Tag: regulation
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Jensen rejects Swedish fear of free cannabis
Thursday, 22 November 2012
Copenhagen mayor Frank Jensen rejects the Swedish concern about regulation of cannabis in Copenhagen. He emphasizes that the aim of the experiment is to remove the criminal gangs monopoly on the sale ...
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Uruguay government aide defends marijuana plan
Thursday, 22 November 2012
Juan Vaz, an Uruguayan activist and government aide who has been jailed for growing marijuana in his home, says it's time to end a contradiction that lets people in his country smoke pot but bans its ...
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Time to end the war on drugs
Monday, 19 November 2012
Since its launch in 1971, when President Nixon successfully branded drug addicts as criminals, the war on drugs has resulted in 45 million arrests and destroyed countless families. The result of this ...
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Marijuana legalisation in the US: Five burning questions
Monday, 19 November 2012
The 6 November votes in Colorado and Washington left a lot of marijuana users happy and a lot of police officers nervous. And they set the two states up for a confrontation with the federal governmen ...
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Latin America looks to Europe for drug fighting models
Saturday, 17 November 2012
Latin American countries are turning to Europe for lessons on fighting drugs after souring on the prohibition-style approach of the violent and costly U.S.-led war on drugs. Until recently, most Lati ...
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Will Obama's second term see an end to the failed 'war on drugs'?
Friday, 16 November 2012
One of the more surprising results of last week's election was the decision by voters in Colorado and Washington state to legalize marijuana for adult use. The success of both these ballot initiative ...
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DeGette files bill to require feds to respect marijuana law
Thursday, 15 November 2012
In an effort to ensure new voter-approved amendments that legalize limited use of recreational marijuana in Colorado and Washington are not overrun by the federal government, Democratic U.S. Rep. Dia ...
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Denver joins Boulder in dropping prosecution of limited pot possession
Thursday, 15 November 2012
Denver prosecutors will no longer charge those 21 and older for carrying less than an ounce of marijuana, and will review current cases that fit under the language of a recently voter-approved state ...
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Uruguay lawmakers consider legalization of marijuana with goal of outselling pot dealers
Thursday, 15 November 2012
Uruguay came one step closer to turning the government into the country’s leading pot dealer, as lawmakers formally introduced to Congress a framework for regulating the production, sale and consumpt ...
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Seattle police produce a user's guide to pot
Thursday, 15 November 2012
When Washington state voters legalized the recreational use of marijuana on Nov. 6, Seattle police knew they'd be getting a lot of questions. And while many details surrounding the state's Dec. 6 dec ...
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Gregoire awaits federal decision on new pot laws
Monday, 12 November 2012
Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire said Tuesday the federal government still hasn't decided whether to take action to block new laws legalizing marijuana in her state and Colorado. Gregoire met with Depu ...
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The will of the voters
Monday, 12 November 2012
Now that the voters in Colorado and Washington have approved marijuana legalization initiatives, attention has turned quickly to questions surrounding implementation—and in particular to speculation ...
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A more enlightened approach to intoxicants should legalise marijuana
Monday, 12 November 2012
With two US states - Washington and Colorado - voting to legalise the recreational use of marijuana, a similar liberal approach towards mild intoxicants in India is up for debate. Consumption of mari ...
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As US states legalise marijuana, is this the end of the drugs war?
Saturday, 10 November 2012
Last week was a momentous week, the beginning of the end, perhaps, of a national depravity – the "war on drugs". The voters of Colorado and Washington passed measures to legalise marijuana, amounting ...
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Legalized marijuana initiatives leave federal government wrestling with policy
Friday, 09 November 2012
Senior administration officials acknowledged that they are wrestling with how to respond to the legalization of marijuana in Colorado and Washington, which directly violates federal drug law and is sp ...
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The joint campaign: Should we not legalize recreational use of cannabis?
Friday, 09 November 2012
What two American states, Washington and Colorado, have decided to do - legalize recreational use of marijuana - was the norm in India until 1985. All cannabis derivatives - marijuana (grass or ganja ...
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Colorado, Washington await federal response to pot measure
Friday, 09 November 2012
Should marijuana be treated like alcohol? Or should it remain in the same legal category as heroin and the most dangerous drugs? Votes by Colorado and Washington to allow adult marijuana possession h ...
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The end of the war on marijuana
Friday, 09 November 2012
The historic measure to regulate and tax marijuana in Washington State deserves to be looked at closely as a model of how legalization ought to be designed and implemented elsewhere in America. We've ...
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Colorado and Washington legalise marijuana: what it really means
Thursday, 08 November 2012
No sooner had the voters of Colorado and Washington passed measures to legalise marijuana than the predictions began: visions – both overexcited and apocalyptic – of busloads of stoned tourists turni ...
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The American Public Is Doing a 180 on Marijuana Prohibition...
Thursday, 08 November 2012
The election results this week from Washington, Colorado, Massachusetts and Arkansas demonstrate that public opinion about cannabis has moved much faster than the positions of elected officials. Desp ...
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Legalisation in U.S. States may prompt changes in Mexico’s anti-drug policy
Wednesday, 07 November 2012
The legalisation of small amounts of marijuana for recreational use, which will allow the drug to be taxed and regulated, in two U.S. states will prompt debate on anti-drug policies in Mexico as well ...
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Mexico says marijuana legalization in U.S. could change anti-drug strategies
Wednesday, 07 November 2012
The decision by voters in Colorado and Washington state to legalize the recreational use of marijuana has left Mexican President-elect Enrique Peña Nieto and his team scrambling to reformulate their ...
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U.S. marijuana vote threatens to nip B.C. market in the bud
Wednesday, 07 November 2012
British Columbia’s multibillion-dollar marijuana industry could take a “significant” blow now that two U.S. states – including its closest neighbour to the south – have voted to legalize marijuana. “ ...
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U.S. marijuana vote may have snowball effect in Latin America
Wednesday, 07 November 2012
Voters in Colorado and Washington state who approved the recreational use of marijuana Tuesday sent a salvo from the ballot box that will ricochet around Latin America, a region that's faced decades ...
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Colorado officials seek clarity after passage of marijuana measure
Wednesday, 07 November 2012
Colorado officials and marijuana advocates on Wednesday looked toward an imminent confrontation with the federal government one day after voters in the state endorsed a measure to legalize marijuana ...
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Mexico's new gov to review pot fight after US vote
Wednesday, 07 November 2012
The legalization of recreational marijuana in the U.S. states of Washington and Colorado will force Mexico to rethink its efforts to halt marijuana smuggling across the border, the main adviser to Me ...
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Pot legal Dec. 6, 'jury is out on what happens' after that
Wednesday, 07 November 2012
Washington's grand social experiment with marijuana legalization begins Dec. 6 with a simple step: On that date, it is legal to have an ounce of the stuff, and there is little the federal government ...
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Pot votes in 2 states challenge US drug war
Wednesday, 07 November 2012
Those who have argued for decades that legalizing and taxing weed would be better than a costly, failed U.S. drug war have their chance to prove it, as Colorado and Washington became the first states ...
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What Tuesday's marijuana victories mean for the war on drugs
Wednesday, 07 November 2012
In three states — Washington, Colorado, and Massachusetts — efforts to liberalize marijuana laws succeeded last night. In Washington and Colorado, the new laws enacted go even further than past effor ...
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B.C. pot activists push for legalization after Wash. vote
Wednesday, 07 November 2012
Pot advocates in British Columbia (Canada) say now that voters in Washington have passed a law to legalize possession of marijuana, it is time for a similar referendum. On Tuesday 55 per cent of vote ...
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Colorado, Washington first states to legalize recreational pot
Wednesday, 07 November 2012
Colorado and Washington became the first U.S. states to legalize the possession and sale of marijuana for recreational use in defiance of federal law, setting the stage for a possible showdown with t ...
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Voters approve I-502 legalizing marijuana
Tuesday, 06 November 2012
Washington enthusiastically leapt into history Tuesday, becoming the first state, with Colorado, to reject federal drug-control policy and legalize recreational marijuana use. Initiative 502 was winn ...
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Coloradans say yes to recreational use of marijuana
Tuesday, 06 November 2012
Voters approved Amendment 64 legalizing recreational marijuana use in Colorado on Tuesday, making this one of two states to end prohibition of the drug but also raising new legal questions and settin ...
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Cannabis pass abolished? Not really
Tuesday, 30 October 2012
The new coalition government of conservative liberals (VVD) and social-democrats (PvdA) presented its coalition agreement on Monday. They agreed to abolish the cannabis pass, but access to coffeeshop ...
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Will recreational marijuana get the green light in three States?
Wednesday, 24 October 2012
If you live in Colorado, Washington or Oregon, your state may soon be the first in the nation to allow possession of marijuana—in limited quantities—for recreational use. It all depends on what happe ...
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Uruguay plans to legalise marijuana under state monopoly
Tuesday, 23 October 2012
The president of Uruguay, José Mujica, has announced plans to legalise the production and sale of marijuana under a state monopoly, triggering a lively controversy in Montevideo. The relevant bill wi ...
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Marijuana legalization leads in new polls, but not a lock
Monday, 22 October 2012
Washington is emerging as the most likely state to be the first to legalize marijuana according to new polls. But even with a huge fundraising advantage, and less organized opposition, Initiative 502 ...
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States legalizing marijuana will violate federal law, trigger constitutional showdown
Monday, 15 October 2012
Former Drug Enforcement Agency administrators and directors of the Office of National Drug Control Policy voiced a strong reminder to the U.S. Department of Justice that even if voters in Colorado, O ...
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Wash. could become first state to OK pot sales
Thursday, 11 October 2012
Supporters say passing Initiative 502 on Nov. 6 could make drug laws more reasonable, prevent thousands of arrests a year, and bring Washington hundreds of millions of dollars to help pay for schools ...
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Study: Pot arrests cost state $300 million in past 25 years
Wednesday, 10 October 2012
A new crime-data analysis has found that 241,000 people in Washington were arrested for misdemeanor marijuana possession over the last quarter-century, adding fuel to a campaign seeking to make this ...
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Government cracks down on legal highs
Wednesday, 10 October 2012
Legal highs will undergo a costly and lengthy testing process involving human clinical trials under a strict new regime that could see manufacturers jailed for up to eight years. Under the new regime ...
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Marijuana only for the sick? A farce, some Angelenos say
Saturday, 06 October 2012
One year after federal law enforcement officials began cracking down on California’s medical marijuana industry with a series of high-profile arrests around the state, they finally moved into Los Ang ...
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Copenhagen mayor Frank Jensen on cannabis experiment
Friday, 05 October 2012
While Copenhagen managed to convince the government to let them open a legal injection room to improve the living conditions of drug addicts, they have had less luck tackling the organised crime asso ...
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B.C. favours sensible marijuana policy
Friday, 05 October 2012
Last week, delegates at the Union of B.C. Municipalities convention voted in support of the decriminalization and taxation of marijuana. This vote was in accordance with the principles of the Sensibl ...
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Oregon pot measure struggles as Washington, Colorado thrive
Tuesday, 02 October 2012In Oregon - a state with one of the nation's highest rates of pot use and a reputation for pushing the boundaries on marijuana laws - organizers are looking at a bank account with just $1,800. Mariju ...
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Marijuana: A failure to regulate, but not by dispensaries
Tuesday, 02 October 2012
The Times' Sept. 27 editorial, "In a haze on pot policy," says, "In the face of this chaos, the federal crackdown is, to some, good news -- finally, definitive action is being taken to stem the uncon ...
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L.A. repeals its ban on pot stores
Monday, 01 October 2012
After struggling for years to regulate storefront pot shops, the Los Angeles City Council retreated Tuesday, voting to repeal the carefully crafted ban on medical marijuana dispensaries it approved a ...
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Legalizing marijuana adds revenue, reduces law-enforcement costs
Saturday, 22 September 2012
In its fiscal note on I-502, the state Office of Financial Management estimated the total state and local government revenue from marijuana at $566 million. That’s roughly what the state budgets in t ...
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State could be test case in marijuana legalization
Friday, 21 September 2012On Nov. 6 Washington voters will decide whether to directly confront the federal ban on marijuana and embrace a sprawling plan to legalize, regulate and tax sales at state-licensed pot stores. Would ...
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The relaxation of cannabis laws shows the failure of the war on drugs
Friday, 21 September 2012When the Uruguayan president José Mujica was asked about his proposal to make a historic break with global prohibition and put in place a legal, state-controlled market for cannabis, he replied: "Som ...
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