC creates bizarre pot bazaar [28.09.2017] | A 2014 ballot initiative to legalize recreational use passed overwhelmingly in Washington DC. But unlike the eight states that have legalized recreat ... |
Why marijuana prohibition failed, and how legalization can succeed [24.09.2017] | Why is Canada legalizing marijuana, and why does the move – if done right – make sense? It's all about harm reduction. Smoking marijuana has real hea ... |
Legalization of cannabis proposed [20.09.2017] | Pawel Bartoszek, a member of Parliament for Viðreisn (The Reform Party) has proposed a bill for the legalization of cannabis in Iceland. The proposed ... |
Socialists propose bill to regulate cannabis [19.09.2017] | The Socialist Party (PS) has submitted a bill to the Chamber of Representatives proposing a Belgian model for regulating cannabis. The draft law aims ... |
End the gang war by setting cannabis free [14.09.2017] | Until the early 2000s, Copenhagen’s cannabis trade was centred in Christiania, an autonomous enclave of the city featuring around two dozen stalls wh ... |
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