Tag: regulation
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Is legal weed doomed to be run by big business?
Wednesday, 28 December 2022If the federal government legalizes cannabis, lawmakers should beware of monopolization by national corporations, says Shaleen Title, chief executive of the cannabis policy think tank Parabola Center ...
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Marijuana law reached peak absurdity in 2022
Saturday, 24 December 2022Banning a plant with hundreds of industrial and medical uses was never going to work out well, but 2022 saw marijuana prohibition reach peak absurdity, not to mention peak confusion for consumers and ...
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EU is skeptical about legalizing cannabis
Thursday, 22 December 2022Health Minister Lauterbach's prestige project is one of the few issues on which the traffic light parties in Germany agree. But they are meeting with resistance in Brussels. In order to implement his ...
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A proposal to regulate cannabis is imminent in the Czech Republic. The People's Party is concerned
Monday, 19 December 2022In mid-January, the Czech National Drug Coordinator Jindřich Vobořil plans to introduce a bill to free up the cannabis market. The exact form of regulation is currently being drawn up by working grou ...
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Legal uncertainty dampens Thailand's thriving weed business
Sunday, 18 December 2022Thailand legalized the growing of marijuana and its consumption in food and drinks on June 9 and removed cannabis from its list of banned narcotics. The Southeast Asian country hoped the move would b ...
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'We must move on from the repressive drug policies of the past', says Minister of Justice
Saturday, 17 December 2022Minister of Justice Sam Tanson of Luxembourg defended the government's decision to regulate recreational cannabis consumption, pointing out that this was already included in the governing coalition's ...
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Colombia’s Congress agrees to final marijuana legalization bill, which key senator expects to be enacted by June
Thursday, 15 December 2022Colombia’s Chamber of Representatives and Senate have voted to reconcile their respective versions of marijuana legalization bills that recently advanced, with both bodies accepting minor changes to ...
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Cannabis industry has huge economic value for South Africa, but government dragging its feet
Tuesday, 13 December 2022The Draft South African Cannabis Masterplan states that there are up to 900,000 traditional dagga growers in South Africa and that they and ‘dagga’ need to be included in the cannabis value chain, bu ...
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Germany: Flirting with Plan B?
Wednesday, 07 December 2022Two articles published this week, in Der Tagesspiegel and LTO, throw cold water on expectations that the European Commission could give green light to Germany’s ‘Interpretationslösung’ to justify its ...
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Regulated cultivated cannabis experiment delayed again; could start in 2024
Saturday, 03 December 2022Health Minister Ernst Kuipers said that the experiment in regulated cultivated cannabis will be postponed again. He expects that "as it stands now" only legally produced cannabis will be able to be s ...
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Légalisation du cannabis : des failles à tous les étages
Tuesday, 29 November 2022«Est-ce que la légalisation envisagée ne posera pas plus de questions pratiques qu’elle n’en résoudra, notamment par rapport aux contrôles du nombre de plants autorisés pour la culture par une commun ...
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Basic legislation proposal on legalizing cannabis should be ready by March 2023
Friday, 25 November 2022A basic legislation proposal for introducing a regulated cannabis market in Czechia should be finished by the end of March, the country’s National Drug Coordinator Jindřich Vobořil said after a meeti ...
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Poland: Cannabis for everyone?
Wednesday, 23 November 2022The distribution and use of cannabis for medical purposes became legal in Poland in 2017. By 2021, doctors across Poland were writing roughly 3,000 marijuana prescriptions a month. But how many month ...
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Activists fear medical cannabis companies want in on recreational market
Monday, 21 November 2022Established medical cannabis companies could be looking to set their foot in Malta’s flegdling recreational cannabis market, according to sources. Releaf, the NGO that led the campaign to legalise re ...
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New York has $750m worth of cannabis stockpiled that growers can’t sell
Saturday, 19 November 2022A strong smell of weed hangs over many New York neighbourhoods, the result in part of cannabis decriminalization in 2019 – but cannabis growers in the state are at an impasse when it comes to getting ...
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Anutin calls for patience as debate over hemp bill drags on
Thursday, 17 November 2022A new announcement categorising flowers or buds of the cannabis plant as "controlled herbs" is a temporary measure to curb the proliferation of recreational cannabis use in Thailand while the deliber ...
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A tale of marijuana charlatans, corruption, collusion and exploitation
Wednesday, 16 November 2022Through manipulating trust and exploiting public ignorance, cannabis charlatans – new and old – are trying to construct corporate empires, some of which appear to be based on corruption, collusion an ...
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Cannabis authority chair sacked after 10 months
Friday, 11 November 2022Psychotherapist Mariella Dimech has been sacked from her position as executive chairperson of the new cannabis authority on the responsible use of cannabis. Dimech said she was informed by the Home A ...
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Weed is now legal in Thailand. How long will the high times last?
Thursday, 10 November 2022Thailand’s military government is carrying out an experiment: What happens when a country in Asia, a region where drug laws tend to be harsh, essentially legalizes marijuana overnight? In the first f ...
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Nearly half of Americans to reside in states where marijuana is legal
Wednesday, 09 November 2022More than 155 million Americans will now live in states with legal weed. Maryland and Missouri passed legalization referendums on Tuesday, meaning there are now 21 states where anyone at least 21 yea ...
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No timeframe yet for cannabis associations
Tuesday, 08 November 2022Reforms parliamentary secretary Rebecca Buttigieg has refused to give a detailed timeline on when cannabis associations will start operating. “This is a complex sector and I am interested in doing th ...
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Treat Breda as part of Germany so regulated weed can go ahead: mayor
Monday, 07 November 2022The mayor of Breda has asked if his region can be treated as a part of Germany, in order to go ahead with a trial of regulated cannabis growing. Speaking at a PCN cannabis association symposium in Ei ...
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A decade after legalizing cannabis in Colorado, here's what we've learned
Monday, 07 November 2022Ten years ago this week, Colorado voters approved Amendment 64, making the state among the first two in the nation (along with Washington) to legalize the use and possession of cannabis, a.k.a. marij ...
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German cannabis regulation on thin ice
Friday, 28 October 2022The German government has released its ‘Eckpunktepapier’, a concept note laying out the key points to shape the regulation of the recreational cannabis market. Presenting the key points at a press co ...
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Dutch marijuana growing experiment runs into more delays
Thursday, 27 October 2022Marijuana growers who have been selected to take part in the government’s controlled cultivation trials said that they will not be ready to start early next year as the government intends, NRC report ...
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Germany: Lauterbach outlines cannabis legalization plan
Wednesday, 26 October 2022German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach presented his plans on the legalization of cannabis. He said that Germany's drug policy had to be renewed because the current policies weren't successful. His a ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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