Items tagged with legalization
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| Germany's bad idea to legalize pot [19.05.2015] | Green Party member Dieter Janecek and Christian Democrat Joachim Pfeiffer filed a policy proposal for legalization. The idea of legalizing cannabis i ... |
| First ‘ecstasy’ shop opens in Amsterdam [19.05.2015] | A Dutch political movement is calling for the legalization of the psychoactive drug ecstasy – and has opened a shop to promote its cause. The youth w ... |
| German Green, CDU politicians launch cannabis legalization initiative [13.05.2015] | In a proposal for parliament obtained by German public broadcaster ARD, Christian Democrat Joachim Pfeiffer and Green party member Dieter Janecek put ... |
| Zehn Gründe, warum Berlin von einer Cannabis-Legalisierung profitiert [12.05.2015] | Erstmals hat sogar ein Sprecher der CDU die Legalisierung von Cannabis ins Spiel gebracht. Ist das das erste Anzeichen eines Tauwetters für die Freig ... |
| Obama asked to weigh in on legal marijuana [04.05.2015] | The 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 C ... |
| Legislature considering plans to regulate medicinal pot shops, growers [02.05.2015] | California lawmakers are wading into the politically sticky issue of regulating medical marijuana, laying groundwork for state control of the sale an ... |
| New England states racing to legalize recreational pot [02.05.2015] | Propelled by successful campaigns in Western states to legalize the recreational use of marijuana, some advocates and legislators say a marijuana leg ... |
| Germans mark a milestone in the fight to legalize marijuana [30.04.2015] | Those who support the legalization of marijuana in Germany recently marked a milestone with the creation of the first comprehensive draft law, which ... |
| Ecuadorian activists want nothing less than universal marijuana [23.04.2015] | Ecuador 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 path to legalizing marijuana in Chile [19.04.2015] | Chile’s Congressional Health Committee approved a bill that would modify the country’s current drug law, known as Law 20,000. The bill would allow up ... |
| In debate over legalizing marijuana, disagreement over drug’s dangers [13.04.2015] | Public opinion about legalizing marijuana in the US, while little changed in the past few years, has undergone a dramatic long-term shift. A new surv ... |
| US president cautions against hopes of ganja legalisation [10.04.2015] | President Barack Obama cautioned persons who have hopes of marijuana being legalised, as he explained the difference between legalisation and decrimi ... |
| Big need for marijuana banking, yet Congress has ‘no appetite’ to fix issue [03.04.2015] | Congress doesn’t have the appetite to deal with the conflict between federal and state laws that has caused a banking crisis for the burgeoning marij ... |
| Cannabis ban is elitist. It should go: Tathagata Satpathy [28.03.2015] | BJD chief whip in Lok Sabha (India's lower house in parliament) Tathagata Satpathy recently admitted on social media that he smoked cannabis in his y ... |
| Critical updates needed in state marijuana laws [25.03.2015] | Washington's experiment with legal recreational marijuana is "teetering on the brink" of a market failure. That is the candid assessment of Hayden Wo ... |
| State pushes forward to legalize marijuana [24.03.2015] | Legislators in Massachusetts are working on a marijuana legalization proposal, in part as an effort to short-circuit an expected 2016 ballot push. Ad ... |
| Italy: Motion to legalize cannabis receives bi-partisan support [23.03.2015] | Lawmakers in Italy are pushing forward a planned bill to legalize cannabis, according to the ANSA news agency and the International Business Times. T ... |
| Can Washington’s gift economy in marijuana work? [20.03.2015] | In 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 giv ... |
| Survey finds strong majority in support of marijuana legalization and decriminalization [17.03.2015] | A new national survey of American voters has found a strong majority in support of marijuana legalization and an even larger majority in support of d ... |
| Italian MPs organize to legalize marijuana [15.03.2015] | A group of 60 MPs, most of them from the ruling center-left Democratic Party (PD), have joined forces to legalize cannabis in Italy. Senator Benedett ... |
| A majority favors marijuana legalization for first time [04.03.2015] | For the first time, the General Social Survey – a large, national survey conducted every two years and widely considered to represent the gold standa ... |
| Two headlines perfectly sum up everything wrong with American drug policy [02.03.2015] | Two stories published last week perfectly sum up the state of American drug policy. On Friday, Colorado released its first annual report on the state ... |
| Marijuana activists push legalization of medical cannabis in Costa Rica [25.02.2015] | Pien Metaal, who follows Latin American drug law reform ... told The Tico Times ... that legalizing medical marijuana in Costa Rica “would clearly se ... |
| Alaska becomes third US state to legalise recreational marijuana use [24.02.2015] | Alaska has made smoking, growing and owning small amounts of marijuana legal, becoming the third US state to decriminalise recreational use. The Repu ... |
| February 23: A big day for Uruguay’s marijuana experiment [23.02.2015] | Uruguay’s experiment with legal domestic cannabis cultivation is about to enter a new phase, marking a key opportunity for the country to demonstrate ... |
| 'Misperception is very dangerous' [16.02.2015] | Executive director of the National Council on Drug Abuse (NCDA), Michael Tucker, has warned that the misinformation circulating among Jamaicans about ... |
| 18 legal marijuana states by 2020? [02.02.2015] | Four states and the District of Columbia have already legalized weed and plans are already afoot in several more for this year or next, either by vot ... |
| Mexican opium farmers expand plots to supply U.S. heroin boom [02.02.2015] | Red and purple blossoms with fat, opium-filled bulbs blanket the remote creek sides and gorges of the Filo Mayor mountains in the southern state of G ... |
| High hopes: Legalized pot is on the way [29.01.2015] | Moving from illicit to licit requires regulations that allow enough of a legal market to dry out the black one – ideally, while bringing in much-need ... |
| Vermont lawmakers consider legalizing marijuana [28.01.2015] | Vermont lawmakers are considering whether to become the first state Legislature to legalize marijuana. Four states and the District of Columbia have ... |
| Attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch opposes marijuana legalisation [27.01.2015] | Barack Obama’s nominee for attorney general, Loretta Lynch, told senators during her confirmation hearing that she, like her predecessor Eric Holder, ... |
| Report predicts 18 states will legalize pot by 2020 [25.01.2015] | A new report predicts that 18 U.S. states will have legalized recreational marijuana in the next five years, a huge increase from the four states tha ... |
| A dozen ways to legalize the marijuana supply chain, in Vermont or any state [16.01.2015] | After months of research, the RAND corporation released a report for the state of Vermont exploring marijuana legalization and regulation there. The ... |
| Seattle's legal marijuana euphoria over as industry undergoes growing pains [15.01.2015] | The legal marijuana market in the state of Washington opened last summer to a dearth of weed. Some stores periodically closed because they didn’t hav ... |
| The war on drugs is burning out [07.01.2015] | The conservative wave of 2014 featured an unlikely, progressive undercurrent: In two states, plus the nation's capital, Americans voted convincingly ... |
| Uruguay’s year in weed: 3 big successes, 3 burning questions [05.01.2015] | It’s been just over a year since Uruguay’s President Jose Mujica signed a law creating the world’s first nationalized market for the cultivation, sal ... |
| One year after law's approval, Uruguay waits for commercial cannabis sales [02.01.2015] | A year after Uruguay's historic marijuana law was signed, officials have green-lighted homegrown cannabis, cannabis clubs, and hemp cultivation, but ... |
| Is Obama finally ready to dial back the war on drugs? [31.12.2014] | As Obama embarks on the third year of his second term, here are some of the ways in which Obama has begun to deliver on his promises of a more ration ... |
| Poll: One year of legalized pot hasn't changed Coloradans' minds [27.12.2014] | A year of legalized recreational marijuana hasn't changed many Coloradans' minds on the groundbreaking shift — though more than one-third say the sta ... |
| The year in drug policy: Movement at a crossroads [26.12.2014] | The 43-year-old war on drugs had never seen such a barrage of opposition as it did in 2014, with successful marijuana legalization initiatives in sev ... |
| After pot legalization, focusing on a new kind of black market [25.12.2014] | The black market for marijuana in Colorado isn't what it used to be. Nine or 10 years ago, the narrative of illicit cannabis in the state focused on ... |
| Marijuana use increases in Colorado, according to new federal survey [25.12.2014] | As marijuana legalization took hold in Colorado, the percentage of regular cannabis users in the state jumped to the second-highest level in the US. ... |
| Cannabis farmers support calls to legalize lucrative crop [23.12.2014] | With the war in Syria stifling the economy and bringing in a flood of refugees in the Bekaa Valley, as well as the closure of smuggling roads and per ... |
| Lawsuit over Colorado marijuana legalization takes rare legal path [21.12.2014] | In suing to stop marijuana legalization in Colorado, two neighboring states have embarked down an arcane legal pathway that could take years to reach ... |
| Cannabis : pour la légalisation [18.12.2014] | Malgré son arsenal législatif, la France est le pays européen où l’usage du cannabis est le plus répandu. Une légalisation contrôlée pourrait permett ... |
| Lebanon agriculture minister urges cannabis cultivation for export [18.12.2014] | Agriculture Minister Akram Chehayeb called for the legalization of cannabis farming in Lebanon to benefit from the revenue of its export. “We are con ... |
| Jumblatt renews calls to legalize marijuana [13.12.2014] | Walid Jumblatt has renewed calls to legalize the cultivation and sale of marijuana. The head of the Progressive Socialist Party wrote that the time h ... |
| How legalizing marijuana on Indian reservations could end the prohibition on pot [11.12.2014] | The Department of Justice announced that it would let Native American tribes grow or sell marijuana on their reservations, even in states where the d ... |
| U.S. won't stop Native Americans from growing, selling pot on their lands [11.12.2014] | Opening the door for what could be a lucrative and controversial new industry on some Native American reservations, the Justice Department will tell ... |
| One in two Spaniards want legal marijuana [10.12.2014] | A total of 52 percent of Spaniards are in favour of legalizing the sale and private consumption of cannabis for adults despite a general toughening o ... |
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