• Time has come to re-examine cannabis prohibition, Israel's police chief says

    National Police Chief Yochanan Danino made remark while speaking to high school students in Beit Shemesh
    The Jerusalem Post (Israel)
    Wednesday, May 13, 2015

    yohanan-daninoThe cause of marijuana legalization received a boost from an unlikely source, when Israel Police Insp.-Gen. Yohanan Danino said it is time for the government and police to reexamine their policies on the use of cannabis and study how other countries were dealing with the matter. “I think the time has come for the Israel Police, together with the state, to reexamine their stance on cannabis. I think we must sit and study what’s happening around the world,” he said. (See also: Police to explore decriminalizing pot)

  • Zehn Gründe, warum Berlin von einer Cannabis-Legalisierung profitiert

    Soll Marihuana nun endlich freigegeben werden?
    Berliner Zeitung (Germany)
    Mittwoch, 13. Mai 2015

    Erstmals hat sogar ein Sprecher der CDU die Legalisierung von Cannabis ins Spiel gebracht. Ist das das erste Anzeichen eines Tauwetters für die Freigabe von Marihuana? Nützt eine kontrollierte Abgabe von Cannabis? Und wenn ja, wem? Diese Fragen wabern durch die Stadt wie Jointschwaden durch die Hasenheide. Hier sind zehn Gründe, warum eine Freigabe gut für Berlin wäre. (Mehr dazu: Cannabis befeuert Wahlkampf)

  • Cannabis in the Caribbean

    Presentation by Junior "Spirit" Cottle
    Alonzo Stephen, videographer
    Tuesday, May 12, 2015

    JunioSpiritCottlePatrick Junior Leon Cottle, co-founder of the St.Vincent and the Grenadines Cannabis Revivial Committee (SVGCRC), adresses in this video the group attending the 13th Informal Drug Policy Dialogue, organised by TNI, WOLA and Intercambios-Puerto Rico in San Juan (Puerto Rico) between 23 and 25 of April. Since he was unable to attend the Dialogue, he spoke with this video-message on the issue of cannabis cultivation in the region, and the importance to take into account the farmers perspective in the debate about cannabis regulation.

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  • Berlin's increasingly unhappy relationship with marijuana

    The discovery of 700 marijuana plants is just the latest in an ongoing saga in and around Kreuzberg’s Görlitzer Park
    The Atlantic Citylab (US)
    Tuesday, May 12, 2015

    Kreuzberg and Berlin in general are going through an extremely messy fight over how best to control the weed trade. It’s a fight where police raids and dealer violence are turning parts of the area upside down, without delivering much in the way of results. In an attempt to supplant the dealers, the Green-controlled local borough of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg wants to set up a weed-selling coffee shop by the park. But the city as a whole remains against the idea.

  • Kiffen unter städtischer Aufsicht

    Cannabis-Konsum in München
    Süddeutsche Zeitung (Germany)
    Dienstag, 12. Mai 2015

    Die Grünen wollen nach Angaben von Stadträtin Lydia Dietrich einen Antrag stellen, dass die Stadt München zumindest versuchsweise den legalen Konsum von Cannabis ermöglicht. Ähnliche Pläne verfolgt Piraten-Stadtrat Thomas Ranft. Hintergrund ist eine Expertise von Gesundheits- und Umweltreferent Joachim Lorenz (Grüne). Der sieht durchaus Erfolgsaussichten für einen Modellversuch zum legalen Konsum von Cannabis. (Frankfurt: Cannabis nur für Kranke | Berlin: SPD auf THC)

  • Legalise cannabis in Luxembourg?

    Parliamentary debate planned
    Luxemburger Wort (Luxembourg)
    Monday, May 11, 2015

    Luxembourg's Parliament is to debate the decriminalisation of consumption of cannabis, the health minister said while outlining a new drug prevention programme. The minister said she hoped to raise awareness among young people of the risks surrounding cannabis consumption as well as the use of other, legal drugs, such as alcohol and tobacco. Among other proposals a drug consumption centre is set to open. A new initiative will enable consumers of synthetic drugs at major events and festivals to have pills checked for purity.

  • Revised ganja law fundamental and far reaching — Bunting

    Jamaica Observer (Jamaica)
    Monday, May 11, 2015

    peter-buntingNational Security Minister Bunting says amendments to the Dangerous Drugs Act, resulting in decriminalisation of specified quantities of ganja, are "most fundamental and far-reaching". He noted that for "decades", the possession of small quantities of ganja has caused "friction" between the police and residents. "Since about September last year, when those new guidelines [were initiated], we have had over 1,000 fewer persons arrested and charged for ganja every single month since [then]."

  • Coffee-Shops in Kreuzberg? Das wird dauern

    Wer darf in den Coffee-Shops einkaufen?
    Berliner Zeitung (Germany)
    Sontag, 10. Mai 2015

    Der legale Cannabis-Verkauf in Kreuzberg kommt nicht voran. Schon für den Antrag fehlt das Geld. Unklar bleibt auch, ob Touristen in Coffee-Shops einkaufen dür- fen. Sie stellen die größte Gruppe an Cannabiskäufern. Seit eineinhalb Jahren gibt es den entsprechenden Beschluss des Bezirksparlaments, doch noch immer ist kein Antrag beim zuständigen Bundesamt für Arznei- mittel und Medizinprodukte (BfArM) gestellt. (Mehr dazu: Piraten bekennen sich zur Hanfsaat am Kottbusser Tor)

  • Colombia to ban coca spraying herbicide glyphosate

    The Colombian drug eradication programme began in 1994
    BBC News (UK)
    Sunday, May 10, 2015

    fumigationcolombiaColombia has announced it will stop using a controversial herbicide to destroy illegal plantations of coca, the raw ingredient for cocaine. The decision follows a warning by the World Health Organization (WHO) that glyphosate is "probably carcinogenic". The product has been used in US-sponsored crop-spraying anti-narcotics programmes in South America. President Juan Manuel Santos has said Colombia will need to find other mechanisms to combat coca production. (But South Africa continues to spray cannabis fields)

  • Junk policy

    John Marks saw crime rates and junkie numbers plummet in an amazing experiment outlawed by the British government
    The Spectator (UK)
    Saturday, May 9, 2015

    A century ago, in 1914, the United States banned heroin and cocaine, and it then gradually used its diplomatic might to impose this ban across the world. Doctors tried to resist here in Britain and across the world, because they believed that if addicts were forced to buy contaminated drugs from armed criminal gangs, their health would only get worse. Doctors wanted to prescribe drugs to chronic addicts. This resistance only succeeded in one country — Britain, by a doctor called John Marks. This little window of legal drug use continued quietly for decades. 

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