Items tagged with cannabis
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| After 30-year jail sentence for cannabis users, protesters demand decriminalization [22.02.2021] | A series of protests which began on January 15 in various cities and neighborhoods across Tunisia have largely focused on economic inequality and pol ... |
| Burt warns London over cannabis licensing act [20.02.2021] | Premier David Burt has expressed doubt over whether a new law to license cannabis production in Bermuda will get the royal assent from Governor Rena ... |
| Norway seeks to decriminalise recreational drug use [19.02.2021] | Norway's government proposed a bill aimed at decriminalising the possession and use of small amounts of narcotics, saying users should be offered tre ... |
| Cannabis reform will allow users to grow plants for personal use, Robert Abela says [18.02.2021] | Cannabis users will not be sent to prison and will be able to grow a limited amount of plants as part of government’s reform, Prime Minister Robert A ... |
| How tobacco giant Altria is becoming a cannabis company [09.02.2021] | Altria, one of the world’s biggest tobacco companies, is well on its way to also being one of the world’s biggest and most influential cannabis compa ... |
| ReLeaf calls on government to decriminalise cannabis cultivation, consumption and sharing [09.02.2021] | Cannabis legalisation advocacy group ReLeaf has told the Prime Minister to get on with the decriminalisation of cannabis cultivation and consumption ... |
| Jamaica faces marijuana shortage as farmers struggle [05.02.2021] | Jamaica is running low on ganja. Heavy rains followed by an extended drought, an increase in local consumption and a drop in the number of marijuana ... |
| Virginia legislature approves marijuana legalization bills on key mid-session deadline [05.02.2021] | The Virginia House of Delegates and Senate approved bills to legalize marijuana, meeting a key mid-session deadline and getting the major policy chan ... |
| Tunisia's heavy jail terms for cannabis use spark reform calls [04.02.2021] | Thirty years' jail for smoking a joint after a football game? Tunisia has seen calls for reforms to dictatorship-era drug laws after a court handed d ... |
| Legal recreational cannabis sales in Canada outstrip illicit spending for first time [04.02.2021] | Sales of regulated adult-use cannabis in Canada overtook illegal transactions for the first time in the third quarter of 2020, according to new Stati ... |
| Haze Club case: ‘Cannabis grow clubs allow people to access their rights’ [02.02.2021] | Laws that criminalise grow clubs are unconstitutional and infringe on people’s rights to cultivate and use cannabis privately. This is according to a ... |
| Democratic senators will push to pass pot reform bill this year [02.02.2021] | Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and two other Democratic senators said that they will push to pass this year sweeping legislation that would end ... |
| Le bloc de la Réforme dépose une initiative législative pour amender la loi 52 [02.02.2021] | Le bloc parlementaire de la Réforme a déposé une proposition législative pour amender la loi 52 de 1992 relative aux stupéfiants. Cette initiative vi ... |
| ‘There’s no stopping the industry now’: Democratic control is a big win for marijuana [31.01.2021] | Cannabis companies are positioning themselves for the greater likelihood that federal cannabis restrictions will be loosened significantly. Sales are ... |
| Anger after Tunisians jailed for 30 years for cannabis use [31.01.2021] | Tunisian human rights activists and social media users on Sunday slammed the sentencing of three people, all aged under 30, to 30 years each in priso ... |
| What has changed in the year since cannabis possession was legalised in the ACT? [31.01.2021] | Dire warnings of legal loopholes, a mental health crisis and drug driving fears accompanied the legalisation of cannabis in the ACT last year. But on ... |
| Chamber of Deputies rejects move to relax cannabis laws [28.01.2021] | The Chamber of Deputies rejected a proposal to loosen cannabis laws in the Czech Republic, put forward by 40 deputies from six different parties. The ... |
| Mexico on the brink of legalizing marijuana — But on what terms? [28.01.2021] | Mexico is on the verge of becoming the third country in the world, after Uruguay and Canada, to legally regulate cannabis for personal, adult use. Th ... |
| Big money and a big stumble mark first year of Illinois' recreational weed law [24.01.2021] | Illinois’ coffers have enjoyed a boost in tax revenue approaching the amount generated by booze sales thanks to the year that recreational marijuana ... |
| Mood of the Nation poll: Despite clamour for making cannabis legal, 55% against it [22.01.2021] | Despite a growing clamour by some sections and NGOs in India to legalise the recreational use of cannabis, more than half of the respondents (55 per ... |
| New panel to probe growing use of marijuana and stiffen draconian pot law [22.01.2021] | Alarmed by a recent spike in the number of youngsters abusing marijuana, also known as cannabis or pot, Japan’s health ministry is looking to stiffen ... |
| Une très forte majorité de Français interrogés favorables à « un débat sur la politique des drogues » [22.01.2021] | Une forte majorité de la population française pense que la politique de répression n’est pas « efficace pour lutter contre la consommation de drogues ... |
| Is France moving towards legalising cannabis for recreational purposes? [18.01.2021] | When French newspaper Le Parisien rang up 36 elected officials across the greater Paris Île-de-France region to ask their opinion on whether or not c ... |
| France launches public consultation on legalising cannabis [17.01.2021] | France is Europe’s biggest cannabis consumer, despite having some of the continent’s toughest laws against the drug. In response to this failure of t ... |
| Illinois sitting on $62 million in cannabis revenue meant to foster businesses and help neighborhoods hurt by poverty and violence [16.01.2021] | Despite promises that cannabis legalization in Illinois would fund more minority business participation and neighborhood improvements, the state has ... |
| Mexico moves to create world’s largest legal cannabis market [12.01.2021] | Mexico’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 le ... |
| Mayor: no more weed for tourists in Amsterdam [12.01.2021] | The mayor is taking steps to change Amsterdam's image as the international cannabis capital. Coffeeshops attracted an estimated 1.5 million tourist v ... |
| Cuomo vows New York 'will legalize adult-use recreational cannabis' [11.01.2021] | New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) vowed that his state will legalize recreational cannabis as he begins ramping up efforts in the new year to green-ligh ... |
| Experts: Legal cannabis can spur Caribbean economies [10.01.2021] | Entrepreneurs eager to enter the marijuana business are calling on the Government of Trinidad & Tobago to bring legislation which will allow them to ... |
| Blown off: Amsterdam will ban foreign tourists from coffeeshops in future [08.01.2021] | Foreign tourists will be banned from coffeeshops in Amsterdam in future. In a letter to the council, mayor Femke Halsema, the public prosecution serv ... |
| The top cannabis research studies of 2020 [07.01.2021] | While the world seemed to arrest, the cannabis industry’s pulse grew stronger. Cannabis research, though temporarily stymied as universities scramble ... |
| South Africa’s cannabis bill is widely unpopular — here’s why [04.01.2021] | 2018 was a big year for cannabis advocates in South Africa. It was the year the constitutional court ruled the government couldn’t invade the privacy ... |
| Dutch high hopes for legal cannabis farms hit by nimby protests [03.01.2021] | A Dutch trial of state-regulated cannabis cultivation farms to supply coffee shops risks being derailed by an outbreak of nimbyism after locals prote ... |
| How state marijuana legalization became a boon for corruption [27.12.2020] | In the past decade, 15 states have legalized a regulated marijuana market for adults over 21, and another 17 have legalized medical marijuana. But in ... |
| Will Israeli elections bury cannabis legalization? [23.12.2020] | Just last month, Justice Minister Avi Nissenkorn announced that Israel was only nine months away from fully legalizing and regulating recreational ca ... |
| Dans le Nord du Maroc, de nouveaux appels à légaliser le cannabis [22.12.2020] | Comme il fallait s’y attendre, le retrait par les Nations Unies du cannabis de la liste des stupéfiants a relancé le débat autour de sa légalisation ... |
| Cannabis grow clubs want High Court to decide if customers can ‘sit back, relax and enjoy the fruits’ of their joint labour [18.12.2020] | In September 2018, the Constitutional Court decriminalised the private cultivation of cannabis by adults for personal private consumption. This creat ... |
| After blockbuster Aphria-Tilray merger, world’s largest cannabis company eyes U.S. market [18.12.2020] | Tilray and Aphria, two of the biggest marijuana companies in Canada, announced plans to merge and create the world’s largest cannabis outfit. With ex ... |
| Growing cannabis at home – illegal, but how risky? [14.12.2020] | Last summer, during a press conference, Germany’s drug czar Daniela Ludwig said something goofy: “Just because alcohol is dangerous doesn’t mean that ... |
| Legal cannabis law tabled in House of Assembly [12.12.2020] | Legislation to lay the framework for legal cannabis in Bermuda was tabled in the House of Assembly. Kathy Lynn Simmons, the Attorney-General and the ... |
| Legalization advocates hope to end Mexico’s drug war [12.12.2020] | A determined political movement to end the war on drugs has taken shape across Europe and North America. Harm reduction advocates say lives can be sa ... |
| Decriminalise adult cultivation of cannabis with clear rules, ReLeaf says [11.12.2020] | ReLeaf Malta has reiterated a call for the full decriminalisation of adult cultivation of cannabis by 2021. The cannabis law reform group said the Ma ... |
| Marijuana could easily be rescheduled with Biden’s health secretary [10.12.2020] | While many diehard cannabis advocates are calling for the plant to be legalized in the United States in a manner similar to alcohol and tobacco, Pres ... |
| Morocco’s road to legal cannabis: Paved with obstacles, opportunities [10.12.2020] | After Morocco’s historic “yes” vote on cannabis at the UN last Thursday, the path towards legal cannabis has widened. However, obstacles still exist. ... |
| Legalise marijuana: Government’s contradictions on cannabis use must be ironed out [06.12.2020] | India has voted in favour in the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs to remove cannabis from Schedule IV of the 1961 Convention. It was only under Americ ... |
| UN reclassification of cannabis could give India’s legalisation movement a boost [04.12.2020] | In a highly-anticipated vote held on December 2, the United Nations Commission for Narcotic Drugs reclassified cannabis as a less dangerous drug. The ... |
| Inside the weed legalization bill the House of Representatives just passed [04.12.2020] | The 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 Re ... |
| House passes sweeping reform bill to decriminalize marijuana [04.12.2020] | The U.S. House of Representatives passed sweeping legislation that would decriminalize marijuana at the federal level, the first time either chamber ... |
| Morocco votes ‘Yes’ in historic UN vote on cannabis [02.12.2020] | The UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) met to vote on several rescheduling recommendations on cannabis. Morocco provided an important “yes” vote t ... |
| United Nations approves WHO recommendation to reschedule cannabis in historic vote [02.12.2020] | The United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) accepted a World Health Organization (WHO) recommendation to remove cannabis and cannabis resin ... |
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