Tag: regulation
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The Marlboro of marijuana
Friday, 07 November 2014Would household names really consider selling cannabis? They already have. In 1969 a Philip Morris executive wrote to the Justice Department, requesting a sample of marijuana for testing. In 1970 Bri ...
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Amsterdam city council calls for licenced marijuana production
Friday, 07 November 2014Ministers should sanction experiments to legally grow marijuana under licence and the city should make preparations to do so, according to a majority of Amsterdam city councillors. All VVD councillor ...
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Is prohibition worth the cost?
Thursday, 06 November 2014In Denmark there is little movement on drug policy. We know that we are just months from the next general election, but no political party has a policy on the subject of how to move forward. The Cons ...
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US vote refuels ganja debate
Thursday, 06 November 2014The local pro-ganja lobby in Jamaica is welcoming the vote for the legalisation of ganja in the American states of Oregon, Alaska, and Washington DC. "One of the biggest stumbling blocks has been the ...
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Fear of cannabis commerce didn't, won't and shouldn't stop legalization
Wednesday, 05 November 2014Three marijuana legalization initiatives were on the ballot this week, and all three won. That’s a better outcome than I was expecting. I was surprised when voters in Colorado and Washington approved ...
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Marijuana legalization sweeps the 2014 midterm elections
Wednesday, 05 November 2014On November 4, several states radically altered their approaches to a drug once known for Reefer Madness. In Alaska, Oregon, and Washington, DC, voters approved marijuana legalization measures. But i ...
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6 facts about marijuana
Wednesday, 05 November 2014Attitudes about marijuana have undergone a rapid shift in public opinion, paralleled by few other trends in the U.S. Our recent data, along with historical figures from Gallup and the General Social ...
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Barcelona to lift cannabis club age limit to 21
Sunday, 02 November 2014Cannabis clubs in Catalonia will face stricter regulations with the region's parliamentary health commission set to raise the minimum age for membership from 18 to 21 while prohibiting new clubs from ...
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Uruguay cannabis growers' clubs: Registration begins
Friday, 31 October 2014In Uruguay, licensed cannabis clubs of up to 45 members will be allowed to grow a maximum of 99 plants each year. In August, growing up to six plants of cannabis at home became legal. Each club membe ...
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Cannabis: A burning issue for Austria's Neos
Tuesday, 28 October 2014Neos chairman Matthias Strolz has spoken out in favour of selling cannabis over the counter in pharmacies and allowing people to grow their own plants for personal consumption. He said that half a mi ...
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Expert Dialogue on Cannabis Regulation Models
Thursday, 23 October 2014The Expert Dialogue took place in San Sebastian and was hosted by the municipal authorities of the city. Dialogue focused on examining some regulation models currently being implemented. The event wa ...
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The marijuana industry could be bigger than the NFL by 2020
Thursday, 23 October 2014A report from Greenwave Advisors, a "comprehensive research and financial analysis for the emerging legalized marijuana industry," projects that legal cannabis could be an industry with revenues of $ ...
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Dreifuss unterstützt Cannabis-Vereine
Saturday, 18 October 2014In Anwesenheit der ehemaligen Bundesrätin Ruth Dreifuss haben sich Vertreter aus Genf, Zürich, Bern und Basel getroffen, um über ein Projekt zur Cannabis-Legalisierung zu diskutieren. Der Genfer Sozi ...
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How marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington is making the world a better place
Thursday, 16 October 2014No pressure, Colorado and Washington, but the world is scrutinizing your every move. That was the take-home message of an event today at the Brookings Institution, discussing the international impact ...
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International Impacts of the U.S. Trend towards Legal Marijuana
Thursday, 16 October 2014For decades, the United States has been a champion of the global drug control treaty system, which limits the use of marijuana exclusively to medical and scientific purposes, and obligates government ...
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Morocco likely to join countries that legalized cultivation of cannabis
Thursday, 09 October 2014After the Istiqlal party, one of the old conservative parties of Morocco, proposed last year a draft law to decriminalize and regulate the cultivation of cannabis for medical and pharmaceutical uses, ...
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Yes to marijuana ballot measures
Sunday, 05 October 2014The decision by California voters in 1996 to legalize medical marijuana produced a wave of similar initiatives around the country. Less than two decades later, over half the states allow at least lim ...
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Cannabis – a conflict of generations
Thursday, 25 September 2014The legalisation of cannabis in Luxembourg is turning into a conflict of generations, as the youth branches of several parties opposed to such a move, have joined forces to promote decriminalisation. ...
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Major pot legalization group turns sights on California for 2016
Tuesday, 23 September 2014Marijuana legalization proponents are turning their attention to California and gearing up for a legalization campaign in 2016. The Marijuana Policy Project is creating a new committee in the state a ...
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State-licensed marijuana market expected to bring in about $636 million in taxes
Thursday, 18 September 2014The Washington state’s legal recreational marijuana market is expected to bring in about $636 million in taxes to state coffers through the middle of 2019, according to an economic forecast. The fore ...
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Analysis: Rethinking global drug policy
Monday, 15 September 2014What would the world look like if governments - instead of crime syndicates - controlled drug markets and drug use was decriminalized? A new report by the Global Commission on Drug Policy, released b ...
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New York could legalize recreational marijuana in 2015
Monday, 15 September 2014The state of New York could legalize marijuana for recreational use as early as 2015. State Sen. Liz Krueger (D) will reintroduce the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act during the next legislative ...
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5 interesting things we learned from the man in charge of Uruguay’s weed
Thursday, 11 September 2014Julio Calzada is the top drug official in the little nation of Uruguay, which has gained notoriety over the last year for becoming the first country to legalize the cultivation, sale and consumption ...
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Uruguay marijuana law under fire
Thursday, 11 September 2014When Uruguay's historic marijuana regulation law passed the Senate in December, it was a major victory for drug policy reform in Uruguay and around the world. However, opposition leader Luis Lacalle ...
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Taking Control: Pathways to Drug Policies that Work
Tuesday, 09 September 2014The upcoming United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Drugs (UNGASS) in 2016 is an unprecedented opportunity to review and re-direct national drug control policies and the future of the glo ...
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Former world leaders call for nations to decriminalize drug use and experiment with legalization
Tuesday, 09 September 2014Drug use should be decriminalized and governments should experiment with drug legalization and regulation, a group of former world leaders argues in a new report. The recommendations from the Global ...
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Bundesrat zweifelt an rechtlicher Grundlage
Thursday, 04 September 2014In Genf wird derzeit darüber nachgedacht, ob Lokale für eine kontrollierte Cannabis-Abgabe für den Eigenkonsum eingerichtet werden sollen. Auch andere Städten spielen mit dem Gedanken. Der Bundesrat ...
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Washington judge upholds small city’s pot shop ban
Thursday, 28 August 2014A state judge said that a small city can continue to ban state-licensed marijuana businesses, in a case with big implications for Washington’s experiment in legal pot. Pierce County Superior Court Ju ...
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Catalonia set to legalize medical marijuana
Wednesday, 27 August 2014Catalonia is drawing up rules to allow the use of marijuana for the treatment of patients suffering from conditions with symptoms such as pain and loss of appetite, the region's health minister Boi R ...
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This is your federalism on drugs
Wednesday, 27 August 2014Conservative Republicans often talk about the need to constrain the power of the federal government. On everything from environmental regulation to education policy, Republican officeholders argue th ...
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Black market boom lays bare a social divide in Colorado’s marijuana market
Tuesday, 19 August 2014That the black market in Colorado bustles in the emerging days of legalisation is not unexpected. By some reckonings, it will continue as long as residents of other states look to Colorado as the nat ...
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Les clubs de cannabis passent un nouveau cap
Monday, 18 August 2014Le chemin qui mène à la régularisation du cannabis se poursuit malgré les récentes réserves de l’Office fédéral de la santé publique (OFSP). «Le Conseil d’Etat est conscient de la réalité quotidienne ...
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IDPC response to the 2013 Annual Report of the International Narcotics Control Board
Thursday, 14 August 2014The publication of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) Report for 2013 took place in the context of major shifts in the drug policy landscape. Uruguay became the world’s first country to ...
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Barcelona shuts down 49 cannabis clubs
Wednesday, 13 August 2014Authorities accused the clubs selling cannabis illegally and attempting to lure tourists to their premises. The Catalan federation of cannabis associations, CatFAC, appealed for dialogue between the ...
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Täglich zehn Gramm von der Stadt
Wednesday, 13 August 2014Schweizer Städte wollen mit der Cannabisabgabe experimentieren. Doch auf eidgenössischer Ebene scheint eine rechtliche Änderung unwahrscheinlich. «Die internationalen Entwicklungen, vor allem die Lib ...
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Uruguay delays implementation of legal framework for marijuana sale
Wednesday, 06 August 2014In December 2013, Uruguay became the first country in the world to legalize the production and sale of marijuana. But this pioneering decision is presenting a number of challenges when it comes to im ...
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Repeal Prohibition, Again
Sunday, 27 July 2014It took 13 years for the United States to come to its senses and end Prohibition, 13 years in which people kept drinking, otherwise law-abiding citizens became criminals and crime syndicates arose an ...
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Let states decide on marijuana
Friday, 25 July 2014Repealing the Controlled Substances Act would allow the states to decide whether to permit marijuana use and under what conditions. Nearly three-fourths of them have already begun to do so, liberaliz ...
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Recreational marijuana qualifies for Oregon ballot
Tuesday, 22 July 2014Oregon voters will decide whether to legalize marijuana for recreational use after state elections officials said the measure qualified for the November 2014 ballot. The measure would allow adults 21 ...
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Mexico legislators consider regulating marijuana to protect human rights
Sunday, 13 July 2014In Mexico, since 2006 a public security strategy has been implemented based on militarization, which has prioritized the use of force – including lethal force – based on the presumption of national s ...
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Senators want minister's answers on marijuana supply issues
Sunday, 13 July 2014The senate has written to justice minister Ivo Opstelten summoning him to explain what he is doing to deal with the problem of illegal marijuana production in the Netherlands. Opstelten and home affa ...
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DEA may be losing the war on marijuana politics
Friday, 11 July 2014The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has found itself under attack in Congress as it holds its ground against marijuana legalization while the resolve of longtime political allies — and the Whit ...
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Catalan cannabis club chiefs held for money laundering
Friday, 11 July 2014The heads of Fedcac, an umbrella group for Catalonia’s cannabis clubs, have been arrested on charges of money laundering. The vast amounts of money made by these allegedly non-profit associations – i ...
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Marijuana clubs rise out of decades-old Spanish laws
Wednesday, 09 July 2014The number of cannabis clubs that have opened in Barcelona recently has some experts saying this city will soon challenge Amsterdam as the go-to destination for vacationers who want to get high in pe ...
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Uruguay legal cannabis sale delayed to next year, says president
Tuesday, 08 July 2014Uruguayan President Jose Mujica has said the start of legal cannabis sales will be delayed until next year due to "practical difficulties". Sales in state-owned pharmacies were due to begin as early ...
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Washington state retail marijuana shops to open Tuesday
Tuesday, 08 July 2014Washington state issued its first retail marijuana licenses Monday, a day ahead of the start of legal sales. And 21 hours before the only store licensed to sell in Seattle was set to open, a line alr ...
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Heerlen mayor criticises government marijuana policy
Monday, 07 July 2014The Dutch government's cannabis policy has created a monster whose tentacles are spreading throughout the country, according to Paul Depla the mayor of Heerlen. Depla, one of 35 mayors who want produ ...
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Canada's 'Prince of Pot' to be released from U.S. prison
Sunday, 06 July 2014When the poster child for marijuana legalization is released from a U.S. prison later this week, he'll be re-entering a world where many of his ideas have taken root and in some places have sprouted ...
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La majorité se greffe au débat sur le cannabis
Thursday, 03 July 2014Le PJD est été pris de court par ces deux partis qui avaient fait de la défense de la légalisation de la culture de cannabis, et de l’appel à une amnistie au profit des agriculteurs poursuivis par la ...
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Oui au cannabis, mais pas pour les mineurs
Thursday, 03 July 2014Comment régulariser le cannabis? Lancé en 2012, un groupe interpartis a élaboré un projet rendu public à la fin de 2013. Celui-ci pose les bases d’une distribution et d’une consommation contrôlées, c ...
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