Items tagged with regulation
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| Uruguay takes 'war on drugs' in new direction: The state as dealer [18.09.2012] | Uruguay has long been at the vanguard of social reform in Latin America. Today, it is on the verge of passing into law one of its most radical ideas ... |
| The Dutch 2012 election result and the coffeeshops [14.09.2012] | The 2012 Dutch elections were hailed as decisive for the future of the coffeeshops, where the sale of small amounts of cannabis is tolerated. The res ... |
| Uruguay's Government Eyes Legalized Marijuana [12.09.2012] | Leaders in Mexico, Colombia, and other Latin American nations wracked by cartel violence are calling for a new approach in the U.S.-led war on drugs. ... |
| Children's Alliance backs pot measure on ballot [10.09.2012] | As Washington weighs its first chance to legalize recreational marijuana, prominent groups are taking sides about the initiative's potential impact o ... |
| Mayor and police at odds over cannabis approach [10.09.2012] | While Copenhagen's mayor, Frank Jensen, continues to be a vocal advocate for legalising cannabis in the city, arguing that a "paradigm shift" is in o ... |
| Legal use of cannabis, ecstasy for over-15s backed by state medical body [10.09.2012] | A report by a group of prominent Australians that recommends Australia rethink its criminalisation of illicit drugs has been backed by the Victorian ... |
| Drugs policies are not working, believe 75% of MPs [08.09.2012] | The poll, conducted by ComRes for the UK Drug Policy Commission (UKDPC), found that 77% of MPs believed the UK's current policies were ineffective in ... |
| Police to crack down on Pusher Street [20.08.2012] | Starting September 1, the police will be stepping up efforts to cull Pusher Street’s estimated one billion kroner organised cannabis trade through th ... |
| Far but near: Marijuana reform in Mexico? [19.08.2012] | The world-wide debate over cannabis reform appears to be gaining uncommon speed and unexpectedly it is in Latin America that the winds of change have ... |
| Uruguay’s plan to sell pot may not be that crazy [17.08.2012] | Judging from what Uruguay’s President Jose Mujica told me in an extended interview last week, there is a real possibility that people in his country ... |
| Spokesman for pot group fired at news conference [13.08.2012] | The marijuana reform community in Washington State has become severely fractured, with various groups running competing initiatives and taking opposi ... |
| Between collective organisation and commercialisation [08.08.2012] | The last few years have witnessed a boom in new cannabis user associations in Spain. Although there are no reliable figures for them, most are known ... |
| 'Revolutionary' legal high law means state regulated drug market [27.07.2012] | Kronic-style drugs are expected back on the shelves under the new legal high law being crafted by Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne. Experts say t ... |
| Is the war on drugs in the Caribbean going up in smoke? [26.07.2012] | With the decimation of St Lucia’s banana industry due to the collapse of preferential trade agreements with Europe, land which was once used to culti ... |
| Experts debate what to do about cannabis [22.07.2012] | Should pot be outlawed, controlled, or just legalised? For anti-addiction experts, regulating consumption would counter a drug market associated with ... |
| Cannabis regulation in Uruguay: "Someone has to be first ..." [17.07.2012] | Uruguay may be poised to become the first country to opt for a state controlled and legally regulated cannabis market for medical as well as recreati ... |
| Drugs and Prisons in Uruguay [17.07.2012] | In Uruguay, the consumption of drugs, including marijuana, is not punishable with prison time. Even so, the cultivation of marijuana for personal con ... |
| Matt Bowden: The drugs lord who's strictly legal [13.07.2012] | It is a remarkable statement - the rock musician and drugs activist credited with spawning the global legal highs industry is now calling for new law ... |
| Feds hike danger rating on ecstasy while health officers urge drug policy reform [23.06.2012] | Several top public health officials are proposing a rethinking of current illegal-drug policies they assert spurs on a global problem involving ecsta ... |
| Uruguay says pot law won't make it a drug haven [23.06.2012] | Uruguay's government plans to start growing marijuana soon after a law legalizing sales of the drug passes Congress, but a ban on selling to foreigne ... |
| Uruguayan government announces unprecedented plan for legal, regulated arijuana markets [21.06.2012] | In the latest challenge from Latin America to drug war orthodoxy, on June 20, 2012, the Uruguayan government unveiled a proposal that, if adopted by ... |
| Pure ecstasy can be 'safe' if consumed responsibly: B.C. health officer [13.06.2012] | B.C.'s top health official says taking pure ecstasy can be "safe" when consumed responsibly by adults, despite warnings by police in Alberta and Brit ... |
| 10 Reasons to Revisit Marijuana Policy Now [12.06.2012] | For the first time ever, a solid majority of Americans supports legalizing marijuana for recreational use: 56%, according to the most recent Rasmusse ... |
| Marijuana could be Barack Obama's secret weapon in this election [12.06.2012] | Since his inauguration, drug policy reform advocates have tirelessly petitioned Barack Obama to have his "marijuana moment". And for good reason – du ... |
| Government opposes Copenhagen City Council on cannabis shops [27.05.2012] | The pilot project to have state-run hash and marijuana dispensaries in Copenhagen received a setback after the Justice Ministry turned down the City ... |
| Poll shows strong support for legal marijuana: Is it inevitable? [23.05.2012] | A new national poll shows a clear majority of Americans in favor of legalizing and regulating marijuana – "the strongest support ever recorded," acco ... |
| Agents in Oakland raid leader of medical marijuana movement [02.04.2012] | Federal agents struck at the heart of California's medical marijuana movement, raiding the nation's first pot trade school and a popular dispensary, ... |
| De Nederwietoorlog [01.03.2012] | De exportcijfers van nederwiet die de Taskforce Aanpak Georganiseerde Hennepteelt veelvuldig in de media bracht, zijn sterk overdreven. Dit blijkt ui ... |
| Let the qat out of the ban [01.03.2012] | Over half of EU countries, as well as the United States and Canada, ban the stimulant qat, a sort of mild amphetamine. But attempts to do so in Brita ... |
| The OxyContin disaster [24.02.2012] | Who is going to clean up the mess OxyContin has left behind in Ontario? Health Minister Deb Matthews' move to delist the addictive prescription paink ... |
| Cannabis drivers 'twice as likely to cause car crash' [10.02.2012] | Drivers who use cannabis within three hours of driving are twice as likely to cause a collision as those not under the influence of drugs or alcohol, ... |
| Ex-resident and police say Christiania’s future threatened by violence [07.02.2012] | In response to an opinion piece in Politiken newspaper, in which a former Christiania resident encourages residents of the commune to stand up to the ... |
| Pot legalization efforts forge ahead in key U.S. states [31.01.2012] | Efforts to legalize marijuana for recreational use are gaining momentum in Washington state and Colorado, despite fierce opposition from the federal ... |
| Marijuana legalization measure certified [27.01.2012] | A measure to legalize the recreational use of marijuana in Washington State is likely to be on the November 2012 ballot, after the secretary of the s ... |
| Marijuana-based prescription drug looks toward FDA's approval [22.01.2012] | A quarter-century after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first prescription drugs based on the main psychoactive ingredient in mari ... |
| Is banning legal highs effective? [19.01.2012] | New psychoactive substances (commonly known as legal highs) are spreading across Europe with growing speed. Between 1997 and 2010 the early-warning s ... |
| Copenhagen wants controlled cannabis shops [09.01.2012] | The Copenhagen City Council is pushing ahead with a proposal to decriminalise cannabis, and has set up a committee to investigate the best way to reg ... |
| Marijuana legalization initiative signatures in [29.12.2011] | Backers of an effort to legalize and regulate recreational marijuana use in Washington state submitted more than 340,000 signatures Thursday to try t ... |
| To The Next Level: Marijuana Regulation in the US [22.12.2011] | The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU) traveled to California and attended the International Drug Policy Reform Conference in LA to find out what ... |
| Legal cannabis in Basque Country? [16.12.2011] | Health officials of the Basque Country, an autonomous region of Spain, announced that they will introduce a bill to regulate the "cultivation, sale a ... |
| Basque government regulates cannabis sale and use [12.12.2011] | The Basque Parliament will approve a law bill in the first few months of 2012 on drug addiction, which will regulate "the growing, sale and consumpti ... |
| Dr. Evan Wood: There is nothing conservative about supporting marijuana prohibition [28.11.2011] | Imagine an extremely expensive government policy proven to be completely ineffective at achieving its stated objectives. Consider also that whenever ... |
| Legal marijuana gets one step closer [21.11.2011] | A committee has now been established to determine the best way to legalise the sale of hashish, with special stores owned by the council presenting i ... |
| Ex-head of MI5 calls on government to decriminalise and regulate cannabis [17.11.2011] | The former head of MI5 believes the "war on drugs" has proved fruitless and it is time to consider decriminalising the possession and use of small qu ... |
| Pro-pot campaign gets big names, deep pockets [04.11.2011] | Marijuana legalization in Washington has been an activist's pipe dream for decades, but a new campaign with deep pockets and prominent supporters is ... |
| Integrative Medicine: Legalization and regulation of cannabis [04.11.2011] | The California Medical Association made news when it became the first state medical association to recommend the legalization and regulation of canna ... |
| What can we learn from the Dutch cannabis coffeeshop system? [31.10.2011] | In 1976 the Netherlands adopted a formal written policy of non-enforcement for violations involving possession or sale of up to 30 g of cannabis. The ... |
| Expert Seminar on Herbal Stimulants and Legal Highs [30.10.2011] | A grey area has emerged between what is legal and what is not as states struggle with how to respond to the many new synthetic compounds emerging ont ... |
| 'Legal highs' [21.10.2011] | This paper aims to set out some of the policy and public health issues raised by the appearance of a wide range of emergent psychoactive substances o ... |
| Lower Risk Cannabis Use Guidelines for Canada (LRCUG) [01.09.2011] | More than one in ten adults – and about one in three young adults – report past year cannabis use in Canada. While cannabis use is associated with a ... |
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