Items tagged with cannabis
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Uruguay Marijuana Polls Good News for Regional Proponents [12.09.2013] | While public opinion remains largely opposed to marijuana regulation in Uruguay, a new poll shows support for the bill is growing, especially among l ... |
Will Berlin soon have its first coffee shop? [11.09.2013] | Görlitzer Park in Berlin-Kreuzberg is the latest hot topic in the local media, due to ongoing problems that come with the massive scale of drug deali ... |
High time CARICOM discuss legalising marijuana – Gonsalves [10.09.2013] | Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves has written to the chair of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) grouping calling for a discussion on the medicinal a ... |
Senate Hearings Reveal Marijuana Businesses May Get Banking [09.09.2013] | Today, the United States Senate did something for the first time in history. It held a hearing on how the federal government could draw a roadmap tow ... |
John McCain: ‘Maybe we should legalize’ pot [09.09.2013] | Drug war hawk John McCain is turning pot dove. McCain appears open to making a dramatic shift on marijuana policy, saying during a town-hall meeting ... |
Gutless governments [31.08.2013] | Successive administrations are being accused of spinelessness in the pursuit of any venture aimed at legitimately utilising marijuana products in hea ... |
Shame, classism still define ganja smoking [31.08.2013] | Advocates for the decriminalisation at a recent Gleaner Editors' Forum said it was unfortunate that the image of ganja users has remained the same fo ... |
Obama administration will not block state marijuana laws, if distribution is regulated [28.08.2013] | The Obama administration said that it would not challenge laws legalizing marijuana in Colorado and Washington state as long as those states maintain ... |
Mexico and marijuana: A leaf out of Uruguay's book? [12.08.2013] | Ten days ago, the lower house of Uruguay's parliament passed a law legalising marijuana, reflecting a growing sentiment in Latin America that the cur ... |
Uruguay moves one step closer to becoming first country to legally regulate marijuana [08.08.2013] | On Wednesday 31st July 2013, the Uruguayan House of Representatives approved a marijuana regulation bill, bringing it one step closer to becoming the ... |
Five biggest lies from anti-pot propagandist Kevin Sabet [07.08.2013] | Kevin Abraham Sabet-Sharghi, Ph.D., aka Kevin Sabet, has been a headline-grabbing right-winger ever since his U.C. Berkeley days—where he did not stu ... |
Latin America Drug Policy Dialogue 2013 Maldonado (Uruguay) [06.08.2013] | The ninth Latin America informal drug policy dialogue was devoted to "dilemmas in regulation of the cannabis market." The two-day dialogues were stru ... |
Maroc: vers une légalisation de la culture du cannabis? [05.08.2013] | Le Parlement marocain est en train d'examiner un projet de loi sur la légalisation de la culture du cannabis proposé par la Coalition marocaine pour ... |
The argument for cannabis as medicine: Will ideology or science prevail? [05.08.2013] | In Saint Lucia and throughout the Caribbean, we at the Caribbean Harm Reduction Coalition have observed the therapeutic value of cannabis (marijuana) ... |
Guatemalan president applauds Uruguayan pot legalization vote [05.08.2013] | Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina has called last week’s approval by Uruguayan lawmakers in the lower house of the legalization of recreational ... |
Ganja legalisation gaining traction [05.08.2013] | The world is watching, with keen eyes, as legislators in Montevideo inch ever so close to making Uruguay the first country ever to legalise the produ ... |
The experiment [05.08.2013] | After more than a year’s public deliberation and a 14-hour parliamentary debate, on July 31st Uruguay took a big step to becoming the first country i ... |
Uruguay steps forward with Marijuana legalisation vote [03.08.2013] | The bill will now be taken up in Uruguay’s Senate—where the governing Frente Amplio coalition also holds a majority—and could soon arrive on the desk ... |
Uruguay's Marijuana Regulation Bill Passes in Lower House [03.08.2013] | The week got off to an ominous start on Monday with the release of a survey by Cifra, Uruguay's leading pollster, showing that around two-thirds of t ... |
Online activists take on police in Christiania [01.08.2013] | In response to the increased police presence in and around Christiania, a number of citizens are fighting back online. Fans of Christiania have long ... |
Uruguay poised to legalize marijuana: Is this the right way forward? [01.08.2013] | Uruguay is poised to become the first nation in the world to create a legal, regulated marijuana market. .. but is this the right way forward? Martin ... |
What Legalizing Pot In Uruguay Means For the World [01.08.2013] | Late Wednesday night, following months of intensive debate and negotiation, the Uruguayan House of Representatives passed a bill to legalize marijuan ... |
Uruguay votes to create world's first national legal marijuana market [01.08.2013] | Uruguay's unprecedented plan to create a legal marijuana market has taken its critical first step in the lower house of Congress. All 50 members of t ... |
Global trendsetter? Uruguay moves to legalize marijuana [31.07.2013] | Uruguay has effectively sealed the passage of a groundbreaking marijuana legalization bill that puts production, distribution, and sale of the drug i ... |
Legalization of marijuana seeks to protect teens and minor addicts from addiction - expert [31.07.2013] | Uruguay's House of Representatives has passed a bill to legalize marijuana by 50 of the 96 MPs following 13 hours of tough debates. Now the bill is t ... |
Nederland wietland ingehaald door Uruguay [31.07.2013] | Wij hebben het er al jaren over, Uruguay doet 't gewoon: wiet wordt er legaal. Niet alleen de verkoop, ook de productie. Daarmee is Uruguay het eerst ... |
Morocco considers the legalisation of marijuana cultivation [28.07.2013] | Legalisation of cannabis would allow farmers in Morocco to sell to the government for medicinal and industrial purposes rather than to drug trafficke ... |
Uruguay's marijuana bill faces olitical, economic obstacles [24.07.2013] | Uruguay is pushing to legalize marijuana. If Uruguay's proposal to regulate the production, sale and distribution of marijuana is properly implemente ... |
Mexico could legalize marijuana in five years: former president [22.07.2013] | Mexico could legalize marijuana within the next five years, stripping brutal drug cartels of a major source of income, former President Vicente Fox s ... |
Coffee Shops and Compromise [30.06.2013] | Building on a long history and culture of tolerance, the Dutch responded to illicit drugs with decades of pragmatic measures free of judgment. A cent ... |
Outcast: Egypt's growing addiction problem [26.06.2013] | Assistant professor of psychology at the American University in Cairo (AUC) Mona Amer says that a number of factors lead to drug abuse in Egypt. Thes ... |
Les Cannabis Social Clubs partent en fumée [19.06.2013] | Les Cannabis Social Clubs (CSC) sont en plein bad trip. Ces coopératives d’autoproducteurs avaient lancé en mars une vaste opération de désobéissance ... |
Latin American Nations Debate Legalizing Pot [13.06.2013] | At last week's annual summit of the Organization of American States, Latin American leaders distanced themselves from the United States' drug policie ... |
"Le kif ne tue pas, la faim si": dans le Rif, la culture du cannabis reste vitale [04.06.2013] | "Le kif ne vous tue pas, la faim si", résume Aberrahmane Hamoudani, ancien maire d'Issaguen, une petite ville du Rif: dans cette région pauvre du nor ... |
The 2013 Commission on Narcotic Drugs [31.05.2013] | Reflections upon this year’s CND are mixed. On the one hand, some states went further than ever before in openly challenging the current regime on th ... |
Colorado marijuana regulations signed into law [28.05.2013] | A set of laws to govern how recreational marijuana should be grown, sold and taxed was signed into law Tuesday in Colorado, where Democratic Gov. Joh ... |
High in the Rif, Morocco’s kif culture thrives [27.05.2013] | "If you try to grow other crops here they will fail," says Ahmed, surrounded by lush green fields of cannabis, the illegal plant he and thousands of ... |
Models for the legal supply of cannabis [27.05.2013] | Three United Nations Conventions provide the international legal framework on drug control, instructing countries to limit drug supply and use to med ... |
OAS chief calls for “long-awaited” debate on drug policy [25.05.2013] | Following the release of a major draft report on drug policy in the Americas, the secretary-general of the Organisation of American States (OAS) call ... |
Know your limit: Germany seeks uniform law on marijuana [24.05.2013] | The laws regarding cannabis possession in Germany are nothing if not confusing. It is illegal to possess or consume marijuana. Except that carrying a ... |
How to Legalize Pot [19.05.2013] | The first time I talked to Mark Kleiman, a drug policy expert at UCLA, was in 2002, and he explained why legalization of marijuana was a bad idea. “A ... |
Fate of LA pot shops left to voters [18.05.2013] | Los Angeles politicians have struggled for more than five years to regulate medical marijuana, trying to balance the needs of the sick against neighb ... |
Breaking the taboo about drugs [17.05.2013] | After more than four decades of a failed war on drugs, calls for a change in strategy are growing louder by the day. In Latin America, the debate is ... |
OAS study eyes marijuana decriminalization [17.05.2013] | An Organization of American States study in response to calls by some Latin American leaders for rethinking the war on drugs advocates serious discus ... |
Pot rules taking shape; public gets a taste of what’s ahead [16.05.2013] | Washington Liquor Control Board officials released draft rules for a legal seed-to-store marijuana system. Washington residents and out-of-staters co ... |
Wash. set to release draft rules for pot industry [16.05.2013] | They've spent nearly eight months visiting marijuana grow houses, studying the science of getting high and earning nicknames like "the queen of weed. ... |
Indoor pot production leaves giant carbon footprint [11.05.2013] | Done mostly indoors in Washington, pot production often uses hospital-intensity lamps, air conditioning, dehumidifiers, fans and carbon-dioxide gener ... |
Tourist cannabis cafe ban leads to surge in dealing in the south [10.05.2013] | The decision to ban foreigners not resident in the Netherlands from the country’s cannabis cafes has led to an ‘explosion’ in drugs-related crime in ... |
Colorado Senate gives final approval to historic marijuana bills [08.05.2013] | The Colorado Senate gave final approval to two new bills to implement marijuana legalization, inching the state legislature closer to becoming the fi ... |
Colombia’s capital banks on marijuana cure for hard drug addicts [07.05.2013] | Marijuana has long been accused of being a gateway to deadlier vices. But could cannabis be a swinging door that might also lead people away from har ... |
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