Items tagged with colorado
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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 ... |
Du Río de la Plata au Lac Léman [19.11.2014] | La politique vis-à-vis du cannabis est en rapide évolution. Ainsi, les citoyens de l'Alaska et de l'Oregon, comme ceux de Washington DC, la capitale ... |
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 ... |
Black market boom lays bare a social divide in Colorado’s marijuana market [19.08.2014] | That the black market in Colorado bustles in the emerging days of legalisation is not unexpected. By some reckonings, it will continue as long as res ... |
The great pot experiment [11.07.2014] | On July 8th Washington became the second state after Colorado to offer recreational pot-smokers a chance to buy weed legally at a local store. Mariju ... |
Infographic: Legal weed's consequences [30.06.2014] | When recreational marijuana stores first opened their doors in the US state of Colorado on January 1, opponents predicted dire consequences: an influ ... |
Colorado recreational marijuana industry begins major transformation [29.06.2014] | Only six months old, Colorado's recreational marijuana industry starts a transformation that could add hundreds of new pot businesses to the state an ... |
Cannabis regulation: high time for change? [20.05.2014] | Cannabis is the world’s most widely used illicit drug. But for how much longer? In a short space of time we have moved from absolute global prohibiti ... |
Colorado lawmakers approve plan for pot banking [07.05.2014] | Frustrated by the cash-heavy aspect of its new marijuana industry, Colorado is trying a long-shot bid to create the world's first financial system de ... |
Eric Holder 'cautiously optimistic' about marijuana legalization in Washington and Colorado [14.04.2014] | Attorney General Eric Holder is "cautiously optimistic" about how things are going in Washington state and Colorado following the legalization and st ... |
Marijuana legalization: Does Congress need to act? [11.04.2014] | Despite a federal prohibition on marijuana possession, sale, and use, Colorado and Washington recently became the first states to enact laws legalizi ... |
DEA chief: Marijuana legalization just 'makes us fight harder' [01.04.2014] | Far from being discouraged by shifts in public opinion, state laws and even within the Obama administration on the legalization of marijuana, federal ... |
Non-psychoactive CBD oil made from marijuana plants poised to be game-changer [29.03.2014] | A Colorado marijuana innovation is changing the way lawmakers in even the most conservative parts of the country talk about cannabis and is poised to ... |
Uruguay to track pot by genetic markers [27.03.2014] | Uruguay's drug czar says every legal marijuana plant in Uruguay will be registered and tracked using radio frequency tags, and that state-grown marij ... |
Marijuana on the move [26.01.2014] | Some 20 years ago, a Spanish official in favor of lifting the ban on drugs such as marijuana mentioned at a UN meeting that there "might be a more hu ... |
Marijuana in Colorado has a long history and an uncertain future [31.12.2013] | Federal marijuana prohibition in the United States started with a knock on a Denver man's apartment door. Seventy-six years ago, Samuel Caldwell beca ... |
A Colorado marijuana guide: 64 answers to commonly asked questions [30.12.2013] | On January 1, 2014, Colorado becomes the first place anywhere in the world to allow legal marijuana sales to anybody over 21 for any purpose. You hav ... |
Colorado issues first marijuana sales licenses to retailers [26.12.2013] | The first licences in the United States that permit retailers to sell marijuana for recreational use from 1 January were issued in Colorado. Owners o ... |
If marijuana legalization sends the wrong message to teenagers, why aren't they listening? [18.12.2013] | Prohibitionists warn that it’s dangerous even to discuss legalizing marijuana because such talk sends “the wrong message” to the youth of America, en ... |
Heroic Uruguay deserves a Nobel peace prize for legalising cannabis [11.12.2013] | The response of the UN's International Narcotics Control Board to Uruguay's new drug regime has been to incant futile bromides. According to its chie ... |
How to Regulate Cannabis [30.11.2013] | This is a guide to regulating legal markets for the non-medical use of cannabis. It is for policy makers, drug policy reform advocates and affected c ... |
Colorado voters approve new taxes on recreational marijuana [05.11.2013] | A measure to impose taxes on recreational marijuana passed making pot one of the most heavily taxed consumer products in Colorado. Proposition AA imp ... |
The US incapacity to enforce federal drug laws - and the global consequences [31.10.2013] | The US drug policy is changing, pitting states against federal law. This essay explores this inner friction of contradictory drug legislation, and wh ... |
Greener marijuana: can a budding industry grow sustainable agriculture? [29.10.2013] | The growing societal acceptance of cannabis in the U.S. has sparked what some call a "green rush" of people trying to cash in on what is already a mu ... |
New laws chart course for marijuana legalization [19.10.2013] | Nearly a year after Colorado and Washington State voted to become the first states to legalize recreational marijuana, the detailed rules governing h ... |
Cannabis taxes will wind up too low, not too high [18.10.2013] | Legal cannabis will naturally be much, much cheaper than illegal cannabis. A joint is the same sort of item as a teabag: the dried flowers of a plant ... |
Colorado faces historic challenge in regulating marijuana stores [14.10.2013] | As Colorado prepares for the opening of historic recreational marijuana stores, state officials are preparing for something equally as unique — a reg ... |
After legalizing marijuana, Washington and Colorado are starting to regulate it [09.10.2013] | Nearly a year ago, Washington and Colorado legalized recreational marijuana sales. Now it’s time to regulate them. The two states have taken slightly ... |
Colorado marijuana regulations signed into law [28.05.2013] | A set of laws to govern how recreational marijuana should be grown, sold and taxed was signed into law Tuesday in Colorado, where Democratic Gov. Joh ... |
Models for the legal supply of cannabis [27.05.2013] | Three United Nations Conventions provide the international legal framework on drug control, instructing countries to limit drug supply and use to med ... |
Colorado Senate gives final approval to historic marijuana bills [08.05.2013] | The Colorado Senate gave final approval to two new bills to implement marijuana legalization, inching the state legislature closer to becoming the fi ... |
Colorado pot collectives test limits of Amendment 64 [05.05.2013] | An untold number of recreational pot collectives have formed in Colorado since Amendment 64's passage in November, hoping to meet consumer demand bef ... |
Colorado House gives initial approval to marijuana tax measure [28.04.2013] | Colorado lawmakers tried to find the Goldilocks level for recreational marijuana taxes — an amount neither too high to discourage voters from approvi ... |
Colorado lawmakers discussing marijuana-legalization repeal effort [26.04.2013] | A proposal that could lead to the repeal of marijuana legalization in Colorado has gained momentum at the state Capitol. The repeal would be linked t ... |
Marijuana legalization in Colorado may not pay for itself, study finds [25.04.2013] | Legal marijuana in Colorado may not bring in enough money to cover the societal costs of legalization, a study from a Colorado State University think ... |
Colorado legislature unveils long-awaited marijuana regulation bills [19.04.2013] | Lawmakers introduced a long-awaited bill of proposed regulations for recreational marijuana, moving Colorado one step closer to a legal pot marketpla ... |
Denver's 4/20 pot parties a "coming out for cannabis" [14.04.2013] | Tens of thousands of people will attend Saturday's "4/20" rally in Denver, creating perhaps the largest collectively produced cloud of marijuana smok ... |
Colorado lawmakers may let pot growers and sellers operate separately [09.04.2013] | Colorado lawmakers stood the state's current model for marijuana businesses on its head, endorsing a proposal that would allow recreational pot store ... |
Scathing audit throws Colorado recreational marijuana rules into chaos [27.03.2013] | Colorado's under-construction plan for regulating recreational marijuana nearly came unglued when lawmakers questioned whether the agency that would ... |
Audit: Serious flaws in Colorado's regulation of medical marijuana [25.03.2013] | State regulators charged with watching over Colorado's medical marijuana industry have fallen short on everything from tracking inventory and managin ... |
Medical marijuana dispensaries: High-tech tracking system unfulfilled [24.03.2013] | The technology was supposed to efficiently track medical marijuana from seed to sale — the catch-phrase that came to define Colorado's efforts to reg ... |
Colorado lawmakers question proposed marijuana business rules [20.03.2013] | Colorado lawmakers yanked and tugged at the threads of the state's proposals for regulating recreational marijuana, as one legislator hinted to his c ... |
Marijuana regulation heads to Colorado Capitol [15.03.2013] | An ad-hoc committee of 10 House and Senate members started work reviewing 165 pages of recommended regulations from a task force that worked for more ... |
Group forms to oppose Colorado marijuana stores [14.03.2013] | A citizens' group opposed to a large-scale recreational marijuana industry in Colorado has hired two powerhouse lobbyists in preparation for the stat ... |
Seattle downplays likelihood of sending pot to Copenhagen [14.03.2013] | A Seattle city official has poured cold water on Co enhagen's idea of importing cannabis from the US. One of the elements of the city's proposal to l ... |
Crack down on cannabis, world body tells U.S. [13.03.2013] | The United States must not turn a blind eye to the recreational use of cannabis in states that liberalize drug laws, the International Narcotics Cont ... |
Holder says little about states’ pot laws; supporters buoyed [05.03.2013] | U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder declined to reveal the Obama administration’s long-awaited policy on legal recreational marijuana in Colorado and W ... |
Colorado medical-marijuana businesses have declined by 40 percent [02.03.2013] | In the summer of 2010, after legislators passed a law legitimizing dispensaries, there were 1,117 medical-marijuana businesses in Colorado. By the en ... |
Colorado pot task force recommends special sales and excise taxes [28.02.2013] | What Colorado will look like with legal marijuana became significantly clearer when the state task force proposing rules for that new world finished ... |
Colorado task force ponders how to tax legal pot [28.02.2013] | The Amendment 64 Implementation Task Force regulators are working out the details of exactly how to tax legalized marijuana, so the benefits are shar ... |
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