Items tagged with legalization
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| Senate passes pot bill, paving way for legal cannabis in 8 to 12 weeks [19.06.2018] | Senators have voted to pass the federal government's bill legalizing recreational marijuana by a vote of 52-29, with two abstentions, paving the way ... |
| Cannabis war 'comprehensively lost', says William Hague [19.06.2018] | Former Conservative leader Lord Hague has called for a "decisive change" in the law on cannabis - suggesting that the Tories should consider legalisi ... |
| Marijuana bill inches closer to passage with House vote [18.06.2018] | The bill to legalize recreational marijuana has cleared another vote in the House of Commons — but it still has to get a final stamp of approval from ... |
| 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 ... |
| The year Mexico legalised drugs [18.06.2018] | On 5 January 1940, Mexico's left-wing president, Lázaro Cárdenas, signed the new Federal Regulation of Drug Addiction into law. The new legislation w ... |
| Legalising marijuana: An intoxicating affair [17.06.2018] | Cannabis, hemp, pot, ganja, bhang – call it what you wish, but there’s no denying that the venerable, yet also reviled, plant has been endemic to the ... |
| Reform of drug laws begins as bill passes first reading [17.06.2018] | The National Legislative Assembly passed by a landslide vote the three narcotics control policy bills, which are an effort by authorities to reform o ... |
| Pot legalization battle brewing as government rejects key Senate change [13.06.2018] | The federal government is rejecting several Senate changes to its cannabis legalization bill, setting the stage for a possible showdown between the S ... |
| Five Danish political parties support legalisation of cannabis [11.06.2018] | A string of parties on both sides of the political aisle have declared their support for decriminalising the sale of cannabis. Police are wasting the ... |
| Goodbye counterculture: what will happen when weed goes corporate? [07.06.2018] | Under the federal government’s new legal regime, for the first time in Canadian history, minors in possession of more than five grams of dried cannab ... |
| Senate approves cannabis legalization bill with dozens of amendments [07.06.2018] | The Senate has approved the Trudeau government’s landmark legislation to lift Canada’s 95-year-old prohibition on recreational cannabis – but with ne ... |
| 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 ... |
| Pot delivery services could be 'cockroaches' of marijuana legalization, experts say [03.06.2018] | Marijuana businesses are growing as Canada moves toward legalization of recreational pot, creating an increasingly daunting job for those tasked with ... |
| Legalising cannabis ‘could earn Treasury £3.5bn’ [02.06.2018] | Introducing a legal cannabis market to the UK could earn the Treasury between £1bn and £3.5bn a year in tax revenues, a new report suggests. Health P ... |
| High time to rehash drug policy, think tanks say, as legalisation could save taxpayer £900m [13.05.2018] | Think tanks have today called on the government to radically rethink its drug policy, as it was revealed that taxpayers could save nearly £900m a yea ... |
| How do you move mountains of unwanted weed? [09.05.2018] | It turns out Oregonians are good at growing cannabis – too good. In February, state officials announced that 1.1m pounds of cannabis flower were logg ... |
| Canada plans to legalize weed – but will those convicted of crimes get amnesty? [08.05.2018] | As Canada prepares to legalize marijuana this summer, politicians are facing growing calls to grant a blanket amnesty for people convicted under the ... |
| The Senate should stand down on cannabis [07.05.2018] | Conservative senators have been threatening to slow or even kill the Liberal government’s cannabis legalization bill for months. But with a third rea ... |
| How anti-marijuana Jeff Sessions became the best thing to happen to pot legalization [06.05.2018] | Jeff Sessions hates marijuana. He’s made that plain in multiple colorful quotes, from stating that “good people don’t smoke marijuana” to arguing tha ... |
| INCB should exert caution in presenting data on cannabis regulation [06.05.2018] | At the recent 63rd Session of the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD) of the Organisation of American States, the International Narc ... |
| In bid to intimidate Canada on cannabis regulation, INCB is reckless and wrong [04.05.2018] | On May 1, Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland appeared before the Canadian Senate’s Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International T ... |
| Withdrawing from drug treaties over legal pot would be a ‘mistake’: Freeland [01.05.2018] | Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland is defending the Liberal government’s decision not to withdraw from three international drug treaties, whi ... |
| Liz Warren has high hopes for pot bill [29.04.2018] | U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren has had “encouraging” conversations with Republican leadership over a bill she and Republican Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner a ... |
| Zimbabwe legalizes marijuana for medicinal, scientific uses [28.04.2018] | Zimbabwe has legalized the production of marijuana for medicinal and scientific purposes, making it the rare African country to turn the drug into a ... |
| Legal marijuana’s big moment [24.04.2018] | In Washington, evolution on the marijuana issue is proceeding at warp speed in political terms. John Boehner is just the latest in a string of notewo ... |
| The red flags ahead of Canada’s marijuana legalization [23.04.2018] | The central question facing the Liberal government as it seeks to fulfill its 2015 campaign promise to “legalize, regulate and restrict access to mar ... |
| Legalising cannabis adds $3.6bn to Australian economy, budget office says [22.04.2018] | Legalising cannabis would reap the Australian economy almost $2bn a year, the Parliamentary Budget Office has found. The Greens plan to not only decr ... |
| When will weed be legalised in India? [20.04.2018] | The Great Legalisation Movement - India (GLM) was founded in Bengaluru in 2014, with the aim of legalising cannabis and hemp production. The movement ... |
| Hearing on Bill C-45 as it relates to Canada’s international obligations [19.04.2018] | The international dimensions of Bill C-45 are of utmost importance not only for Canada itself but for many countries around the world that are moving ... |
| Australia should tax and regulate cannabis, not prohibit it [18.04.2018] | Cannabis arrests have accounted for the largest proportion of illicit drug arrests in Australia. In 2015-16, of the two million Australians who use c ... |
| The plan to save California's legendary weed from 'Big Cannabis' [17.04.2018] | The cannabis industry in California historically has been anything but centralized. That has made the cannabis in the Emerald Triangle legendary. Tho ... |
| U.S. marijuana friends and foes cautious at signs of softer Trump [14.04.2018] | Both advocates and opponents of legalized marijuana reacted with caution to signs from the White House that growers in U.S. states where the drug is ... |
| Mexican states should start legalizing marijuana - tourism minister [12.04.2018] | Taking a lead from the United States, Mexico should allow states to begin legalizing marijuana while broader efforts are in limbo, Tourism minister E ... |
| Massachusetts is the new testbed for cannabis legalization [10.04.2018] | For the past several years, Colorado, Washington and Oregon have served as the testbeds for policies governing state-legal cannabis markets. But now ... |
| Senate Foreign Affairs Cmte won’t have time to examine how cannabis bill will affect international treaties [09.04.2018] | The Senate committees are under a ‘tight timeline' to review the cannabis bill, and Conservatives say they could save major cannabis amendments for t ... |
| Canadian banker snags $750-million in marijuana business as rivals say no [03.04.2018] | In a down-and-out Canadian town, Bruce Linton dreamed of transforming an abandoned Hershey Co. chocolate plant into the Next Big Thing, a medical mar ... |
| Canada’s next steps on cannabis and the UN drug treaties [29.03.2018] | Ever since the introduction of Bill C-45, questions have been swirling concerning Canada’s position relative to the UN drug control conventions: conv ... |
| Most Luxembourg residents want cannabis legalised [29.03.2018] | The majority of Luxembourg residents think cannabis should be fully legalised for personal use and not just for medical reasons, according to a surve ... |
| Malta has officially legalised medical cannabis [27.03.2018] | Malta has officially legalised medical cannabis and has applied to import 15 kilos of cannabis for medical purposes. The amendments to the Drug Depen ... |
| Uruguay’s Cannabis Law [23.03.2018] | Uruguay is the first country to legalize and regulate its domestic non-medical cannabis market. In light of this pioneering role, the choices and exp ... |
| Balancing Treaty Stability and Change [22.03.2018] | Legal tensions are growing within the international drug control regime as increasing numbers of member states move towards or seriously consider leg ... |
| Government's cannabis bill faces live-or-die vote in Senate today [22.03.2018] | The government's cannabis bill faces outright defeat in the Senate if it can't secure enough support from members of the Red Chamber. According to an ... |
| Mexicans are buying legal weed in California, reversing a century-long trend of drug smuggling [18.03.2018] | During the past century of cannabis prohibition, a steady flow of illegal marijuana has been smuggled across the border from Mexican farms to America ... |
| Outlaw weed comes into the light [16.03.2018] | Humboldt County, traditionally shorthand for outlaw culture and the great dope it produces, is facing a harsh reckoning. Every trait that made this s ... |
| Regulating Cannabis in Accord with International Law: Options to Explore [16.03.2018] | As a growing number of countries move towards legal regulation for non-medical cannabis, governments are pushing the boundaries of the three UN drug ... |
| It’s not the Senate’s job to block marijuana bills [15.03.2018] | For several weeks now, the Senate has been immersed in the study of bills C-45 and C-46. The former implements a national framework for cannabis lega ... |
| Sessions: US prosecutors won’t take on small-time pot cases [10.03.2018] | Federal prosecutors won’t take on small-time marijuana cases, despite the Justice Department’s decision to lift an Obama-era policy that discouraged ... |
| 5 facts about cannabis laws in Germany [10.03.2018] | Germany's drug laws have evolved over the past 30 years, with punishments becoming more severe, and, paradoxically, the definition of "drug offender" ... |
| International Narcotics Control Board remains troubled by Canada's pot legalization plan [08.03.2018] | The International Narcotics Control Board is expressing concerns about the Trudeau government's plan to legalize recreational cannabis use in Canada, ... |
| Cannabis cultivation a go for giant Canadian tomato greenhouse [05.03.2018] | Canadian officials have green-lighted a plan to convert a gargantuan tomato greenhouse for cannabis cultivation. Health Canada issued a cannabis cult ... |
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