Items tagged with cannabis
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| Australia spends billions ‘failing to police’ cannabis that earns black market $25bn a year, Greens say [17.03.2023] | Australia’s cannabis industry could be earning the black market $25bn a year and, rather than policing it, we could be gaining revenue from it by leg ... |
| These are the rules cannabis associations will have to follow [15.03.2023] | Cannabis associations that sell to non-members or minors will face fines of up to €10,000, with the associations also required to cough up money for ... |
| Lauterbach wants to present new proposal [14.03.2023] | Germany's Health Minister Karl Lauterbach is sticking to his legalisation plans. In the coming weeks, he will present a proposal for cannabis legalis ... |
| Willful Blindness: INCB can find nothing good to say on cannabis legalisation [14.03.2023] | In its Report for 2022, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), the “independent, quasi-judicial expert body” that monitors the implementat ... |
| Farmers say making dagga legal has only made them poorer [01.03.2023] | Small-scale cannabis farmers in the rural parts of the Eastern Cape are feeling the pinch of obtaining farming licences. This is particularly difficu ... |
| Is legalisation a human rights imperative? [01.03.2023] | Does the cannabis legalisation planned by the German government's traffic lights coalition violate European law and relevant UN agreements? While Bav ... |
| Jamaican ganja farmers outraged after licence granted to import Canadian herb [26.02.2023] | Some local ganja farmers are fuming over reports that a licence has been granted to a company to import Canadian cannabis into Jamaica. Speaking insi ... |
| Talks with bank to offer services to cannabis associations [22.02.2023] | The authorities are having talks with a leading bank with a view that it could offer services to non-profit organisations running cannabis associatio ... |
| Tilburg and Breda to kick off regulated marijuana experiment [22.02.2023] | Coffee shops in Tilburg and Breda may be able to take part in the experiment with regulated marijuana as early as October, ministers have agreed. The ... |
| Is legal cannabis available in Cape Town? [19.02.2023] | While cannabis is being legalised in many countries around the world, South Africa still finds itself in a state of legislative limbo, with more and ... |
| Cannabis associations will need to have salaries approved by regulator [18.02.2023] | Salaries paid out by cannabis associations will have to be approved by the regulator to ensure they are in line with market rates, ARUC boss Leonid M ... |
| Oxford study to trial cannabis-based medicine as treatment for psychosis [16.02.2023] | Oxford scientists are to launch a major global trial to investigate whether cannabis-based medicine can treat people with psychosis or psychotic symp ... |
| Why is Lesotho’s cannabis boom failing to deliver the prosperity it promised? [15.02.2023] | Even though legislation in 2008 made it possible to grow cannabis for medical or scientific purposes in Lesotho, doing so without a licence from the ... |
| Amsterdam to outlaw cannabis-smoking in red-light district streets [10.02.2023] | Smoking cannabis on the street in Amsterdam’s red light district will soon be illegal, the city council has announced, as part of a range of bylaws d ... |
| Cannabis producer Canopy cutting 800 jobs, closing flagship Canadian facility [09.02.2023] | Canadian cannabis producer Canopy Growth said it is closing its flagship cultivation facility in Smiths Falls, Ontario, and cutting more than a third ... |
| Legalising cannabis: Germany first, Europe next? [09.02.2023] | The German 'traffic light' coalition of the SPD, Greens, and Liberals promised in their 2021 post-election governing manifesto to not just decriminal ... |
| Editorial: No grass without the roots [06.02.2023] | The Authority for the Responsible Use of Cannabis recently held a conference where it outlined the rules for social clubs and the sale of home-grown ... |
| Inside New York’s struggling weed real estate experiment [05.02.2023] | Roland Conner never imagined that getting arrested for marijuana in the ‘90s would lead to where he is now: the owner of a new cannabis dispensary in ... |
| In the weeds: Germany's plan to legalise cannabis in 2024 likely delayed [27.01.2023] | Germany's plans to legalise cannabis consumption in 2024 are looking increasingly unlikely as it has yet to submit its proposals to the European Comm ... |
| Cannabis 'Harm Reduction' clubs can apply to sell home-grown drug from February [27.01.2023] | Cannabis clubs - dubbed Cannabis Harm Reduction Associations - can apply to sell home-grown marijuana from next month but must abide by a list of reg ... |
| New Yorker jailed during ‘war on drugs’ becomes cannabis pioneer [26.01.2023] | As a New York City teenager, 50-year old Roland Conner found himself harshly punished for minor offenses related to marijuana. A 1991 arrest resulted ... |
| Marijuana legalization not associated with increased rates of psychosis, American Medical Association study of 63 million people finds [26.01.2023] | There is “no statistically significant increase” in psychosis-related diagnoses in states that have legalized marijuana compared to those that contin ... |
| Illegal weed delivery start-up Dispenseroo sees meteoric growth in the UK [05.01.2023] | An illegal cannabis delivery start-up in the UK is generating millions of pounds in revenue less than a year after it was created, according to its f ... |
| ‘This is another revolution’: could legalisation of cannabis transform Mexico’s economy? [05.01.2023] | The pungent aroma of cannabis and the sound of dub music fill the air at a hacienda as about 150 smokers, users, growers, activists and business peop ... |
| Pass cannabis controls now [04.01.2023] | Since December, MPs in Thailand have been working on getting the long-awaited cannabis and hemp control bill to pass its second reading. This push is ... |
| French court overturns ban on sale of CBD-enriched cannabis [30.12.2022] | France's highest administrative judicial body has annulled a Government decree that banned the sale of hemp flower and leaf enriched with CBD, the no ... |
| Now you can legally buy recreational cannabis in New York [29.12.2022] | Kenneth Woodin, a stay-at-home dad, was first in line at the cannabis dispensary in Greenwich Village in Manhattan. He said he wanted to be a part of ... |
| Joint decision: How Brussels could rain on Germany’s cannabis parade [29.12.2022] | It's cannabis crunch time in Brussels. In October 2022, Germany laid out a bold plan to fully legalize recreational cannabis for people aged 18 and o ... |
| Is legal weed doomed to be run by big business? [28.12.2022] | If the federal government legalizes cannabis, lawmakers should beware of monopolization by national corporations, says Shaleen Title, chief executive ... |
| Marijuana law reached peak absurdity in 2022 [24.12.2022] | Banning a plant with hundreds of industrial and medical uses was never going to work out well, but 2022 saw marijuana prohibition reach peak absurdit ... |
| EU is skeptical about legalizing cannabis [22.12.2022] | Health Minister Lauterbach's prestige project is one of the few issues on which the traffic light parties in Germany agree. But they are meeting with ... |
| Average age of French marijuana users has increased, study shows [20.12.2022] | The latest study on cannabis use among the adult population by the French Observatory of Drugs and Addictive Tendencies (OFDT) is painting a picture ... |
| A proposal to regulate cannabis is imminent in the Czech Republic. The People's Party is concerned [19.12.2022] | In mid-January, the Czech National Drug Coordinator Jindřich Vobořil plans to introduce a bill to free up the cannabis market. The exact form of regu ... |
| Legal uncertainty dampens Thailand's thriving weed business [18.12.2022] | Thailand legalized the growing of marijuana and its consumption in food and drinks on June 9 and removed cannabis from its list of banned narcotics. ... |
| 'We must move on from the repressive drug policies of the past', says Minister of Justice [17.12.2022] | Minister of Justice Sam Tanson of Luxembourg defended the government's decision to regulate recreational cannabis consumption, pointing out that this ... |
| Colombia’s Congress agrees to final marijuana legalization bill, which key senator expects to be enacted by June [15.12.2022] | Colombia’s Chamber of Representatives and Senate have voted to reconcile their respective versions of marijuana legalization bills that recently adva ... |
| Cannabis industry has huge economic value for South Africa, but government dragging its feet [13.12.2022] | The Draft South African Cannabis Masterplan states that there are up to 900,000 traditional dagga growers in South Africa and that they and ‘dagga’ n ... |
| Decriminalising cannabis could save Australian taxpayers $850m a year, report finds [08.12.2022] | Australia is not keeping pace with global best practice cannabis policy, a report from the public health research organisation the Penington Institut ... |
| Germany: Flirting with Plan B? [07.12.2022] | Two articles published this week, in Der Tagesspiegel and LTO, throw cold water on expectations that the European Commission could give green light t ... |
| Study: Most Czechs want easing of laws on cannabis [07.12.2022] | Most Czechs would favour an easing of the current legalisation on possession and cultivation of cannabis, suggests a study by the firm Behavio for th ... |
| Regulated cultivated cannabis experiment delayed again; could start in 2024 [03.12.2022] | Health Minister Ernst Kuipers said that the experiment in regulated cultivated cannabis will be postponed again. He expects that "as it stands now" o ... |
| Law aiming to clear simple drug convictions expected next year [02.12.2022] | Malta won’t see a bill that introduces a path to clearing simple drug convictions from people’s criminal records until sometime next year. A spokespe ... |
| Légalisation du cannabis : des failles à tous les étages [29.11.2022] | «Est-ce que la légalisation envisagée ne posera pas plus de questions pratiques qu’elle n’en résoudra, notamment par rapport aux contrôles du nombre ... |
| Basic legislation proposal on legalizing cannabis should be ready by March 2023 [25.11.2022] | A basic legislation proposal for introducing a regulated cannabis market in Czechia should be finished by the end of March, the country’s National Dr ... |
| Poland: Cannabis for everyone? [23.11.2022] | The distribution and use of cannabis for medical purposes became legal in Poland in 2017. By 2021, doctors across Poland were writing roughly 3,000 m ... |
| High hurdles face Germany's cannabis legalization plans [22.11.2022] | The legalization of cannabis is a prestige project for the current coalition government. Berlin doesn't just intend to decriminalize the substance, b ... |
| Activists fear medical cannabis companies want in on recreational market [21.11.2022] | Established medical cannabis companies could be looking to set their foot in Malta’s flegdling recreational cannabis market, according to sources. Re ... |
| New York has $750m worth of cannabis stockpiled that growers can’t sell [19.11.2022] | A strong smell of weed hangs over many New York neighbourhoods, the result in part of cannabis decriminalization in 2019 – but cannabis growers in th ... |
| Anutin calls for patience as debate over hemp bill drags on [17.11.2022] | A new announcement categorising flowers or buds of the cannabis plant as "controlled herbs" is a temporary measure to curb the proliferation of recre ... |
| Study examines if CBD buffers THC’s effects [16.11.2022] | A study published in Neuropsychology attempted to determine if CBD reduces the adverse effects of THC, such as paranoia and memory loss, but found li ... |
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