Tag: regulation
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IDPC response to the INCB Annual Report for 2017
Monday, 08 October 2018
In the approach to the 2019 Ministerial Segment and its review of international drug control, the INCB’s Annual Report for 2017 is arguably of special importance. The INCB has chosen to stress the co ...
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Cannabis capitalism: who is making money in the marijuana industry?
Wednesday, 03 October 2018The cannabis industry’s moral challenge is to ensure the groups who have suffered the most under the drug war can participate in the green rush and enjoy the spoils of legalization. Marijuana insider ...
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Amsterdam calls plan for regulated cannabis cultivation unfeasible, dangerous
Wednesday, 03 October 2018Amsterdam finds the national experiment with regulated cannabis cultivation unfeasible and "risky to public order". The municipality would like to participate in the experiment, but only with other r ...
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Cannabis cultivation and consumption pattern in Jamaica 2017-2018
Wednesday, 26 September 2018Fifty-three per cent of cannabis enthusiasts want Jamaica to fully legalise cannabis while 27 per cent want Jamaica to legalise but with strict controls. Only 18 per cent are content with the current ...
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Pays-Bas : Le haschich marocain s’invite à la Chambre basse
Tuesday, 25 September 2018Le trafic et la commercialisation du cannabis marocain aux Pays-Bas sont actuellement étudiés par les partis politiques néerlandais. Plusieurs propositions ont été faites, l’une d’elle serait d’en di ...
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Regulate: ex-world leaders' solution to 'failed' drug war
Monday, 24 September 2018More governments should turn away from a repressive war on drugs that has “failed” and look to proven strategies to implement regulated markets for risky substances, a group of former presidents said ...
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'Monsanto of pot': How cannabis firms are seeking to lower growing costs
Tuesday, 18 September 2018As cannabis producers add to their harvest as Canada prepares to legalize recreational use starting Oct. 17, some companies are already exploring novel ways to dramatically reduce the cost of growing ...
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Legalisierung von Marihuana
Tuesday, 18 September 2018Die Forderung nach einer Legalisierung von Cannabis war lange ein Thema für Freaks – selbst in Berlin, wo Drogenkonsum auch in bürgerlichen Kreisen akzeptiert ist. Doch allmählich passt sich die Poli ...
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Pas de nouvelle loi sur le cannabis
Tuesday, 11 September 2018Pas besoin d'une nouvelle loi fédérale pour régler en détail la culture, le commerce, la consommation et l'imposition du chanvre. Le Conseil national a rejeté mardi, par 104 voix contre 86 et 4 abste ...
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We from the police advise: more money and powers for the police
Friday, 07 September 2018The study 'The Netherlands and synthetic drugs: An inconvenient truth' by the Dutch police academy on the role of the Netherlands in the production of synthetic drugs has the sound of "We, the people ...
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City launches consultation on four designated cannabis consumption sites
Monday, 27 August 2018With Canada-wide cannabis legalization less than two months away, city hall wants to know how Calgarians feel about four areas it’s proposing as designated spots where people would be able smoke pot ...
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Ontario will rely on private sector to sell recreational cannabis
Monday, 13 August 2018Premier Doug Ford is giving up Ontario’s monopoly on weed, opening sales of recreational cannabis to private stores by April 1 in a dramatic shift that will make this province the biggest prize for C ...
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Regulated marijuana trial plans should be bigger, says Council of State
Friday, 20 July 2018The government’s highest advisory body, the Council of State, has thrown its weight behind criticism of plans to begin trials of regulated marijuana production in the Netherlands. The organisation sa ...
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Smoke rings: more councils volunteer for cannabis growing trial
Friday, 06 July 2018Municipalities in the Netherlands have signed up to a mooted four-year trial in legally growing cannabis for the first time. The new coalition agreement said that the policy would be tested in six to ...
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Swiss government supports legalising medical cannabis
Wednesday, 04 July 2018The Federal Council has recommended the approval of the sale of cannabis for medical purposes. It also wants to legalise pilot tests to establish how a general legalisation would impact consumers. Th ...
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CARICOM heads to consider dismantling marijuana prohibition
Monday, 02 July 2018The dismantling of the prohibition of marijuana in its totality across member states is a key recommendation contained in the report of the CARICOM Regional Commission on Marijuana 2018, which will b ...
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Recreational marijuana now legal in Vermont
Sunday, 01 July 2018As of Sunday, recreational use of marijuana is legal in Vermont — within boundaries of some clear and not-so-clear rules. Vermont becomes the ninth state to legalize marijuana and the first state to ...
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New regulations may spark Canada’s craft cannabis revolution
Thursday, 28 June 2018While legalization in Canada is delayed until October 17th, 2018, Canadians are celebrating as micro-licenses are finally coming out, ushering in the second wave of legalization. These micro-licenses ...
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Durham police chief calls for legalisation of cannabis in UK
Sunday, 24 June 2018A chief constable has called for the ban on cannabis to be scrapped, arguing that it damages public safety, puts users in more danger, and gives millions of pounds to organised criminals. Mike Barton ...
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Regulated marijuana trial should be bigger
Thursday, 21 June 2018The government’s plans to experiment with regulated marijuana cultivation should be carried out far more widely than in just six to 10 local authority areas, the government commission working on the ...
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Marijuana bill inches closer to passage with House vote
Monday, 18 June 2018The bill to legalize recreational marijuana has cleared another vote in the House of Commons — but it still has to get a final stamp of approval from an unpredictable Senate before it can become law. ...
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Better to Ask Forgiveness Than Permission
Friday, 15 June 2018
In recent years, the international debate on drug policy reform has intensified, and with it has come a productive exchange of information between academics, activists and advocates on the diverse mo ...
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Pot legalization battle brewing as government rejects key Senate change
Wednesday, 13 June 2018The federal government is rejecting several Senate changes to its cannabis legalization bill, setting the stage for a possible showdown between the Senate and the House of Commons. The Senate has pro ...
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"New Amsterdam" no more? Spain's cannabis clubs fight to stay open
Friday, 08 June 2018Spain's cannabis social club (CSC) model might make the country appear to be a marijuana mecca, but what the tourist never sees are the legal and financial quagmires that plague these clubs, from pol ...
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Goodbye counterculture: what will happen when weed goes corporate?
Thursday, 07 June 2018Under the federal government’s new legal regime, for the first time in Canadian history, minors in possession of more than five grams of dried cannabis can catch criminal charges. Add that, according ...
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Senate approves cannabis legalization bill with dozens of amendments
Thursday, 07 June 2018The Senate has approved the Trudeau government’s landmark legislation to lift Canada’s 95-year-old prohibition on recreational cannabis – but with nearly four dozen amendments that the government may ...
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Pot delivery services could be 'cockroaches' of marijuana legalization, experts say
Sunday, 03 June 2018Marijuana businesses are growing as Canada moves toward legalization of recreational pot, creating an increasingly daunting job for those tasked with enforcing the rules. In Vancouver's bustling down ...
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Danish police in new Christiania clampdown as hash market pulled down
Monday, 28 May 2018Police in Copenhagen tore down cannabis stands in the Pusher Street market area in Christiania for the third consecutive day. But sellers in the alternative enclave do not yet appear to have accepted ...
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Big cannabis growers urge senators to ban commercial outdoor growing
Wednesday, 23 May 2018Canada’s medical cannabis industry is making a push in the Senate to ban large-scale outdoor cannabis cultivation. Allan Rewak, the executive director of the Cannabis Canada Council, an industry asso ...
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Big opportunities in Europe's cannabis market come with big risks
Wednesday, 16 May 2018Interest is running very high among cannabis entrepreneurs looking to capitalize on the prospect of an expanded European cannabis market. Europe is home to more than 740 million people, a population ...
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INCB should exert caution in presenting data on cannabis regulation
Sunday, 06 May 2018At the recent 63rd Session of the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD) of the Organisation of American States, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) member who was present, ...
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In bid to intimidate Canada on cannabis regulation, INCB is reckless and wrong
Friday, 04 May 2018On May 1, Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland appeared before the Canadian Senate’s Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade (AEFA) to discuss the international dimension ...
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Harsher drug prohibition won’t stop violence, but regulation might, law enforcers say
Wednesday, 02 May 2018After a spate of violent crime, the UK Home Office released its Serious Violence Strategy. Amber Rudd, former home secretary, said, perhaps inevitably, that the government’s response “must tackle the ...
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The red flags ahead of Canada’s marijuana legalization
Monday, 23 April 2018The central question facing the Liberal government as it seeks to fulfill its 2015 campaign promise to “legalize, regulate and restrict access to marijuana” is: Can they do it without making the situ ...
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Cannabis products sold in Lidl Switzerland
Thursday, 19 April 2018Hemp containing active ingredient cannabidiol (CBD) can now be bought in Swiss branches of German discount supermarket chain Lidl. Start-up company The Botanicals, from Thurgau in northeastern Switze ...
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Australia should tax and regulate cannabis, not prohibit it
Wednesday, 18 April 2018Cannabis arrests have accounted for the largest proportion of illicit drug arrests in Australia. In 2015-16, of the two million Australians who use cannabis every year there were almost 80,000 cannab ...
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The plan to save California's legendary weed from 'Big Cannabis'
Tuesday, 17 April 2018The cannabis industry in California historically has been anything but centralized. That has made the cannabis in the Emerald Triangle legendary. Thousands of small farms have developed strains uniqu ...
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U.S. marijuana friends and foes cautious at signs of softer Trump
Saturday, 14 April 2018Both advocates and opponents of legalized marijuana reacted with caution to signs from the White House that growers in U.S. states where the drug is permitted would be shielded from federal prosecuti ...
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Massachusetts is the new testbed for cannabis legalization
Tuesday, 10 April 2018For the past several years, Colorado, Washington and Oregon have served as the testbeds for policies governing state-legal cannabis markets. But now it’s Massachusetts’ turn. Massachusetts, whose res ...
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Regulated marijuana production test will include health warnings
Tuesday, 03 April 2018The Dutch government’s experiment with regulated marijuana is unlikely to start before the end of 2019 at the earliest and will run for five years and two months, the Volkskrant reported. The trials ...
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Most Luxembourg residents want cannabis legalised
Thursday, 29 March 2018The majority of Luxembourg residents think cannabis should be fully legalised for personal use and not just for medical reasons, according to a survey carried out by TNS Ilres. Fifty-six percent of r ...
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LibDem MSP says Scotland should ‘open regulated drugs market’
Wednesday, 28 March 2018Scotland should have its own “regulated cannabis market” to control the pricing and potency of the drug, LibDem MSP Alex Cole-Hamilton has claimed. He made the call after new figures showed the vast ...
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Solving the Dutch pot paradox: Legal to buy, but not to grow
Sunday, 25 March 2018In the Netherlands it is illegal to grow more than five cannabis plants for recreational use in what has long been seen as Europe’s marijuana capital. And the Dutch national police actively seek out ...
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Uruguay’s Cannabis Law
Friday, 23 March 2018
Uruguay is the first country to legalize and regulate its domestic non-medical cannabis market. In light of this pioneering role, the choices and experiences of Uruguayan authorities hold important l ...
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Cannabis: le parlement veut expérimenter
Friday, 23 March 2018Des projets pilotes de distribution de cannabis devraient pouvoir être menés en la Suisse. Le Parlement maintient la pression après un premier niet fédéral. Une commission du Conseil des Etats a sout ...
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Balancing Treaty Stability and Change
Thursday, 22 March 2018
Legal tensions are growing within the international drug control regime as increasing numbers of member states move towards or seriously consider legal regulation of the cannabis market for non-medic ...
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Swiss Parliament adopt bill allowing studies and pilot projects with cannabis
Friday, 16 March 2018The Swiss Council of States has adopted a bill allowing studies and pilot projects with cannabis. The Council is calling for an experimental article in the Narcotics Act that allows for scientific re ...
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Ministers to decide on marijuana cultivation trials by the summer
Monday, 12 March 2018Ministers will publish their proposals for the planned experiment with legal marijuana cultivation by the summer, justice minister Ferdinand Grapperhaus has told Dutch parliament in a briefing. The n ...
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Rat beschließt: Verkauf von Cannabis soll in der Kölner Innenstadt legal werden
Monday, 12 March 2018In der Kölner Innenstadt soll der Verkauf von Cannabis legal möglich werden, so wünscht es sich eine Mehrheit in der Bezirksvertretung. Geplant ist eine Arbeitsgruppe „AG Cannabis“ zu gründen und Abg ...
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Cannabis Regulation and the UN Drug Control Treaties
Wednesday, 07 March 2018Significant cannabis policy reforms are taking place that pose considerable challenges to the international legal framework for drug control, and beg important questions regarding states’ internation ...
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