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Cannabis 'Harm Reduction' clubs can apply to sell home-grown drug from February
Friday, 27 January 2023Cannabis clubs - dubbed Cannabis Harm Reduction Associations - can apply to sell home-grown marijuana from next month but must abide by a list of regulations outlined on Friday. The associations are ...
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New Yorker jailed during ‘war on drugs’ becomes cannabis pioneer
Thursday, 26 January 2023As a New York City teenager, 50-year old Roland Conner found himself harshly punished for minor offenses related to marijuana. A 1991 arrest resulted in a months-long incarceration, as America’s flaw ...
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Marijuana legalization not associated with increased rates of psychosis, American Medical Association study of 63 million people finds
Thursday, 26 January 2023There is “no statistically significant increase” in psychosis-related diagnoses in states that have legalized marijuana compared to those that continue to criminalize cannabis, a new study published ...
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Self-medication far outstrips use of prescription marijuana
Monday, 23 January 2023Most of the 130,000 people in the Netherlands who use cannabis as a medicine to help with depression or pain, for example, buy the plant from a coffee shop or grow it themselves, according to researc ...
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Legalising cocaine would stem drug violence, Belgian criminologist suggests
Saturday, 21 January 2023After an 11-year-old girl died recently due to a shooting incident in Merksem, politicians have stressed that tackling narco-terror is a top priority, without exception. Ministers and mayors have spo ...
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Record 100 tonnes of cocaine seized in Port of Antwerp last year
Tuesday, 10 January 2023Last year, Belgian customs intercepted just under 110 tonnes of cocaine in the Port of Antwerp, a new record, as it marks the first time the 100-tonne mark has been passed. The port, together with th ...
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This guy plans to open a store that sells heroin, meth, and crack
Friday, 06 January 2023A Vancouver man is planning to open what would be Canada’s first store that sells heroin, cocaine, meth, MDMA, and other drugs as a way to reduce the rising number of deaths stemming from the overdos ...
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Illegal weed delivery start-up Dispenseroo sees meteoric growth in the UK
Thursday, 05 January 2023An illegal cannabis delivery start-up in the UK is generating millions of pounds in revenue less than a year after it was created, according to its founder. Dispenseroo, which unlike other online dru ...
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‘This is another revolution’: could legalisation of cannabis transform Mexico’s economy?
Thursday, 05 January 2023The pungent aroma of cannabis and the sound of dub music fill the air at a hacienda as about 150 smokers, users, growers, activists and business people gather for Mexico’s second annual Toquefest. In ...
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Pass cannabis controls now
Wednesday, 04 January 2023Since December, MPs in Thailand have been working on getting the long-awaited cannabis and hemp control bill to pass its second reading. This push is a breath of fresh air not only for patients and m ...
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French court overturns ban on sale of CBD-enriched cannabis
Friday, 30 December 2022France's highest administrative judicial body has annulled a Government decree that banned the sale of hemp flower and leaf enriched with CBD, the non-psychotropic molecule found in cannabis. The Fre ...
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Now you can legally buy recreational cannabis in New York
Thursday, 29 December 2022Kenneth Woodin, a stay-at-home dad, was first in line at the cannabis dispensary in Greenwich Village in Manhattan. He said he wanted to be a part of history after having been arrested on a weed char ...
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Joint decision: How Brussels could rain on Germany’s cannabis parade
Thursday, 29 December 2022It's cannabis crunch time in Brussels. In October 2022, Germany laid out a bold plan to fully legalize recreational cannabis for people aged 18 and over. But bloc-wide laws on everything from the sin ...
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Is legal weed doomed to be run by big business?
Wednesday, 28 December 2022If the federal government legalizes cannabis, lawmakers should beware of monopolization by national corporations, says Shaleen Title, chief executive of the cannabis policy think tank Parabola Center ...
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Marijuana law reached peak absurdity in 2022
Saturday, 24 December 2022Banning a plant with hundreds of industrial and medical uses was never going to work out well, but 2022 saw marijuana prohibition reach peak absurdity, not to mention peak confusion for consumers and ...
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EU is skeptical about legalizing cannabis
Thursday, 22 December 2022Health Minister Lauterbach's prestige project is one of the few issues on which the traffic light parties in Germany agree. But they are meeting with resistance in Brussels. In order to implement his ...
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Average age of French marijuana users has increased, study shows
Tuesday, 20 December 2022The latest study on cannabis use among the adult population by the French Observatory of Drugs and Addictive Tendencies (OFDT) is painting a picture that sometimes goes against conventional wisdom. A ...
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Drug deaths are rising and overdose prevention centres save lives, so why is the UK unwilling to introduce them?
Monday, 19 December 2022In late 2020, a converted van appeared in central Glasgow. Inside were clean needles, sterilising equipment, mirrors, “sharps bins” for the disposal of syringes, and supplies of the overdose reversal ...
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A proposal to regulate cannabis is imminent in the Czech Republic. The People's Party is concerned
Monday, 19 December 2022In mid-January, the Czech National Drug Coordinator Jindřich Vobořil plans to introduce a bill to free up the cannabis market. The exact form of regulation is currently being drawn up by working grou ...
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Legal uncertainty dampens Thailand's thriving weed business
Sunday, 18 December 2022Thailand legalized the growing of marijuana and its consumption in food and drinks on June 9 and removed cannabis from its list of banned narcotics. The Southeast Asian country hoped the move would b ...
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'We must move on from the repressive drug policies of the past', says Minister of Justice
Saturday, 17 December 2022Minister of Justice Sam Tanson of Luxembourg defended the government's decision to regulate recreational cannabis consumption, pointing out that this was already included in the governing coalition's ...
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Colombia’s Congress agrees to final marijuana legalization bill, which key senator expects to be enacted by June
Thursday, 15 December 2022Colombia’s Chamber of Representatives and Senate have voted to reconcile their respective versions of marijuana legalization bills that recently advanced, with both bodies accepting minor changes to ...
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Cannabis industry has huge economic value for South Africa, but government dragging its feet
Tuesday, 13 December 2022The Draft South African Cannabis Masterplan states that there are up to 900,000 traditional dagga growers in South Africa and that they and ‘dagga’ need to be included in the cannabis value chain, bu ...
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Decriminalising cannabis could save Australian taxpayers $850m a year, report finds
Thursday, 08 December 2022Australia is not keeping pace with global best practice cannabis policy, a report from the public health research organisation the Penington Institute has found, with decriminalisation predicted to s ...
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Germany: Flirting with Plan B?
Wednesday, 07 December 2022Two articles published this week, in Der Tagesspiegel and LTO, throw cold water on expectations that the European Commission could give green light to Germany’s ‘Interpretationslösung’ to justify its ...
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Study: Most Czechs want easing of laws on cannabis
Wednesday, 07 December 2022Most Czechs would favour an easing of the current legalisation on possession and cultivation of cannabis, suggests a study by the firm Behavio for the group Charta 420, who support calls from the nat ...
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Regulated cultivated cannabis experiment delayed again; could start in 2024
Saturday, 03 December 2022Health Minister Ernst Kuipers said that the experiment in regulated cultivated cannabis will be postponed again. He expects that "as it stands now" only legally produced cannabis will be able to be s ...
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Law aiming to clear simple drug convictions expected next year
Friday, 02 December 2022Malta won’t see a bill that introduces a path to clearing simple drug convictions from people’s criminal records until sometime next year. A spokesperson for the ministry of equality and reforms said ...
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Légalisation du cannabis : des failles à tous les étages
Tuesday, 29 November 2022«Est-ce que la légalisation envisagée ne posera pas plus de questions pratiques qu’elle n’en résoudra, notamment par rapport aux contrôles du nombre de plants autorisés pour la culture par une commun ...
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Basic legislation proposal on legalizing cannabis should be ready by March 2023
Friday, 25 November 2022A basic legislation proposal for introducing a regulated cannabis market in Czechia should be finished by the end of March, the country’s National Drug Coordinator Jindřich Vobořil said after a meeti ...
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Poland: Cannabis for everyone?
Wednesday, 23 November 2022The distribution and use of cannabis for medical purposes became legal in Poland in 2017. By 2021, doctors across Poland were writing roughly 3,000 marijuana prescriptions a month. But how many month ...
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High hurdles face Germany's cannabis legalization plans
Tuesday, 22 November 2022The legalization of cannabis is a prestige project for the current coalition government. Berlin doesn't just intend to decriminalize the substance, but also wants to regulate its cultivation and dist ...
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Activists fear medical cannabis companies want in on recreational market
Monday, 21 November 2022Established medical cannabis companies could be looking to set their foot in Malta’s flegdling recreational cannabis market, according to sources. Releaf, the NGO that led the campaign to legalise re ...
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New York has $750m worth of cannabis stockpiled that growers can’t sell
Saturday, 19 November 2022A strong smell of weed hangs over many New York neighbourhoods, the result in part of cannabis decriminalization in 2019 – but cannabis growers in the state are at an impasse when it comes to getting ...
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Anutin calls for patience as debate over hemp bill drags on
Thursday, 17 November 2022A new announcement categorising flowers or buds of the cannabis plant as "controlled herbs" is a temporary measure to curb the proliferation of recreational cannabis use in Thailand while the deliber ...
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Study examines if CBD buffers THC’s effects
Wednesday, 16 November 2022A study published in Neuropsychology attempted to determine if CBD reduces the adverse effects of THC, such as paranoia and memory loss, but found little evidence to support this theory. Study partic ...
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A tale of marijuana charlatans, corruption, collusion and exploitation
Wednesday, 16 November 2022Through manipulating trust and exploiting public ignorance, cannabis charlatans – new and old – are trying to construct corporate empires, some of which appear to be based on corruption, collusion an ...
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Why Colombia should fully legalize cocaine
Tuesday, 15 November 2022Colombia’s war on drugs dominated the headlines of U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s October visit to Bogotá. Michael Crowley, a diplomatic correspondent for the New York Times, wrote of polic ...
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Cannabis authority chair sacked after 10 months
Friday, 11 November 2022Psychotherapist Mariella Dimech has been sacked from her position as executive chairperson of the new cannabis authority on the responsible use of cannabis. Dimech said she was informed by the Home A ...
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Weed is now legal in Thailand. How long will the high times last?
Thursday, 10 November 2022Thailand’s military government is carrying out an experiment: What happens when a country in Asia, a region where drug laws tend to be harsh, essentially legalizes marijuana overnight? In the first f ...
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Nearly half of Americans to reside in states where marijuana is legal
Wednesday, 09 November 2022More than 155 million Americans will now live in states with legal weed. Maryland and Missouri passed legalization referendums on Tuesday, meaning there are now 21 states where anyone at least 21 yea ...
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No timeframe yet for cannabis associations
Tuesday, 08 November 2022Reforms parliamentary secretary Rebecca Buttigieg has refused to give a detailed timeline on when cannabis associations will start operating. “This is a complex sector and I am interested in doing th ...
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Treat Breda as part of Germany so regulated weed can go ahead: mayor
Monday, 07 November 2022The mayor of Breda has asked if his region can be treated as a part of Germany, in order to go ahead with a trial of regulated cannabis growing. Speaking at a PCN cannabis association symposium in Ei ...
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A decade after legalizing cannabis in Colorado, here's what we've learned
Monday, 07 November 2022Ten years ago this week, Colorado voters approved Amendment 64, making the state among the first two in the nation (along with Washington) to legalize the use and possession of cannabis, a.k.a. marij ...
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Czech Republic on the way to legalizing cannabis
Wednesday, 02 November 2022Tourists in Prague may get the impression that the Czech capital is also the cannabis capital of Europe. From stickers to posters, the iconic leaf of the marijuana plant is all over the place. It ado ...
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German cannabis regulation on thin ice
Friday, 28 October 2022The German government has released its ‘Eckpunktepapier’, a concept note laying out the key points to shape the regulation of the recreational cannabis market. Presenting the key points at a press co ...
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'Dare to legislate': Brussels mayor repeats call to legalise cannabis
Thursday, 27 October 2022Following the reported agreement by the German Government on the legalisation of cannabis, Brussels mayor Philippe Close reiterated his plea to decriminalise and eventually legalise its use in Belgiu ...
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Dutch marijuana growing experiment runs into more delays
Thursday, 27 October 2022Marijuana growers who have been selected to take part in the government’s controlled cultivation trials said that they will not be ready to start early next year as the government intends, NRC report ...
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Germany: Lauterbach outlines cannabis legalization plan
Wednesday, 26 October 2022German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach presented his plans on the legalization of cannabis. He said that Germany's drug policy had to be renewed because the current policies weren't successful. His a ...
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Can drug users lives be saved by giving them uncontaminated heroin and cocaine?
Sunday, 23 October 2022Canada remains in the grips of a deadly toxic drug crisis that has claimed the lives of tens of thousands. It’s a crisis that has been blamed on a war — the war on drugs — fuelled by what policy expe ...
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