Tag: regulation
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Vancouver becomes first Canadian city to regulate growing marijuana market
Tuesday, 23 June 2015Vancouver has approved new rules to license and regulate illegal marijuana stores, making it the first city in Canada to attempt to control the burgeoning market – and setting it on a collision cours ...
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SPD will Cannabis-Freigabe beschleunigen
Sunday, 21 June 2015Die punktuelle Legalisierung von Marihuana in Hamburg rückt näher. Auf ihrem Kreisparteitag werden die Altonaer Genossen voraussichtlich einen Antrag der SPD Altona-Nord/Sternschanze annehmen, der da ...
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Bremen will Cannabis freigeben
Friday, 19 June 2015Cannabis-Konsum soll künftig nicht mehr von der Polizei verfolgt und eine legale Abgabe in Bremen möglich werden. Darauf haben sich Sozialdemokraten und Grüne bei den Koalitionsverhandlungen geeinigt ...
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Cultivating alternatives: Towards a regional cannabis model
Sunday, 14 June 2015The decriminalization and regulation of cannabis has been occurring in many jurisdictions in the United States – but also closer to home and more significantly in Jamaica. While unable to directly co ...
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Drug warriors are still crying 'reefer madness.' The facts don't support them
Sunday, 14 June 2015In their op-ed article against cannabis legalization, former drug czar William J. Bennett and Seth Leibsohn yearn for a time when fear-mongering, not facts, drove the marijuana policy debate in Ameri ...
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Kreuzberg will Cannabis schnell legalisieren
Sunday, 14 June 2015Seit eineinhalb Jahren wird im Berliner Bezirk Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg diskutiert den Erwerb und den Konsum von Cannabis zu legalisieren. Noch im Juni will der Bezirk einen Antrag auf eine entsprech ...
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Budget bill outlaws pot sales in D.C. for 2 years
Wednesday, 10 June 2015House Republicans advanced a budget plan that would prevent legal sales of marijuana in the District until at least 2017. Advocates for legalization, however, called it a victory. What the Republican ...
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Monitoring legal pot: How do we know if it works?
Tuesday, 09 June 2015Dozens of government officials and researchers from a half-dozen U.S. states and a few countries that have legalized marijuana or are at least thinking about it are gathering in Washington state this ...
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Ganja is our 'life blood' – western farmers
Monday, 01 June 2015With Science, Technology, Energy and Mining Minister Phillip Paulwell stating that Jamaica plans to become a world leader in exploiting the economic value of ganja, ganja stakeholders are of the view ...
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Lib Dem leadership candidate Norman Lamb calls for cannabis legalisation
Sunday, 31 May 2015The Liberal Democrat leadership candidate Norman Lamb has called for the UK to legalise, regulate and tax the sale of cannabis. The former care minister said the UK should draw on examples from US st ...
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Warum kontrolliertes Kiffen besser ist
Thursday, 28 May 2015Zahlreiche Ökonomen (wie etwa die Nobelpreisträger Milton Friedman, George Akerlof und Vernon Smith) wie auch über 120 deutsche Strafrechtsprofessoren vertreten schon lange die Forderung nach einer k ...
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Amsterdam Mayor: experiment to regulate cannabis cultivation currently legally impossible
Thursday, 28 May 2015End 2014 Van der Laan told the council to examine possibilities for regulated cannabis cultivation. The municipality would appoint companies to legally grow cannabis. In theory this should insure the ...
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Morocco’s major opposition party calls for legalization of cannabis
Sunday, 24 May 2015Hamid Chabat, Secretary General of the Istiqlal Party, one of Morocco’s major opposition political parties, has once again called for the legalization of cannabis. Chabat called for the reorientation ...
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Experte warnt vor Cannabis-Freigabe in der Schanze
Wednesday, 20 May 2015Um dem zunehmenden Cannabis-Handel im Flora- und Schanzenpark Herr zu werden, fordern Anwohner des Schanzeviertels nun die Freigabe der Droge für ihr Viertel. Zwar sehe der Koalitionsvertrag eine Prü ...
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Germany's bad idea to legalize pot
Tuesday, 19 May 2015Green Party member Dieter Janecek and Christian Democrat Joachim Pfeiffer filed a policy proposal for legalization. The idea of legalizing cannabis is gaining momentum in Germany. It's getting surpri ...
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MPs block cities from harvesting marijuana
Tuesday, 19 May 2015A narrow majority in the Tweede Kamer, lower house of parliament in the Netherlands, supported a motion to not allow municipalities to experiment with cannabis cultivation: 75 parliamentarians voted ...
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First ‘ecstasy’ shop opens in Amsterdam
Tuesday, 19 May 2015A Dutch political movement is calling for the legalization of the psychoactive drug ecstasy – and has opened a shop to promote its cause. The youth wing of the Dutch Liberal Democrats says decriminal ...
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German Green, CDU politicians launch cannabis legalization initiative
Wednesday, 13 May 2015In a proposal for parliament obtained by German public broadcaster ARD, Christian Democrat Joachim Pfeiffer and Green party member Dieter Janecek put forward their plan for the liberalization of cann ...
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Zehn Gründe, warum Berlin von einer Cannabis-Legalisierung profitiert
Tuesday, 12 May 2015Erstmals hat sogar ein Sprecher der CDU die Legalisierung von Cannabis ins Spiel gebracht. Ist das das erste Anzeichen eines Tauwetters für die Freigabe von Marihuana? Nützt eine kontrollierte Abgabe ...
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Berlin's increasingly unhappy relationship with marijuana
Monday, 11 May 2015Kreuzberg and Berlin in general are going through an extremely messy fight over how best to control the weed trade. It’s a fight where police raids and dealer violence are turning parts of the area u ...
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Kiffen unter städtischer Aufsicht
Monday, 11 May 2015Die Grünen wollen nach Angaben von Stadträtin Lydia Dietrich einen Antrag stellen, dass die Stadt München zumindest versuchsweise den legalen Konsum von Cannabis ermöglicht. Ähnliche Pläne verfolgt P ...
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Coffee-Shops in Kreuzberg? Das wird dauern
Saturday, 09 May 2015Der legale Cannabis-Verkauf in Kreuzberg kommt nicht voran. Schon für den Antrag fehlt das Geld. Unklar bleibt auch, ob Touristen in Coffee-Shops einkaufen dür- fen. Sie stellen die größte Gruppe an ...
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Obama asked to weigh in on legal marijuana
Monday, 04 May 2015The US Supreme Court has asked President Barack Obama's administration to take a stance on legal marijuana as it considers a lawsuit seeking to ban Colorado’s legalisation of recreational marijuana. ...
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BSJ developing plan to ensure Jamaica's ganja is protected
Saturday, 02 May 2015The Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ), which was mandated to design a regulatory plan for the decriminalised ganja industry, has developed a 17-step scientific footprint proposal. According to the BS ...
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Legislature considering plans to regulate medicinal pot shops, growers
Saturday, 02 May 2015California lawmakers are wading into the politically sticky issue of regulating medical marijuana, laying groundwork for state control of the sale and cultivation of cannabis with the expectation tha ...
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New England states racing to legalize recreational pot
Saturday, 02 May 2015Propelled by successful campaigns in Western states to legalize the recreational use of marijuana, some advocates and legislators say a marijuana legalization race is developing in New England, with ...
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Germans mark a milestone in the fight to legalize marijuana
Thursday, 30 April 2015Those who support the legalization of marijuana in Germany recently marked a milestone with the creation of the first comprehensive draft law, which sets to regulate production and distribution of ca ...
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Improving global drug policy: Comparative perspectives and UNGASS 2016
Tuesday, 28 April 2015As the world prepares for the 2016 Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly on the World Drug Problem (UNGASS 2016), an increasing number of countries around the world now find the regi ...
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Ecuadorian activists want nothing less than universal marijuana
Thursday, 23 April 2015Ecuador may be on the verge of a landmark shift in drug policy, as legislators debate the newly proposed Organic Law on Comprehensive Drug Prevention. The initiative, promoted by the ruling party PAI ...
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Swedish politician calls for legal cannabis shops
Tuesday, 14 April 2015Hanna Wagenius, chair of Sweden's Centre Party's youth wing, thinks that Sweden should take its lead from several places around the world which have legalized cannabis, such as the Netherlands and a ...
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Cannabis-Klubs in Schweizer Städten in weiter Ferne
Saturday, 11 April 2015In den Schweizer Städten wird Cannabis ungehemmt konsumiert. Die Städte möchten deshalb Pilotversuche für einen kontrollierten Konsum in Klubs. Doch die juristischen und politischen Hürden sind hoch. ...
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Im Görlitzer Park wird weiter gedealt
Wednesday, 08 April 2015Seit dem 31. März gilt im Görlitzer Park die Null- Toleranz-Regelung. Wer mit kleinsten Mengen Marihuana oder Haschisch erwischt wird, muss mit einer strafrechtlichen Verfolgung rechnen. Die Toleranz ...
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Tobacco Trade Association calls for legalizing hash
Monday, 06 April 2015The Cairo and Giza Tobacco Merchants Association submitted a proposal to the Cabinet to legalize the use and trade of hash, arguing the measure could prove an effective means to reduce the state budg ...
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Critical updates needed in state marijuana laws
Wednesday, 25 March 2015Washington's experiment with legal recreational marijuana is "teetering on the brink" of a market failure. That is the candid assessment of Hayden Woodard, a state-licensed grower in Dallesport who h ...
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The cannabis question
Monday, 23 March 2015Given the dynamics of politics in Lebanon, Jumblatt’s call in and of itself is unlikely to provide the gravitas for an effective change in the legislation. Smoking cannabis is not something we learne ...
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Can Washington’s gift economy in marijuana work?
Friday, 20 March 2015In Washington DC it’s now legal to possess marijuana, to grow it, to smoke it and to give it away. But you’re not allowed to trade in it. You can give your neighbor up to an ounce, but if he gives yo ...
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Das sind die Cannabis-Pläne der Grünen
Thursday, 19 March 2015Der Entwurf der Grünen für ein Cannabiskontrollgesetz wird in erster Lesung im Bundestag behandelt. Er sieht vor, dass Erwachsene künftig 30 Gramm Cannabis zum Eigenbedarf kaufen oder drei Cannabispf ...
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SPD will Coffee-Shops für mehrere Berliner Bezirke
Monday, 16 March 2015SPD und Grüne wollen eine Freigabe von Cannabis. Geht es nach den Sozialdemokraten, soll es dafür nicht nur in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Modellversuche geben. Auch in anderen Bezirken könne man sich e ...
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Kreuzberg stellt Antrag für legalen Coffeeshop
Sunday, 15 March 2015Der Plan des Berliner Bezirks Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg für eine legale Verkaufsstelle von Cannabis nimmt konkrete Gestalt an. "Ich erwarte, dass der Antrag dieses Jahr rausgeht", sagte Bezirksbürgerm ...
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Legalisierung von Cannabis statt drogenfreier Zone
Thursday, 12 March 2015Der Görlitzer Park in Kreuzberg soll ab April eine Null-Toleranz-Zone für Drogen werden. Die Grünen halten das für unrealistisch und haben stattdessen einen Gesetzentwurf zur Legalisierung von Haschi ...
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NRW-Ministerin fordert Cannabis-Freigabe
Friday, 06 March 2015NRW-Gesundheitsministerin Barbara Steffens (Grüne) spricht sich für eine kontrollierte Freigabe der weichen Droge Cannabis aus. Mit einer streng regulierten Freigabe hofft Sie auf die Eindämmung des ...
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Cannabis lovers greet Green legalization plan
Wednesday, 04 March 2015German pro-legalization campaigners welcomed a draft law presented by the Green party that would allow adults to consume cannabis under strict conditions. The Greens reckon that a tax of €6-7 per gra ...
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Die grüne Welle
Monday, 02 March 2015In der deutschen Drogenpolitik ist ein radikaler Wandel zu beobachten. Angefacht von Gewaltexzessen und befeuert durch die Zunahme des Drogenhandels in Grossstädten eine Debatte über die Legalisierun ...
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Two headlines perfectly sum up everything wrong with American drug policy
Monday, 02 March 2015Two stories published last week perfectly sum up the state of American drug policy. On Friday, Colorado released its first annual report on the state of the marijuana industry, which sold 17 tons of ...
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D66 devises plan to regulate Dutch marijuana production
Thursday, 26 February 2015Liberal democratic party D66 is introducing draft legislation to regulate the production and sale of marijuana in the Netherlands. D66 has called for regulation of the supply side for years and says ...
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Reguleer wiet, en niet alleen de achterdeur
Wednesday, 25 February 2015De advocaten Spong, Smeets en Vis houden een pleidooi voor het reguleren van de achterdeur van de coffeeshops in een opiniestuk in het NRC. Zij zetten zich af tegen de criminologen Fijnaut en De Ruyv ...
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Alaska becomes third US state to legalise recreational marijuana use
Tuesday, 24 February 2015Alaska has made smoking, growing and owning small amounts of marijuana legal, becoming the third US state to decriminalise recreational use. The Republican-leaning state, which narrowly passed the me ...
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February 23: A big day for Uruguay’s marijuana experiment
Monday, 23 February 2015Uruguay’s experiment with legal domestic cannabis cultivation is about to enter a new phase, marking a key opportunity for the country to demonstrate what an effective enforcement model for the law w ...
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Could 'The Brighton Model' help the seaside city make millions with weed?
Monday, 23 February 2015In 2012, Green Party councillor Ben Duncan suggested that cannabis cafes should be licensed in the city in a bid to boost tourism. In 2014, the Green MP for Brighton Pavilion, Caroline Lucas, petitio ...
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The Legal Landscape for Cannabis Social Clubs in Spain
Saturday, 14 February 2015This briefing is a preliminary sketch of the legal landscape for cannabis social clubs in Spain. Its author is presently conducting legal analysis and empirical research in Spain and her findings wil ...
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