Items tagged with cannabis and environment
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| Global resonance of Malta's drug policy reform highlighted at thematic round table [14.07.2023] | The not-for-profit model adopted by Malta for drug policy reform is resonating across other countries. The emphasis on a harm reduction approach, inc ... |
| Au Maroc, la « beldiya » tente de résister aux variétés de cannabis importées [05.05.2023] | Depuis sa maison de Ketama, à 1 700 mètres d’altitude, Abdellatif Adebibe surplombe la vallée où les embruns d’iode venus de la Méditerranée se mêlen ... |
| Environmental justice, up in smoke [06.04.2023] | There is ample evidence that irresponsible outdoor cultivation can also be environmentally destructive, leading some to argue that indoor cultivation ... |
| Cannabis and Climate [20.10.2022] | Environmental impacts are rarely taken into account in the cannabis regulation debate. The assumption is that legal regulation would automatically re ... |
| The reality of legal weed in California: Huge illegal grows, violence, worker exploitation and deaths [08.09.2022] | Proposition 64, California’s 2016 landmark cannabis initiative, sold voters on the promise a legal market would cripple the drug’s outlaw trade, with ... |
| Prohibited Plants [18.08.2022] | Across the world, the state of environmental stress is unprecedented. As scholarship and activism on ‘environmental justice’ points out, poorer and m ... |
| In defense of the plug: Buying illicit cannabis may be “better” than legal weed, research shows [30.04.2022] | Excoriated by some policymakers and by the legal cannabis industry as an unfair competitor and as a demonstration that legalization isn’t working, th ... |
| The UK countryside is ablaze with hemp farms. But how do they help the climate? [11.11.2021] | Despite the lack of state support, more and more farmers in the UK are turning to hemp production for its economic and environmental benefits. It's l ... |
| Why is growing pot so energy-intensive? [09.06.2021] | Rolling Stone dubs weed a “climate villain,” as cannabis sold in any state where it’s legal must be grown in-state. Because not every state boasts th ... |
| A Sustainable Future for Cannabis Farmers [16.04.2021] | Learn how lessening the barriers for small farmers while raising them for large companies can help to steer legal cannabis markets in a more sustaina ... |
| A founding father of legal pot in Colorado reveals regrets [09.04.2021] | I helped write Amendment 64, litigated numerous cases before and after 64 to make it a reality, and also helped design implementing regulations at th ... |
| La culture légale du cannabis, une opportunité écologique [28.03.2021] | “L’augmentation rapide de la culture illicite de cannabis dans le Rif au cours des dernières décennies, ainsi que les mauvaises pratiques de conserva ... |
| Culture du cannabis : Quel impact sur la biodiversité et les ressources ? [26.03.2021] | L'impact de la culture du cannabis sur la biodiversité et les ressources a été au centre d'un webinaire organisé à l'initiative de l'Alliance marocai ... |
| To make cannabis green, we need to grow it outdoors [10.03.2021] | Cannabis may look green, but the environmental metaphor mostly stops there. Virginia—the latest state to approach full legalization—and the 46 others ... |
| Colorado's legal cannabis farms emit more carbon than its coal mines [08.03.2021] | Legal cannabis production in Colorado emits more greenhouse gases than the state’s coal mining industry, researchers analysing the sector’s energy us ... |
| California outdoor marijuana cultivators to designate products by growing region [15.10.2020] | California’s marijuana market is borrowing a page from the state’s world-famous wine industry thanks to a new law intended to help outdoor cannabis g ... |
| Cannabis Regulation and Development [09.09.2020] | Significant policy shifts have led to an unprecedented boom in medical cannabis markets, while a growing number of countries are moving towards the l ... |
| La légalisation du cannabis, un levier de développement ? [23.07.2020] | Et si le nouveau modèle de développement intégrait la légalisation du cannabis ? Ce jeudi 23 juillet, la CSMD a organisé un atelier de travail avec d ... |
| UN Common Position on drug policy [01.12.2019] | In November 2018, the UN System CEB adopted the ‘UN system common position supporting the implementation of the international drug control policy thr ... |
| Through all the smoke, the cannabis industry needs to develop a bigger vision [10.05.2019] | The cannabis industry can build a better and regenerative culture, rather than falling into the same old tired and destructive human and corporate pa ... |
| Fair(er) Trade Options for the Cannabis Market [21.03.2019] | Policy changes over the past five years or so have dramatically reshaped the global cannabis market. Not only has there been an unprecedented boom in ... |
| Cannabis farms cover 500 square kilometers of Northern Morocco [18.01.2019] | Between 47,000 and 50,000 hectares, mainly in the Rif region, are planted with cannabis in Morocco, the National Narcotics Commission (CNS) said. Moh ... |
| Why the future of marijuana farming could be craft weed [21.11.2018] | There are plenty of predictions about how cannabis farming is poised to go corporate, but Big Marijuana is not inevitable, says Ryan Stoa, a professo ... |
| Connecting the dots... [26.10.2018] | How can we resolve the tensions between current drug control policies and states’ human rights obligations? The international human rights framework ... |
| Maroc : Le kif, une drogue néfaste pour l’environnement rifain [17.06.2018] | Dans un article fouillé, EFE est récemment partie à la rencontre d’acteurs associatifs locaux du Rif, qui alertent sur les dangers environnementaux d ... |
| Legal marijuana is almost here. If only pot farmers were on board [09.09.2017] | More than nine months after California voted to legalize recreational marijuana, only a small share of the tens of thousands of cannabis farmers in N ... |
| Morocco and Cannabis [10.03.2017] | This policy briefing discusses whether or not the aim of reducing cannabis cultivation is realistic or beneficial for Morocco, what it would actually ... |
| Indoor pot production leaves giant carbon footprint [11.05.2013] | Done mostly indoors in Washington, pot production often uses hospital-intensity lamps, air conditioning, dehumidifiers, fans and carbon-dioxide gener ... |
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