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Mexico’s lower house approves recreational cannabis bill
Thursday, 11 March 2021Mexico’s lower house has approved a bill that would legalise the recreational use of cannabis, putting the country on the path to becoming one of the world’s largest regulated markets for the drug. T ...
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Morocco adopts bill legalizing medical production of cannabis
Thursday, 11 March 2021Morocco’s government adopted bill 13-21, intending to legalize the production of cannabis for medicinal and therapeutic use in its weekly meeting after a few weeks of discussion. After the approval, ...
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To make cannabis green, we need to grow it outdoors
Wednesday, 10 March 2021Cannabis may look green, but the environmental metaphor mostly stops there. Virginia—the latest state to approach full legalization—and the 46 others that have implemented some degree of liberalizati ...
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Will XTC-Shops replace dealers in the future?
Tuesday, 02 March 2021It’s Friday night. You’re planning on going to a festival with your friends. But first you take your bicycle and you take a trip to the ‘XTC-shop’. The cashier calculates exactly how much MDMA your p ...
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MP to propose debate on cannabis legalisation in France
Monday, 01 March 2021The legalisation of recreational cannabis is “possible” in France, and the country should hold a public consultation or referendum on its use, the head of a parliamentary commission on the subject ha ...
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Mexico could soon become the largest legal marijuana market in the world
Thursday, 25 February 2021After decades of strict drug policy, Mexico’s congress is expected to pass a federal law this year that would for the first time create a legal cannabis trade in the country—the Senate passed the bil ...
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La légalisation du cannabis supervisée par une agence «placée sous la tutelle de l’Etat»
Thursday, 25 February 2021Le Maroc veut rattraper son retard sur les pays ayant légalisé la culture du cannabis à des fins thérapeutiques et bénéficier ensuite des recettes financière. Le marché mondial de l’usage médicinal d ...
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New Jersey governor signs laws to legalize marijuana use, decriminalize possession
Monday, 22 February 2021Legislation to set up a recreational marijuana marketplace, decriminalize cannabis and loosen penalties for underage possession of the drug and alcohol was signed into law by New Jersey Gov. Phil Mur ...
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Burt warns London over cannabis licensing act
Saturday, 20 February 2021Premier David Burt has expressed doubt over whether a new law to license cannabis production in Bermuda will get the royal assent from Governor Rena Lalgie, and says the island’s relationship with th ...
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Chamber of Deputies rejects move to relax cannabis laws
Thursday, 28 January 2021The Chamber of Deputies rejected a proposal to loosen cannabis laws in the Czech Republic, put forward by 40 deputies from six different parties. The bill was strongly supported by the Pirate Party, ...
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Mexico on the brink of legalizing marijuana — But on what terms?
Thursday, 28 January 2021Mexico is on the verge of becoming the third country in the world, after Uruguay and Canada, to legally regulate cannabis for personal, adult use. This comes after years of strategic litigation, a la ...
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Mexico moves to create world’s largest legal cannabis market
Tuesday, 12 January 2021Mexico’s health ministry published rules to regulate the use of medicinal cannabis, a major step in a broader reform to create the world’s largest legal cannabis market in the Latin American country. ...
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Dutch high hopes for legal cannabis farms hit by nimby protests
Sunday, 03 January 2021A Dutch trial of state-regulated cannabis cultivation farms to supply coffee shops risks being derailed by an outbreak of nimbyism after locals protested about the location of one of the new faciliti ...
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Cannabis grow clubs want High Court to decide if customers can ‘sit back, relax and enjoy the fruits’ of their joint labour
Friday, 18 December 2020In September 2018, the Constitutional Court decriminalised the private cultivation of cannabis by adults for personal private consumption. This created an opportunity for businesses to ‘privately’ gr ...
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Legal cannabis law tabled in House of Assembly
Saturday, 12 December 2020Legislation to lay the framework for legal cannabis in Bermuda was tabled in the House of Assembly. Kathy Lynn Simmons, the Attorney-General and the Minister of Legal Affairs said the Cannabis Licens ...
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Legalization advocates hope to end Mexico’s drug war
Saturday, 12 December 2020A determined political movement to end the war on drugs has taken shape across Europe and North America. Harm reduction advocates say lives can be saved and resources spared, if only the state would ...
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Inside the weed legalization bill the House of Representatives just passed
Friday, 04 December 2020The House of Representatives passed the MORE Act on Friday by a vote of 228-164. It was 2018, Democrats were about to gain control of the House of Representatives, and cannabis justice advocates knew ...
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House passes sweeping reform bill to decriminalize marijuana
Friday, 04 December 2020The U.S. House of Representatives passed sweeping legislation that would decriminalize marijuana at the federal level, the first time either chamber of Congress has voted to legalize cannabis. The me ...
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Netherlands to draw 10 recreational marijuana growers this week
Monday, 30 November 2020The Dutch government will hold a draw to choose 10 marijuana cultivators for the country’s upcoming pilot program, according to a letter to Parliament from the medical and justice ministers. The winn ...
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Mexico may become the third country to legalise cannabis
Saturday, 21 November 2020On November 19, the Senate began debating a bill that would make Mexico the third country in the world, after Uruguay and Canada, to legalise cannabis for recreational use nationwide. For Mexico, the ...
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Medical marijuana grow licences exploited by criminals to sell weed on the illegal market, police say
Thursday, 19 November 2020A lack of oversight into who is growing medical cannabis and how much is being grown is allowing criminals to sell pot on the illegal market, according to police and pot activists. That's creating te ...
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Mexican Senate committees approve marijuana legalization bill with floor vote planned soon
Friday, 13 November 2020Several Mexican Senate committees on Friday tentatively approved a revised bill to legalize marijuana during a joint hearing, with a formal in-person vote scheduled next week. The legislation, which ...
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Mexico is poised to legalize marijuana, but advocates don’t like the details
Sunday, 08 November 2020It's the moment for which advocates of legal marijuana here have been waiting: Mexican lawmakers, working under a court order, have until mid-December to finalize rules that will make the country the ...
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Marijuana use among teens down 2 years after legalization
Thursday, 29 October 2020Two years after the sale of marijuana was legalized in Canada, and researchers have yet to see the feared increase in use, says Michael Boudreau, a criminology professor at St. Thomas University. Abo ...
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Position Paper of the Fair Trade Cannabis Working Group in the Caribbean
Thursday, 29 October 2020The Position Paper "For inclusive business models, well designed laws and fair(er) trade options for small-scale traditional cannabis farmers” produced by The Fair(er) Trade Cannabis Working Group ai ...
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Government urged to sell cocaine and ecstasy in pharmacies
Monday, 19 October 2020Cocaine, ecstasy and amphetamines should be “nationalised” and sold legally in government-run pharmacies to undermine global drug-related crime, the UK drugs reform charity Transform has recommended. ...
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‘Tide is turning’: New Zealand’s cannabis referendum sparks debate in Australia
Sunday, 18 October 2020The cannabis legalisation referendum was watched closely by progressive politicians and campaigners in Australia. For the first time, the 2019 National Drug Strategy Household Survey showed that more ...
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California outdoor marijuana cultivators to designate products by growing region
Thursday, 15 October 2020California’s marijuana market is borrowing a page from the state’s world-famous wine industry thanks to a new law intended to help outdoor cannabis growers brand and market their products by highligh ...
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Cannabis referendum: More than 100 doctors back legalising recreational use
Thursday, 15 October 2020More than 100 doctors have come forward to put their names behind cannabis legalisation, in response to the New Zealand Medical Association's backtracking from opposing the bill to neutrality. They s ...
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Mexican Senate set to pass bill to legalize marijuana in next few days
Thursday, 15 October 2020Sen. Ricardo Monreal, the leader of Lopez Obrador’s MORENA party in the upper chamber of Congress, said in an interview that a vote on the proposal will take place later this week or next week. “The ...
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amaMpondo traditional leaders reject Private Use Cannabis Bill
Saturday, 10 October 2020Traditional leaders from the amaMpondo nation and cannabis farmers in the Eastern Cape have rejected the Private Use Cannabis Bill. They are calling for a comprehensive consultation process that must ...
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Cannabis referendum: Health experts lay out the case for voting 'yes'
Thursday, 08 October 2020Four of the country's top medical experts are urging voters to tick 'yes' in the cannabis referendum, saying it's not a vote for the drug, but against a status quo that is failing to protect vulnerab ...
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Switzerland set to launch cannabis pilot projects 2021
Thursday, 08 October 2020In September 2020, the Swiss parliament adopted a modification to the Federal Act on Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances. The change provides a legal framework for a pilot project that would see le ...
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Mexico, plagued by cartel wars, on cusp of legal cannabis 'green rush'
Thursday, 01 October 2020Senate majority leader Ricardo Monreal expects a law to be passed before December for recreational use of the drug, allowing regulated private firms to sell it to the public. Indeed the legal cannabi ...
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Cannabis: A rush to corporate capture?
Wednesday, 30 September 2020Finance minister Tito Mboweni expects the newly legal cannabis industry to pour an estimated R4 billion into the government’s dwindling tax coffers while simultaneously unlocking the country’s stagna ...
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Special permit to enable more small farmers to enter medical cannabis field
Monday, 28 September 2020The Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA) says the Cultivator's (Transitional) Special Permit Policy, which is in an advanced stage of completion, will enable more small and subsistence farmers to acces ...
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L'appel de trois maires LR pour "légaliser la consommation de cannabis"
Saturday, 26 September 2020Les maires Les Républicains Gil Avérous (Châteauroux), Boris Ravignon (Charleville-Mézières) et Arnaud Robinet (Reims) réclament dans cette tribune la légalisation de la consommation de cannabis, aya ...
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Residents-only rule for coffeeshops proposed in Amsterdam
Friday, 25 September 2020Amsterdam city council is gearing up for a new discussion on banning non-residents from its coffeeshops next month, after two new proposals were submitted. Although a national law says only Dutch res ...
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Swiss cities authorised to distribute cannabis for scientific studies
Wednesday, 23 September 2020Parliament has approved a modification to the Swiss narcotics law that will allow studies of recreational cannabis use in the country’s largest cities. Both houses approved the change to the law foll ...
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Draft cannabis bill ‘completely misses the mark’
Wednesday, 23 September 2020Two years ago, the Constitutional Court of South Africa decriminalised the possession and cultivation of cannabis in private by adults for personal private consumption. It was a historic day that lef ...
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Should India make cannabis legal?
Saturday, 19 September 2020According to former Narcotics Commissioner Romesh Bhattacharjee cannabis is cultivated in nearly 60 per cent, or 400, of India’s 670 districts. “Since we criminalised cannabis in India ,” he says, “w ...
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South Africans are setting up ‘cannabis clubs’ across the country – are they legal?
Friday, 18 September 2020The Cannabis for Private Purposes Bill provides clarity around the growing and private use of cannabis in South Africa. In its current form the bill is ‘far from perfect’ as it permits and prohibits ...
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eSwatini: A brief tale of two laws
Friday, 18 September 2020The U.S. company Stem Holdings reported in 2019 that it had “received preliminary approval to become the only licensed growing farm and processing plant for medical cannabis and industrial hemp in Th ...
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Sky high: Mass. marijuana is among the most expensive in the nation
Wednesday, 16 September 2020Massachusetts marijuana products consistently fetch around double the price of equivalents in the most mature recreational markets, according to a review of dispensary menus around the country and ne ...
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Gov't addressing banking challenges impacting cannabis industry
Thursday, 10 September 2020The Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries is engaging international stakeholders to address the banking difficulties that have been impacting Jamaica's medical cannabis industry. ...
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Pot shop licenses to promote social equity could go to firms tied to co-founder of $3B cannabis giant
Thursday, 10 September 2020Two shadowy companies vying for multiple licenses in the upcoming pot shop lottery share the same west suburban address as an investment firm led by the co-founder of Green Thumb Industries, a River ...
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Swiss cannabis studies get the green light
Wednesday, 09 September 2020Parliament has backed a legal change allowing for pilot studies that will distribute cannabis to control groups, in order to find out more about the effects of recreational use. The monitoring studie ...
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BC’s grey market is thriving
Friday, 28 August 2020Things haven’t been this good in the illicit cannabis industry in British Columbia in many years. Factors such as increased wholesale prices on the black market, a low level of enforcement, and too m ...
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Cannabis Bill carries harsh penalties
Friday, 14 August 2020If a person is found with more than 1kg of dried cannabis or nine flowering plants they could be jailed for up to 15 years. These are just some of the “arbitrary” limits on personal cannabis possessi ...
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It could take 10 years to measure the impact of legalising weed
Tuesday, 11 August 2020The referendum on legalising recreational cannabis use is just over a month away. Campaigns for and against the change are well under way. We’ve had expert reports from the Helen Clark Foundation, th ...
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