Items tagged with cannabis
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| 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 ... |
| Swiss cannabis market - a delicate balancing act [01.12.2020] | Producing and selling hemp inflorescences (clusters of flowers on a stem) with a low THC content has been legal in Switzerland since 2017. However, t ... |
| Netherlands to draw 10 recreational marijuana growers this week [30.11.2020] | The Dutch government will hold a draw to choose 10 marijuana cultivators for the country’s upcoming pilot program, according to a letter to Parliamen ... |
| Upcoming UN vote may be watershed moment for global medical cannabis – if only symbolic [28.11.2020] | During its reconvened 63rd session Dec. 2-4, the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) could – with a simple majority vote in a virtual meeting based ... |
| Mexico may become the third country to legalise cannabis [21.11.2020] | On November 19, the Senate began debating a bill that would make Mexico the third country in the world, after Uruguay and Canada, to legalise cannabi ... |
| North Macedonia moves to make recreational marijuana use legal [20.11.2020] | The government in North Macedonia is considering allowing recreational use of marijuana in cafes and hospitality places in the capital, Skopje, and i ... |
| Medical marijuana grow licences exploited by criminals to sell weed on the illegal market, police say [19.11.2020] | A lack of oversight into who is growing medical cannabis and how much is being grown is allowing criminals to sell pot on the illegal market, accordi ... |
| EU top court rules that CBD is not a narcotic drug [19.11.2020] | The European Union's highest court ruled today that cannabidiol (CBD) isn't a narcotic drug. The decision by the Court of Justice of the European Uni ... |
| Cannabis resin now 25% more potent, global study reveals [15.11.2020] | Cannabis resin – or “hash” – has increased in strength by nearly 25% over the past half century, a major international study has revealed. Researcher ... |
| Mexican Senate committees approve marijuana legalization bill with floor vote planned soon [13.11.2020] | Several Mexican Senate committees on Friday tentatively approved a revised bill to legalize marijuana during a joint hearing, with a formal in-person ... |
| Israel announces plan to legalize recreational cannabis within 9 months [12.11.2020] | Israel is planning to legalize cannabis for recreational use within nine months while balancing “liberalism and responsibility,” Justice Minister Avi ... |
| Government committee said set to recommend full cannabis legalization [09.11.2020] | A governmental committee tasked with reviewing Israel’s cannabis laws is reportedly set to recommend full legalization in a report. The inter-ministe ... |
| Mexico is poised to legalize marijuana, but advocates don’t like the details [08.11.2020] | It's the moment for which advocates of legal marijuana here have been waiting: Mexican lawmakers, working under a court order, have until mid-Decembe ... |
| Oregon becomes first US state to decriminalize possession of hard drugs [04.11.2020] | A nationwide push to relax drug laws scored significant victories on Tuesday as four states voted to legalize marijuana, and Oregon became the first ... |
| NZ rejects cannabis legalisation in referendum, but glimmer of hope for yes camp [30.10.2020] | On preliminary results, the cannabis legalisation and control bill will not become law, after falling short at the referendum. The Electoral Commisio ... |
| Germany firmly rejects recreational marijuana legalization bill as hope fades for reform [30.10.2020] | The German federal parliament rejected a bill to legalize a “strictly controlled” adult-use cannabis market, dealing a major setback to recreational ... |
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