Tag: regulation
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Réglementer le cannabis: le débat pointe son nez à Genève
Tuesday, 31 October 2017La politique répressive contre le cannabis va-t-elle opérer un tournant? Genève sera-t-il prêt à changer sa pratique? Ce n’est pas exclu. Dans une interview accordée à la Tribune de Genève et consacr ...
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High taxes on legal pot in California could mean black market will thrive
Monday, 30 October 2017State and local taxes on marijuana could surpass 45% in some parts of California, jeopardizing efforts to bring all growers and sellers into a state-licensed market in January, according to the credi ...
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Überprüfung der Drogengesetze wird gefordert
Saturday, 28 October 2017Strafrechtler und die Deutsche Hauptstelle für Suchtfragen (DHS) fordern von den Bundestagsfraktionen die Einsetzung einer Enquete-Kommission Cannabis. 23 Jahre nach der Aufforderung des Bundesverfas ...
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Recognized for controversy, Vancouver's former drug czar says the fentanyl crisis requires legalizing heroin
Wednesday, 11 October 2017“Heroin at your corner store.” That was the title of a speech that Donald MacPherson delivered in acceptance of the 2017 Nora and Ted Sterling Prize in Support of Controversy. MacPherson argued that ...
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New Dutch cabinet to run trials in regulated marijuana production
Sunday, 08 October 2017The new cabinet is to sanction experiments with legal marijuana production to be sold in cannabis cafes. Details are still sketchy, but between six and 10 local authority areas will probably be singl ...
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What a probable Jamaica coalition means for possible cannabis legalisation in Germany
Thursday, 05 October 2017With the SPD out of the picture, Merkel will depend on two smaller parties, the Liberal Democrats (FDP) and Green Party (Die Grünen) to form a governing coalition. Such a coalition of CDU/CSU, FDP an ...
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Will Canada be able to fully legalize and regulate marijuana by July?
Thursday, 05 October 2017Canada is set to become the first industrialized nation to legalize and regulate marijuana from production to consumption by next July, but increasingly, Canadians are wondering: What’s the hurry? Th ...
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Alaska voters reject local bans on legalized marijuana by wide margins
Wednesday, 04 October 2017Voters in some parts of Alaska rejected efforts to ban commercial marijuana cultivation and retail sales, three years after the nation’s largest state passed a voter initiative legalizing the recreat ...
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Commission makes recommendations for tackling opioid crisis in North America
Tuesday, 03 October 2017The Global Commission on Drug Policy has issued recommendations on tackling North America's opioid crisis, calling for the immediate expansion of harm-reduction services, the decriminalization and re ...
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Gov't urged to rethink medical ganja policy
Monday, 02 October 2017Two of the Jamaica's leading thinkers have called on the Government to rethink its policy approach towards the development of the medical ganja industry. Former governor general Professor Kenneth Hal ...
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Quebec to set legal marijuana consumption age at 18
Friday, 29 September 2017The legal age to buy marijuana in Quebec will be 18, in order to prevent young people from buying their pot on the black market, government sources have confirmed to Radio-Canada. The provincial Libe ...
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Legal loophole in DC creates bizarre pot bazaar
Thursday, 28 September 2017A 2014 ballot initiative to legalize recreational use passed overwhelmingly in Washington DC. But unlike the eight states that have legalized recreational use, the Washington initiative also maintain ...
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Why marijuana prohibition failed, and how legalization can succeed
Sunday, 24 September 2017Why is Canada legalizing marijuana, and why does the move – if done right – make sense? It's all about harm reduction. Smoking marijuana has real health risks, particularly for young people. But the ...
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Legalization of cannabis proposed
Wednesday, 20 September 2017Pawel Bartoszek, a member of Parliament for Viðreisn (The Reform Party) has proposed a bill for the legalization of cannabis in Iceland. The proposed bill will put in place a framework of rules about ...
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Socialists propose bill to regulate cannabis
Tuesday, 19 September 2017The Socialist Party (PS) has submitted a bill to the Chamber of Representatives proposing a Belgian model for regulating cannabis. The draft law aims to organize public control of the market at all s ...
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End the gang war by setting cannabis free
Thursday, 14 September 2017Until the early 2000s, Copenhagen’s cannabis trade was centred in Christiania, an autonomous enclave of the city featuring around two dozen stalls where a variety of cannabis products were sold to lo ...
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Few Jamaicans in local ganja industry — Dr Lowe
Friday, 08 September 2017There is a negative buzz surrounding Jamaica's budding legal ganja industry. According to Dr Henry Lowe, owner of Medicanja, “It feels like our objective has been to prevent Jamaicans from getting in ...
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LCBO subsidiary to manage Ontario marijuana sales
Friday, 08 September 2017The Ontario government is launching a monopoly of cannabis stores as a subsidiary of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario, a plan private retailers say will fail to crush the black market and challeng ...
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Is Canada ready for legal marijuana?
Thursday, 24 August 2017The Canadian government is expected to legalize recreational marijuana by July 2018, in large part to put an end to the extensive and enduring black market for the drug on which currently illicit gro ...
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So will Münster legales Kiffen testen
Friday, 04 August 2017Münster will einen Modellversuch zu kontrolliertem Cannabis-Konsum bei gesunden Erwachsenen durchführen. Das Gesundheitsamt stellte einen entsprechenden Antrag beim Bundesinstitut für Arzneimittel un ...
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GEPCA: In Spain, experts are presenting their proposal for regulating cannabis
Wednesday, 26 July 2017In Spain, a group of drugs experts have established the GEPCA, a body which seeks to set up a comprehensive regulation for cannabis. This model already has the support of much of Spain’s cannabis mov ...
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Uruguay’s marijuana law turns pharmacists into dealers
Wednesday, 19 July 2017The rules are a bit of a buzzkill. Drug users must register with the government. Machines will scan buyers’ fingerprints at every purchase, and there are quotas to prevent overindulgence. But when Ur ...
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Canada’s premiers discuss delaying the legalization of marijuana
Tuesday, 18 July 2017It’s time to take a deep breath and put pot in Canada on the back burner for an extra year, says Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister. He’s trying to persuade his provincial and territorial counterparts ...
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Where there’s smoke, there’s political fire
Sunday, 16 July 2017The rising popularity of marijuana that doesn’t make you high – a product known as “cannabis light” or “CBD cannabis” – is causing a headache for Swiss politicians. It is sold in many Swiss shops and ...
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Court set to revisit old dagga legislation
Friday, 14 July 2017A highly anticipated court case later this month will revisit a 1928 South African law against cannabis – with the aim of legalising the plant for various uses, including medicinal, industrial and re ...
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Bundesrat lehnt Cannabis-Antrag ab
Saturday, 08 July 2017Der Bundesrat hat den Antrag Bremens und Thüringens zur Einführung von Cannabis-Modellprojekten mit großer Mehrheit abgelehnt. Somit ist das Vorhaben der rot-grünen Koalition in Bremen, Cannabis-Kons ...
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In Uruguay’s marijuana experiment, the government is your pot dealer
Friday, 07 July 2017In coming weeks, cannabis-seeking citizens in Uruguay will be able to walk into a pharmacy and buy government-approved marijuana for the state-mandated price of $1.30 a gram. No questions asked. Urug ...
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Blow for cannabis cafes as numbers continue to decline
Tuesday, 04 July 2017The number of ‘coffeeshops’ in the Netherlands is continuing to fall but the closure rate has slowed, new official figures show. Last year there were 573 outlets licensed to sell cannabis, 18 fewer t ...
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Leafing Las Vegas: recreational marijuana goes on sale in Nevada
Saturday, 01 July 2017Nevada has become the fifth state in the US selling marijuana for recreational purposes, opening a market that is expected to outpace any other in the nation thanks to the millions of tourists who fl ...
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‘Swiss marijuana champion’ finds new markets with ‘cannabis light’
Wednesday, 28 June 2017There’s decaffeinated coffee, alcohol-free beer, and now marijuana that doesn’t make you high. The product known as “cannabis light” or “CBD cannabis” is sold in many Swiss shops, generates millions ...
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Bremen will Cannabis ohne Rezept
Monday, 26 June 2017Die Länder Bremen und Thüringen haben im Bundesrat einen Antrag zu einem liberaleren Umgang mit Cannabis eingereicht. Darin wird die Bundesregierung aufgefordert, eine Änderung des Betäubungsmittelge ...
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Recreational marijuana sales start July 1 in Nevada
Monday, 12 June 2017As the Silver State enacts the will of its voters — Nevadans approved recreational marijuana with 54 percent of the vote on Question 2 last November — it will initially be done in limited fashion all ...
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What a regulated UK cannabis market might mean for business
Friday, 02 June 2017Former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg claimed that legalising cannabis in the UK would improve public health, but warned of the “risks of unfettered commercialisation”. In doing so, Mr Clegg highli ...
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Ban on cannabis infused edibles retrograde step — ganja association
Friday, 02 June 2017The Ganja Growers and Producers Association of Jamaica said the recent ban on the sampling and sale of all cannabis infused edibles at entertainment events is a retrograde step and not one forthcomin ...
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Recreational drugs market should be managed by 'governments not gangsters', says expert
Thursday, 01 June 2017Over the 50-odd years the global war on drugs has been fought, it’s been a catalogue of failure on pretty much every level you’d care to examine – bar the bank balance of those profiting from the out ...
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Uruguay, the first country where you can smoke marijuana wherever you like
Saturday, 27 May 2017Not everyone is pleased with how legal marijuana is being implemented in Uruguay. “I’m happy because now you can plant without going to prison,” says Juan Manuel Varela, the 28-year-old manager of MD ...
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California takes right steps in crafting state’s marijuana regulations
Wednesday, 17 May 2017When Proposition 64 passed last November by the largest margin of any marijuana legalization ballot measure in history, it represented a resounding message from more than 8 million California voters ...
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Legal marijuana could earn millions for Swiss state
Tuesday, 16 May 2017Some 130 firms have registered with the Swiss federal authorities to sell legal pot that could generate CHF30 million ($30.2 million) in annual revenue for the state. Legal cannabis has become a flou ...
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Israel eases restrictions on medical marijuana use and possession
Monday, 15 May 2017Israel's Health Ministry recently released new directives easing restrictions on the possession and use of medical marijuana by authorized users. The directives, which go into effect immediately, all ...
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Provinces diverge on approach to guidelines on legal marijuana
Sunday, 14 May 2017Provinces have been protesting the large volume of work and heavy costs they say the Trudeau government has piled on them in its rush to legalize recreational cannabis across Canada by next year. Pro ...
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Change in policy will not get rid of illegal cannabis cultivation: Dutch Ministries
Thursday, 11 May 2017Little will change around illegal cannabis cultivation, even if the government changes the current tolerance policy, according to officials from the Ministries of Public Health and Security and Justi ...
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Malta Government and opposition parties call for debate, with a view to legalising and regulating cannabis
Saturday, 06 May 2017A Labour government would initiate discussions on the use of cannabis for recreational use in Malta, eventually leading to its regularisation and taking it out of the hands of drug traffickers, accor ...
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Uruguayan pharmacies will start selling cannabis
Thursday, 04 May 2017On the outskirts of Libertad, a small town an hour’s drive from Montevideo, barbed wire and guard towers surround a ten-hectare plot of state-owned land. Inside, greenhouses shelter thousands of mari ...
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Let’s learn from the mistakes of drug reform pioneers
Tuesday, 02 May 2017Countries around the world are moving towards a legally regulated cannabis market. But what can we learn from them about the implications of cannabis legalisation? What are the different models avail ...
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Uruguay is creating the world’s first nationwide regulated cannabis market
Monday, 01 May 2017Beginning on May 2, Uruguayan adults interested in legally purchasing cannabis for non-medical uses can register to do so at post offices around the country. When commercial cannabis hits the market ...
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Early marijuana sales ‘unbelievably high’ after legalization: U.S. consultant
Sunday, 30 April 2017A U.S. consultant hired by Ottawa to assess Canada’s eventual recreational pot market says jurisdictions that regulate cannabis should expect “unbelievably high” sales growth in the first few years a ...
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Drug controls are 'absolutely pathetic,' activist says regulation will save lives
Tuesday, 25 April 2017A Vancouver based drug policy researcher has been working for decades to get the federal government to regulate illegal drugs like heroin and cocaine. Don MacPherson authored the groundbreaking Four ...
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‘An awful lot of expertise’
Monday, 24 April 2017Black market marijuana growers should be included in the legal market as they can provide valuable expertise as it evolves, Anne McLellan, chair of the federal government’s task force on legalization ...
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Too much ‘dilly dallying’ around ganja issue, says minister
Friday, 21 April 2017As the debate over the legalisation of ganja for medical use heats up, Minister of Science, Energy and Technology Dr Andrew Wheatley has thrown down the gauntlet to his colleagues to speed up the pro ...
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Always look on the bright side of legalization
Monday, 17 April 2017I have to say, I’ve been pretty dismayed with the overall response to Bill C-45. While I wasn’t expecting spontaneous mobs of joyous people cheering in the streets, I was anticipating some appreciati ...
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