Tag: regulation
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Few problems with cannabis for California
Friday, 25 October 2013
At a time when polls show widening public support for legalization California’s 17-year experience as the first state to legalize medical marijuana offers surprising lessons, experts say. Warnings vo ...
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Growers celebrate as Uruguay prepares to legalize marijuana cultivation, distribution
Thursday, 24 October 2013
Pot connoisseurs of the world take note: Uruguay is about to go where no country has gone before by legalizing the cultivation and distribution of marijuana, with the left-of-center government regula ...
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Flanagan backs sale of cannabis
Wednesday, 23 October 2013
Irish independent MP Luke Flanagan, who has published a Bill to regulate cannabis and allow its sale for medicinal and recreational use, claimed it could save the economy 300 million euro a year. He ...
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Uruguay official: Legal pot for $1 per gram
Sunday, 20 October 2013
Uruguay’s drug czar says the country plans to sell legal marijuana for $1 per gram to combat drug-trafficking, according to a local newspaper. The plan to create a government-run legal marijuana indu ...
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New laws chart course for marijuana legalization
Saturday, 19 October 2013
Nearly a year after Colorado and Washington State voted to become the first states to legalize recreational marijuana, the detailed rules governing how pot will be grown, sold and taxed are finally c ...
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Cannabis taxes will wind up too low, not too high
Friday, 18 October 2013
Legal cannabis will naturally be much, much cheaper than illegal cannabis. A joint is the same sort of item as a teabag: the dried flowers of a plant in a wrapper. A fancy teabag costs a dime at the ...
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California is poised to legalize marijuana in 2016
Wednesday, 16 October 2013
According to a Tulchin Research poll a "solid majority" of nearly two-thirds (65%) in California supports legalizing, regulating and taxing adult recreational marijuana. The poll found 32 percent opp ...
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Washington approves rules for marijuana industry
Tuesday, 15 October 2013
Washington adopted rules for the recreational sale of marijuana, creating what advocates hope will be a template for the drug's legalization around the world. Washington will tax pot highly and cap t ...
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Colorado faces historic challenge in regulating marijuana stores
Monday, 14 October 2013
As Colorado prepares for the opening of historic recreational marijuana stores, state officials are preparing for something equally as unique — a regulatory challenge of almost maddening complexity. ...
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After legalizing marijuana, Washington and Colorado are starting to regulate it
Wednesday, 09 October 2013
Nearly a year ago, Washington and Colorado legalized recreational marijuana sales. Now it’s time to regulate them. The two states have taken slightly different approaches. Washington’s are slightly m ...
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Majority of Texas voters want to legalize marijuana
Tuesday, 08 October 2013
A majority of Texas voters support marijuana legalization, according to a recent survey. Public Policy Polling found that 58 percent of Texans "support making marijuana legal for adults and regulatin ...
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New Zealand’s bold experiment with regulating recreational drugs
Monday, 07 October 2013
One country is trying a new approach. For the first time in history, New Zealand has created a regulatory body to oversee recreational drugs. Passed by parliament this summer on a vote of 119 to 1, t ...
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Medical marijuana licences no longer a home-grown option
Tuesday, 01 October 2013
Starting next year, thousands of medical marijuana users will have to dig up their gardens and start buying only from suppliers approved and licensed by Ottawa. Health Canada announced the changes in ...
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Police targeting cannabis users
Tuesday, 24 September 2013
Police in Copenhagen have cannabis users in their crosshairs as they struggle to close the illegal drug trade in Copenhagen commune Christiania. Task Force Pusher Street, the police’s Christiania uni ...
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The strange politics behind a Berlin neighborhood's plan to legalize pot dealing
Wednesday, 18 September 2013
First Copenhagen, now Berlin. As a new wave of debate on Cannabis legalization sweeps across Northern Europe, the German capital has become the next city where pro- and anti-cannabis liberalization f ...
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Legal cannabis market 'would be worth £1.25bn a year to government'
Saturday, 14 September 2013
Legalising and taxing cannabis could be worth as much as £1.25bn a year to the government, a study suggests. The report Licensing and regulation of the cannabis market in England and Wales: towards a ...
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Uruguay Marijuana Polls Good News for Regional Proponents
Thursday, 12 September 2013
While public opinion remains largely opposed to marijuana regulation in Uruguay, a new poll shows support for the bill is growing, especially among likely voters for the ruling FA coalition, which co ...
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New Zealand’s psychoactive substances legislation
Saturday, 31 August 2013
On 11 July 2013, the New Zealand Parliament passed the Psychoactive Substances Act. The legislation enacted a new legal framework for the testing, manufacture, sale, and regulation of psychoactive pr ...
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Maroc: vers une légalisation de la culture du cannabis?
Monday, 05 August 2013
Le Parlement marocain est en train d'examiner un projet de loi sur la légalisation de la culture du cannabis proposé par la Coalition marocaine pour l'utilisation du cannabis à des fins médicinales e ...
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The experiment
Monday, 05 August 2013
After more than a year’s public deliberation and a 14-hour parliamentary debate, on July 31st Uruguay took a big step to becoming the first country in the world to legalise marijuana (cannabis). The ...
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What Legalizing Pot In Uruguay Means For the World
Thursday, 01 August 2013
Late Wednesday night, following months of intensive debate and negotiation, the Uruguayan House of Representatives passed a bill to legalize marijuana. If approved by the Senate, President José Mujic ...
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Global trendsetter? Uruguay moves to legalize marijuana
Wednesday, 31 July 2013
Uruguay has effectively sealed the passage of a groundbreaking marijuana legalization bill that puts production, distribution, and sale of the drug in the hands of the state, making it the first coun ...
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Colorado marijuana regulations signed into law
Tuesday, 28 May 2013
A set of laws to govern how recreational marijuana should be grown, sold and taxed was signed into law Tuesday in Colorado, where Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper called the measures the state's bes ...
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Models for the legal supply of cannabis
Monday, 27 May 2013
Three United Nations Conventions provide the international legal framework on drug control, instructing countries to limit drug supply and use to medical and scientific purposes. Yet, debate continue ...
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How to Legalize Pot
Sunday, 19 May 2013
The first time I talked to Mark Kleiman, a drug policy expert at UCLA, was in 2002, and he explained why legalization of marijuana was a bad idea. “At some point you have to say, a law that people do ...
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Fate of LA pot shops left to voters
Saturday, 18 May 2013
Los Angeles politicians have struggled for more than five years to regulate medical marijuana, trying to balance the needs of the sick against neighborhood concerns that pot shops attract crime. Vote ...
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Pot rules taking shape; public gets a taste of what’s ahead
Thursday, 16 May 2013
Washington Liquor Control Board officials released draft rules for a legal seed-to-store marijuana system. Washington residents and out-of-staters could buy an ounce of tested, labeled marijuana, sev ...
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Wash. set to release draft rules for pot industry
Thursday, 16 May 2013
They've spent nearly eight months visiting marijuana grow houses, studying the science of getting high and earning nicknames like "the queen of weed." Now, officials in Washington are taking their fi ...
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Legal highs flooding UK pose immense overdose risk, warns drugs tsar
Wednesday, 15 May 2013
The chief drugs adviser to the government has given his strongest warning yet on legal highs in Britain, saying there are now more than 200 synthetic psychoactive drugs being sold outside existing la ...
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Indoor pot production leaves giant carbon footprint
Saturday, 11 May 2013
Done mostly indoors in Washington, pot production often uses hospital-intensity lamps, air conditioning, dehumidifiers, fans and carbon-dioxide generators to stimulate plants and boost their potency. ...
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From Chinese factory to UK households – realities of the trade in legal highs
Wednesday, 08 May 2013
Chemistry firms in many Chinese provinces are churning out modified versions of illegal drugs and selling them online. Everything from amphetamine-like stimulants to ecstasy-like substances as well a ...
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Colorado Senate gives final approval to historic marijuana bills
Wednesday, 08 May 2013
The Colorado Senate gave final approval to two new bills to implement marijuana legalization, inching the state legislature closer to becoming the first in the country to pass laws regulating recreat ...
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Will legalised marijuana lead to an economic boom?
Monday, 06 May 2013
Many Washington residents are looking to cash in on the newly legal and potentially lucrative marijuana market, which they hope will give them a new start, create jobs, and boost Washington's slumpin ...
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Colorado pot collectives test limits of Amendment 64
Sunday, 05 May 2013
An untold number of recreational pot collectives have formed in Colorado since Amendment 64's passage in November, hoping to meet consumer demand before retail pot stores' anticipated opening in 2014 ...
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Maine panel hears case for marijuana legalization
Friday, 03 May 2013
With other states already starting to allow the legal use of marijuana, Maine needs to get ahead of the issue and legalize, regulate and tax the sale of the drug, lawmakers were told. LD 1229, the Ac ...
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NDP, Green party okay with research trial of marijuana use
Thursday, 02 May 2013
B.C.’s New Democratic and Green parties say they would not oppose a research trial to evaluate the regulation of adult marijuana use, which would be a step towards taking pot use out of the criminal ...
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A rising marijuana reform tide at the Statehouses
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
In the wake of the marijuana legalization victories in Colorado and Washington last November, and buoyed by a series of national public opinion polls showing support for pot legalization going over t ...
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DEA: Warning letters to 11 pot dispensaries don’t signal war on state law
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
The Drug Enforcement Administration sent cease-and-desist letters to 11 medical-marijuana dispensaries because they are within 1,000 feet of schools or other prohibited areas. The DEA maintains that ...
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The drug policy reform agenda in the Americas
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
Latin America has emerged at the vanguard of efforts to promote debate on drug policy reform. For decades, Latin American governments largely followed the drug control policies and programs of Washin ...
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Colorado House gives initial approval to marijuana tax measure
Sunday, 28 April 2013
Colorado lawmakers tried to find the Goldilocks level for recreational marijuana taxes — an amount neither too high to discourage voters from approving it nor too low to pay the costs of pot legaliza ...
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The hidden dangers of legal highs
Friday, 26 April 2013
It's never been easier, or cheaper, to buy drugs online – but no one knows what's in them, or how dangerous they are. For most of the last decade, an average of four or five new legal drugs came on t ...
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Colorado lawmakers discussing marijuana-legalization repeal effort
Friday, 26 April 2013
A proposal that could lead to the repeal of marijuana legalization in Colorado has gained momentum at the state Capitol. The repeal would be linked to a measure on marijuana taxes that is expected to ...
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Marijuana legalization in Colorado may not pay for itself, study finds
Thursday, 25 April 2013
Legal marijuana in Colorado may not bring in enough money to cover the societal costs of legalization, a study from a Colorado State University think tank concludes. The analysis also argues that rev ...
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Rival marijuana measures thrown into the electoral pot
Saturday, 20 April 2013
Dozens of medical marijuana activists rallied outside Los Angeles City Hall, declaring war on an enemy. Their target was not the federal government, whose agents raided several local dispensaries, or ...
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Colorado legislature unveils long-awaited marijuana regulation bills
Friday, 19 April 2013
Lawmakers introduced a long-awaited bill of proposed regulations for recreational marijuana, moving Colorado one step closer to a legal pot marketplace. The 57-page bill — House Bill 1317 — contains ...
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Utrecht hopes to set up cannabis clubs - for medical research
Tuesday, 16 April 2013
Two foundations in Utrecht are to apply for exemption from the opium laws so they can set up ‘cannabis clubs’ to grow marijuana for medical research with city council backing, the Volkskrant reports. ...
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Wash. delays pot grower, processor licenses
Tuesday, 16 April 2013
Washington state is delaying its timeline for granting marijuana growing and processing licenses - and that means legal marijuana sales likely won't begin before spring of next year. Rather than issu ...
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Alaska voters on track to decide in 2014 whether to legalize pot
Monday, 15 April 2013
Alaska voters likely will get a chance next year to make their state the third in the country to approve the recreational use of marijuana by adults 21 and older. Pot backers took the first step towa ...
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Denver's 4/20 pot parties a "coming out for cannabis"
Sunday, 14 April 2013
Tens of thousands of people will attend Saturday's "4/20" rally in Denver, creating perhaps the largest collectively produced cloud of marijuana smoke ever at 4:20 p.m. But Lopez doesn't view this ye ...
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State pot-growing licenses may be delayed
Tuesday, 09 April 2013
Washington state may delay issuing licenses to grow pot by a couple months, according to state Liquor Control Board Deputy Director Rick Garza. In its initial timeline, the board would issue producer ...
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