Items tagged with US drug policy
| Item title | Description |
|---|---|
| Coca, the illicit plant that funded Colombia’s civil war, is flourishing again [10.07.2019] | It was eight years ago the last time planes came to spray poison on Noralba Quintero’s coca crop in the jungled foothills here by the mighty Magdalen ... |
| Congressional committee discusses how to legalize cannabis [10.07.2019] | In a first-of-its-kind hearing, a key congressional committee met to discuss how to finally put an end to federal cannabis prohibition. Titled Mariju ... |
| Youth marijuana use declined in states that legalized, study finds [08.07.2019] | Legalizing marijuana is associated with a decline in youth cannabis consumption, according to a new study in a journal published by the American Medi ... |
| Reefer Madness or Pot Paradise? The surprising legacy of the place where legal weed began [30.06.2019] | Colorado’s first-in-the-nation experiment has reshaped health, politics, rural culture and criminal justice in surprising ways that often defy both t ... |
| Global marijuana use rose by 60 percent over the past decade [26.06.2019] | The global story about cannabis — the most-used recreational drug in the world — is about as fuzzy as your body feels after taking your first hit. Wh ... |
| Final push to legalize pot fails in New York [19.06.2019] | New York’s plan to legalize marijuana this year collapsed, dashing hopes for a potential billion-dollar industry that supporters said would create jo ... |
| Want to grow your own cannabis? Get ready to fight ‘Big Marijuana’ [19.06.2019] | Illinois is about to make history as the first state to legalize recreational cannabis and allow commercial sales through the state legislature inste ... |
| Beijing says US legalization of marijuana is a 'threat to China' [17.06.2019] | Beijing's leading drug enforcement body has blamed the legalization of marijuana in Canada and parts of the United States for a spike in the amount o ... |
| No charges for personal drug possession: Seattle’s bold gamble to bring ‘peace’ after the war on drugs [11.06.2019] | Late last year, prosecutors in King County, which encompasses Seattle, became the first in the nation to stop charging people for possessing small am ... |
| 'These are healing plants': Oakland decriminalizes magic mushrooms [05.06.2019] | Oakland has become the second city in the US to decriminalize magic mushrooms and other psychedelics, with a policy that activists hope will spark a ... |
| Illinois will become 11th US state to legalise recreational marijuana use [02.06.2019] | Illinois will likely become the 11th state in the US to allow small amounts of marijuana for recreational use. The state’s Democrat-controlled House ... |
| Hope for cannabis growers [31.05.2019] | Jamaica is to lobby the United States on the issue of legitimising licensed cannabis growers and processors under correspondent banking rules. Audley ... |
| Oakland council may board magic bus by decriminalizing natural psychedelics [27.05.2019] | Oakland could become the second city in the country to decriminalize certain natural psychedelics — including “magic mushrooms” — if elected leaders ... |
| The green rush: should you invest in cannabis? [25.05.2019] | How big is the legal cannabis industry? Every time I think I’ve seen the highest estimate along comes another breathless puff piece with an even bigg ... |
| California bill to create ‘safe injection sites’ in San Francisco clears Assembly [23.05.2019] | A bill that would allow San Francisco city officials to open facilities where people can inject drugs without legal consequences cleared the state As ... |
| Mexico's president wants to change how the drug war is fought, and he may be heading for a showdown with Trump [16.05.2019] | Mexico's drug policies could be in for some sweeping changes, and with them the country's relations with the United States. President Andres Manuel L ... |
| Oakland explores possibility of opening safe injection site [13.05.2019] | Oakland officials are exploring building a safe injection site for illicit-drug users in hopes of lowering open-air drug use on city streets. Mayor L ... |
| Mexico wants to decriminalize all drugs and negotiate with the U.S. to do the same [09.05.2019] | Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrado released a new plan that called for radical reform to the nation’s drug laws and negotiating with the U ... |
| Denver voters approve measure to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms [08.05.2019] | Voters in Denver, Colorado, made their city the first in the U.S. to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms by approving a ballot measure on the issue. ... |
| Drug company founder convicted of bribing doctors with money, strippers to sell more Fentanyl [02.05.2019] | A pharmaceutical company founder accused of paying doctors millions of dollars in bribes to prescribe a highly addictive fentanyl spray was convicted ... |
| Trump Justice Department goes after overdose prevention sites as ‘crack houses’ [24.04.2019] | Two major U.S. cities are trying to open facilities to save drug users’ lives, but the Trump administration is trying to stop them, arguing the facil ... |
| 4/21 organizers want to reclaim cannabis from corporations [18.04.2019] | On 4/20, cannabis consumers across the United States will light one up in celebration of cannabis culture. In 10 states and counting, that celebratio ... |
| The cannabis ‘gold rush’ is underway and shows no sign of stopping, says pot CEO [18.04.2019] | With 33 states now offering some form of legal medical or recreational marijuana, and pot companies expanding their footprints across the country, th ... |
| These are the countries most likely to legalize weed next [17.04.2019] | In October 2018, Canada became the second country after Uruguay—and the first G7 nation—to legalize the recreational use of cannabis. Led by Prime Mi ... |
| Jamaica’s cannabis gamble [17.04.2019] | Jamaica is starting to think of cannabis as an opportunity. Uruguay, Canada and ten American states have legalised it for recreational use. Ganja, as ... |
| Global cannabis investors souring on Canada's potential [16.04.2019] | Six months after cannabis was legalized in Canada, many of the people in search of a financial windfall appear ready to turn their attention elsewher ... |
| Where the war on weed still rages [15.04.2019] | Marijuana possession led to nearly 6 percent of all arrests in the United States in 2017, FBI data shows, underscoring the level of policing dedicate ... |
| Alex Berenson and the last anti-cannabis crusade [10.04.2019] | The encroaching specter of mass legalization of cannabis has triggered a strange reprisal of the alarmist themes of Anslinger’s assault on the plant ... |
| How cannabis is firing up the U.S. supply chain [04.04.2019] | With the recreational use of cannabis now legal in 10 states and the District of Columbia and medical marijuana legal in 23 states, marijuana is on i ... |
| War on drugs has helped cocaine traffickers conquer swathes of Central America, study suggests [01.04.2019] | A new study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal, which simulated the complex dynamics between drug traffickers ... |
| Don't be greedy! Why cannabis companies should support home cultivation [20.03.2019] | One of the great things about the cannabis industry is that it has dramatically sped up the process of ending cannabis prohibition and achieving advo ... |
| San Francisco to expunge thousands of marijuana convictions [26.02.2019] | San Francisco officials plan to expunge more than 9,000 marijuana convictions dating back to 1975, the city's highest law enforcement official said. ... |
| Tens of thousands of Americans die each year from opioid overdoses [23.02.2019] | Drugs now kill about 70,000 Americans every year—more than car crashes or guns (both 39,000), more than AIDS did at the height of its epidemic (42,00 ... |
| Legalize pot? Amid opioid crisis, some New Hampshire leaders say no way [20.02.2019] | The push to legalize recreational marijuana is sweeping the Northeast: Massachusetts, Vermont and Maine have done it, and the governors of Rhode Isla ... |
| Popular book on marijuana's apparent dangers is pure alarmism, experts say [17.02.2019] | A group of 75 scholars and medical professionals have criticised a controversial book about the purported dangers of marijuana, calling it an example ... |
| Slowing the legal weed freight train [12.02.2019] | Sabet's strategy for sabotaging legalization is to offer legislators what he calls "a true decriminalization and justice" bill, which would do away w ... |
| Israel approves compassionate use of MDMA to treat PTSD [10.02.2019] | MDMA, popularly known as ecstasy, is a drug more commonly associated with raves and nightclubs than a therapist's office. Emerging research has shown ... |
| Why Europe has dodged America's fentanyl crisis [07.02.2019] | A perfect storm of conditions over the last decade led to the current fentanyl epidemic in the US. It began with rising social deprivation and excess ... |
| Safe injection site for opioid users faces Trump administration crackdown [06.02.2019] | The Justice Department is suing to stop a Philadelphia group from opening what some public health experts and mayors consider the next front in fight ... |
| Why so many Americans now support legalizing marijuana, in 4 charts [05.02.2019] | American views on marijuana have shifted incredibly rapidly. Thirty years ago, marijuana legalization seemed like a lost cause. In 1988, only 24 perc ... |
| A California conundrum: How to crack down on illicit sales without echoing the war on drugs? [04.02.2019] | In October 2018, the California Department of Consumer Affairs’ newly-established Cannabis Enforcement Unit teamed up with the Los Angeles Police Dep ... |
| 'Legalize marijuana without corporatized marijuana,' says New York mayor Bill de Blasio [03.02.2019] | New York Mayor Bill de Blasio supports Governor Andrew Cuomo's pledge to legalize recreational marijuana, but he doesn't want the the market to be ov ... |
| Does marijuana use really cause psychotic disorders? [20.01.2019] | Does marijuana cause psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia, and do associated symptoms like paranoia lead to violent crimes? That’s what writer A ... |
| Cannabis in Congress: Why federally legal weed could soon be a reality [14.01.2019] | There is a fresh Congress in town. That means the nation’s 535 lawmakers are in the first stages of trying to get their favored pet issues on the rad ... |
| Is Alex Berenson trolling us with his anti-weed book? [12.01.2019] | There’s been a flurry of media coverage around a new book called Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence. One of ... |
| Enjoy it while you can Cannabis Canada, your edge is already eroding [11.01.2019] | A number of industry insiders who argue that the level of government control and intervention in the cannabis landscape in Canada, coupled with the s ... |
| Now for the hard part: Getting Californians to buy legal weed [02.01.2019] | A billion dollars of tax revenue, the taming of the black market, the convenience of retail cannabis stores throughout the state — these were some of ... |
| Marijuana legalization 2019 [01.01.2019] | Following a year of huge advancements in marijuana policy reform, experts predict that 2019 would be a “real game-changer” in terms of the conversati ... |
| Cuomo to push legalizing recreational marijuana in New York by early 2019 [17.12.2018] | Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced that he would push to legalize recreational marijuana next year, a move that could bring in more than $1.3 billion in ... |
| Teen marijuana use remains lower than pre-legalization levels, federally funded survey finds [17.12.2018] | Fewer young people are using marijuana now as compared to 2012, when the first states moved to legalize cannabis, according to a federally funded stu ... |
|
:: |
|
Page 1 of 21
