Tag: regulation
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King Mswati, Stem Holdings and the multi-billion political dagga cold war
Saturday, 01 August 2020King Mswati allegedly entered into a deal with Stem Holdings and manipulated provisions of the Prevention of Organized Crime Act (POCA) by unleashing police officers on dagga farmers after Parliament ...
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Senator files new bill to federally legalize marijuana and regulate it like tobacco
Friday, 31 July 2020Democratic senator Tina Smith (D-MN) filed a new bill to federally legalize marijuana, creating yet another potential avenue through which Congress could enact the policy change. Titled the “Substanc ...
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'The risk is zero': Legalising cannabis in Lebanon could help solve its economic crisis
Wednesday, 22 July 2020Last month Lebanese President Michel Aoun signed an order paving the way for a change in the country's legislation. If the bill passes through parliament then the production of cannabis could be allo ...
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Netherlands clarifies application process to grow adult-use cannabis
Thursday, 16 July 2020The Dutch government wants to clear up several issues regarding the application process to grow legal recreational marijuana. The process is part of an experiment in the Netherlands to legalize – tho ...
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California cannabis industry strives for geographic branding, just like wine
Saturday, 11 July 2020California’s legal cannabis industry, not yet 4 years old, yearns for the same system of tying plants to the soil perfected by the French over centuries and a key to the marketing success of the stat ...
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5 ways the UK could legalise cannabis
Thursday, 02 July 2020With more than half of people in the UK in favour of legalising the recreational use of cannabis, and countries around the world adopting more liberal stances to cannabis legislation, it seems inevit ...
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Is the Netherlands finally heading for legalisation?
Wednesday, 01 July 2020Supplying coffeeshops with cannabis is illegal, so this is being done through a complicated ‘back-door’ policy. There might be a change coming with the start of the ‘controlled cannabis supply chain ...
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Switzerland releases details on recreational marijuana experiment, but full legalization likely years away
Wednesday, 17 June 2020The lower house of Switzerland’s Federal Assembly approved a bill paving the way for a pilot research program that would permit the temporary production and distribution of cannabis to adults for rec ...
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Growers association calls ganja industry a failed experiment
Monday, 15 June 2020The Ganja Growers and Producers Association (GGPAJ) says despite the success of several Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA) operators, Jamaica's regulated cannabis industry has failed to live up to it ...
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Saint Lucia cabinet to deliberate on cannabis commission’s proposals
Monday, 15 June 2020Over ten months since the Saint Lucia government announced the formation of a Cannabis Commission, a report has been presented to the cabinet of ministers for a decision on the way forward. Mandated ...
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Cannabis-Modellprojekt in Bremen kann kommen
Thursday, 11 June 2020Bremen wird also nach dem 2017 gescheiterten Vorstoß im Bundesrat (damals gemeinsam mit Thüringen) nun für die Landesebene prüfen, unter welchen Bedingungen ein Modellprojekt, in dem die kontrolliert ...
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Netherlands to open applications for cannabis grow experiment next month
Wednesday, 10 June 2020The Dutch government will start accepting applications in July from potential cultivators for its adult-use cannabis experiment. From July 1 until July 28, companies will be able to apply to grow adu ...
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Government announces plan to advance cannabis legalization reforms
Tuesday, 09 June 2020The two biggest parties making up the new government said they would push for increased legalization of cannabis use, a week after the police minister backed easing enforcement of existing laws. Prim ...
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Switzerland green lights recreational marijuana trial
Wednesday, 03 June 2020Switzerland’s National Council has approved a plan to start cannabis trials for recreational use. If it is to be legalised however, the government says it must be organic and grown locally. The study ...
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Former PM, police investigator, among Kiwis backing cannabis legalisation campaign
Monday, 01 June 2020The New Zealand Drug Foundation's "Our Own Terms" campaign features Tim McKinnel, alongside former Prime Minister Helen Clark, psychiatrist Hinemoa Elder and educator Richie Hardcore, among others, e ...
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Peru’s war on drugs is an abject failure – here’s what it can learn from Bolivia
Saturday, 30 May 2020When Peruvian government forces began eradicating coca leaf, the raw material for cocaine, without warning in a remote corner of Peru’s principal coca growing region last November, they were met by g ...
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Big source of illicit cannabis, Albania mulls legalising medical use
Monday, 25 May 2020On May 9, Albania’s Socialist Party Prime Minister, Edi Rama, announced that his government had been quietly working for the past year on a bill that would make way for the legalisation of medical ca ...
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Lavish parties, greedy pols and panic rooms: How the ‘Apple of Pot’ collapsed
Sunday, 24 May 2020MedMen looked to become the Apple of pot, the first mainstream, nationwide consumer brand for the product that drove so many Americans to ingest and invest. Marijuana liberalization was sweeping the ...
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Ontario’s legal pot stores celebrate one year in business — but most cannabis users are still buying illegally
Wednesday, 06 May 2020Canada’s black market of pot is still riding rampant over licensed retailers, a year into what many say continues to be a slow rollout of brick-and-mortar stores in Ontario and regulatory challenges. ...
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Cannabis in high demand amid coronavirus pandemic
Tuesday, 05 May 2020According to cannabis industry analytics firm Headset, pot sales in the United States spiked in mid-March, with sales growth peaking at 64% in the week ended March 16 — the highest growth rate since ...
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Government reveals cannabis referendum legalisation details
Friday, 01 May 2020Proposed cannabis legalisation will ban items designed to appeal to young people, set a four-year prison term for selling to under 20-year-olds and allow cannabis 'coffee shops' to open. The Governme ...
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Canopy Growth exits cannabis cultivation on three continents in major international pullback
Thursday, 16 April 2020Canopy Growth is ceasing cannabis cultivation in Africa, Canada, Colombia and the United States in a bid to “improve efficiencies” in its global operations. The company also said it is eliminating 85 ...
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Bundesinstitut lehnt Cannabis-Modellversuch in Berlin ab
Wednesday, 08 April 2020Ein in Berlin geplanter Modellversuch zur kontrollierten Abgabe von Cannabis als Genussmittel kann voraussichtlich nicht in die Tat umgesetzt werden. Das Bundesinstitut für Arzneimittel und Medizinpr ...
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Stoners cheered when Canada legalised cannabis. How did it go so wrong?
Sunday, 05 April 2020Two years on, the Canadian cannabis legalisation experiment hasn’t quite turned out as we reformers had hoped. The black market is still vibrant while cannabis stocks have crashed, medical patients s ...
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'The legal stuff is garbage': why Canada's cannabis black market keeps thriving
Wednesday, 18 March 2020Cannabis may be legal in Vancouver but visitors looking to score are likely to run into a seemingly counterintuitive suggestion: try the black market. Recreational marijuana was legalised across Cana ...
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Mexico’s Senate approves marijuana regulation
Wednesday, 04 March 2020The commissions of Justice, Health, and Legislative Studies of Mexico’s Senate broadly approved the ruling that seeks to regulate cannabis. During over two hours of discussion, senators from differen ...
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Rien de définitif sur le cannabis récréatif
Monday, 02 March 2020La ministre de la Santé confirme qu'un document de travail provisoire circule entre ses services et les autorités judiciaires. Mais aucun texte définitif n'a pour l'heure été validé par le gouverneme ...
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The world's biggest legal coca industry might get shut down
Wednesday, 26 February 2020Bolivia is one of three countries in the world that produce the bulk of the world’s coca, the green leafy plant that is the base ingredient for cocaine. And it's the only country where such large-sca ...
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Details revealed of Luxembourg joint-a-day weed plan
Monday, 24 February 2020Luxembourg plans to allow people to buy 30 grammes of cannabis per month – enough for anywhere between one to three joints a day – according to details of a report published by the local radio statio ...
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Majority of German parliament favors recreational cannabis reform, but change neither sure nor imminent
Friday, 21 February 2020One of the German government coalition parties clarified its stance on recreational marijuana in favor of decriminalizing possession and allowing pilot programs involving the legal distribution of ad ...
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Britain's CBD clampdown, explained
Wednesday, 19 February 2020An estimated 1.3 million people in the UK regularly use CBD for a variety of health and wellness reasons – but ingestible CBD products occupy a hazy legal area, characterised by unclear enforcement, ...
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Amsterdam to crack down on weed tourism and coffeeshops
Friday, 14 February 2020Amsterdam is exploring how to make cannabis less of a tourist attraction and, at the same time, crack down on the illegal supply chain, according to a briefing from mayor Femke Halsema. The city has ...
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Ganja growers want answers
Friday, 07 February 2020Ganja growers are calling on the Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA) to clarify the conditions under which cannabis has been exported from Jamaica, even before the passage of the import/export regulat ...
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High time: Netherlands moves to clean up absurd cannabis policy
Thursday, 06 February 2020If there’s one contradiction that goes to the heart of why Dutch drugs policy has lost its way, it’s this: that while it’s legal for “coffee shops” to sell cannabis for personal consumption, growing ...
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'This was supposed to be reparations': Why is LA's cannabis industry devastating black entrepreneurs?
Monday, 03 February 2020A Los Angeles government program set up to provide cannabis licenses to people harmed by the war on drugs has been plagued by delays, scandal and bureaucratic blunders, costing some intended benefici ...
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Canberrans can now grow and smoke cannabis, though some questions remain unanswered
Friday, 31 January 2020Canberrans can now grow dope, keep a small amount of the drug at home and smoke it without fear of committing a criminal offence … kind of. Friday marked the first day that the ACT's controversial ne ...
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Essais pilotes de cannabis: feu vert d'une commission
Friday, 31 January 2020Des essais pilotes de distribution de cannabis devraient avoir lieu. La commission compétente du National s'est finalement ralliée vendredi par 17 voix contre 8 à la proposition du Conseil fédéral. L ...
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Cannabis possession will soon be legal in Canberra
Friday, 24 January 2020Just quietly, from Friday week onwards, if you're in the ACT and you want to smoke cannabis in the privacy of your own home it will be completely legal. You'll also be able have up to 50 grams of wee ...
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SA and legal cannabis: profits should be reaped, but like any industry, there are also risks
Tuesday, 21 January 2020South Africa’s cannabis conversation is shifting into a new gear, with Finance Minister Tito Mboweni on the record as pushing for full legalisation. Such a move will be welcome, with plenty of econom ...
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MPs, health experts and lawyers call for new approach to drugs
Monday, 20 January 2020MPs, television celebrities, lawyers, leading lights from the dance scene and health experts are among the 79 people who signed a manifesto calling for major reform in Dutch drugs policy. ‘The need f ...
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The Great Cannabis Crash of 2019
Tuesday, 14 January 2020Bad news about the so-called "Green Rush" rolled in slowly at first, picking up steam around the end of last summer. Stocks started to dive. Layoffs were announced. Executives who just months earlier ...
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Birthplace of semi-legal pot risks falling behind U.S.
Monday, 13 January 2020Since the Netherlands decriminalized marijuana in 1976, Amsterdam’s “coffee shops” have become a destination for weed lovers from around the globe. But pot has never been fully legalized in the count ...
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Pot politics: Some Northeast states regroup on legalization
Monday, 13 January 2020A year ago, marijuana legalization looked like it was on a roll in the Northeast — it had already passed in three of the region’s states and was a priority for governors in three more, including the ...
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New York could legalise cannabis this year, governor says
Thursday, 09 January 2020Governor Andrew Cuomo pledged for the second year in a row to legalise recreational cannabis in New York, prioritizing a push that fell apart last year amid tensions over who should be allowed to sel ...
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More than $3m worth of cannabis sold in Illinois on first day of legalisation
Friday, 03 January 2020It was a happy – and seemingly high – new year in Illinois after cannabis sales of more than $3m were made on the first day of the drug being legal for recreational use in the state. Some 37 dispensa ...
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What will 2020 mean for cannabis?
Wednesday, 01 January 2020As 2019 slouched toward its end, many predictions of what might happen with cannabis in 2020 had been tinged with optimism. Chronic Town was no different: in this space last week I sounded a hopeful ...
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Why Canada's cannabis bubble burst
Sunday, 29 December 2019When Canada legalised marijuana just over a year ago, it seemed like anyone who was anyone wanted to break into the market. The media nicknamed the frenzy Canada's "green rush", as investors like Sno ...
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Opioids, pot and criminal justice reform helped undermine this decade's War on Drugs
Sunday, 29 December 2019This much we know: Americans like to do drugs. That might explain why a prescient headline in the satirical publication The Onion stands as one of the most enduring comments on American drug enforcem ...
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America’s marijuana growers are the best in the world, but federal laws are keeping them out of global markets
Friday, 27 December 2019After 20 years of experience, legal marijuana growers in the U.S. have a reputation for creating the best product in the world, scientifically grown and tightly regulated for quality and safety. The ...
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Cannabis : un projet de loi à finaliser en janvier
Monday, 23 December 2019Le ministre de la Santé, Étienne Schneider, est décidé à soumettre courant janvier au Conseil de gouvernement un projet de loi pour légaliser le cannabis récréatif. La date reste toutefois à confirme ...
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