Items tagged with legalization
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| Pot industry plants seeds on Capitol Hill [04.12.2014] | The legal weed industry is trying to grow something else these days: political influence. The National Cannabis Industry Association has spent $60,00 ... |
| Drug control body concerned by pot legalization in some U.S. states [03.12.2014] | The head of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) monitoring compliance with international drug control conventions expressed concern abou ... |
| No, legal US drugs aren’t being trafficked into Mexico en masse [02.12.2014] | The US Drug Enforcement Agency has now walked back statements it made about the trafficking of marijuana grown in the US to buyers in Mexico, after b ... |
| Uruguay: Marijuana law gets boost in presidential vote [01.12.2014] | Uruguay's politicians who led the charge to legalize marijuana and same-sex marriage appeared to win another ringing endorsement from voters in the S ... |
| Standortfaktor Dope [28.11.2014] | Um die Drogengeschäfte auf der Straße einzudämmen, setzt sich der Stadtteilbeirat, ein beratendes Gremium aus Anwohnern, fürs legale Kiffen ein. In e ... |
| Some pols pushing to legalize pot before voters do [27.11.2014] | Some state lawmakers say it’s high time Massachusetts hashes out a bill to legalize and tax marijuana, or, if left to voters, risk repeating the awkw ... |
| Uruguay pushes back start of marijuana sale in pharmacies [25.11.2014] | Uruguay could start selling marijuana in pharmacies in March 2015, the head of the National Drugs Board said, although the government had initially b ... |
| Marijuana’s big-money Marley Brand makes a splash [24.11.2014] | Last week, NBC’s Today Show giddily announced an exclusive: Privateer Holdings, the Seattle marijuana company long acclaimed locally for its straight ... |
| Pro-marijuana groups eye Northeastern states, including Maine [22.11.2014] | Marijuana advocates want to take their legalization drive — so far the province of Western states — to the Northeast, and they say the first state to ... |
| Cannabis legalisation returns to Swiss agenda [21.11.2014] | Switzerland has always played a pioneering role in drug policy. In 1986, it was the first to open shelters for addicts and in 1994 it medically presc ... |
| Will Guatemala really explore marijuana legalization in 2015? [20.11.2014] | Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina in a recent interview mooted the idea of his country legalizing marijuana next year. Can we really expect bold ... |
| All the progress made on marijuana legalization could vanish with a new president [18.11.2014] | The movement to end marijuana prohibition has made significant progress recently, but it could all be undone when the next president takes office in ... |
| Pot luck [18.11.2014] | Smoking, growing, buying, selling or merely possessing cannabis is a criminal offence, according to America's federal government. Ask the states, how ... |
| Why Congress should legalize pot [18.11.2014] | Federal law still prohibits marijuana, and existing jurisprudence (Gonzales v. Raich 2005) holds that federal law trumps state law when it comes to m ... |
| Fatal attraction: Brownfield's flexibility doctrine and global drug policy reform [18.11.2014] | State-level cannabis reforms, which gathered steam this month, have exposed the inability of the United States to abide by the terms of the legal bed ... |
| Is ‘Big Marijuana’ inevitable? [18.11.2014] | It looks like the use of recreational marijuana is heading down the path of legalization across the country. Voters in Alaska, Oregon and the Distric ... |
| Stir it up: Bob Marley to headline corporate cannabis brand [17.11.2014] | The Marley family and a Seattle-based private equity firm announced the creation of Marley Natural, "a premium cannabis brand rooted in the life and ... |
| Frankfurt city hall sparks up talks on pot legalization [17.11.2014] | Experts met to discuss the merits of cannabis legalization at Frankfurt’s city hall, marking the first time that a German city has officially discuss ... |
| California’s Attorney General thinks legal weed is inevitable [17.11.2014] | California was one of the first to legalize medical marijuana in 1996, but so far hasn’t legalized it for recreational use, like Colorado, Washington ... |
| GOP congressman: Republicans should embrace marijuana legalization [13.11.2014] | The federal courthouse in right-leaning Orange County, Calif., is named after former president and Republican Party icon Ronald Reagan. Countless dru ... |
| The UN really wishes that voters in Alaska and Oregon hadn’t legalized weed [13.11.2014] | The director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Yury Fedotov, said that state-level marijuana legalization initiatives in the U.S. are ... |
| A top UN official is not happy about US states legalizing weed [13.11.2014] | The UN's top narcotics official said on Wednesday that recent votes by US states to legalize marijuana have put America in deeper violation of the in ... |
| Pot legalization: Gateway to what? [12.11.2014] | The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) plans to stay on the sidelines of future pot legalization campaigns – already supported by groups plotting ... |
| U.S. states' pot legalization not in line with international law: U.N. agency [12.11.2014] | Moves by some U.S. states to legalize marijuana are not in line with international drugs conventions, the U.N. anti-narcotics chief said, adding he w ... |
| The dark-horse policy reform that has both Obama and some GOPers optimistic [09.11.2014] | With Democrats holding the White House and Republicans controlling both chambers of Congress, it's been suggested that the odds are slim of any major ... |
| The Marlboro of marijuana [07.11.2014] | Would household names really consider selling cannabis? They already have. In 1969 a Philip Morris executive wrote to the Justice Department, request ... |
| Support for legal pot down off its high [06.11.2014] | Even as the national experiment legalizing recreational pot spread this week to Oregon, Alaska and Washington, D.C., a new poll suggests the enthusia ... |
| Fear of cannabis commerce didn't, won't and shouldn't stop legalization [05.11.2014] | Three marijuana legalization initiatives were on the ballot this week, and all three won. That’s a better outcome than I was expecting. I was surpris ... |
| Marijuana legalization sweeps the 2014 midterm elections [05.11.2014] | On November 4, several states radically altered their approaches to a drug once known for Reefer Madness. In Alaska, Oregon, and Washington, DC, vote ... |
| 6 facts about marijuana [05.11.2014] | Attitudes about marijuana have undergone a rapid shift in public opinion, paralleled by few other trends in the U.S. Our recent data, along with hist ... |
| California next for pot proponents emboldened by election victories [05.11.2014] | Marijuana advocates, fresh off victories for legal recreational pot in Oregon, Alaska and the nation’s capital, are already preparing for their next ... |
| D.C. voters overwhelmingly support legalizing marijuana, joining Colo., Wash. [03.11.2014] | Washington DC followed Colorado and Washington state into a closely watched experiment to legalize marijuana, as voters overwhelmingly backed an init ... |
| Legal marijuana could be $130 million a year business in D.C., study finds [29.10.2014] | If D.C. residents vote to legalize marijuana possession next week, it wouldn’t just mean a sea change in drug policy in the nation’s capital. It coul ... |
| The marijuana industry could be bigger than the NFL by 2020 [23.10.2014] | A report from Greenwave Advisors, a "comprehensive research and financial analysis for the emerging legalized marijuana industry," projects that lega ... |
| How marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington is making the world a better place [16.10.2014] | No pressure, Colorado and Washington, but the world is scrutinizing your every move. That was the take-home message of an event today at the Brooking ... |
| Marijuana legalization is an opportunity to modernize international drug treaties [14.10.2014] | Two U.S. states have legalized recreational marijuana, and more may follow; the Obama administration has conditionally accepted these experiments. Su ... |
| Breaking taboo, Morocco may okay pot in nod to struggling farmers [06.10.2014] | Morocco’s marijuana farmers live in a strange limbo in which the brilliant green fields are left alone, while the growers themselves face constant po ... |
| Yes to marijuana ballot measures [05.10.2014] | The decision by California voters in 1996 to legalize medical marijuana produced a wave of similar initiatives around the country. Less than two deca ... |
| Cannabis – a conflict of generations [25.09.2014] | The legalisation of cannabis in Luxembourg is turning into a conflict of generations, as the youth branches of several parties opposed to such a move ... |
| Major pot legalization group turns sights on California for 2016 [23.09.2014] | Marijuana legalization proponents are turning their attention to California and gearing up for a legalization campaign in 2016. The Marijuana Policy ... |
| New York could legalize recreational marijuana in 2015 [15.09.2014] | The state of New York could legalize marijuana for recreational use as early as 2015. State Sen. Liz Krueger (D) will reintroduce the Marijuana Regul ... |
| 5 interesting things we learned from the man in charge of Uruguay’s weed [11.09.2014] | Julio Calzada is the top drug official in the little nation of Uruguay, which has gained notoriety over the last year for becoming the first country ... |
| Uruguay marijuana law under fire [11.09.2014] | When Uruguay's historic marijuana regulation law passed the Senate in December, it was a major victory for drug policy reform in Uruguay and around t ... |
| Washington judge upholds small city’s pot shop ban [28.08.2014] | A state judge said that a small city can continue to ban state-licensed marijuana businesses, in a case with big implications for Washington’s experi ... |
| Catalonia set to legalize medical marijuana [27.08.2014] | Catalonia is drawing up rules to allow the use of marijuana for the treatment of patients suffering from conditions with symptoms such as pain and lo ... |
| This is your federalism on drugs [27.08.2014] | Conservative Republicans often talk about the need to constrain the power of the federal government. On everything from environmental regulation to e ... |
| Leading anti-marijuana academics are paid by painkiller drug companies [26.08.2014] | As Americans continue to embrace pot—as medicine and for recreational use—opponents are turning to a set of academic researchers to claim that policy ... |
| Drug legalisation in the UK is a question of time [14.08.2014] | Twelve years ago, a promising young politician rose to speak in the British parliament. “I ask the Government not to return to retribution and war on ... |
| Täglich zehn Gramm von der Stadt [13.08.2014] | Schweizer Städte wollen mit der Cannabisabgabe experimentieren. Doch auf eidgenössischer Ebene scheint eine rechtliche Änderung unwahrscheinlich. «Di ... |
| Marijuana crime: Are police turning 'a blind eye' to pot charges? [12.08.2014] | In Canada there appears to be "just a lack of enthusiasm on the part of police" to enforce possession laws. "There's a huge amount of discretion. It' ... |
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