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Slowing the legal weed freight train
Tuesday, 12 February 2019Sabet's strategy for sabotaging legalization is to offer legislators what he calls "a true decriminalization and justice" bill, which would do away with arrests for low-level offenses and replace the ...
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What is required for Jamaica to export its hi-grade ganja
Monday, 11 February 2019Jamaica’s decriminalisation of ganja in 2015 brought with it many expectations, one being the ability to export its hi-grade herb. With a relatively small marketplace (a 2016-2017 Jamaica Health and ...
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Cannabis co-ops seek to bring small producers, processors into legal market
Sunday, 10 February 2019British Columbia may be famous for its bud but some say Canada's new marijuana legalization framework is excluding the small producers with established know-how. A movement is growing in the province ...
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A California conundrum: How to crack down on illicit sales without echoing the war on drugs?
Monday, 04 February 2019In October 2018, the California Department of Consumer Affairs’ newly-established Cannabis Enforcement Unit teamed up with the Los Angeles Police Department to carry out a raid on an unlicensed shop ...
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Why legal cannabis growers can’t compete with the black market — yet
Friday, 01 February 2019Despite the persistent media buzz, there are no cannabis supply shortages in Canada, pot industry expert Michael Armstrong explains. “There’s all kinds of cannabis in Canada,” says Armstrong, “It’s t ...
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Canada’s cannabis shortage could be over quicker than we thought, researcher says
Friday, 01 February 2019If Canada’s licensed cannabis producers continue ramping up production at their current exponential pace, there will be more than enough pot to meet the government’s projected demand by the end of 20 ...
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Illicit drugs should be regulated and distributed by pharmacies, leading doctor suggests
Wednesday, 30 January 2019A leading drug reform advocate and esteemed doctor is calling for a shake up to the illicit drug market, suggesting substances like MDMA, marijuana and ecstasy should be regulated and sold at chemist ...
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Tightly regulated framework likely for 2020 vote on cannabis
Saturday, 26 January 2019The 2020 referendum to legalise cannabis looks likely to propose a tightly regulated framework, including strict rules on supply and possession, an age limit of at least 18, and a non-profit model wh ...
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Government register contradicts stated policy, cannabis smokers lobby says
Friday, 25 January 2019Obliging Maltese cannabis smokers to register for them to have access to cannabis will achieve the opposite of the government’s stated aim of adopting a harm reduction approach, according to the pres ...
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How Canopy Growth became the jolly green giant of cannabis
Thursday, 24 January 2019The common wisdom among investors and analysts in the cannabis industry has been that bigger is better. They predict that cannabis will follow the path of alcohol after Prohibition ended in the U.S., ...
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Westmoreland ganja farmers welcome pilot but...
Monday, 21 January 2019One of the nation's leading ganja advocates, Ras Iyah V, has welcomed Prime Minister Andrew Holness' announcement that the pilot project for the Alternative Development Programme (ADP), which will pr ...
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After legalization: Four things to know about cannabis in Quebec
Thursday, 17 January 2019In Quebec — where the product is sold by the government-run Société Québécoise du Cannabis (SQDC) — legalization has highlighted the province’s thirst for the “sticky icky” but also some chronic prob ...
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Dutch weed experiment: The ongoing fight to regulate famed coffee shops
Friday, 11 January 2019When the Dutch government announced in October 2017 plans for an experiment with regulated cannabis production to supply the country’s famous coffee shops, the cannabis industry cautiously welcomed t ...
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Swiss pharmacies want to sell medical and recreational marijuana
Friday, 11 January 2019The President of the Pharmacy Association in Zurich, Valeria Dora, says that more and more people in Switzerland are consuming cannabis, and that selling it legally would provide users with safe prod ...
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Cannabis smokers will register with State under proposed reform
Thursday, 10 January 2019Cannabis smokers in Malta will be asked to register with the government once a reform of the country's cannabis rules is implemented. “Government will be insisting on some principles, including a min ...
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Legal pot costs almost 50 per cent more than pot bought on the black market: StatCan
Wednesday, 09 January 2019A legal gram of cannabis in Canada costs nearly 50 per cent more than illicit pot, according to a new analysis of price quotes compiled by Statistics Canada. The average price of a legal gram of medi ...
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Canada legalized pot in October. But its black market is still going strong
Saturday, 05 January 2019The legal cannabis stores that opened here last fall still look pristine. Curious customers file in, but the shelves they peruse are often bare. Supplies are so short the stores are shuttered three d ...
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Now for the hard part: Getting Californians to buy legal weed
Wednesday, 02 January 2019A billion dollars of tax revenue, the taming of the black market, the convenience of retail cannabis stores throughout the state — these were some of the promises made by proponents of marijuana lega ...
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Cuomo to push legalizing recreational marijuana in New York by early 2019
Monday, 17 December 2018Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced that he would push to legalize recreational marijuana next year, a move that could bring in more than $1.3 billion in revenue annually and put New York in line with sev ...
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Gov't urged to regulate ecstasy production
Monday, 17 December 2018The Dutch government should regulate the production of party drug ecstasy to remove it from the criminal circuit, GroenLinks parliamentarian Kathalijne Buitenweg says in the Volkskrant. ‘The governme ...
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Navigating cannabis legalization 2.0
Tuesday, 04 December 2018Legalization is not a simple yes-or-no decision, and its consequences for health, public safety, and social equity will be shaped by choices about production, prices, and the enforcement of regulatio ...
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Dr Benedikt Fischer: Canada provides lessons on legal cannabis
Tuesday, 27 November 2018New Zealand is debating its cannabis policy, a process that led to legalisation of cannabis use and supply in Canada just last month. Since the two countries share many traits and values - and high c ...
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Pot growers turn to gifting, trading with no legal way to buy cannabis seeds in Canada
Tuesday, 27 November 2018Cannabis consumers who can’t buy seeds are finding creative ways to grow their own pot. Even though the federal government made it legal on Oct. 17 to grow four plants per household, officials say th ...
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How to achieve weed equality
Monday, 26 November 2018The official body that's overseen the legal cannabis regulatory process in Massachusetts has given the much anticipated "commence operations" notice. It has taken two years for the Cannabis Control C ...
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N.J. moves a big step closer to legalizing marijuana
Monday, 26 November 2018A bill to legalize recreational marijuana was voted out of a joint committee in the New Jersey legislature marking a giant step towards making the cannabis plant and its products available for legal ...
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Human clinical trials of cannabis as medicine
Saturday, 24 November 2018Government scientists are preparing for India’s first human clinical trials to test cannabis-based compounds on select diseases in line with what they say is a global resurgence in the medical applic ...
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Dutch municipalities dissatisfied with regulated cannabis experiment
Friday, 23 November 2018Many Dutch municipalities are dissatisfied with the current preliminary design of the government's experiment with regulated cannabis cultivation. Where municipalities queued to participate in the ex ...
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Marijuana is getting cheaper. For Colorado and some states, that’s a problem
Wednesday, 21 November 2018Wholesale marijuana prices in Colorado have fallen by a third in just the past 12 months, continuing a price crash that began soon after the drug was legalized. Although this implies that some mariju ...
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Studie zu legalem Cannabis: Fiskus könnte 2,4 Milliarden Euro einnehmen
Friday, 16 November 20182,39 Milliarden Euro - jährlich. So viel könnte der Fiskus durch die Legalisierung von Cannabis pro Jahr einnehmen und einsparen, unterm Strich. Zu diesem Ergebnis kommt eine Studie für den Deutschen ...
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Drug law reform comes to Mexico
Thursday, 15 November 2018Last month, Mexico’s Supreme Court handed down two decisions that effectively overturned Mexico’s longstanding ban on the personal use of marijuana. The Court affirmed the power of the individual—rat ...
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Police drugs lead 'impressed' by cannabis clubs
Tuesday, 13 November 2018Hardyal Dhindsa, who is the lead on substance abuse for the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners, has said the war on drugs is not working. He said it was time to look at other ways of tackl ...
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Cannabis industry says it needs more approved growers to meet Canadian demand
Monday, 12 November 2018More fully-licensed cannabis growers and cultivation space are needed to meet a voracious demand for legal marijuana, a spokesman for the industry said. That means more licences for both producers an ...
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Canada’s message to teenagers: Marijuana is legal now. Please don’t smoke it
Sunday, 11 November 2018Canada became the second country to make it legal for adults to buy, grow and consume small amounts of marijuana. But it also made it a crime to give it to anyone younger than 19 or 18, depending on ...
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Mexico: president-elect Amlo's party moves toward marijuana legalization
Thursday, 08 November 2018The party of Mexico’s president-elect has submitted legislation to legalize the possession, public use, growth and sale of marijuana in what would be a major change to the country’s narcotics strateg ...
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Michigan becomes 10th state to allow recreational marijuana
Wednesday, 07 November 2018Marijuana advocates scored a number of substantial ballot victories in the middle of the country on Election Day, chief among them the legalization of recreational marijuana in Michigan, which become ...
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Mexico introduces bill to legalise medical and recreational cannabis use
Tuesday, 06 November 2018Mexico’s next interior minister plans to submit a bill to create a medical marijuana industry and allow recreational use, in what would be a big step by the incoming government to shake up the countr ...
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Weed woes: Canada struggles to meet huge demand for legal cannabis
Sunday, 04 November 2018Two weeks after Canada became the first G20 country to legalize cannabis amid much fanfare, numerous stores – both physical and digital – are struggling to meet high demand. In much of the country, t ...
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Mexico Supreme Court says ban on recreational marijuana unconstitutional
Thursday, 01 November 2018Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled that an absolute ban on recreational use of marijuana was unconstitutional, effectively leaving it to lawmakers to regulate consumption of the drug. Announcing it had fou ...
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Why L.A.'s recreational weed industry can't go straight
Tuesday, 30 October 2018Given Los Angeles’ status as one of the largest cannabis markets in the world (and California’s status as a trailblazer for medical cannabis), it should have been prepared when recreational weed was ...
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Berne veut des essais pilotes sur le cannabis
Thursday, 25 October 2018Le Conseil fédéral veut dorénavant autoriser les essais pilotes avec cannabis. Les résultats de la consultation semblent lui être favorables. UDC mis à part, un large consensus réunit les partis et l ...
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Pot pioneers who went to jail for the cause now watch legal opportunities pass them by
Thursday, 25 October 2018At the outset of legalization, people who defied prohibition in high-profile ways appear to be getting shut out of a burgeoning industry just as the former police officers and politicians that they o ...
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Taking stock: A decade of drug policy
Monday, 22 October 2018‘Taking stock: A decade of drug policy’ evaluates the impacts of drug policies implemented across the world over the past decade, using data from the United Nations (UN), complemented with peer-revie ...
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UK government must look into legalising cannabis, says former Met Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe
Sunday, 21 October 2018Former Metropolitan Police chief Bernard Hogan-Howe has called for an urgent review of the evidence supporting cannabis legalisation. It marks a significant shift in the attitude of the ex-police com ...
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Advocates say black market will thrive until small pot growers and sellers are included
Wednesday, 17 October 2018“It’s not fair to expect the government to deliver everything perfectly Day 1 when this is a huge transition,” said Ian Dawkins, president of the Cannabis Commerce Association of Canada. “But let’s b ...
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Cannabis Day 1: How Canada greeted legalization from coast to coast
Wednesday, 17 October 2018From St. John’s to Vancouver, from Southern Ontario to the Far North, Canada’s nearly century-old prohibition on recreational cannabis lifted on Wednesday – and in Ottawa, the Trudeau government also ...
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Globe editorial: With legal pot, Canada sets an example for other countries
Wednesday, 17 October 2018And so, here we go. The recreational use of cannabis is now legal in Canada, making ours only the second country, after tiny Uruguay, to take a leap that is both epic and overblown. Overblown because ...
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Dazed and confused: Canada cannabis legalization brings complex new laws
Tuesday, 16 October 2018Canada will this week become the second country in the world to legalize recreational marijuana, but as they negotiate a patchwork of new legislation and inconsistent enforcement, smokers may soon fi ...
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Cannabis in Canada: Who wins and who loses under new law
Monday, 15 October 2018Canada is about to become the second nation to fully legalise recreational cannabis. When prohibition comes to an end on 17 October, Canadian adults will be able to purchase and consume the drug from ...
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Amsterdam wants to participate in regulated cannabis experiment
Friday, 12 October 2018Amsterdam has to participate in the national experiment with regulated cannabis cultivation. If the Dutch capital, with the largest coffeeshop market in the Netherlands, does not participate, the exp ...
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Kanton Zürich stellt sich hinter Cannabis-Versuche
Thursday, 11 October 2018What would happen if cannabis could be legally purchased in Switzerland? To find out, Zurich, Berne, Geneva and Basel have been planning pilot trials for some time in which cannabis is to be given to ...
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