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Berlin metro offers passengers edible hemp tickets
Tuesday, 14 December 2021Berlin's public transport company (BVG) has come up with a way for passengers in the German capital to unwind from the stress of Christmas and COVID. BVG is offering customers the chance to buy day t ...
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Cannabis bill approved in parliament, in first for Europe
Tuesday, 14 December 2021Parliament approved a cannabis law that will allow users to carry, buy and grow amounts of the drug, making Malta the first European country to introduce laws to regulate recreational cannabis use. M ...
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S.F. takes big step toward opening a supervised drug use site
Tuesday, 14 December 2021San Francisco could be one step closer to opening a supervised drug use site after the Board of Supervisors approved the purchase of property for that purpose. Though supervised consumption sites are ...
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Which towns and cities in New York will ban cannabis sales?
Tuesday, 14 December 2021Local governments in New York State are debating whether or not to ban recreational cannabis sales. They can either “opt in” or “opt out,” but they have to choose. Fast approaching is a December 31 d ...
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Dutch cannabis cafes see rise in business during COVID-19 pandemic
Monday, 13 December 2021The cannabis trade in the Netherlands booms despite the current coronavirus restrictions. Whether it is to calm their anxiety or ease the boredom of the past two years, many buyers say their consumpt ...
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In first for Europe, Malta to legalize recreational marijuana, with several other countries on the cusp
Monday, 13 December 2021“The transatlantic winds of change that have been blowing in the Americas for a while have now reached the shores in Europe,” Tom Blickman of the Amsterdam-based Transnational Institute told a webina ...
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Overdose prevention centres will save lives, say UK senior doctors
Sunday, 12 December 2021Drug addicts should be allowed to use illicit substances in “supervised injecting facilities” with medical staff on hand to ensure no one dies, health groups are urging ministers. Senior doctors, pub ...
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Ministry pushes full cannabis legalisation
Saturday, 11 December 2021The Ministry of Public Health will next year push for legalisation of all cannabis parts, lifting the last remaining hurdle preventing full use and commercialisation of the plant. Thailand earlier re ...
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Opposition delays cannabis reform until December 14
Tuesday, 07 December 2021A controversial new law on cannabis use will have to wait another week to be approved in parliament, after the opposition requested that MPs be called to vote individually on the matter. The proposed ...
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After Malta, Germany set to make pot mainstream
Thursday, 02 December 2021The European Union is currently a hotchpotch of different approaches to cannabis use, ranging from complete prohibition to different levels of decriminalisation and tolerance. Even in liberal enclave ...
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Cannabis reform is one vote away from becoming law
Tuesday, 30 November 2021The cannabis reform bill in Malta is one step away from being passed in parliament after it cleared committee stage. In a four-hour-long sitting MPs discussed the individual clauses and approved mino ...
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Supervised injection sites for drug users to open in New York City
Tuesday, 30 November 2021In an attempt to curb a surge in overdose deaths caused by increasingly potent street drugs, New York City will authorize two supervised injection sites in Manhattan to begin operating. Trained staff ...
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From prohibition to trailblazing: A brief history of modern cannabis activism In Malta
Saturday, 27 November 2021It is ironic, but if Malta does end up legalising recreational cannabis, one quiet man from Wales may be the one to thank for it. Prior to 2011, there were passionate activists fighting for better ca ...
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The ‘cocaine collectors’ retrieving smuggled drugs in Rotterdam
Friday, 26 November 2021As the volume of cocaine trafficked into the Netherlands through the port city of Rotterdam increases, so too does the number of young men employed by criminal gangs to retrieve the drugs from among ...
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Drug checking to be permanent after law passes third reading
Wednesday, 24 November 2021Legislation confirming that such services can permanently continue, and expand, passed its third reading - replacing a temporary law that was set to expire at the end of the year. Health Minister And ...
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Germany's next government aims to legalise recreational cannabis
Wednesday, 24 November 2021Germany could become the first European country to legalise cannabis and authorise its sale for recreational purposes, according to a coalition agreement for a new government struck by three parties. ...
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Getting closer! Final stage before Malta’s cannabis reform becomes law to start next week
Tuesday, 23 November 2021It’s looking ever more likely that Malta will pass a landmark cannabis reform bill into law. The bill passed its second reading (the debate stage) in Parliament, with all government MPs voting in fav ...
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‘We will give up ganja cultivation if MSP is guaranteed for agriculture produce,’ say Odisha villagers
Tuesday, 23 November 2021Despite knowing that they could be penalised under provisions of the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, for growing cannabis, villagers came out in the open to put conditions that ...
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Burt: Bermuda has ‘no intention’ of tailoring laws to fit UK cannabis conventions
Monday, 22 November 2021Bermuda’s Government had “no intention” of tailoring its laws licensing cannabis production to fit with the UK’s conventions allowing the drug for medicinal use only. David Burt, the Premier, reitera ...
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ICC suspends PH drug war probe, warned of Duterte ‘ruse’
Sunday, 21 November 2021Human rights lawyers who accused President Rodrigo Duterte of committing crimes against humanity appealed to Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan of the International Criminal Court (ICC) not to halt the inve ...
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Germany moves to legalise cannabis in economy-boosting bid after Merkel departure
Thursday, 18 November 2021The political parties known as the "traffic light" coalition are pushing for a change in legislation meaning the sale of cannabis will be legal for consumption purposes. According to Der Spiegel a re ...
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US saw 100,000 drug overdose deaths in one year amid pandemic, CDC says
Wednesday, 17 November 2021The estimated number of drug overdose deaths in the US during a 12-month period ending in April rose by 28.5% compared with the same period the year before, according to new provisional data released ...
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Could crack cocaine vapes be harm reduction tools of the future?
Wednesday, 17 November 2021There is a glut of research surrounding safer alternatives for people who use opioids. Less well researched are safer alternatives for crack cocaine use—though some argue that chewing coca leaf (a pr ...
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Pot of gold? Cannabis could bring Germany $5 billion a year - survey
Tuesday, 16 November 2021Legalising cannabis could bring Germany annual tax revenues and cost savings of about 4.7 billion euros ($5.34 billion) and create 27,000 new jobs, a survey said as politicians thrash out rules for t ...
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Modi govt plans changes to NDPS Act, could decriminalise possession of small quantities of drugs
Sunday, 14 November 2021In an attempt to help the victims of drug abuse to come out of addiction, the Narendra Modi government is planning to decriminalise personal consumption of small quantities of drugs including cannabi ...
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The UK countryside is ablaze with hemp farms. But how do they help the climate?
Thursday, 11 November 2021Despite the lack of state support, more and more farmers in the UK are turning to hemp production for its economic and environmental benefits. It's legal for them to sell a variety of hemp-made produ ...
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Bongs for beer steins? Why Germany might move to legalise cannabis
Wednesday, 10 November 2021Germany's likely new government, the left-leaning Social Democratic Party (SPD), Greens and the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP), have been locked in intense coalition negotiations in recent weeks ...
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Radical relook at drug policies puts human rights into equation
Tuesday, 09 November 2021A “radically innovative” new analysis of global drug policies has laid bare the full impact repressive drug laws and their implementation have on millions of people worldwide, civil society groups be ...
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You’ll never have a drug-free society, expert warns UK
Sunday, 07 November 2021The Home Office should climb off its “high horse of oppression and prohibition” and stop pursuing the “fantasy” of a drug-free society, the chair of an influential international consortium on drug po ...
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California legalized weed five years ago. Why is the illicit market still thriving?
Tuesday, 02 November 2021Five years after cannabis legalization, California is awash with signs of an apparently booming industry. Californians can toke on Justin Bieber-branded joints and ash their blunts in Seth Rogen’s $9 ...
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Italian activists turn in more than half a million signatures for marijuana and psilocybin referendum
Thursday, 28 October 2021Italian activists formally turned in about 630,000 signatures for a referendum to legalize the personal cultivation of marijuana and other psychoactive plants and fungi like psilocybin mushrooms. The ...
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ABN raises charges for coffeeshops by 1000% to cover money laundering costs
Thursday, 28 October 2021ABN AMRO is raising its bank charges for coffeeshops by 1000% to cover the costs of complying with anti-money laundering laws. From January coffeeshop owners who have a business account with the bank ...
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Mettre «fin au tabou du cannabis et le dépolitiser»
Tuesday, 26 October 2021Le gouvernement peut mieux faire. C'est la mention qu'attribue, ce mardi matin sur les ondes de 100,7, le Dr. Alain Origer, aux annonces concernant l'usage du cannabis en Luxembourg. «C'est un premie ...
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Ouvertures sur le cannabis : «Une solution insuffisante»
Tuesday, 26 October 2021En Luxembourg chaque ménage sera autorisé à cultiver quatre plants. Il revient par contre aussi sur l’annonce en grande pompe de la légalisation du cannabis, datant de 2018, et qui est désormais mise ...
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The pros, cons and unknowns of legal cannabis in Canada 3 years later
Sunday, 24 October 2021The legalization of cannabis in Canada just had its third anniversary, which means it's time for the federal government to review and possibly tweak the policy. In some areas, the reviews are positiv ...
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Avoid jail for drug users, seizure of small amounts: Social justice ministry
Sunday, 24 October 2021In its suggestion to review the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, the Union Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment of India has recommended a more humane approach, avoiding p ...
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No smoking allowed: An early look inside Malta’s planned cannabis associations
Saturday, 23 October 2021Malta will soon allow people to purchase weed from “cannabis associations”, an exciting step forward for the country’s long-suffering cannabis communities. However, don’t expect these associations to ...
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Is it time to decriminalise Cannabis use in India?
Saturday, 23 October 2021The consumption of Cannabis (Ganja) and its resin (Charas) has been a punishable offence in India since 1985 after the enactment of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act that was ...
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Vancouver's chief medical officer recommends compassion club model to reduce illicit drug deaths
Friday, 22 October 2021Vancouver's head doctor said more headway needs to be made on the opioid crisis in British Columbia and one way to stop people from dying sooner rather than later is to move toward a compassion club ...
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Government scales back legal cannabis plans in policy revamp
Friday, 22 October 2021Luxembourg's governing coalition continues to drag its feet on fulfilling its election promise to legalise the production and sale of cannabis, but could allow plants to be raised at home. Adult resi ...
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80% of Moroccans believe legalizing cannabis will have positive impact
Thursday, 21 October 2021About 80 % of Moroccans say legalizing cannabis for therapeutic, cosmetic or industrial use will have a positive impact on society. The Economic, Social and Environmental Council (CESE) surveyed 1,05 ...
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Switzerland to legalise recreational and medical cannabis usage
Tuesday, 19 October 2021Switzerland will draw up a draft law for the legalisation of cannabis usage, after a parliamentary commission ruled the drug should no longer be banned. The production, cultivation, trade and consump ...
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Germany should make cannabis available at pharmacies not ‘coffee shops’, says FDP boss
Monday, 18 October 2021The Social Democrats (SPD), Greens and the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) are set to engage in coalition talks in a bid to become the next German government. And the future of cannabis will likely ...
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A roundup of countries that permit recreational cannabis
Friday, 15 October 2021Marijuana may be an issue of easy agreement in the ongoing coalition talks between Germany's leading parties. Despite numerous points of contention, the center-left Social Democrats (SPD), neoliberal ...
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Three years post-legalization, Canada's cannabis industry ready for a reset
Friday, 15 October 2021Three years after Canada legalized cannabis, the industry appears ready for a reset. When midnight struck on Oct. 17, 2018, Canada became the first developed nation to allow the sale of cannabis for ...
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Sanjay Gupta explains his marijuana reversal and discusses ‘very biased’ U.S. research with Joe Rogan
Thursday, 14 October 2021CNN’s chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta wasn’t always on board with medical marijuana, but things changed when he looked for the science, he said during an interview on the Joe Rogan Experienc ...
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German SPD health expert calls on next government to legalize cannabis
Wednesday, 13 October 2021Social Democratic Party (SPD) health expert Karl Lauterbach ourged the SPD, Greens and Free Democrats (FDP) hoping to form Germany's next government to legalize cannabis should they come to power. Sp ...
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Ottawa must act fast on safe drug supply as tainted-drug deaths continue daily: advocates
Monday, 11 October 2021Downtown Eastside residents at high risk of overdose now have Vancouver’s support to get untainted drugs, but the federal government has the final say whether they’ll get access to a legal supply. A ...
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Despite layoffs and losses, cannabis CEOs awarded millions in bonuses
Monday, 11 October 2021Despite stagnant revenue, layoffs, facility closings and big losses, the top executives of some of the largest cannabis companies in Canada were awarded millions in bonuses and performance stock gran ...
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A global fight looms over Kratom, a possible opioid alternative
Saturday, 09 October 2021A World Health Organization meeting could determine the future of kratom, a widely available herbal supplement some tout as an alternative to opioid painkillers. Kratom, a plant indigenous to Southea ...
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