Items tagged with cannabis
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| Jeff Sessions’s endless war on marijuana [07.01.2018] | The key to understanding the Trump administration’s approach to policy, it seems, is to look at what most Americans want and then imagine the opposit ... |
| California’s cannabis crowd isn’t afraid of the Big Bad Attorney General [06.01.2018] | Lots of people, obviously, are unhappy with Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ reversal of Obama-era guidelines de-prioritizing federal enforcement of m ... |
| Time to shed medieval mindsets as we wage war on marijuana [06.01.2018] | It seems an eternity ago that two top High Court judges called for the decriminalisation of cannabis in Hong Kong, arguing that enforcement legislati ... |
| Vermont House votes to legalize marijuana [04.01.2018] | The Vermont House passed a bill to legalize recreational possession of marijuana just hours after Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded a Departme ... |
| California defiant in face of federal move to get tough on marijuana [04.01.2018] | The sale of recreational cannabis became legal in California on New Year’s Day. Just four days later, the Trump administration acted in effect to und ... |
| Morocco’s cannabis farmers are radically overhauling their grow methods [04.01.2018] | On a recent visit to the Rif region of Northern Morocco, we observed a dramatic and widespread evolution in cannabis cultivation techniques. We have ... |
| Marijuana stock analysts not too worried about Sessions's order just yet [04.01.2018] | Cannabis analysts weren't too worried for the most part about the decision by Attorney General Jeff Sessions to rescind an Obama-era policy that effe ... |
| Jeff Sessions faces a steep uphill battle in his war on pot [04.01.2018] | Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the repeal of Obama-era rules that set a federal policy of noninterference with state-legal marijuana busine ... |
| Sessions to rescind Cole Memo that kept feds out of legal marijuana states [04.01.2018] | Attorney General Jeff Sessions is rescinding the Obama-era policy that paved the way for legalized marijuana to flourish in states across the country ... |
| Kriminalbeamte fordern regulierten Marihuana-Markt [04.01.2018] | Der Bund Deutscher Kriminalbeamter (BDK) hat sich für eine regulierte Legalisierung von Cannabis in Deutschland ausgesprochen. „Es ist an der Zeit, a ... |
| More banks are welcoming marijuana businesses, federal data shows [03.01.2018] | A growing number of banks are willing to open accounts for marijuana businesses. The number of depository institutions that are actively banking the ... |
| California's marijuana legalization aims to repair damage from the war on drugs [02.01.2018] | California is now the largest state in the nation to have legal and regulated recreational marijuana. And while that alone is a blow to the prohibiti ... |
| Marijuana legalization 2018: Which states might consider cannabis laws this year? [02.01.2018] | The legal marijuana market could blaze across the United States in 2018. At least 12 states are poised to consider marijuana legalization this year, ... |
| The end of cannabis tolerance in Spain [02.01.2018] | After decades of relative tolerance towards Cannabis in Spain, the Constitutional Court decides that cannabis clubs are criminal. Years of government ... |
| California rings in new year with broad legalization of marijuana [01.01.2018] | The arrival of the new year in California brought with it broad legalization of marijuana, a much-anticipated change that comes two decades after the ... |
| Steve DeAngelo digs in [01.01.2018] | "We are looking in 2018 and 2019 at an extinction event for 75 percent of the existing cannabis industry in California," says cannabis activist/entre ... |
| Hippy dream now a billion-dollar industry with California set to legalise cannabis [30.12.2017] | On Monday, California, the US’s most populous state, and the world’s sixth biggest economy, will officially legalising cannabis. Overnight a shadow i ... |
| How Congress unwittingly turned the nation's capital into the Wild West of marijuana [29.12.2017] | It’s not the promise of prompt delivery that has residents of Washington, D.C., spending fifty bucks for nondescript glass jars, nor is it the small ... |
| I grow pot in California for a living. I’m worried about legalization [29.12.2017] | As the daughter of a back-to-the-land homesteader and pot farmer, I learned never to speak of what my father did. We lived a simple life in times whe ... |
| Legal weed isn’t the boon small businesses thought it would be [29.12.2017] | The business of selling legal weed is big and getting bigger. North Americans spent $6.7 billion on legal cannabis last year, and some analysts think ... |
| Californian growers and retailers brace for cannabis competition [27.12.2017] | California has long been a cannabis pioneer. The state became a hub for the drug-induced counterculture of “turn on, tune in, drop out” of the 1960s, ... |
| Dutch councils vie to produce cannabis in bid to cut out criminals [27.12.2017] | At least 30 companies want to get into the legal production of cannabis in the Netherlands, according to Paul Depla, the mayor of Breda, whose counci ... |
| Mumbaiites fight to legalise marijuana [27.12.2017] | The Bangalore-based founder of the Great Legalisation Movement (GLM), Viki Vaurora, wrote to the Prime Minister asking him to legalise hemp — leaves ... |
| California's top marijuana regulator talks about what to expect Jan. 1, when legal pot market opens [25.12.2017] | California's legal pot market opens for business on Jan. 1. The day will be a milestone, but what exactly will happen then and, especially, in the we ... |
| With legalization ahead, nonprofit’s certification program will test businesses offering pot products [24.12.2017] | Marijuana consumers are likely to have a flood of options when pot becomes legal next summer and now a not-for-profit group is stepping in to help de ... |
| Israeli pot dealers boost business with high tech smokescreen [23.12.2017] | Telegrass, an Israeli platform for drug-dealing, has won praise from its users but sparked alarm among drug counselors and police. Amos Dov Silver, a ... |
| Marijuana doomsday didn't come [19.12.2017] | It's been a five years since Colorado's voters approved Constitutional Amendment 64, legalizing recreational marijuana in the state. Sales commenced ... |
| High and dry: Pakistan's penchant for hash [18.12.2017] | Many Pakistanis are surprisingly open to using cannabis, with the spongy, black hash made from marijuana grown in the country’s tribal belt and neigh ... |
| Lawmakers, pot growers say California's marijuana cultivation rules favor big corporate farms [18.12.2017] | California’s new rules allowing marijuana cultivation favor large corporate farms despite a promise in Proposition 64 that small growers would be pro ... |
| Law on marijuana should be eased [17.12.2017] | In a long overdue move, the government this past week decided to relax the narcotics law and allow hemp to be grown as a cash crop in six provinces i ... |
| Jeff Sessions isn’t giving up on weed. He’s doubling down [16.12.2017] | When president-elect Donald Trump announced Senator Jeff Sessions would be his attorney general, advocates for marijuana law reform were suddenly sei ... |
| Cannabis ingredient holds promise as antipsychotic medicine [15.12.2017] | An ingredient in cannabis called cannabidiol or CBD has shown promise in a clinical trial as a potential new treatment for psychosis, scientists said ... |
| Marc Emery was right; Julian Fantino was wrong [15.12.2017] | It seems absurd that Marc and Jodi Emery, who have spent years fighting the unjust laws against marijuana, in and out of prison, can’t now sell the p ... |
| You want ganja to be legal in India? These MPs want it too [15.12.2017] | There are many issues Indian lawmakers need to discuss in the Winter Session of Parliament includes a private member’s bill to legalise cannabis. Dha ... |
| World Health Organization: Initial review of CBD doesn’t warrant scheduling [13.12.2017] | CBD, for now, should not be subject to international drug scheduling, a World Health Organization committee determined in an initial review of the ca ... |
| Étude sur le cannabis: nouvelle demande [12.12.2017] | Les Villes de Berne, Bienne, Lucerne et Zurich examinent le dépôt de nouvelles demandes auprès de l’OFSP, après le rejet jugé «surprenant» de la dema ... |
| Following marijuana legalization, teen drug use is down in Colorado [11.12.2017] | Following legalization, the rate of adolescent marijuana use in Colorado has fallen to its lowest level in nearly a decade, according to new federal ... |
| Yes, legalizing marijuana breaks treaties. We can deal with that [11.12.2017] | Buzzing in the background of Canada’s debate on cannabis legalization is the issue of the three UN drug control treaties, and what to do with them. T ... |
| How Uruguay made legal highs work [10.12.2017] | Uruguay’s switch to a legal marijuana market has not been without its hitches. Notably the resistance of most pharmacists to act as outlets for the r ... |
| The legal marijuana market is exploding — it'll hit almost $10 billion sales in this year [08.12.2017] | The market for legal marijuana is heating up in a big way. Legal marijuana sales are predicted to hit $9.7 billion in North America in 2017, accordin ... |
| Justice ministry manipulated studies into cannabis policy [07.12.2017] | Senior justice ministry officials directly interfered with independent research into the ministry’s own cannabis policy, current affairs programme Ni ... |
| California’s limit on big growers just vanished. Here’s why [06.12.2017] | In an unexpected move that has small cannabis farmers and some state lawmakers up in arms, California regulators have created a licensing loophole th ... |
| Organised cultivation of cannabis matter of concern: High court [06.12.2017] | Even as the Himachal Pradesh high court has expressed concern over organised cultivation of cannabis in the higher reaches of Kullu district, its wil ... |
| Portugal’s radical drugs policy is working. Why hasn’t the world copied it? [05.12.2017] | In 2001, Portugal became the first country to decriminalise the possession and consumption of all illicit substances. Rather than being arrested, tho ... |
| A taxing problem: how to price, tax legal weed to stamp out the black market [05.12.2017] | Stamping out the illicit market is one of Ottawa’s major goals as the country approaches a July 2018 deadline for the legalization of recreational ma ... |
| Legalization of marijuana unlikely to kill Canada’s black market right away [04.12.2017] | From texting a local dealer to dropping into a neighbourhood dispensary or ordering online, Canada’s black market for recreational marijuana has seen ... |
| Israel eases sanctions on home marijuana growers [04.12.2017] | When it comes to throwing the book at marijuana growers, police are distinguishing between those growing pot for their own use and those growing it f ... |
| Lawlessness on cannabis attracts more tourists in Morocco [04.12.2017] | It may not feature in Morocco’s official tourism brochures but cannabis attracts thousands of visitors a year to the North African country. Northern ... |
| Légalisation du cannabis: oui de Berset aux études [04.12.2017] | L'Université de Berne pourrait être autorisée à mener son étude sur la vente légale de cannabis. L'Office fédéral de la santé publique (OFSP) est en ... |
| Danish police use drone in operation against Christiania cannabis trade [30.11.2017] | A special unit of the Copenhagen police force has been operating in and around the ‘free city’ of Christiania and on its notorious Pusher Street in a ... |
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