Items tagged with US drug policy
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| Legalize pot? Amid opioid crisis, some New Hampshire leaders say no way [20.02.2019] | The push to legalize recreational marijuana is sweeping the Northeast: Massachusetts, Vermont and Maine have done it, and the governors of Rhode Isla... |
| Popular book on marijuana's apparent dangers is pure alarmism, experts say [17.02.2019] | A group of 75 scholars and medical professionals have criticised a controversial book about the purported dangers of marijuana, calling it an example... |
| Slowing the legal weed freight train [12.02.2019] | Sabet's strategy for sabotaging legalization is to offer legislators what he calls "a true decriminalization and justice" bill, which would do away w... |
| Israel approves compassionate use of MDMA to treat PTSD [10.02.2019] | MDMA, popularly known as ecstasy, is a drug more commonly associated with raves and nightclubs than a therapist's office. Emerging research has shown... |
| Safe injection site for opioid users faces Trump administration crackdown [06.02.2019] | The Justice Department is suing to stop a Philadelphia group from opening what some public health experts and mayors consider the next front in fight... |
| Why so many Americans now support legalizing marijuana, in 4 charts [05.02.2019] | American views on marijuana have shifted incredibly rapidly. Thirty years ago, marijuana legalization seemed like a lost cause. In 1988, only 24 perc... |
| A California conundrum: How to crack down on illicit sales without echoing the war on drugs? [04.02.2019] | In October 2018, the California Department of Consumer Affairs’ newly-established Cannabis Enforcement Unit teamed up with the Los Angeles Police Dep... |
| 'Legalize marijuana without corporatized marijuana,' says New York mayor Bill de Blasio [03.02.2019] | New York Mayor Bill de Blasio supports Governor Andrew Cuomo's pledge to legalize recreational marijuana, but he doesn't want the the market to be ov... |
| Does marijuana use really cause psychotic disorders? [20.01.2019] | D oes marijuana cause psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia, and do associated symptoms like paranoia lead to violent crimes? That’s what writer ... |
| Cannabis in Congress: Why federally legal weed could soon be a reality [14.01.2019] | There is a fresh Congress in town. That means the nation’s 535 lawmakers are in the first stages of trying to get their favored pet issues on the rad... |
| Is Alex Berenson trolling us with his anti-weed book? [12.01.2019] | There’s been a flurry of media coverage around a new book called Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence. One of ... |
| Enjoy it while you can Cannabis Canada, your edge is already eroding [11.01.2019] | A number of industry insiders who argue that the level of government control and intervention in the cannabis landscape in Canada, coupled with the s... |
| Now for the hard part: Getting Californians to buy legal weed [02.01.2019] | A billion dollars of tax revenue, the taming of the black market, the convenience of retail cannabis stores throughout the state — these were some of... |
| Marijuana legalization 2019 [01.01.2019] | Following a year of huge advancements in marijuana policy reform, experts predict that 2019 would be a “real game-changer” in terms of the conversati... |
| Cuomo to push legalizing recreational marijuana in New York by early 2019 [17.12.2018] | Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced that he would push to legalize recreational marijuana next year, a move that could bring in more than $1.3 billion in ... |
| Teen marijuana use remains lower than pre-legalization levels, federally funded survey finds [17.12.2018] | Fewer young people are using marijuana now as compared to 2012, when the first states moved to legalize cannabis, according to a federally funded stu... |
| Navigating cannabis legalization 2.0 [04.12.2018] | Legalization is not a simple yes-or-no decision, and its consequences for health, public safety, and social equity will be shaped by choices about pr... |
| Trump says China will curtail fentanyl. The U.S. has heard that before [03.12.2018] | China vows to stem the supply of the powerful opioid fentanyl flowing into the United States. It pledges to target exports of fentanyl-related substa... |
| How to achieve weed equality [26.11.2018] | The official body that's overseen the legal cannabis regulatory process in Massachusetts has given the much anticipated "commence operations" notice.... |
| N.J. moves a big step closer to legalizing marijuana [26.11.2018] | A bill to legalize recreational marijuana was voted out of a joint committee in the New Jersey legislature marking a giant step towards making the ca... |
| Marijuana is getting cheaper. For Colorado and some states, that’s a problem [21.11.2018] | Wholesale marijuana prices in Colorado have fallen by a third in just the past 12 months, continuing a price crash that began soon after the drug was... |
| Local officials from across US call for federal marijuana rescheduling [13.11.2018] | The National League of Cities (NLC), representing over 19,000 cities, towns and villages across the United States is calling on the federal governmen... |
| McGovern: I’ll let House debate marijuana reform [09.11.2018] | For years, the US House’s powerful Rules Committee has been the place proposed marijuana laws go to die. Pete Sessions, a Texas Republican, made sure... |
| Michigan becomes 10th state to allow recreational marijuana [07.11.2018] | Marijuana advocates scored a number of substantial ballot victories in the middle of the country on Election Day, chief among them the legalization o... |
| Cannabis producers could be chasing global market worth $194 billion in seven years: BMO report [01.11.2018] | The potential of the global cannabis industry is so vast that it could eventually make the sky-high valuations of some Canadian licensed producers lo... |
| About six-in-ten Americans support marijuana legalization [08.10.2018] | About six-in-ten Americans (62%) say the use of marijuana should be legalized, reflecting a steady increase over the past decade, according to a new ... |
| ‘An argument that made no sense at all’ [05.10.2018] | Former Gov. Ed Rendell announced that he is incorporating a nonprofit, called Safehouse, that will work to open a safe injection site in Philadelphia... |
| Seek drug reform within international law: Tom Blickman [01.10.2018] | Dating back to the latter part of 1800s, precisely in 1894-95, the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission consisting of medical experts of Indian and British o... |
| Refuting science, Jerry Brown vetoes safe injection plan [01.10.2018] | Democratic California Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a bill that would have allowed San Francisco to open what could have been the nation’s first supervised... |
| U.S. cannabis producers fear Canada will 'dominate the industry' [29.09.2018] | The CEO of California-based marijuana producer and seller Terra Tech is watching the cannabis industry boom north of the border with more than a litt... |
| Why some U.S. allies didn’t sign up for Trump’s pledge to fight drugs [24.09.2018] | President Trump began his week at the UN General Assembly with an event seeking to prompt action against the global drug trade. “The call is simple,”... |
| Trump kicks off UN general assembly with ‘problematic’ drug policy document [24.09.2018] | Donald Trump has kicked off the 2018 United Nations General Assembly by announcing what experts have labelled a problematic agreement to tackle the w... |
| Veneer of consensus masks deep disagreement on global drug policy [22.09.2018] | On September 24, President Trump will begin his appearance at the UN General Assembly by hosting an event on the “World Drug Problem.” Only delegates... |
| Trump administration plans U.N. meeting to ramp up the international drug war [18.09.2018] | The Trump administration will open a week of high-level meetings at the United Nations General Assembly in New York with a drug policy event featurin... |
| Cities defiant after Justice Department’s threat on ‘supervised injection sites’ [04.09.2018] | Cities seeking to open sites where illegal drug users are monitored to prevent overdoses responded defiantly to a Justice Department threat to take “... |
| Inside the Trump administration’s secret war on weed [29.08.2018] | The White House has secretly amassed a committee of federal agencies from across the government to combat public support for marijuana and cast state... |
| Fentanyl use drove drug overdose deaths to a record high in 2017, CDC estimates [15.08.2018] | Drug overdose deaths surpassed 72,000 in 2017, according to provisional estimates recently released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention... |
| For US pot companies, Canada is the land of opportunity [25.07.2018] | Green Thumb Industries had a business plan, expertise and plenty of ambition to grow its marijuana business. What the Chicago-based company didn't ha... |
| Will Mexico legalize drugs? [18.07.2018] | Mexico’s President-elect López Obrador has considered unconventional methods to address his nation’s ills. In a country riddled with corruption and c... |
| Does legal weed make police more effective? [18.07.2018] | Marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington state has “produced some demonstrable and persistent benefit” to police departments' ability to sol... |
| Dutch cut overdose deaths by dispensing pure heroin [15.07.2018] | Public-health experts in the Netherlands say free distribution of government-funded heroin is one reason that drug-related deaths are far less common... |
| Cuomo administration report backs marijuana legalization in New York [13.07.2018] | The administration of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) released a state Health Department report that says the "positive effects" of legalization "outw... |
| Recreational marijuana now legal in Vermont [01.07.2018] | As of Sunday, recreational use of marijuana is legal in Vermont — within boundaries of some clear and not-so-clear rules. Vermont becomes the ninth s... |
| Colombia coca production hits new record high, US figures say [26.06.2018] | US estimates of coca production in Colombia show the Andean nation has set a new record for the amount of the drug-producing crop under cultivation, ... |
| China says United States domestic opioid market the crux of crisis [25.06.2018] | China’s drug control agency said the United States should do more to cut its demand for opioids to tackle the use of synthetic drug fentanyl, but it ... |
| New York moves toward legal marijuana with Health Dept. endorsement [18.06.2018] | New York moved a significant step closer to legalizing recreational marijuana, as a study commissioned by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo will recommend that th... |
| 7 mayors want pot removed from federal list of illegal drugs [12.06.2018] | Mayors from seven U.S. cities in states with legal marijuana have formed a coalition to push for federal marijuana policy reform just days after Pres... |
| Senators introduce bipartisan bill to protect state laws on marijuana [07.06.2018] | Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) introduced a bipartisan bill that would allow states to regulate marijuana without federa... |
| Origins of an epidemic: Purdue Pharma knew its opioids were widely abused [29.05.2018] | Purdue Pharma, the company that planted the seeds of the opioid epidemic through its aggressive marketing of OxyContin, has long claimed it was unawa... |
| Surge in young Americans using marijuana as first drug [17.05.2018] | The proportion of young people using marijuana as their first drug doubled in the 10 years from 2004, a US-based study has found. The government stud... |
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