Tag: regulation
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The U.S. drug czar weighs in on Canada’s pot habit
Sunday, 10 February 2013Kerlikowske: "I think a patchwork of policies would create real difficulties. We still have federal law that places marijuana as being illegal. The administration has not done a particularly good job ...
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Two letters expose rift over new pot law
Wednesday, 06 February 2013A handful of legislators recently drew up a letter raising questions and concerns about the law, including whether it can be implemented by December as required under voter-approved Initiative 502. A ...
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Pot plans: Efforts surge in Congress to reform marijuana laws
Wednesday, 06 February 2013Driven by a groundswell of public opinion, Colorado and Washington State last November became the first states in the U.S. to legalize the recreational use of marijuana. That wave of support, it now ...
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California high court seems inclined to uphold bans on pot shops
Wednesday, 06 February 2013The California Supreme Court appeared inclined to uphold municipal bans against medical marijuana dispensaries. Meeting for oral arguments, the state high court considered the legality of a ban on di ...
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Federal marijuana tax and regulate bills introduced in Congress
Monday, 04 February 2013Members of Congress introduced bills to end marijuana prohibition and start regulating and taxing marijuana like alcohol at the federal level. Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO) introduced the Ending Federal Ma ...
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Effort building to change US pot laws
Sunday, 03 February 2013An effort is building in Congress to change U.S. marijuana laws, including moves to legalize the industrial production of hemp and establish a hefty federal pot tax. One measure would regulate mariju ...
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Ontario’s top court upholds country’s marijuana laws in medicinal pot case
Thursday, 31 January 2013Canada’s ban on marijuana was effectively upheld when Ontario’s top court struck down the country’s laws related to medicinal pot much to the chagrin of activist groups. In overturning a lower court ...
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WA officials: Challenges still exist on marijuana
Monday, 28 January 2013Officials tasked with creating a regulated marijuana system in Washington state said they are moving forward with a timeline of issuing producer licenses by August 2013, but said that several challen ...
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Will States lead the way to legalizing marijuana nationwide?
Sunday, 27 January 2013While it seems unlikely that the federal government will make much of an effort to arrest pot users in Colorado or Washington—Obama has said he has “bigger fish to fry”— the tension between federal a ...
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Legalize pot and reap the benefit from influx of toking tourists: Liberals
Saturday, 26 January 2013Canada’s economy could benefit from an influx of toking tourists if weed is legalized, the Liberal Party of Canada says in a new analysis that backs the party’s 2012 policy convention resolution. And ...
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Inslee: Wash. to keep moving forward on legal pot
Monday, 21 January 2013Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and Attorney General Bob Ferguson met with U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday, but came away no further enlightened about how the federal government will respond ...
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Strict pot controls needed, state says
Sunday, 20 January 2013Washington State officials are looking to build a strictly regulated marijuana system that could forestall federal concerns about how the drug will be handled once it’s available for public purchase. ...
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Bill to legalize marijuana introduced in legislature
Friday, 18 January 2013Hawaii could join Colorado and Washington as states that have legalized the use of marijuana by adults, under a measure introduced by state House Speaker Joe Souki. House Bill 150, known as the Perso ...
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We enforced Ottawa’s pot laws. They don’t work
Thursday, 17 January 2013It is time to put ideology and politics aside in favour of a level-headed, evidence-based discussion about the failure of marijuana prohibition and the policy alternatives available to us. Provincial ...
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Legalization's biggest enemies
Wednesday, 16 January 2013The biggest immediate threat to legalization in Washington and Colorado is the federal government, but even the feds might be hard-pressed to stomp out reform. But before marijuana legalization sprea ...
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Towards a Safer Drug Policy
Monday, 14 January 2013
For forty years the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 has formed the corner stone of drug policy in Britain. The emergence of new psychoactive substances (‘legal highs’) during the past fifteen years or so ha ...
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Make legal highs available for sale, government urged
Monday, 14 January 2013The least harmful new "legal highs" should be made readily available for sale under strictly regulated conditions rather than being immediately banned as happens now, according to the All-Party Parli ...
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Decriminalise drugs – it would reduce the level of harm in Britain
Sunday, 13 January 2013The all-party parliamentary group on drug policy reform undertook an inquiry into the implications of the arrival of "legal highs" – a new substance appeared on the UK market every week in 2012. The ...
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Pot sub-panel only scratches surface in first meeting
Saturday, 12 January 2013Although they didn't make any clear decisions, the Local Authority and Control Working Group meeting started to address many questions and concerns that municipalities have about the newly forming ma ...
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Marijuana legalization, taxation supported by majority in Hawaii: Poll
Thursday, 10 January 2013The results of a survey commissioned by the Drug Policy Action Group shows 57 percent of respondents in favor of legalizing, taxing and regulating marijuana. According to Maui Now, that figure marks ...
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Will Obama's 'war on weed' really ride roughshod over American voters?
Thursday, 10 January 2013The cry of "states' rights" is not often associated with progressive causes, but with the "war on drugs" comprehensively declared a $1tn failure by the Global Commission on Drug Policy, the call has ...
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Schritte zur Legalisierung von Cannabis
Wednesday, 09 January 2013Zusammen mit dem Bund und der Stadt Basel will Zürich ein breit angelegtes Forschungsprojekt anstossen, um offene Fragen rund um Handel und Konsum von Cannabis zu klären. Der Gemeinderat stellt sich ...
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Why marijuana should be legal for adults
Tuesday, 08 January 2013Forget the antiquated dogma and judge pot prohibition on its own merits. If you still believe that cannabis should be illegal, then you must logically support the criminalization of alcohol and tobac ...
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U.S. marijuana laws ricochet through Latin America
Sunday, 06 January 2013Leaders from across Latin America responded within days of the Colorado and Washington vote, demanding a review of drug-war policies that have mired the region in violence. Latin American decisionmak ...
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Groups seek to influence new rules for growing, selling pot
Saturday, 05 January 2013The Washington state Liquor Control Board (LCB), charged with launching the world's first regulated marijuana market for social use, expects to begin accepting applications for grower licenses April ...
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Rocky Mountain high: Pot a $200M industry in Colorado
Friday, 04 January 2013Vigorous regulation of a thriving medical-marijuana industry in Colorado offers the best glimpse of what is coming to Washington when it launches its voter-approved social-use market. With continuous ...
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Roadmaps for Reforming the UN Drug Conventions
Sunday, 30 December 2012
The three UN Drug Conventions of 1961, 1971 and 1988 currently impose a ‘one-size-fits-all’ prohibitionist approach to drug policy throughout the world. This new report explains in detail how the Con ...
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Pro-marijuana campaign looks ahead after 2012 victories
Saturday, 29 December 2012After a decades-long campaign to legalize marijuana hit a high mark in 2012 with victories in Washington state and Colorado, its energized and deep-pocketed backers are mapping out a strategy for the ...
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Parts of Colorado's pot legalization strategy exported to other states
Saturday, 29 December 2012The sequential strategy will look familiar to Coloradans: first, pass a medical-marijuana law; then put dispensaries in place; then go for recreational legalization. The Marijuana Policy Project (MPP ...
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Canada could learn from Colorado and Washington on pot
Tuesday, 25 December 2012The decision by voters in Colorado and Washington to legalize marijuana represents a seismic shift in public attitudes. This historic reform will only add urgency to the message of a growing number o ...
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Uruguay postpones vote on 'state as dealer' approach to drug regulation - but not for long?
Sunday, 23 December 2012Uruguay has been on the vanguard of drug policy reform in the Americas, proposing a state regulatory market for the cultivation and consumption of marijuana. (See Latin America reinventing the War on ...
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Reefer Madness Revisited
Thursday, 20 December 2012Rob Kampia, co-founder and executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP), has co-authored most of the medical marijuana laws on the books. His group spent years laying the groundwork for t ...
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The next seven states to legalize pot
Tuesday, 18 December 2012By legalizing marijuana through direct democracy, Colorado and Washington have fundamentally changed the national conversation about cannabis. As many as 58 percent of Americans believe marijuana sho ...
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Task force created to regulate legalized marijuana in Colorado
Sunday, 16 December 2012It has been a little over a month since Coloradans approved a groundbreaking law legalizing small amounts of marijuana for recreational use. Now that the celebratory haze has settled, state officials ...
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President's pot comments prompt call for policy
Friday, 14 December 2012President Barack Obama says he won't go after pot users in Colorado and Washington, two states that just legalized the drug for recreational use. But advocates argue the president said the same thing ...
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Federal government should allow states to sanction marijuana businesses
Friday, 14 December 2012President Obama’s statement of tolerance toward legalized marijuana is welcome. The real question is not whether federal agents will go after users. In Colorado and Washington, the question is whethe ...
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Marijuana not high Obama priority
Friday, 14 December 2012President Obama says recreational users of marijuana in states that have legalized the substance should not be a "top priority" of federal law enforcement officials prosecuting the war on drugs. "We' ...
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Recreational marijuana should not be top federal priority: Obama
Friday, 14 December 2012In an interview with ABC News President Barack Obama said federal authorities should not target recreational marijuana use in two Western states where it has been made legal given limited government ...
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Colorado pot legalization: 30 questions (and answers)
Wednesday, 12 December 2012The passage and governor's proclamation of Amendment 64 on Monday, which makes Colorado one of the first two states to legalize limited possession and sales of marijuana, has prompted a flood of ques ...
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Poll: Keep feds out of state pot laws
Wednesday, 12 December 2012Most Americans want the federal government to stop enforcing anti-marijuana laws in Colorado and Washington state, according to a Gallup Poll. Sixty-four percent do not want the federal government to ...
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Former president Jimmy Carter OK with legalizing marijuana
Wednesday, 12 December 2012Former President Jimmy Carter said he is in favor of legalizing marijuana during a public panel that CNN aired Tuesday. “I’m in favor of it. I think it’s OK,” Carter said. “I don’t think it’s going t ...
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Plenty of smoke clouds the future of legalized pot in Washington
Monday, 10 December 2012The law setting up the US's first legal regulatory system for retail pot won't allow sales until next year. And the federal government still considers marijuana illegal. Then there are the taxation p ...
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Marijuana legalization low-key by design in Colo.
Monday, 10 December 2012Gov. John Hickenlooper on Monday quietly removed the final barrier to legalization by declaring that an amendment passed by voters in November was officially part of the state constitution. He announ ...
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Administration weighs legal action against States that legalized marijuana use
Wednesday, 05 December 2012Senior White House and Justice Department officials are considering plans for legal action against Colorado and Washington that could undermine voter-approved initiatives to legalize the recreational ...
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With I-502, will more young adults use pot?
Saturday, 01 December 2012Some researchers think marijuana use among 18- to 25-year-olds will increase when Initiative 502 goes into effect, but college students say the drug is already so easy to obtain that they don't belie ...
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Investors see profit potential in new pot law
Friday, 30 November 2012Votes in Washington and Colorado last month to legalize pot for recreational use turbocharged marijuana as a legitimate business opportunity. Business people packed a marijuana-industry conference in ...
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Marijuana’s foot in the door
Monday, 26 November 2012The Washington Post’s View: we favor decriminalizing possession of small amounts of pot, assessing civil fines instead of locking people up. Also, for that reason and others, the Justice Department s ...
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Following win, Colorado marijuana activists debate how hard to push
Saturday, 24 November 2012Colorado marijuana activists, empowered after backing a successful legalization effort in the state, are in the midst of a dialogue about how far to press their success. At a recent forum, advocates ...
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The truce on drugs
Saturday, 24 November 2012Something unexpected has happened in the past five years. The condemnations of the war on drugs - of the mechanized imprisonment of much of our inner cities, of the brutal wars sustained in Latin Ame ...
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Give Pot a Chance
Thursday, 22 November 2012In two weeks, adults in this state will no longer be arrested or incarcerated for something that nearly 30 million Americans did last year. For the first time since prohibition began 75 years ago, re ...
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