Tag: regulation
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Legalization plan doesn’t include amnesty for past marijuana-convictions: Liberals
Monday, 17 April 2017
The federal plan to legalize recreational marijuana does not include the general amnesty for past pot convictions some would like to see, says Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale. Newly tabled legis ...
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With Spice, politicians are sleepwalking into another “war on drugs” disaster
Sunday, 16 April 2017
Reefer madness is back. Only this time, it has been rebranded. Now it is Spice Nightmare that is stalking the UK, as a sinister new drug turns poor and homeless people into zombies who stumble along ...
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Marijuana goes industrial in California
Saturday, 15 April 2017
The vast and fertile Salinas valley is often called the salad bowl of the nation for the countless heads of lettuce growing across its floor. Now California’s marijuana industry is laying claim to a ...
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Cannabis Licensing Authority begins work on Alternative Development Programme
Friday, 14 April 2017
The Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA) has commenced work to implement an Alternative Development Programme (ADP) to include Jamaica’s traditional farmers in the developing ganja industry. The progra ...
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Globe editorial: The Liberals begin Canada’s countdown to legal pot
Thursday, 13 April 2017
The Trudeau government has started off on the right foot down the path to legalization of cannabis. But the next 15 months or so could make or break its plans. A lot of pieces need to come together t ...
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Is this the end of the black market for marijuana?
Thursday, 13 April 2017
Marijuana was criminalized in Canada in 1923. There was no debate in the House of Commons, just the statement, "There is a new drug in the schedule." The prominent magistrate Emily Murphy had written ...
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Canada’s marijuana legalization plan designed to reduce criminal role in market
Thursday, 13 April 2017
Stating that 94 years of prohibition were an "abject failure," the federal government has tabled long-awaited legislation to legalize marijuana for adult Canadians at the same time as toughening up t ...
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Liberals table bills to legalize pot, clamp down on impaired driving
Thursday, 13 April 2017
The Liberal government tabled legislation to end the prohibition on pot, checking off a major promise from the 2015 campaign. The plan comes with two new bills; one to regulate the recreational use, ...
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Doctors want focus on benefits of ganja instead of profits
Wednesday, 12 April 2017
The Medical Association of Jamaica (MAJ) has slammed the focus on profits instead of studying the benefits of marijuana since its decriminalisation two years ago. "The decriminalisation of marijuana ...
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Liberals set to table marijuana legislation, but key details need to be resolved
Monday, 10 April 2017
The federal government will table a bill to legalize recreational marijuana on Thursday that is expected to tightly control the ability of producers to market their products to the public, federal so ...
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Medical ganja’s slow journey irks foreign investor
Sunday, 09 April 2017
A foreign investor is expressing concern that Jamaica’s delay in establishing a medical ganja industry is providing other countries with the advantage to maximise from the opportunities to cement the ...
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Uruguay to sell cannabis in pharmacies from July
Friday, 07 April 2017
Uruguay will begin selling cannabis in pharmacies from July, the final stage in the country's pioneering regularisation of the drug. "Cannabis will be dispensed in pharmacies starting in the month of ...
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Over-regulation impeding bloom of Jamaican cannabis industry
Tuesday, 04 April 2017
Over-regulation of Jamaica’s cannabis industry is deterring farmers from entering the legal market, and impeding development - indicating why drug policies must be tailored to a country’s socioeconom ...
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Bipartisan “Path to Marijuana Reform” bills introduced to decriminalize, protect, regulate cannabis industry
Thursday, 30 March 2017
U.S. lawmakers introduced a package of marijuana reform bills aimed at protecting and preserving existing state-based programs while creating a framework for the federal regulation of cannabis. Sen. ...
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Marijuana industry faces challenge in gaining Canadians’ trust, survey finds
Wednesday, 29 March 2017
Marijuana stocks may have leapt higher on the news of Ottawa’s plans to legalize the drug by next year, but the industry is facing an uphill battle in building trust with Canadian consumers, accordin ...
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Pot legalization: Canada doesn’t need another profit-seeking drug industry
Tuesday, 28 March 2017
When Canadians have expressed concerns about upcoming cannabis legalization, the government has assured them that the legal cannabis industry will be strictly regulated to protect public health. This ...
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Ottawa's plans for cannabis legalization may be slowed by provinces
Monday, 27 March 2017
Ottawa’s plan to legalize marijuana by next year could hit serious roadblocks across the country, as provinces and territories are expected to have different approaches to solving complicated policy ...
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Liberals to announce marijuana will be legal by July 1, 2018
Sunday, 26 March 2017
The Liberal government will announce legislation next month that will legalize marijuana in Canada by July 1, 2018. CBC News has learned that the legislation will be announced during the week of Apri ...
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Task-force leader on legalizing marijuana urges prohibition, for now
Thursday, 23 March 2017
Anne McLellan, head of an official task force that submitted recommendations to Ottawa on how best to legalize cannabis, said police everywhere should enforce the existing prohibition of marijuana, d ...
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Expert not expecting Trump to crack down on legal marijuana
Wednesday, 22 March 2017
With millions of dollars hanging in the balance, supporters of Nevada’s marijuana industry have been watching Jeff Sessions with wary, worried eyes since he was confirmed as U.S. attorney general. At ...
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A big thing marijuana opponents warned you about is definitely not happening
Tuesday, 21 March 2017
Data coming out of Washington and Colorado suggest that those states' legalization experiments, which began in earnest in 2014, are not causing any spike in use among teenagers. Teen marijuana use in ...
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Small ganja farmers to get help to legalise cultivation
Monday, 20 March 2017
The Government of Jamaica is to undertake a programme to help small ganja farmers benefit from a legal regulated cannabis industry. The project dubbed, the Alternative Development Programme, is to be ...
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Kiffen auf der Kö
Saturday, 18 March 2017
Düsseldorf, die Landeshauptstadt Nordrhein-Westfalens, kämpft seit Monaten sehr aktiv und kreativ um die nationale Vorreiter-Rolle in Sachen Cannabis-Legalisierung. Die Stadt am Rhein will die erste ...
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Cannabis legislation in Europe
Wednesday, 15 March 2017
At a time of increased debate on the laws controlling the use of cannabis in the European Union, this report answers some of the questions most often asked about cannabis legislation. Using a questio ...
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As rebels move out of Colombia drug trade, corporations look to move in
Thursday, 09 March 2017
Colombia has received billions of dollars in American aid to eradicate the drug trade. But in the coming weeks, the government says, it will begin processing licenses for a small number of companies, ...
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Illegal marijuana shops linked to activists Marc, Jodie Emery raided across Canada
Thursday, 09 March 2017
Police officers in several Canadian cities raided illegal marijuana dispensaries linked to activists Marc and Jodie Emery, charging them and several others with drug offences as part of an investigat ...
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Marijuana stocks drop as Trudeau’s pot czar says Canada won’t rush into legalization
Tuesday, 07 March 2017
As investors flock to Canada’s burgeoning marijuana sector, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government is signaling recreational pot sales aren’t imminent. Lawmaker Bill Blair -- the former Toronto p ...
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Du cannabis bientôt disponible en pharmacie?
Friday, 03 March 2017
Une nouvelle étape vient d'être franchie vers la légalisation de la vente de cannabis: la Ville de Berne a obtenu l'aval de la commission d'éthique cantonale pour un projet de recherche en ce sens. B ...
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Sessions reassures senators: No pot crackdown imminent
Thursday, 02 March 2017
The Trump administration is causing serious paranoia among marijuana advocates with its hints of a federal crackdown on recreational use. But Attorney General Jeff Sessions has privately reassured so ...
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Sessions: More violence around marijuana than ‘one would think’
Monday, 27 February 2017
The Justice Department will try to adopt “responsible policies” for enforcement of federal anti-marijuana laws, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said, adding that he believes violence surrounds sales a ...
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As Trump said in the campaign, leave pot to the states
Monday, 27 February 2017
In pulling back from Mr. Trump’s assurance during the campaign that states should be left to decide their own marijuana policies, White House spokesman Sean Spicer made clear that a battle is coming ...
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What’s next after new Dutch cannabis cultivation bill
Saturday, 25 February 2017
In a landmark decision, the lower House of the Dutch parliament voted in favour of adding cannabis cultivation to it's tolerance policy. A move that would decriminalize the supply aspect of the coffe ...
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Dutch MPs vote in favour of regulated marijuana cultivation
Tuesday, 21 February 2017
A narrow majority backed new legislation which would regulate marijuana cultivation under government control. The vote, by 77 to 72, would allow cannabis cafe owners to buy from licenced growers who ...
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Can the government impede cannabis regulation in Spain?
Friday, 17 February 2017
Is cannabis regulation possible with a prohibitionist government in Spain? Cooperation between various forces in Congress, changes in public attitudes and regional regulations in place suggest we hav ...
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Just how mainstream is marijuana?
Friday, 17 February 2017
Time to dispel any doubts you may still have that marijuana reform is truly a mainstream political issue. This week, a bipartisan group of U.S. representatives formed the first-ever "Congressional Ca ...
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Cities have right to regulate marijuana dispensaries: B.C. Supreme Court
Thursday, 16 February 2017
Cities have the right to deny business licences to illegal marijuana dispensaries and to prohibit the cultivation or sale of marijuana through their zoning bylaws, a B.C. Supreme Court judge has rule ...
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Marijuana health trends mostly positive but still bear watching
Wednesday, 01 February 2017
Marijuana-related emergency room visits dropped, accidental poisonings are down and recreational marijuana failed to bring a much-feared spike in adolescent pot use. The results were detailed in the ...
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Wie Düsseldorf Cannabis legalisieren will
Tuesday, 31 January 2017
Düsseldorf will als erste deutsche Stadt Verkauf und Konsum von Cannabis legalisieren. Dem Körper ist es egal, wie die Droge erworben wurde, meint Gesundheitsdezernent Andreas Meyer-Falcke. Aufklärun ...
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‘Building the airplane while it’s being flown’
Monday, 30 January 2017
In the outskirts of Sacramento, a handful of government workers face a daunting task: By next year, craft regulations and rules that will govern California’s emerging legal pot market, from where and ...
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High time for change: Flemish academics make case for legal marijuana
Thursday, 26 January 2017
The simple realisation that federal drug policies are failing is what motivated the three academics – Paul De Grauwe, Jan Tytgat and Tom Decorte, each of whom have studied drug use in their respectiv ...
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Preston’s first cannabis club to challenge Home Office
Wednesday, 25 January 2017
Mike Dobson, a self-confessed cannabis user for 25 years, is seeking a judicial review following the Home Office’s refusal to issue a licence to allow Preston Cannabis Club members to possess up to h ...
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Delays in Uruguay marijuana law leave door ajar for drug trafficking
Monday, 23 January 2017
Three years after Uruguay became the first South American country to create a legal market for marijuana, seven out of every ten cannabis consumers still acquire the product on the black market. The ...
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Seiveright urges ganja farmers to look beyond ‘so so weed’
Thursday, 19 January 2017
Delano Seiveright, a director of the Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA), says that ganja growers should look beyond farming “so so weed” in seeking to benefit from the relaxation of legislation cover ...
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A new era for cannabis clubs in Spain
Friday, 13 January 2017
Following the Supreme Court's judgements against cannabis clubs in 2015, ordinary courts have started interpreting them. Spain's major clubs, above all in Barcelona, appear to have their days numbere ...
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Marijuana reforms flood state legislatures
Friday, 13 January 2017
Legislators in more than a dozen states have introduced measures to loosen laws restricting access to or criminalizing marijuana, a rush of legislative activity that supporters hope reflects a newfou ...
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Canada’s marijuana industry needs innovation to thrive, not protection
Wednesday, 11 January 2017
The Task Force on Marijuana Legalization and Regulation did not say, “create a marijuana marketing board.” Yet its recommendations would, if implemented, effectively impose a supply management system ...
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Governor introduces bill to legalize recreational marijuana
Tuesday, 10 January 2017
As promised and just in the second week into the new year, Governor Eddie Calvo of Guam has introduced legislation for the recreational use of marijuana. The governor is dubbing is the Marijuana Cont ...
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Cannabis : 150 personnalités marseillaises demandent la "légalisation contrôlée"
Sunday, 08 January 2017
Ils veulent la fin de la "prohibition du cannabis" qui est pour eux "un échec". 150 personnalités marseillaises, dont les députés socialistes Patrick Menucci et Marie-Arlette Carlotti, signent ce dim ...
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Gang-ravaged Mexico stuck in weed ban as U.S. opens up
Thursday, 29 December 2016
Mexican advocates for drug reform are voicing alarm about the country's widening gap with the United States on marijuana legislation, as criminal violence surges again south of the border. Tens of th ...
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Mexican attitudes to marijuana mellow
Saturday, 24 December 2016
In november 57% of Californians voted to legalise the growing and use of marijuana for recreational purposes. Liberalisation in the most populous border state will be felt acutely down south. Mexico ...
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