Tag: regulation
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Mellow drivers?
Tuesday, 20 December 2016States with medical-marijuana laws have fewer traffic fatalities than those without, especially among younger drivers, a new study has found. You would think crash rates might be higher, supposing th ...
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Copenhagen to once again push for legal cannabis trial
Thursday, 15 December 2016After three spurned attempts to get a trial programme for legal cannabis off the ground, city officials in Copenhagen will try once again. Led by Mayor Frank Jensen, Copenhagen officials have thrice ...
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Pot task force recommends legal cannabis sales be limited to users over 18
Tuesday, 13 December 2016The task force appointed by the federal government to study the legalization of marijuana said cannabis sales should be restricted to those 18 and older with a personal possession limit of 30 grams i ...
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Chuck promises Rastas speedy approval of ganja requests
Monday, 12 December 2016Justice Minister Delroy Chuck has moved to assure members of the Rastafarian faith in Jamaica that their requests to transport ganja to be smoked as a religious sacrament will be granted expeditiousl ...
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7 reasons President Trump is unlikely to fight legal marijuana
Wednesday, 07 December 2016With Donald Trump nominating Cabinet members who have spoken out against legal marijuana, some are arguing that the war on drugs may make a comeback. But while there’s reason for anxiety among those ...
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Düsseldorf moves forward with plans to legalize cannabis
Tuesday, 06 December 2016Düsseldorf took the next step in its plan to legalize the regulated sale of recreational cannabis to over 18 year-olds, taking advice from experts in psychology, crime and economics during a consult ...
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Trudeau’s bait and switch on legalization?
Sunday, 04 December 2016Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently expressed frustration around the current cannabis landscape, explaining, “Until we have brought in the proposed system… the current prohibition stands”, and enc ...
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Marijuana task force submits report outlining framework for legal system
Tuesday, 29 November 2016Canada’s new legal marijuana regime is expected to feature a mishmash of provincial rules and a heavily regulated production system that will initially favour existing producers of medical cannabis. ...
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Five things to know about weed in Germany
Thursday, 24 November 2016The debate about legalizing cannabis continues in Germany - court cases in recent years have granted permission to use the drug for medical purposes, and Germany's health minister hopes to officially ...
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It's time to decriminalize drugs, commission report says
Monday, 21 November 2016In a report released by the Global Commission on Drug Policy, that includes the former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan and former presidents of Colombia, Mexico and Brazil, recommended that countries ...
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Cannabis authority to grant conditional permits by year end
Monday, 21 November 2016The Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA) in Jamaica expects to grant conditional licences by the end of the year for the growing and processing of ganja for medicinal and therapeutic purposes and resea ...
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Medical marijuana is legal in California. Except when it’s not
Monday, 21 November 2016California’s multibillion-dollar marijuana industry, by far the nation’s largest, is crawling out from the underbrush after voters opted to legalize cannabis in this month’s election. In Sonoma Count ...
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Ruling party to support regulated cannabis cultivation after all
Monday, 21 November 2016It seems that ruling party VVD will support regulating cannabis cultivation in the Netherlands. During a VVD conference a vast majority of party members forced the party leaders to change their posit ...
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Jeff Sessions could reverse years of progress on marijuana policy
Thursday, 17 November 2016President-elect Donald Trump has nominated hardline drug policy reform opponent Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) to be Attorney General of the United States, a move that sent shockwaves through the mariju ...
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Berlin likely to semi-legalize marijuana
Friday, 11 November 2016A coalition of political parties in the German capital agreed to push for partial decriminalization of cannabis. The initial effects will be limited. Berlin's Social Democrats, the Greens and the Lef ...
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Marijuana reform went 8 for 9 on the ballot this week
Thursday, 10 November 2016Marijuana reform won in eight out of the nine states where it was put on the ballot, the strongest signal to date that the public is ready to embrace change and put the harsh prohibitionist policies ...
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Getting regulation right
Wednesday, 09 November 2016
After close to three years, the final element of Uruguay’s historic cannabis law is set to be implemented in the coming weeks, as commercial sales are expected to begin soon. While advancements have ...
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Silver linings
Wednesday, 09 November 2016One of the most striking juxtapositions of the 2016 U.S. elections is that on the same day that the nation elected to the presidency a candidate who employed openly racist language and fueled his cam ...
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California scrambles to implement new recreational pot law
Wednesday, 09 November 2016Passage of marijuana-legalization initiatives in California and other states this week has given momentum to a national movement to decriminalize pot, but that could change with the election of Repub ...
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Marijuana legalization won big on Election Day. It will keep winning
Wednesday, 09 November 2016In California voters approved legalization. The country’s most populous state and biggest economy will allow people to buy marijuana for recreational use and, most importantly, let for-profit compani ...
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Rot-Rot-Grün will neuen Anlauf für Abgabe von Cannabis
Tuesday, 08 November 2016Der geplante rot-rot-grüne Senat in Berlin will einen neuen Anlauf zum regulierten Verkauf sogenannter weicher Drogen starten. Das kündigten Vertreter von SPD, Linken und Grünen nach Koalitionsverhan ...
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Legalise weed growing: VVD proposal seeds dissent
Tuesday, 08 November 2016VVD leaders in the south of the Netherlands are proposing an overhaul of cannabis laws to regulate cultivation, decriminalising what is currently a grey area: smoking is tolerated but growing is not. ...
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Denmark approves medical cannabis trial
Monday, 07 November 2016The Danish government announced that as of 2018, doctors will be able to prescribe medicinal cannabis to certain patients. The government said that a four-year trial programme will allow “a defined p ...
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The trend toward legalizing recreational marijuana
Friday, 04 November 2016House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said that she plans to vote in favor of legalizing recreational marijuana in California. "I will vote for it, but I have not made a public statement about it until ...
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Pot tax would reduce profits, allow black market to thrive: report
Monday, 31 October 2016The parliamentary budget watchdog says Ottawa stands to generate hundreds of millions of dollars – not billions – from the first year of recreational marijuana sales, and that the black market will c ...
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A lot has happened and a lot has not happened
Thursday, 20 October 2016At the recently concluded 6th Latin American and 1st Caribbean Conference on Drug Policy, held in Santa Domingo, Dominican Republic, I started a discussion on the cannabis situation in Jamaica with a ...
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Medical marijuana and the green rush are changing Chile
Monday, 17 October 2016In Santiago alone, there are more than 500 grow shops. This explosive expansion that has occurred since 2010 has exceeded all projections. The marijuana community simply overwhelmed the authorities. ...
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What’s next for kratom after the DEA blinks on its emergency ban?
Sunday, 16 October 2016Researchers and users of kratom were stunned by the Drug Enforcement Administration’s abrupt withdrawal of its stated plan to place the Southeast Asian plant under an emergency ban in the United Stat ...
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Marijuana's Moment
Monday, 10 October 2016Measures to legalize and regulate the sale of cannabis are on the ballot in California, Arizona, Massachusetts, Maine, and Nevada, and recent polls show the “yes” vote is winning in all five states. ...
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Panel: Advances towards Cannabis Regulation
Tuesday, 04 October 2016In spite of the prejudices and legal obstacles that persist in relation to a legal market for cannabis, it is undeniable that a strong movement towards the regulation of the cannabis market is emergi ...
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California marijuana legalisation faces unlikely foe: growers
Monday, 03 October 2016The executive director of the California Growers Association trade group, Hezekiah Allen has long sought an end to what he calls "prohibition". But he said he can't bring himself to vote for Proposit ...
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Terra Nova veut légaliser le cannabis sur le modèle des jeux en ligne
Monday, 03 October 2016La création d’une « Autorité de régulation du cannabis (ARCA) » calquée sur l’Autorité de régulation des jeux en ligne (Arjel) permettrait la légalisation du cannabis en France, sur un marché contrôl ...
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Canada faces choice on international drug treaties over legalized pot
Sunday, 02 October 2016As Canada moves forward with its plan to legalize marijuana, government officials have at least one international conundrum to sort out: what to do about the global treaties Canada has signed that pr ...
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IDPC response to the 2015 Annual Report of the International Narcotics Control Board
Wednesday, 28 September 2016
The Annual Report of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB or Board) for 2015 is, like the broader international drug policy debate, coloured by what was then the approaching United Nations ...
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The Netherlands comes a step closer to legalised marijuana cultivation
Friday, 23 September 2016A majority of MPs now seem likely to back draft legislation from the Liberal democratic party D66 which would regulate legalised marijuana cultivation under government control. The bill envisages cof ...
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Cannabis in Latin America and the Caribbean
Thursday, 15 September 2016
Cannabis (or marihuana) is one of the most widely consumed psychoactive substances in the world. According to the United Nations World Drug Report, 183 million people, or 3.8% of the world’s populati ...
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Mexico president following California marijuana vote - state lawmaker
Wednesday, 14 September 2016Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, who has proposed liberalizing his country's drug laws, privately asked California lawmakers visiting Mexico about a state measure to legalize recreational mariju ...
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Tilburg to allow medical marijuana users to grow drug at home
Wednesday, 14 September 2016Tilburg Mayor Peter Noordanus decided to allow patients using medical marijuana to grow it themselves at their homes in the city, he wrote in a letter to the patients group for medicinal marijuana us ...
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Alaska Legislature considers marijuana social clubs
Tuesday, 13 September 2016The Senate and House Judiciary Committees met to discuss the status of the fledgling commercial marijuana industry. One of the largest topics of discussion was the existence of marijuana social clubs ...
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Lausanne dit oui à l'expérience du joint légal
Monday, 05 September 2016Sans surprise, les élus lausannois ont donné leur feu vert à la Ville. Celle-ci pourra rejoindre le groupe formé par les grandes villes de Suisse qui souhaitent tester la consommation légale cannabis ...
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An unprecedented number of states will vote on marijuana this fall
Thursday, 01 September 2016More states than ever will consider easing restrictions on marijuana use this November: Voters in five states will decide whether to fully legalize recreational use, while voters in four more will we ...
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Cannabis clubs in Uruguay
Tuesday, 30 August 2016
The Uruguayan Cannabis Clubs (UCCs) constitute one of three ways to obtain cannabis under the new cannabis regulation laws. These organizations, formed by up to 45 adults and with a legal limit to gr ...
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California voters will most likely legalize recreational marijuana this November
Thursday, 18 August 2016California's Proposition 64 would legalize marijuana for adult recreational use. No disrespect to Colorado or Washington or Alaska, but California’s pot business would totally dwarf those already leg ...
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These are the States that might legalize pot next
Wednesday, 17 August 2016This November, voters in five states will decide whether to authorize recreational use: Arizona, California, Maine, Massachusetts, and Nevada. Another four states, Arkansas, Florida, Montana, and Nor ...
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Health Canada to allow safety testing of medical marijuana
Wednesday, 10 August 2016Health Canada is easing its prohibitions against safety testing of medical marijuana, which will allow registered growers and patients to have the product scrutinized at federally certified laborator ...
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Marijuana legalization in California
Wednesday, 10 August 2016This November, a marijuana legalization measure will be put to voters in the most populous and influential US state. If Californians vote “yes” on Proposition 64 – which beat out 21 competing cannabi ...
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Most of Canada’s marijuana growers are otherwise law-abiding: advocates
Monday, 08 August 2016Contrary to RCMP wisdom, organized crime groups play a relatively small role in Canada’s underground cannabis trade. The majority of people behind illegal grow operations and dispensaries are otherwi ...
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Colombia’s new, legal drug barons focus on medical marijuana
Wednesday, 03 August 2016Last year, President Juan Manuel Santos spearheaded an overhaul of Colombia’s 30-year-old drug laws, which formally legalized medical marijuana for domestic use. Crucially, the new law also allowed t ...
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Legalize pot, but bring in quality controls
Saturday, 30 July 2016The take-home message from a Globe and Mail investigation that tested pot purchased in dispensaries for chemicals, is a lack of quality controls on moulds and bacteria, as well as for their level of ...
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Marijuana legalization might be fix to nation’s opioid problems
Wednesday, 27 July 2016Proponents of marijuana prohibition have long alleged that experimentation with pot acts as a “gateway” to the use and eventual abuse of other illicit substances. But the results of a just released n ...
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