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Marijuana commission greenlights recreational and medicinal usage
Monday, 23 December 2019The Bahamas National Commission on Marijuana has green-lighted recreational and medicinal marijuana, insisting that Bahamians should own 51 percent of the industry in a legalized framework. The preli ...
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Faris: Where do we draw the line on 1% claims?
Friday, 20 December 2019When the Cannabis Control Bill is passed in Trinidad & Tobago in January, a market for the licensing for marijuana merchants will be opening. Many activists and critics of the bill have raised concer ...
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Marijuana’s ten biggest victories of 2019
Tuesday, 17 December 2019This year was a big one for marijuana in the U.S. From a first-ever congressional vote on federally legalizing cannabis to another large state ending its own prohibition law, 2019 saw the marijuana m ...
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What have we learned from one year of cannabis legalization?
Monday, 16 December 2019The first year of legal cannabis sales in Canada did not go smoothly. To be fair, introducing a federally regulated legal supply chain that operates across 13 different retail systems for a product t ...
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Cannabis: le National entre en matière
Tuesday, 10 December 2019Le Parlement pourra aborder la question des essais pilotes de distribution de cannabis. Contre l'avis de sa commission, le nouveau Conseil national est entré en matière mardi. Le projet qui vise à me ...
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CLA issues 50 cannabis licences in two years
Sunday, 08 December 2019The four-year-old Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA) reached another major milestone last week by issuing its 50th licence for medicinal use of the drug. The 50th licensee is Outlier Biopharma, a Mon ...
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Dutch fear making a hash of cannabis reform
Thursday, 05 December 2019The Netherlands has long been a mecca for buzz-seeking tourists on account of its lax cannabis laws. What many of them don't know is that cannabis is not — and has never been — legal in the country. ...
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La légalisation du cannabis récréatif dans les limbes
Wednesday, 04 December 2019Si l'usage thérapeutique du cannabis est déjà entré dans une phase de test, son emploi «à des fins récréatives» n'est pas encore à l'ordre du jour de la Chambre. Annoncée à plusieurs reprises par le ...
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The Cannabis Legalisation and Control Bill: pretty good so far
Wednesday, 04 December 2019As you’re probably aware, the draft bill outlining the proposed legal cannabis regime to be put to a referendum late next year was published, and has already attracted a flurry of comment. It’s notab ...
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Drug Foundation praises the proposed cannabis law – but National says it's not up to scratch
Tuesday, 03 December 2019The Government outlined details of what they'll be voting for in next year's cannabis referendum. The New Zealand Drug Foundation is welcoming the proposed new law which would regulate the use of can ...
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‘B.C. bud’ cannabis still underground, John Horgan hopes to rescue it
Monday, 02 December 2019British Columbia used to supply half of Canada’s marijuana, export it to the United States by the hockey bag, and bring home a bong-full of blue ribbons for its exotic “B.C. bud” strains from interna ...
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Inside the Walmart of weed
Saturday, 23 November 2019With Canada the largest nation to completely legalize marijuana, the world’s most valuable pot company, Canopy Growth Corp., founded in 2013 and now worth about $6.4 billion, is one of the most contr ...
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Cannabis könnte dem Staat über 300 Millionen pro Jahr bringen
Tuesday, 19 November 2019Der Cannabiskonsum spaltet die Schweizer Politik. Die Sozialkommission des Nationalrats hat den Vorschlag des Bundesrats zu einer vorsichtigen Öffnung knapp abgelehnt. Der Bundesrat will wissenschaft ...
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De Caires has high hopes despite pace of Cannabis Commission!
Sunday, 17 November 2019Andre De Caires of the Cannabis Movement of St. Lucia is not satisfied with the pace at which the recently formed Cannabis Commission is working. The commission’s mandate is to “consult and provide a ...
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Delhi HC issues notice in plea challenging prohibition and criminalization of Cannabis use in India
Wednesday, 06 November 2019The Delhi High Court issued notice in a plea challenging the prohibition and criminalization of the use of cannabis in India. Notice was issued to the Central government by a Division Bench of Chief ...
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Illinois marijuana law aims to undo harm of war on the drug
Saturday, 02 November 2019When lawmakers crafted the law legalizing marijuana in Illinois, they tried to make sure it would right what many see as past wrongs linked to the drug. In addition to expunging hundreds of thousands ...
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Regulated marijuana trial must not encourage use, ministers say
Wednesday, 30 October 2019The Dutch government experiment with regulated marijuana cultivation must not give the impression that the state is encouraging the use of the drug, the ministers responsible for the trial have told ...
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Small-scale outdoor growing is firing up Legalization 2.0
Wednesday, 23 October 2019Mark Spear might be a thorn in the side of the Canadian weed industry. Or he may be a heel. He certainly stands out when it comes to gently pissing off the ones writing the rules on the Green Mile of ...
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South Africa’s budding cannabis industry is waiting for regulations to catch up
Sunday, 20 October 2019South Africa’s budding cannabis industry has made huge strides over the last year since the Constitutional Court upheld South Africans’ right to privacy in September 2018, ruling that individuals sho ...
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Éric Piolle sur le cannabis : « Un décalage complet entre notre politique et la réalité »
Saturday, 19 October 2019La légalisation du cannabis est-elle une solution ? Le maire de Grenoble Éric Piolle évoque la question sur le plateau d'On n'est pas couché ce samedi 19 octobre. Invité de la soirée, l'édile EELV so ...
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Demand for illegal cannabis still high, 1 year after legalization
Thursday, 17 October 2019One year after the federal government legalized recreational marijuana, 60 per cent of Canadians are still buying the drug on the black market or from sources that are not entirely legal, according t ...
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How Canada's cannabis legalization is shaping laws elsewhere
Thursday, 17 October 2019Ever since Canada became the first major country to legalize marijuana for adults a year ago, other nations have been paying attention. The small South American nation of Uruguay was the first to leg ...
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Local governments are trying to make the cannabis industry less racist
Thursday, 17 October 2019Local governments looking to legalize marijuana across the nation are starting to think about racial equity—at a time when a multi-billion dollar cannabis industry is excluding the communities most d ...
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'This weed is so much better': Cannabis legalization in B.C. at one year
Wednesday, 16 October 2019Mike Babins and Maria Petrucci cleared grey-market cannabis from the shelves of their dispensary last year on the eve of federal legalization, uncertain what the new market would bring. A year later, ...
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ACT legalising cannabis will not stop it being a federal offence, warns Porter
Wednesday, 16 October 2019The Australian Capital Territory law to legalise cannabis possession appears to “do nothing to end the continuing operation” of commonwealth offences, Christian Porter has warned. The attorney genera ...
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A year in the weeds: Why the cannabis industry didn't take off the way everyone planned
Tuesday, 15 October 2019Dozens of legal cannabis producers, backed by billions in investor capital, were expected to put the black market on its heels, launching Canada to the forefront of an expanding global industry with ...
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“People feel betrayed”: small-scale dagga growers fear exclusion from legal trade
Monday, 14 October 2019As South Africa looks to enter the booming commercial cannabis market, which could be worth up to R27 billion locally by 2023, the Eastern Cape Department of Rural Development and Agrarian Reform, ha ...
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The Great American cannabis experiment
Monday, 14 October 2019While state legalization has allowed the cannabis industry to grow – it generated over $10 billion in sales last year and employs more than 211,000 people nationwide — state laws are increasingly una ...
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Grading cannabis strength ‘will improve mental health of users’
Sunday, 13 October 2019Standard units for grading the potency of cannabis – similar to those already used for alcohol – would result in significant improvements in the mental health of users, according to addiction experts ...
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Le Luxembourg produira son propre cannabis
Friday, 11 October 2019Le Luxembourg met toutes les chances de son côté pour devenir l'un des pionniers européens en matière de cannabis. Si la légalisation de l'usage récréatif de cette drogue était connue de longue date, ...
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Feeling burned: The first year of legal cannabis has been a complete disaster for investors
Wednesday, 09 October 2019The legalization of cannabis in Canada was supposed to be a catalyst — the most powerful one yet, investors and analysts alike thought — that would launch companies in the young but potent industry t ...
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Paritätische Bremen fordert Cannabis-Legalisierung
Monday, 07 October 2019Der Paritätische Bremen fordert eine Neuausrichtung der Drogen- und Suchtpolitik in Bremen. Der Spitzenverband der Wohlfahrtspflege will, dass legaler Konsum und kontrollierter Verkauf von Cannabis m ...
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Mexico could have state-owned cannabis company
Wednesday, 02 October 2019The coordinator of the MORENA party at the Lower Chamber Mario Delgado Carrillo presented an initiative for the creation of a legal market for the purchase and sale of marijuana with the creation of ...
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State marijuana packaging must be ‘as unattractive as possible’
Wednesday, 02 October 2019More rules about the pending experiments with regulated marijuana production are becoming clear. In particular, officials are keen to make sure non-users do not take up the habit, so state-produced c ...
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The Challenges of Medicinal Cannabis in Colombia
Monday, 30 September 2019In July 2016, the Colombian government enacted Law 1787, which regulates the use of medicinal cannabis and its trade in the country. With this decision and a series of subsequent resolutions, Colombi ...
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Cannabis reform raises conflict between state and federal laws
Sunday, 29 September 2019The ACT parliament passed significant reforms in regard to cannabis. Whilst the headlines called it "cannabis legalisation" the actual change was rather mild – a reform of territory offences allowing ...
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Feds 'obsessed' with cannabis laws as Barr opens door to MDMA reform
Friday, 27 September 2019Chief Minister Andrew Barr says the federal government should stick to trying to beat dangerous drug gangs instead of becoming "obsessed" with the ACT's new cannabis legalisation laws, as he flagged ...
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High time for legal cannabis in Europe?
Thursday, 26 September 2019Europe’s most commonly used illicit drug has moved from the coffee shops of Amsterdam to mainstream political debate. But EU governments remain deeply divided in their attitudes to cannabis. What’s t ...
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A new ‘war on drugs’ is short sighted and naive
Monday, 16 September 2019Forty years ago, the Netherlands was far ahead of its time. But today we see the country moving backwards, as evidenced by a recent report on the drugs culture in Amsterdam. The authors of the report ...
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Copenhagen city council supports cannabis legalization trial
Thursday, 12 September 2019City politicians in Copenhagen are in support of trialling a legalization of the sale of cannabis and will approach the government over the issue. “There’s a new government, so it makes sense for us ...
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Black market pot entered CannTrust facility, flowed into legal market last year: Sources
Friday, 06 September 2019Senior operating staff working at CannTrust Holdings Inc.’s Pelham, Ont. facility late last year brought cannabis seeds from the black market into production rooms, leading to some illicitly-grown po ...
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Maroc : la question de la légalisation de la production de cannabis de nouveau à l’ordre du jour
Friday, 06 September 2019Au début de l’été, le conseil de Tanger-Tétouan-Al Hoceïma a voté en faveur de la commande d’une étude sur les opportunités de cultiver du cannabis dans la région. Le rapport serait confié à l’Instit ...
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Cannabis prohibition doesn't work anywhere. It's New Zealand's turn to legalise it
Wednesday, 04 September 2019In New Zealand, cannabis is classified as an illegal drug under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975. Its possession, use and supply are subject variously to penalties ranging in severity from fines to many ...
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Cannabis in the Americas: It’s time to talk about marijuana policy
Tuesday, 03 September 2019There is now a unique moment to build a coherent regulatory framework that would prevent the growing cannabis market from being concentrated in the hands of large for-profit conglomerates, beholden t ...
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Schneider : «Luxembourg ne sera pas le nouvel Amsterdam»
Monday, 02 September 2019Health Minister Étienne Schneider hopes that the controlled legalization of recreational cannabis in the Grand Duchy will come into force within two years. For him, the prohibition model in place for ...
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Green light: ten towns named for legalised cannabis-growing experiment
Thursday, 29 August 2019One in seven Dutch coffee shops is set to join an experiment where for the first time cannabis growing is to be regulated. Justice minister Ferdinand Grapperhaus and health minister Bruno Bruins name ...
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A global revolution in attitudes towards cannabis is under way
Thursday, 29 August 2019Uruguay paved the way when it legalised cannabis in 2013. But it is the reform in Canada, a G7 member, that has done most to heighten international tension over cannabis’s legal status. Last year it ...
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Almere, Breda and Tilburg set to join regulated marijuana experiment
Wednesday, 28 August 2019The Dutch government will press ahead with trials of regulated marijuana production with the maximum 10 cities when the experiment starts in 2021. The experiment is part of the current government’s c ...
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Canadian marijuana legalisation has not removed crime: Dutch police lecturer
Tuesday, 27 August 2019Canada’s decision to legalise cannabis has not resulted in removing organised crime from the chain. Police Academy lecturer Pieter Tops, who visited Canada as part of a police delegation last month, ...
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A new approach to criminalisation could end Cape Town’s drug wars
Tuesday, 27 August 2019It’s not known exactly how many gangs there are in South Africa’s Western Cape province, but gang membership has been estimated at more than 100 000. Almost all these gangs, most concentrated in Cape ...
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