Tag: regulation
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Uruguay leads world in cannabis regulation but US law intrudes
Wednesday, 28 February 2018Uruguay was the first country in the world to fully regulate the cannabis market and so break free from a global prohibitionist regime that has prevailed for decades and is now under strain. The nati ...
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Tribes cut out of California pot market might grow their own
Monday, 26 February 2018American Indian tribes that say they have been cut out of California's legal marijuana market have raised the possibility of going their own way by establishing pot businesses outside the state-regul ...
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Drugs should not be in the hands of organized crime
Sunday, 25 February 2018Drug overdoses are one of the leading causes of death in the United States and are contributing to decline in life expectancy. The opioid epidemic has cost an estimated $1 trillion since 2001. And ye ...
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It’s about ‘harm-reduction’, not ‘recreational cannabis’
Sunday, 25 February 2018Malta is poised to become a centre for the production of medical marijuana – while also relaxing its cannabis legislation further – after decades of a no-compromise, ‘zero tolerance’ policy towards a ...
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Entkriminalisierung von Cannabis: Theoretische Mehrheit im Bundestag
Thursday, 22 February 2018Im Deutschen Bundestag besteht eine theoretische Mehrheit, die die Entkriminalisierung des Cannabiskonsums vorantreiben will. Die Bundestagsfraktionen von FDP, Linken und Grünen stellen ihre Vorschlä ...
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How New Zealand laws contributed to a synthetic drug crisis
Wednesday, 21 February 2018Had things gone another way, the Psychoactive Substances Act (PSA) might be the grand pillar of Peter Dunne’s parliamentary legacy, a test case for the world to watch. Unfortunately for Dunne, as it ...
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Report: 99% of California cannabis growers are still unlicensed
Monday, 19 February 2018The backers of Prop. 64, the 2016 Adult Use of Marijuana Act, sold California voters on the promise that small and medium businesses would be the engine powering the state’s $7 billion legal cannabis ...
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Marijuana producers enter retail race as legalization looms
Sunday, 11 February 2018As the race to produce enough cannabis for the soon-to-be-legal market gets increasingly crowded, licensed producers are setting their sights on the next frontier in the race for maximum pot profitab ...
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Marijuana legalization could be delayed beyond July 1, government officials say
Tuesday, 06 February 2018Federal officials are predicting the legalization of cannabis will only occur two to three months after Bill C-45 is adopted by Parliament, in order to ensure a smooth transition to an open market fo ...
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Big Sur’s legendary weed growers being left behind in legal era
Monday, 05 February 2018For decades, hidden in creases of the wild and rugged Santa Lucia Mountains, farmers have eked out a living growing some of the nation’s most esteemed cannabis, hanging onto the hope that someday the ...
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Vente de cannabis: le National prend les devants
Friday, 26 January 2018Des projets pilotes de distribution de cannabis devraient pouvoir être menés. Après le niet de la Confédération, la commission de la santé publique du National prend les devants. Par 13 voix contre 6 ...
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Marijuana addiction is real, and teenage users are most at risk
Monday, 15 January 2018Cases of substance-use disorders are exactly what the federal government is hoping to avoid in its push to legalize recreational marijuana, and they may be the biggest test of whether legalization is ...
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Elio Di Rupo en faveur des cultures communales de cannabis
Thursday, 11 January 2018Produire du cannabis et le distribuer aux consommateurs sous contrôle des communes. La mesure a été adoptée aux Pays-Bas suite à l’accord du gouvernement Rutte III. En Belgique, le président du PS et ...
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Investors are delusional when it comes to Canadian marijuana companies
Wednesday, 10 January 2018As the July deadline for the provinces to legalize marijuana approaches, the stock prices of Canadian publicly-traded weed producers have been on a tear. On Monday alone shares in Canopy Growth Corp. ...
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New Hampshire lawmakers approve marijuana legalization
Tuesday, 09 January 2018The New Hampshire House of Representatives voted to legalize marijuana, five days after the Trump administration moved to rescind federal guidelines protecting state cannabis laws. Under the bill, wh ...
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How legalization is already hurting California's small pot farmers
Monday, 08 January 2018Legality is more nuanced than it may seem in a state that legalized weed. And California's mom-and-pop growers are up against a confluence of factors pushing them out of the industry: federal prohibi ...
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Vermont House votes to legalize marijuana
Thursday, 04 January 2018The Vermont House passed a bill to legalize recreational possession of marijuana just hours after Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded a Department of Justice policy on legal marijuana. Lawmakers ...
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Kriminalbeamte fordern regulierten Marihuana-Markt
Thursday, 04 January 2018Der Bund Deutscher Kriminalbeamter (BDK) hat sich für eine regulierte Legalisierung von Cannabis in Deutschland ausgesprochen. „Es ist an der Zeit, auch hier das Kiffen für Konsumenten vollständig zu ...
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The end of cannabis tolerance in Spain
Tuesday, 02 January 2018After decades of relative tolerance towards Cannabis in Spain, the Constitutional Court decides that cannabis clubs are criminal. Years of government criminalizing strategy pay off. The national parl ...
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California rings in new year with broad legalization of marijuana
Monday, 01 January 2018The arrival of the new year in California brought with it broad legalization of marijuana, a much-anticipated change that comes two decades after the state was the first to allow pot for medical use. ...
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Steve DeAngelo digs in
Monday, 01 January 2018"We are looking in 2018 and 2019 at an extinction event for 75 percent of the existing cannabis industry in California," says cannabis activist/entrepreneur Steve DeAngelo of Harborside. For DeAngelo ...
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Hippy dream now a billion-dollar industry with California set to legalise cannabis
Saturday, 30 December 2017On Monday, California, the US’s most populous state, and the world’s sixth biggest economy, will officially legalising cannabis. Overnight a shadow industry worth billions of dollars annually will em ...
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How Congress unwittingly turned the nation's capital into the Wild West of marijuana
Friday, 29 December 2017It’s not the promise of prompt delivery that has residents of Washington, D.C., spending fifty bucks for nondescript glass jars, nor is it the small jars themselves. It is the unmentioned “gift” whic ...
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I grow pot in California for a living. I’m worried about legalization
Friday, 29 December 2017As the daughter of a back-to-the-land homesteader and pot farmer, I learned never to speak of what my father did. We lived a simple life in times when only growing a few plants could sustain us. It’s ...
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Californian growers and retailers brace for cannabis competition
Wednesday, 27 December 2017California has long been a cannabis pioneer. The state became a hub for the drug-induced counterculture of “turn on, tune in, drop out” of the 1960s, from hash-smoking hippies of Haight-Ashbury in Sa ...
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Dutch councils vie to produce cannabis in bid to cut out criminals
Wednesday, 27 December 2017At least 30 companies want to get into the legal production of cannabis in the Netherlands, according to Paul Depla, the mayor of Breda, whose council is among two dozen vying to take part in governm ...
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California's top marijuana regulator talks about what to expect Jan. 1, when legal pot market opens
Monday, 25 December 2017California's legal pot market opens for business on Jan. 1. The day will be a milestone, but what exactly will happen then and, especially, in the weeks and months to come is unclear. Lori Ajax, the ...
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With legalization ahead, nonprofit’s certification program will test businesses offering pot products
Sunday, 24 December 2017Marijuana consumers are likely to have a flood of options when pot becomes legal next summer and now a not-for-profit group is stepping in to help determine which products to trust. The National Inst ...
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Marijuana doomsday didn't come
Tuesday, 19 December 2017It's been a five years since Colorado's voters approved Constitutional Amendment 64, legalizing recreational marijuana in the state. Sales commenced four years ago this January. Although the amendmen ...
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Lawmakers, pot growers say California's marijuana cultivation rules favor big corporate farms
Monday, 18 December 2017California’s new rules allowing marijuana cultivation favor large corporate farms despite a promise in Proposition 64 that small growers would be protected, according to a group of state lawmakers an ...
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Étude sur le cannabis: nouvelle demande
Tuesday, 12 December 2017Les Villes de Berne, Bienne, Lucerne et Zurich examinent le dépôt de nouvelles demandes auprès de l’OFSP, après le rejet jugé «surprenant» de la demande d’autorisation de l’Université de Berne pour m ...
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How Uruguay made legal highs work
Sunday, 10 December 2017Uruguay’s switch to a legal marijuana market has not been without its hitches. Notably the resistance of most pharmacists to act as outlets for the recreational marijuana (medical marijuana remains i ...
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California’s limit on big growers just vanished. Here’s why
Wednesday, 06 December 2017In an unexpected move that has small cannabis farmers and some state lawmakers up in arms, California regulators have created a licensing loophole that could allow large-scale cannabis growers to ope ...
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Portugal’s radical drugs policy is working. Why hasn’t the world copied it?
Tuesday, 05 December 2017In 2001, Portugal became the first country to decriminalise the possession and consumption of all illicit substances. Rather than being arrested, those caught with a personal supply might be given a ...
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A taxing problem: how to price, tax legal weed to stamp out the black market
Tuesday, 05 December 2017Stamping out the illicit market is one of Ottawa’s major goals as the country approaches a July 2018 deadline for the legalization of recreational marijuana — leaving politicians little time to lay o ...
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Legalization of marijuana unlikely to kill Canada’s black market right away
Monday, 04 December 2017From texting a local dealer to dropping into a neighbourhood dispensary or ordering online, Canada’s black market for recreational marijuana has seen significant changes in recent years and will see ...
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Légalisation du cannabis: oui de Berset aux études
Monday, 04 December 2017L'Université de Berne pourrait être autorisée à mener son étude sur la vente légale de cannabis. L'Office fédéral de la santé publique (OFSP) est en train d'étudier comment compléter la loi actuelle ...
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Federal marijuana legislation approved by House of Commons, moves on to Senate
Tuesday, 28 November 2017The federal government's plan to legalize marijuana by next summer is a step closer. Bill C-45 received final approval Monday in the House of Commons, passing by a vote of 200-82. It now moves to the ...
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Councils call for more experimental approach to cannabis production
Monday, 27 November 2017Councils have pleaded with the Dutch government to give them more autonomy in their experiments with legal cannabis production rather than imposing a ‘one size fits all’ solution. The new government ...
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Federal government proposes 'micro' cultivation licences for small growers, rolls out public cannabis consultation
Tuesday, 21 November 2017The federal government has proposed a licensing program that could allow for more of B.C.'s 'micro' producers to be included in the legal mix. Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor announced the re ...
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Here are the new rules for legal marijuana in California, effective Jan. 1
Friday, 17 November 2017Cannabis businesses in California can’t be within 600 feet of schools. Shops have to close by 10 p.m., and they need 24-hour video surveillance. Those regulations are in the new rule book for Califor ...
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Le coup de frein à la dépénalisation du cannabis fait tousser les experts
Wednesday, 15 November 2017Pas question d’analyser les effets d’une vente régulée de cannabis sur les consommateurs et sur le marché illégal. L’Office fédéral de la santé publique (OFSP) a opposé son veto à l’Université de Ber ...
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Bern cannabis study rejected for legal reasons
Tuesday, 14 November 2017The University of Bern cannot conduct a study on the effects of the regulated sale of cannabis in pharmacies on behalf of the city’s authorities. In a written reply the Federal Office of Public Healt ...
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L'Uni de Berne ne pourra pas se servir de cannabis
Tuesday, 14 November 2017Ce projet devait permettre d'étudier les effets de la régularisation de la vente de cannabis sur les consommateurs et sur le trafic de stupéfiants à Berne. D'autres villes comme Genève, Zurich, Bâle ...
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Don't 'bank' on ganja! - Lawmaker says J'cans might be clinging to false hopes
Thursday, 09 November 2017The viability of Jamaica's legal ganja and hemp industry has been called into question, with lawmaker Marisa Dalrymple Philibert suggesting that Jamaicans might be clinging to false hope as there are ...
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California proposes armored cars to transport pot tax money
Tuesday, 07 November 2017California should use armored cars to transport hundreds of millions of dollars in cash tax payments expected next year with the state's legal marijuana market, the state treasurer said. The state on ...
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Dutch councils queue up for regulated marijuana project
Tuesday, 07 November 2017So far 25 of the Netherlands’ 380 local authorities have come forward to say they wish to take part in trials to regulate marijuana production. The new government plans to set up experiments to grow ...
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Les 500 000 fumeurs suisses de cannabis valent une fortune
Sunday, 05 November 2017Le cannabis légal ? La bataille politique promet d’être âpre, mais les vents poussent en ce sens. Le succès commercial de l’herbe en vente légale, le CBD, malgré sa faible teneur en substance psychot ...
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Ready or not, recreational marijuana use is coming to Canada
Saturday, 04 November 2017Proposing legislation to legalize the recreational use of marijuana was the easy part for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. With about eight months to go before Canada becomes the second nation after Ur ...
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Canada government facing resistance from Senate over pot law
Friday, 03 November 2017The Canadian government’s plan to legalize recreational marijuana by next July could be in jeopardy, with opposition brewing among some in the Senate and concerns that the deadline to pass the bill i ...
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