Items tagged with regulation
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Colorado lawmakers may let pot growers and sellers operate separately [09.04.2013] | Colorado lawmakers stood the state's current model for marijuana businesses on its head, endorsing a proposal that would allow recreational pot store ... |
Dutch city of Eindhoven wants to grow their own marijuana [04.04.2013] | The Dutch city of Eindhoven has come up with a proposal it believes will curb the illegal supply of cannabis to the city’s cannabis coffee shops: the ... |
De wankele 'Weense consensus' over drugsbeleid [31.03.2013] | ??Nederland is met zijn drugsbeleid in de achterhoede terecht gekomen, zo stelt Martin Jelsma. Zo zijn Uruguay en de Amerikaanse staten Washington en ... |
The present continuous of cannabis clubs in Catalonia [29.03.2013] | The exponential proliferation of the number of associations, clubs and other groups that distribute cannabis among their members and create new space ... |
Consultant: Tax revenues on pot won’t be half of what’s projected [29.03.2013] | Washington’s new pot consultant has one overarching, discouraging message for lawmakers and state budget writers: don’t look at weed as an ATM. Poten ... |
Scathing audit throws Colorado recreational marijuana rules into chaos [27.03.2013] | Colorado's under-construction plan for regulating recreational marijuana nearly came unglued when lawmakers questioned whether the agency that would ... |
Yes we cannabis [26.03.2013] | Last November ballot initiatives legalizing, taxing, and regulating recreational marijuana use passed for the first time ever in Colorado and Washing ... |
Audit: Serious flaws in Colorado's regulation of medical marijuana [25.03.2013] | State regulators charged with watching over Colorado's medical marijuana industry have fallen short on everything from tracking inventory and managin ... |
Pot is legal in Washington: Q&A with the man who is making weed legit [25.03.2013] | Washington state gets ready to regulate legal marijuana with the help of one of America’s top drug policy analysts. Mark Kleiman is professor of publ ... |
Medical marijuana dispensaries: High-tech tracking system unfulfilled [24.03.2013] | The technology was supposed to efficiently track medical marijuana from seed to sale — the catch-phrase that came to define Colorado's efforts to reg ... |
Wall Street sees opportunity in marijuana [22.03.2013] | A number of businesses in the burgeoning U.S. cannabis industry are trying to enlist Wall Street's help. Some entrepreneurs see marijuana heading dow ... |
No consensus on changes to Washington marijuana law [21.03.2013] | House Bill 2000, the bill by Rep. Chris Hurst, D-Enumclaw, to modify Initiative 502, marijuana legalization, offers a mix of changes that could help ... |
Federal bill to legalize marijuana gains support in Congress [21.03.2013] | Maine Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-ME) joined the effort to end marijuana prohibition and start regulating marijuana like alcohol at the federal ... |
Legal pot: worth a try [21.03.2013] | In a country that regulates the sale of over-the-counter painkillers, you’d have thought that a reasonable way to decriminalise the sale of cannabis ... |
Colorado lawmakers question proposed marijuana business rules [20.03.2013] | Colorado lawmakers yanked and tugged at the threads of the state's proposals for regulating recreational marijuana, as one legislator hinted to his c ... |
Portland groups push to legalize pot possession in the city [19.03.2013] | A coalition of political groups and activists say marijuana possession should be legalized in Maine’s largest city, in part because they say the drug ... |
The next marijuana legalization fight? Copenhagen vs. the rest of Denmark [19.03.2013] | The city of Copenhagen wants to legalize cannabis and, if possible, get supplies of the drug from the United States. Following a Europe-wide trend, D ... |
State chief consultant Mark Kleiman knows in, outs of pot legalization [19.03.2013] | Washington state’s chief pot consultant remains a bit mysterious, but Mark Kleiman's views on legalizing pot are no mystery. He lays them out in “Mar ... |
UCLA expert’s team to advise state on new pot rules [17.03.2013] | Washington has tentatively chosen professor Mark Kleiman at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), to be its official marijuana consultant ... |
Support for marijuana legalization drags among state’s congressional delegation [15.03.2013] | Washington voters acted boldly last November to begin reforming our nation’s failed policy on marijuana. It was an act of leadership, in stark contra ... |
Life after cannabis prohibition: The city announces its ambitions [15.03.2013] | The tide is turning against the criminalisation of cannabis. Copenhagen wants to join the movement with a three-year trial to decriminalise the drug. ... |
Marijuana regulation heads to Colorado Capitol [15.03.2013] | An ad-hoc committee of 10 House and Senate members started work reviewing 165 pages of recommended regulations from a task force that worked for more ... |
Group forms to oppose Colorado marijuana stores [14.03.2013] | A citizens' group opposed to a large-scale recreational marijuana industry in Colorado has hired two powerhouse lobbyists in preparation for the stat ... |
Seattle downplays likelihood of sending pot to Copenhagen [14.03.2013] | A Seattle city official has poured cold water on Co enhagen's idea of importing cannabis from the US. One of the elements of the city's proposal to l ... |
Meet state’s ‘go-to guy’ on marijuana [14.03.2013] | Randy Simmons might have the most interesting job in Washington state. He is the ganja guru for the state agency charged with implementing the new le ... |
Crack down on cannabis, world body tells U.S. [13.03.2013] | The United States must not turn a blind eye to the recreational use of cannabis in states that liberalize drug laws, the International Narcotics Cont ... |
High-school students twice as likely to smoke pot as cigarettes [13.03.2013] | A University of Washington researcher who supported the new marijuana law said it’s a big improvement over prohibition alone, since the government ha ... |
Copenhagen looking to import cannabis from the US [12.03.2013] | Ahead of a City Council cannabis conference on Friday, Copenhagen officials say they are ready to make another push to legalise the substance. Accord ... |
Holder says little about states’ pot laws; supporters buoyed [05.03.2013] | U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder declined to reveal the Obama administration’s long-awaited policy on legal recreational marijuana in Colorado and W ... |
Ex-DEA heads, U.N. panel urge feds to nullify Wash., Colo. pot laws [05.03.2013] | Eight former Drug Enforcement Administration chiefs warned the federal government that time is running out to nullify Colorado and Washington's new l ... |
Generic legislation of new psychoactive drugs [28.02.2013] | New psychoactive drugs (NPDs, new psychoactive substances) enter the market all the time. However, it takes several months to ban these NPDs and imme ... |
Colorado pot task force recommends special sales and excise taxes [28.02.2013] | What Colorado will look like with legal marijuana became significantly clearer when the state task force proposing rules for that new world finished ... |
Marijuana legalization may be unstoppable [28.02.2013] | US Attorney General Eric Holder told America to expect a decision "soon" on how he'll respond to the recent legalization of pot by Colorado and Washi ... |
Colorado task force ponders how to tax legal pot [28.02.2013] | The Amendment 64 Implementation Task Force regulators are working out the details of exactly how to tax legalized marijuana, so the benefits are shar ... |
Kiwis on drugs: a blueprint for the future? [27.02.2013] | This week New Zealand publishes its Psychoactive Substances Bill, legislation which some believe will transform the international debate on drugs pol ... |
Pot purchasing limits proposed in CO [24.02.2013] | Rules for Colorado's recreational-marijuana industry have begun to take shape after a marathon meeting of the Amendment 64 Implementation Task Force, ... |
The great experiment [23.02.2013] | A whiff of change is in the air regarding drug control policy. Officials in two American states, Colorado and Washington, are pondering how to implem ... |
Maine, Maryland marijuana legalization bills filed [22.02.2013] | Maine and Maryland became the latest states to see marijuana legalization bills filed this year, with lawmakers in those two states rolling out measu ... |
Towards a ceasefire [22.02.2013] | Partial reforms have their limits. Most drug crime is not cannabis-related. Moving from punishment to harm reduction may help drug users, but it leav ... |
Will high marijuana taxes encourage black markets? [22.02.2013] | The cannabis industry is an easy target for legislatures to saddle with heavy taxes. In Washington State for instance, there is a 25% tax at three di ... |
Pot on the patio? [21.02.2013] | Colorado's Amendment 64 Implementation Task Force is wading through the weeds of marijuana legalization, creating regulations to take pot from the sh ... |
Maine could become the next state to legalize marijuana for adult use [20.02.2013] | State Rep. Diane Russell (D-Portland) was joined by Rep. Aaron Libby (R-Waterboro) at a press conference to unveil the details of her new bill that w ... |
Pot-related bills advance in Wash. Legislature [20.02.2013] | Two marijuana-related bills advanced in Olympia, with legislative committees giving their OK to one measure that would block police from arresting me ... |
Colorado marijuana task force recommends allowing pot tourism [18.02.2013] | Members of a task force proposing regulations for recreational marijuana in Colorado approved recommendations that would allow for marijuana tourism ... |
Obama drug czar: We will go after marijuana distributors in Wash. and Colo. [17.02.2013] | In an interview with Canadian news magazine Maclean’s, Gil Kerlikowske, President Obama’s Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, sta ... |
Up in Smoke: Why the GOP’s Views on Pot are Showing Signs of a Shift [13.02.2013] | As the push to legalize pot migrates from the margins to the mainstream, it is mellowing some Republicans in the process. “If it was a secret ballot, ... |
Marijuana legalization raises safety questions [11.02.2013] | Marijuana may be coming out of the black market in Colorado and Washington state, but the drug, at least for now, will retain a decidedly underground ... |
Doors swing open for advocates of marijuana legalization on Capitol Hill [11.02.2013] | Advocates for the legalization of marijuana plan to step up their political giving and lobbying efforts now that members of Congress are taking an in ... |
Battle over medical marijuana [11.02.2013] | More than a decade ago, after several court rulings, the federal government was forced to create regulations allowing people with legitimate needs to ... |
Denver City Council to vote in April whether to opt out on marijuana [10.02.2013] | The Denver City Council will vote in April on whether the state's largest city will opt out of licensing recreational marijuana sales — a move that c ... |
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