Items tagged with regulation
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| Is legal weed doomed to be run by big business? [28.12.2022] | If the federal government legalizes cannabis, lawmakers should beware of monopolization by national corporations, says Shaleen Title, chief executive ... |
| Marijuana law reached peak absurdity in 2022 [24.12.2022] | Banning a plant with hundreds of industrial and medical uses was never going to work out well, but 2022 saw marijuana prohibition reach peak absurdit ... |
| EU is skeptical about legalizing cannabis [22.12.2022] | Health Minister Lauterbach's prestige project is one of the few issues on which the traffic light parties in Germany agree. But they are meeting with ... |
| A proposal to regulate cannabis is imminent in the Czech Republic. The People's Party is concerned [19.12.2022] | In mid-January, the Czech National Drug Coordinator Jindřich Vobořil plans to introduce a bill to free up the cannabis market. The exact form of regu ... |
| Legal uncertainty dampens Thailand's thriving weed business [18.12.2022] | Thailand legalized the growing of marijuana and its consumption in food and drinks on June 9 and removed cannabis from its list of banned narcotics. ... |
| 'We must move on from the repressive drug policies of the past', says Minister of Justice [17.12.2022] | Minister of Justice Sam Tanson of Luxembourg defended the government's decision to regulate recreational cannabis consumption, pointing out that this ... |
| Colombia’s Congress agrees to final marijuana legalization bill, which key senator expects to be enacted by June [15.12.2022] | Colombia’s Chamber of Representatives and Senate have voted to reconcile their respective versions of marijuana legalization bills that recently adva ... |
| Cannabis industry has huge economic value for South Africa, but government dragging its feet [13.12.2022] | The Draft South African Cannabis Masterplan states that there are up to 900,000 traditional dagga growers in South Africa and that they and ‘dagga’ n ... |
| Germany: Flirting with Plan B? [07.12.2022] | Two articles published this week, in Der Tagesspiegel and LTO, throw cold water on expectations that the European Commission could give green light t ... |
| Regulated cultivated cannabis experiment delayed again; could start in 2024 [03.12.2022] | Health Minister Ernst Kuipers said that the experiment in regulated cultivated cannabis will be postponed again. He expects that "as it stands now" o ... |
| Légalisation du cannabis : des failles à tous les étages [29.11.2022] | «Est-ce que la légalisation envisagée ne posera pas plus de questions pratiques qu’elle n’en résoudra, notamment par rapport aux contrôles du nombre ... |
| Basic legislation proposal on legalizing cannabis should be ready by March 2023 [25.11.2022] | A basic legislation proposal for introducing a regulated cannabis market in Czechia should be finished by the end of March, the country’s National Dr ... |
| Poland: Cannabis for everyone? [23.11.2022] | The distribution and use of cannabis for medical purposes became legal in Poland in 2017. By 2021, doctors across Poland were writing roughly 3,000 m ... |
| Activists fear medical cannabis companies want in on recreational market [21.11.2022] | Established medical cannabis companies could be looking to set their foot in Malta’s flegdling recreational cannabis market, according to sources. Re ... |
| New York has $750m worth of cannabis stockpiled that growers can’t sell [19.11.2022] | A strong smell of weed hangs over many New York neighbourhoods, the result in part of cannabis decriminalization in 2019 – but cannabis growers in th ... |
| Anutin calls for patience as debate over hemp bill drags on [17.11.2022] | A new announcement categorising flowers or buds of the cannabis plant as "controlled herbs" is a temporary measure to curb the proliferation of recre ... |
| A tale of marijuana charlatans, corruption, collusion and exploitation [16.11.2022] | Through manipulating trust and exploiting public ignorance, cannabis charlatans – new and old – are trying to construct corporate empires, some of wh ... |
| Cannabis authority chair sacked after 10 months [11.11.2022] | Psychotherapist Mariella Dimech has been sacked from her position as executive chairperson of the new cannabis authority on the responsible use of ca ... |
| Weed is now legal in Thailand. How long will the high times last? [10.11.2022] | Thailand’s military government is carrying out an experiment: What happens when a country in Asia, a region where drug laws tend to be harsh, essenti ... |
| Nearly half of Americans to reside in states where marijuana is legal [09.11.2022] | More than 155 million Americans will now live in states with legal weed. Maryland and Missouri passed legalization referendums on Tuesday, meaning th ... |
| No timeframe yet for cannabis associations [08.11.2022] | Reforms parliamentary secretary Rebecca Buttigieg has refused to give a detailed timeline on when cannabis associations will start operating. “This i ... |
| Treat Breda as part of Germany so regulated weed can go ahead: mayor [07.11.2022] | The mayor of Breda has asked if his region can be treated as a part of Germany, in order to go ahead with a trial of regulated cannabis growing. Spea ... |
| A decade after legalizing cannabis in Colorado, here's what we've learned [07.11.2022] | Ten years ago this week, Colorado voters approved Amendment 64, making the state among the first two in the nation (along with Washington) to legaliz ... |
| German cannabis regulation on thin ice [28.10.2022] | The German government has released its ‘Eckpunktepapier’, a concept note laying out the key points to shape the regulation of the recreational cannab ... |
| Dutch marijuana growing experiment runs into more delays [27.10.2022] | Marijuana growers who have been selected to take part in the government’s controlled cultivation trials said that they will not be ready to start ear ... |
| Germany: Lauterbach outlines cannabis legalization plan [26.10.2022] | German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach presented his plans on the legalization of cannabis. He said that Germany's drug policy had to be renewed beca ... |
| Details on cannabis legalisation: Lauterbach plans with these key points [19.10.2022] | In Germany, the purchase and possession of 20 grams of cannabis from the age of 18 should in principle be exempt from punishment. This emerges from t ... |
| Vobořil: The state could raise up to CZK 15 billion annually by taxing addictive substances [17.10.2022] | Czechia could gain up to CZK 15 billion (EUR 600 million) a year thanks to new taxation of addictive substances and more efficient collection. The pr ... |
| Victorian Greens push for cannabis to be legalised, taxed similarly to alcohol [09.10.2022] | Cannabis would be legal and regulated in Victoria (Australia) by 2024 under a Greens proposal, being announced ahead of November’s state election, th ... |
| Morocco grants first authorizations for legal cannabis industry [05.10.2022] | The Cannabis Activities Regulatory Agency (ANRAC), a brand new organization to regulate the legal cultivation of cannabis, issued ten permits for pro ... |
| Au Maroc, les cultivateurs de chanvre placent leurs espoirs dans le cannabis thérapeutique [05.10.2022] | Au pied du mont Tidghine, plus haut sommet du massif du Rif, dans le nord du Maroc, le village d’Azila est couvert de plantations de cannabis, prêt à ... |
| Zurich puts off recreational pot smoking trial [05.10.2022] | The Zurich city council and the university of Zurich announced that the sale of cannabis products from pharmacies and social clubs under controlled c ... |
| California’s illicit marijuana market thrives as much of the state continues to restrict sales [04.10.2022] | In 2016, Californians voted to legalize recreational adult-use marijuana. Proponents of Proposition 64, including then-Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, argued ... |
| Amsterdam council to vote against banning tourists from coffeeshops [30.09.2022] | Amsterdam council will vote against a proposal to enforce a national ban against tourists in coffeeshops, where cannabis is smoked. Mayor Femke Halse ... |
| Legal marijuana, but Uruguayans still prefer black market [30.09.2022] | In 2013, Uruguay became the first country in the world to legalize recreational marijuana -- which came into effect four years later -- permitting it ... |
| German SPD representatives confident a solution to international legal hurdles will be found [29.09.2022] | Earlier this month news broke of recent analysis conducted by the Bundestag’s scientific service suggested the creation of a legal recreational canna ... |
| Government needs to speed up cannabis law reform, say protesters [19.09.2022] | Various groups protested on the lawns of the Union Buildings over the slow pace and haphazard approach to cannabis law reform and regulation in South ... |
| Golding promises special treatment for small farmers, Rastas, Maroons in ganja industry [18.09.2022] | Small farmers, the Maroons and Rastafarians are to be given special treatment in the ganja industry whenever the People’s National Party (PNP) next f ... |
| Vobořil is looking for support for the regulated legal sale of cannabis [12.09.2022] | The new model of cannabis regulation in the Czech Republic envisages controlled sales in specialized branches, the liberalization of the use of canna ... |
| Quality issues delay sale of cannabis products in Basel pilot scheme [09.09.2022] | The ‘Weed Care’ experiment in the city of Basel was supposed to launch on September 15. But it has been put on hold because traces of pesticides were ... |
| The reality of legal weed in California: Huge illegal grows, violence, worker exploitation and deaths [08.09.2022] | Proposition 64, California’s 2016 landmark cannabis initiative, sold voters on the promise a legal market would cripple the drug’s outlaw trade, with ... |
| Czechia, mulling cannabis decriminalisation, calls for joint EU action [08.09.2022] | Czech National Anti-drug Coordinator Jindřich Vobořil wants to strictly regulate the Czech cannabis market as cannabis sales should be decriminalised ... |
| Explained: Bhang, ganja, and criminality in the NDPS Act [01.09.2022] | While granting bail to a man arrested on June 1 for possessing 29 kg of bhang and 400 g of ganja, Karnataka High Court recently observed that nowhere ... |
| Cannabis authority yet to start issuing licences, months after law introduced [29.08.2022] | New rules on cannabis use came into force in Malta in December after parliament approved a new law aimed at further decriminalising the substance. Th ... |
| Pondoland: South Africa's cannabis growers left behind by legalisation plans [21.08.2022] | For generations, people in South Africa's Eastern Cape have made their living growing cannabis. You might expect that as the country moves to legalis ... |
| Colombia, largest cocaine supplier to U.S., considers decriminalizing [20.08.2022] | Colombia is the largest producer of cocaine in the world, the source of more than 90 percent of the drug seized in the United States. It’s home to th ... |
| High street? Dutch ecstasy ‘shop’ shows possible way for drug reform [18.08.2022] | For campaigners advocating drug liberalisation, it is an image that is almost too good to be true: a store down a cobbled street in Utrecht legally s ... |
| Cannabis trial: Basel pharmacies to charge black-market prices [18.08.2022] | The first Swiss project on the legal sale of cannabis in pharmacies will start on September 15 in canton Basel City. Hemp users over 18 can now regis ... |
| Germany will legalize cannabis — but nobody knows when [17.08.2022] | Cannabis has become a part of everyday culture in Germany and now, policymaking. The coalition government of center-left Social Democrats (SPD), envi ... |
| German Health Minister lays out next steps for cannabis legalisation [17.08.2022] | The SPD Health Minister coming out for legalisation put an end to some rumours that he was being pushed into it by the socially liberal Free Democrat ... |
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