Items tagged with cannabis
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| Marijuana as a gateway drug [28.10.2010] | Of all the arguments that have been used to demonize marijuana, few have been more powerful than that of the "gateway effect": the notion that while ... |
| FT Editorial: High time to legalise marijuana [27.10.2010] | Just say no, the slogan says. But on November 2, California has the chance to say yes, at least to marijuana. Proposition 19 would legalise the produ ... |
| Soros: Why I Support Legal Marijuana [26.10.2010] | Our marijuana laws are clearly doing more harm than good. The criminalization of marijuana did not prevent marijuana from becoming the most widely us ... |
| Latin American leaders question move to legalize marijuana [26.10.2010] | The leaders of several Latin American nations on the front lines of the battle against drugs said Tuesday that a California ballot measure to legaliz ... |
| Just say yes to common sense on pot policy [26.10.2010] | With all the hand-wringing over a Democratic "enthusiasm gap," one effort to turn out young people at the polls this November is showing real energy ... |
| The case for California's Prop 19 [26.10.2010] | Over a dozen US states have already decriminalised possession or personal use of cannabis, and Denver, Colorado and Oakland, California are already h ... |
| An economic perspective on the legalisation debate: the Dutch case [26.10.2010] | Understanding the consequences of drug legalisation versus prohibition is important for policy. Most recently this subject has gained much political ... |
| Marijuana law would propel California into unknown territory [25.10.2010] | Vote yes on Proposition 19, the measure to legalize marijuana, and the unofficial state weed and largest cash crop will be controlled like alcohol, p ... |
| What the Feds Can Do About Prop 19 [25.10.2010] | Assume for a moment that California voters approve Proposition 19 on Nov. 2. The state will have just enacted a process for legalizing, regulating, a ... |
| 19 Reasons Pot Should Be Legal [24.10.2010] | Prop 19, the CA initiative legalizing marijuana, benefits not just those who enjoy the herb, but the entire state of California and ultimately, the n ... |
| Marijuana and Democracy – All Eyes on California [22.10.2010] | “Democracy is the worst form of government,” as Churchill once put it, “except all those other forms that have been tried.” Whatever else it should i ... |
| A federal-state showdown over pot [21.10.2010] | Californians may very well vote in November to legalize recreational marijuana, though the Obama administration, Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegge ... |
| Holder promises to enforce U.S. drug laws if Prop. 19 passes [16.10.2010] | Stepping up the Obama administration's opposition to Proposition 19, the nation's top law enforcement official promised to "vigorously enforce" feder ... |
| The promise of legalization [16.10.2010] | People on both sides of the marijuana legalization debate have strong feelings about Proposition 19, the California ballot initiative that promises t ... |
| Mexican waves, Californian cool [14.10.2010] | If California votes in favour of legalisation, Mexico would be wise to follow suit (the bottom would anyway fall out of its marijuana business). The ... |
| An altered state [14.10.2010] | Proposition 19 has a chance of winning mainly because Californians have become rather relaxed about weed. Back in 1972 a proposition to legalise the ... |
| Macho madness over cannabis: flawed drug policies in both hemispheres [14.10.2010] | I spent a week over the summer lecturing in New Zealand where I had the chance to speak with a number of politicians, lawyers and health professional ... |
| Reducing Drug Trafficking Revenues and Violence in Mexico [13.10.2010] | The United States’ demand for illicit drugs creates markets for Mexican drug trafficking organizations (DTOs) and helps foster violence in Mexico. So ... |
| Legalizing pot in California would hardly dent cartels' revenue, report says [13.10.2010] | Proposition 19, which would partially legalize marijuana in California, would do little to curtail the violent Mexican organizations that smuggle it ... |
| Legalizing Marijuana in California Will Not Dramatically Reduce Mexican Drug Trafficking Revenues [12.10.2010] | Legalizing marijuana in California will not dramatically reduce the drug revenues collected by Mexican drug trafficking organizations from sales to t ... |
| New Report: U.S. Government Data Demonstrates Failure of Cannabis Prohibition [07.10.2010] | The International Centre for Science in Drug Policy (ICSDP) today released a new research report, Tools for debate: U.S. federal government data on c ... |
| The high and the mighty [07.10.2010] | We investigate how the legalisation of cannabis in California could impact the economy and the criminal justice system.Cannabis is California's numbe ... |
| US Federal Government Data on Cannabis Prohibition [07.10.2010] | The report reviews 20 years of data from US government funded surveillance systems on government drug control spending, cannabis seizures and cannabi ... |
| Pot possession in Calif now like speeding ticket [01.10.2010] | A new law makes possessing up to an ounce of marijuana in California no more serious than getting a speeding ticket - a development both sides battli ... |
| Schwarzenegger signs bill reducing offense for marijuana possession [01.10.2010] | Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger opposes Proposition 19, which would legalize the recreational use of marijuana, but he offered a consolation Thursday by s ... |
| The Budgetary Impact of Ending Drug Prohibition [29.09.2010] | The CATO report estimates that legalizing drugs would save roughly $41.3 billion per year in government expenditure on enforcement of prohibition. Of ... |
| Sooner or later, marijuana will be legal [28.09.2010] | It's as predictable as the sun rising and setting. Even though police made more than 850,000 marijuana arrests last year, a recent government report ... |
| Marijuana legalization measure gets big lift [26.09.2010] | In a dramatic shift of sentiment, nearly half of California's likely voters now want to legalize marijuana use in the state, according to a new Field ... |
| A chance for a scientific drugs policy [21.09.2010] | Last week Professor Roger Pertwee called for cannabis to be licensed for sale, and now Tim Hollis, the Association of Chief Police Officers' lead off ... |
| Cuts prompt police to call for debate on drugs and redirect resources [18.09.2010] | One of Britain's most senior police officers has said youngsters caught carrying personal amounts of drugs such as cannabis should "not be criminalis ... |
| License cannabis sales, expert says [14.09.2010] | Policymakers should consider allowing the licensed sale of cannabis for recreational use, says one of the UK's leading researchers of the drug. Profe ... |
| California's Prop 19, on legalizing marijuana, could end Mexico's drug war [05.09.2010] | On Nov. 2, Californians will vote on Proposition 19, deciding whether to legalize the production, sale and consumption of marijuana. If the initiativ ... |
| Cannabis in Mexico [27.08.2010] | In August 2010, Mexican President Felipe Calderon declared that he would support a national debate on the issue of legalisation, reversing his previo ... |
| Prague high [24.08.2010] | Although the partial decriminalization of cannabis at the beginning of this year didn't transform the capital into the new Amsterdam, as some headlin ... |
| Cannabis farmers take up arms to defend crops in booming trade [16.08.2010] | Illicit cannabis factory farmers are arming themselves with sawn-off shotguns, CS sprays and machetes and even setting booby traps to protect their c ... |
| Kerlikowske draws the wrong conclusions [16.08.2010] | In "Has the time come to legalize drugs?" Andres Oppenheimer, the influential opinion maker about Latin American affairs at the Miami Herald, describ ... |
| How ideology shapes the evidence and the policy [01.08.2010] | In the United Kingdom, as in many places, cannabis use is considered substantially within a criminal justice rather than a public health paradigm wit ... |
| The case for small-scale domestic cannabis cultivation [01.07.2010] | The shift to (inter)regional production, trade and domestic cultivation has become an irreversible international trend. Until now, the focus of most ... |
| Marijuana Legalization [30.06.2010] | A number of other countries have implemented changes in law that significantly reduce the extent of criminalization of marijuana use. Only in Austral ... |
| Marijuana, Made in Germany [10.06.2010] | German cannabis plantations are now edging imports from Morocco and Afghanistan out of the market. The trend began after the Dutch government began d ... |
| Morocco tells Europe: don't go soft on cannabis [10.06.2010] | Morocco has cut cannabis traffickers’ revenue to less than one-third of its 2005 level but its efforts could be undermined if Europe relaxes its poli ... |
| Berlin set to relax cannabis laws [18.05.2010] | A new marijuana policy could make it legal for individuals to posses up to 15 grams (0.5 ounces) of the drug in the German capital. The regulation wo ... |
| Budgetary benefits of cannabis regulation [20.04.2010] | In the United States the discussion on the pros and cons of regulating cannabis is well advanced. The national television news programme CNBC has ded ... |
| Regulating cannabis could help cut Dutch state deficit [13.04.2010] | Decriminalizing cannabis in the Netherlands and regulating the back-door of the coffee-shops and cultivation of cannabis would save 160 million euro ... |
| Dry spell: Hashish prices skyrocket, users fret amid shortage [31.03.2010] | For the past two months local drug consumers in Egypt – which the most conservative estimates place at around 7 million – have been in the throes of ... |
| Jury still out on government’s hash crackdown [18.03.2010] | It was exactly six years ago this week that police conducted their first full-scale raid on Pusher Street, the famed road in the city’s Christiania a ... |
| Cannabis policy: Time to move beyond the psychosis debate [11.03.2010] | Researchers, research funders and policymakers should give greater voice to the risks and harms associated with particular cannabis policies and to t ... |
| MP: Approval for city ‘coffee shop’ plan unlikely [15.01.2010] | The Copenhagen City Council’s plan to set up shops selling cannabis as a way to remove the market from the control of gangs is not likely to be embra ... |
| Adverse health effects of non-medical cannabis use [17.10.2009] | For over two decades, cannabis, commonly known as marijuana, has been the most widely used illicit drug by young people in high-income countries, and ... |
| Council may enter drug trade [24.09.2009] | A City Council majority is backing a plan to legalise the sale of cannabis, which could see two thirds of the market taken away from criminal gangs. ... |
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