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Over a quarter of cocaine seized in Latin American ports destined for Antwerp
Saturday, 22 October 2022This year, an estimated 200 tonnes of cocaine destined for overseas have already been seized in Latin American Ports, 65 tonnes of which were destined for the port of Antwerp, reports Belgian newspap ...
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Cannabis and Climate
Thursday, 20 October 2022Environmental impacts are rarely taken into account in the cannabis regulation debate. The assumption is that legal regulation would automatically reduce the negative environmental consequences of th ...
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ACT becomes first Australian jurisdiction to decriminalise illicit drugs in small quantities
Thursday, 20 October 2022The Australian Capital Territory has become the first Australian jurisdiction to decriminalise illicit drugs in small quantities. Laws passed in the territory’s parliament mean people found with smal ...
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Details on cannabis legalisation: Lauterbach plans with these key points
Wednesday, 19 October 2022In Germany, the purchase and possession of 20 grams of cannabis from the age of 18 should in principle be exempt from punishment. This emerges from the key points of Health Minister Karl Lauterbach ( ...
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Vobořil: The state could raise up to CZK 15 billion annually by taxing addictive substances
Monday, 17 October 2022Czechia could gain up to CZK 15 billion (EUR 600 million) a year thanks to new taxation of addictive substances and more efficient collection. The proposal also envisages the introduction of a strict ...
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Booming cocaine production suggests the war on drugs has failed
Thursday, 13 October 2022There is no shortage of people willing to plant and harvest coca; and there is no shortage of cocaine. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), global production hit a recor ...
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What is HHC?
Wednesday, 12 October 2022Among the wave of hemp-derived cannabinoids sweeping the country—delta 8 THC, delta-O THC, and delta-10 THC among them—few have eluded public understanding more than HHC. Googling the compound brings ...
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Victorian Greens push for cannabis to be legalised, taxed similarly to alcohol
Sunday, 09 October 2022Cannabis would be legal and regulated in Victoria (Australia) by 2024 under a Greens proposal, being announced ahead of November’s state election, that the party says could help raise $1.21bn in reve ...
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Albanian government presents second law draft for cannabis legalisation
Friday, 07 October 2022The second draft of a law on cultivating and processing cannabis for medicinal and industrial purposes has been put forward by the Albanian government, bringing the plant another step closer to at le ...
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Amsterdam mayor wants Europe to decriminalize cocaine: “War on drugs isn’t working
Friday, 07 October 2022Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema believes that Europe should decriminalize the sale of cocaine, like various countries already allow the sale of cannabis. “But I am a realist and know that there is too ...
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Biden pardons thousands convicted of marijuana possession under federal law
Thursday, 06 October 2022President Biden pardoned thousands of people convicted of marijuana possession under federal law and said his administration would review whether marijuana should still be in the same legal category ...
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Morocco grants first authorizations for legal cannabis industry
Wednesday, 05 October 2022The Cannabis Activities Regulatory Agency (ANRAC), a brand new organization to regulate the legal cultivation of cannabis, issued ten permits for processing and manufacturing cannabis in Morocco. The ...
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Au Maroc, les cultivateurs de chanvre placent leurs espoirs dans le cannabis thérapeutique
Wednesday, 05 October 2022Au pied du mont Tidghine, plus haut sommet du massif du Rif, dans le nord du Maroc, le village d’Azila est couvert de plantations de cannabis, prêt à être récolté. Mais les temps sont durs pour les c ...
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Zurich puts off recreational pot smoking trial
Wednesday, 05 October 2022The Zurich city council and the university of Zurich announced that the sale of cannabis products from pharmacies and social clubs under controlled conditions would only start in the first half of ne ...
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California’s illicit marijuana market thrives as much of the state continues to restrict sales
Tuesday, 04 October 2022In 2016, Californians voted to legalize recreational adult-use marijuana. Proponents of Proposition 64, including then-Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, argued that it would generate massive revenue, while decr ...
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Amsterdam council to vote against banning tourists from coffeeshops
Friday, 30 September 2022Amsterdam council will vote against a proposal to enforce a national ban against tourists in coffeeshops, where cannabis is smoked. Mayor Femke Halsema formally proposed temporarily banning non-resid ...
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Legal marijuana, but Uruguayans still prefer black market
Friday, 30 September 2022In 2013, Uruguay became the first country in the world to legalize recreational marijuana -- which came into effect four years later -- permitting its sale in pharmacies, a move that helped to push m ...
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German SPD representatives confident a solution to international legal hurdles will be found
Thursday, 29 September 2022Earlier this month news broke of recent analysis conducted by the Bundestag’s scientific service suggested the creation of a legal recreational cannabis market could contravene a number of European t ...
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Recreational marijuana use in Australia could be legalised by federal parliament, Greens say
Monday, 26 September 2022Federal parliament could override state laws to legalise recreational marijuana use in Australia, according to new constitutional advice obtained by the Greens. As the minor party ramps up its campai ...
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Government needs to speed up cannabis law reform, say protesters
Monday, 19 September 2022Various groups protested on the lawns of the Union Buildings over the slow pace and haphazard approach to cannabis law reform and regulation in South Africa. Under the umbrella of the Cannabis Mass A ...
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Could Germany’s impending cannabis legalization prop up Canada’s flagging producers?
Sunday, 18 September 2022First-mover advantage: It’s a phrase long used by Canadian cannabis companies that have spent billions of dollars to accelerate their international sprawl since legalization in 2018. But as Germany m ...
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Golding promises special treatment for small farmers, Rastas, Maroons in ganja industry
Sunday, 18 September 2022Small farmers, the Maroons and Rastafarians are to be given special treatment in the ganja industry whenever the People’s National Party (PNP) next forms the Government in Jamaica. That commitment wa ...
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Pirates are preparing to legalize marijuana. Progress cannot be stopped even in the Czech Republic
Friday, 16 September 2022The Pirates are fulfilling one of their pre-election promises. Pirates MPs prepared a bill on the legalization of cannabis in cooperation with the national anti-drug coordinator Jindřich Vobořil, an ...
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What's the deal with those ‘Dispenseroo’ weed adverts across London?
Thursday, 15 September 2022Cannabis dealers who stuck hundreds of unauthorised adverts on London's Tube trains say they are now swamped with orders and have more guerrilla marketing tactics up their sleeve. Dispenseroo, a cann ...
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Pirates: Legal marijuana could generate up to CZK 1.8 billion in taxes
Wednesday, 14 September 2022Legalizing marijuana would bring the Czech state between CZK 650 million and CZK 1.8 billion in tax revenue, according to an analysis commissioned by the Pirate Party, which was presented on Wednesda ...
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Vobořil is looking for support for the regulated legal sale of cannabis
Monday, 12 September 2022The new model of cannabis regulation in the Czech Republic envisages controlled sales in specialized branches, the liberalization of the use of cannabis and, in small quantities, also the cultivation ...
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Germany’s move to legalise cannabis slows over fears of clash with EU laws
Monday, 12 September 2022Legal hurdles are slowing down German plans to allow the controlled distribution of cannabis among adults, with fears that a badly crafted law to legalise the drug could be thrown out by the European ...
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Quality issues delay sale of cannabis products in Basel pilot scheme
Friday, 09 September 2022The ‘Weed Care’ experiment in the city of Basel was supposed to launch on September 15. But it has been put on hold because traces of pesticides were found in some of the supposedly organic plants. B ...
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The reality of legal weed in California: Huge illegal grows, violence, worker exploitation and deaths
Thursday, 08 September 2022Proposition 64, California’s 2016 landmark cannabis initiative, sold voters on the promise a legal market would cripple the drug’s outlaw trade, with its associated violence and environmental wreckag ...
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Czechia, mulling cannabis decriminalisation, calls for joint EU action
Thursday, 08 September 2022Czech National Anti-drug Coordinator Jindřich Vobořil wants to strictly regulate the Czech cannabis market as cannabis sales should be decriminalised and regulated at the European level. While recrea ...
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Britain blocks Bermuda’s cannabis legislation
Tuesday, 06 September 2022Bermuda’s governor Rena Lalgie announced that the United Kingdom has blocked the Bermuda government’s controversial bid to legalize the use and production of cannabis in the British Overseas Territor ...
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Explained: Bhang, ganja, and criminality in the NDPS Act
Thursday, 01 September 2022While granting bail to a man arrested on June 1 for possessing 29 kg of bhang and 400 g of ganja, Karnataka High Court recently observed that nowhere in the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances ...
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Cannabis authority yet to start issuing licences, months after law introduced
Monday, 29 August 2022New rules on cannabis use came into force in Malta in December after parliament approved a new law aimed at further decriminalising the substance. The new law allows for the creation of cannabis asso ...
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Pondoland: South Africa's cannabis growers left behind by legalisation plans
Sunday, 21 August 2022For generations, people in South Africa's Eastern Cape have made their living growing cannabis. You might expect that as the country moves to legalise the crop, they would be first in line to benefit ...
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Colombia, largest cocaine supplier to U.S., considers decriminalizing
Saturday, 20 August 2022Colombia is the largest producer of cocaine in the world, the source of more than 90 percent of the drug seized in the United States. It’s home to the largest Drug Enforcement Administration office o ...
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Bhang not a prohibited drink or drug: Karnataka HC
Saturday, 20 August 2022Citing that bhang is not a prohibited drink under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, the Karnataka high court has granted bail to an accused from Bihar. "There is no scientifi ...
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High street? Dutch ecstasy ‘shop’ shows possible way for drug reform
Thursday, 18 August 2022For campaigners advocating drug liberalisation, it is an image that is almost too good to be true: a store down a cobbled street in Utrecht legally selling ecstasy or MDMA for recreational use. The X ...
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Prohibited Plants
Thursday, 18 August 2022Across the world, the state of environmental stress is unprecedented. As scholarship and activism on ‘environmental justice’ points out, poorer and marginalised communities face particular exposure t ...
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Govt may legalise recreational use of cannabis in future: Thai Health minister
Thursday, 18 August 2022Despite repeated calls by doctors to suspend the decriminalisation of ganja, Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul hinted at the opposite – further legalising the plant for recreational use. Anu ...
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Cannabis trial: Basel pharmacies to charge black-market prices
Thursday, 18 August 2022The first Swiss project on the legal sale of cannabis in pharmacies will start on September 15 in canton Basel City. Hemp users over 18 can now register to take part, with the number of participants ...
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Germany will legalize cannabis — but nobody knows when
Wednesday, 17 August 2022Cannabis has become a part of everyday culture in Germany and now, policymaking. The coalition government of center-left Social Democrats (SPD), environmentalist Greens and neoliberal Free Democrats ...
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German Health Minister lays out next steps for cannabis legalisation
Wednesday, 17 August 2022The SPD Health Minister coming out for legalisation put an end to some rumours that he was being pushed into it by the socially liberal Free Democrats, who negotiated cannabis legalisation as a key p ...
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Cannabis funding needed
Wednesday, 17 August 2022The recommendation follows the completion of a market study of the cannabis industry in Jamaica, which revealed that funding is one of the major impediments in the industry. The FTC report, which was ...
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Over 10,000 people in B.C. have died due to toxic drugs since health emergency was declared in 2016: coroner
Tuesday, 16 August 2022More than 140 people died from illicit drug toxicity across B.C. during the month of June, the provincial coroners' service says, pushing the total number of fatalities this year past 1,000. The numb ...
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Most Texans support legalizing pot for recreational or medical use, new poll finds
Monday, 15 August 2022Since 2012, 19 states, Washington, D.C., and Guam have legalized marijuana for recreational use — something 55% of Texans have said they either support or strongly support, according to a new Dallas ...
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‘Public opinion is ready’ – These French senators want to legalise marijuana
Thursday, 11 August 2022France is known for having some of the strictest laws regarding marijuana in Europe – while simultaneously maintaining one of the highest rates of cannabis usage in the EU. A group of French senators ...
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Colombia’s first leftist president says war on drugs has failed
Monday, 08 August 2022Colombia’s first leftist president has been sworn into office, promising to fight inequality and bring peace to a country long haunted by bloody feuds between the government, drug traffickers and reb ...
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Towards a ‘human rights-based’ drug policy
Wednesday, 27 July 2022In 2018, Malta became one of the first European countries to fully decriminalise cannabis for medicinal purposes; followed up by a broader reform to (within limits) decriminalise the drug for recreat ...
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Senate Democrats roll out long-awaited bill to legalize marijuana
Thursday, 21 July 2022Senate Democrats unveiled long-awaited legislation to end the federal prohibition of marijuana, but opposition from Republicans and some Democrats is expected to pose a challenge to passing the measu ...
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Council of State opposes plan to ban sale of laughing gas
Monday, 18 July 2022The Council of State, which examines and makes recommendations about all new draft legislation in the Netherlands, says the government should not introduce a ban on the sale of laughing gas (nitrous ...
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