Items tagged with legalization
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| Beijing says US legalization of marijuana is a 'threat to China' [17.06.2019] | Beijing's leading drug enforcement body has blamed the legalization of marijuana in Canada and parts of the United States for a spike in the amount o ... |
| The world’s largest pot farms, and how Santa Barbara opened the door [15.06.2019] | In a sandy draw of the Santa Rita Hills, a cannabis company is planning to erect hoop greenhouses over 147 acres — the size of 130 football fields — ... |
| France to launch medical cannabis experiment in coming weeks [02.06.2019] | As a nearly unanimous French Senate gave medical marijuana the green light, France will start experimenting the use of medical marijuana for “about t ... |
| Illinois will become 11th US state to legalise recreational marijuana use [02.06.2019] | Illinois will likely become the 11th state in the US to allow small amounts of marijuana for recreational use. The state’s Democrat-controlled House ... |
| Legalising cannabis could be one solution to India’s agrarian distress [31.05.2019] | In the past decade, there’s been a sea change with respect to the global attitude to cannabis. India, however, is completely out of step with this gl ... |
| How to legalize every drug [22.05.2019] | As Canada continues to work out the kinks of legalizing cannabis—and jurisdictions around the world follow suit—harm reduction advocates and drug pol ... |
| Luxembourg to follow Canada's cannabis example [17.05.2019] | Luxembourg is set to largely follow the example of Canada in legalising the recreational use of cannabis, two ministers said after a field trip to th ... |
| Canada’s statisticians survey potheads [16.05.2019] | Before the new law came into force in October 2018, Statistics Canada started to estimate prices and the size of the illicit market, and to carry out ... |
| Medical cannabis moving ahead in Thailand, but who stands to benefit? [14.05.2019] | 25th December of 2018 was a historical day for cannabis enthusiasts in Thailand. The (interim) Parliament voted, 166-to-0, to pass new amendments to ... |
| Belgian socialist party wants to legalise marijuana [14.05.2019] | Elio Di Rupo, leader of the French speaking socialist party, reiterated his party’s plan to legalise cannabis in Belgium in order to prevent young pe ... |
| Cannabis legalization must include cannabis equity [14.05.2019] | Canada’s federal government is currently working to pass a bill that would provide pardons for people convicted of minor cannabis possession. With a ... |
| Legalising cannabis: A grower’s perspective [07.05.2019] | As the New Zealand government announces its plans for a cannabis referendum, a self-described “cannabis master” who grows and sells marijuana, provid ... |
| Government releases cannabis referendum details [07.05.2019] | People will vote on a proposal for a legal cannabis market in 2020 with tightly controlled rules including special bars for consumption, special outl ... |
| No date yet for legalisation of marijuana, parliamentary secretary says [07.05.2019] | The Malta government has not yet set a date to motion a bill to potentially legalise recreational marijuana, parliamentary secretary for reforms Juli ... |
| Neighbours smell trouble from legal cannabis in Luxembourg [03.05.2019] | Luxembourg is likely to run into trouble with its neighbours if it sticks by its plan to legalise cannabis - a policy that remains unthinkable partic ... |
| First-time cannabis use up after legalization, StatsCan reports [02.05.2019] | More Canadians say they've used cannabis recreationally since it was legalized last fall, particularly those aged 45 to 64 and males, according to St ... |
| Swiss health commission calls for legalisation of cannabis [30.04.2019] | The Federal Commission for Addiction Issues said that cannabis use in Switzerland had not changed significantly in the past ten years. Despite its po ... |
| Legalising cannabis could generate up to 144 million euros for Belgium [29.04.2019] | Legalising cannabis could generate up to 144 million euros for the Belgian State, reports Le Soir, citing a study by the Groupe du Vendredi. The thin ... |
| These are the countries most likely to legalize weed next [17.04.2019] | In October 2018, Canada became the second country after Uruguay—and the first G7 nation—to legalize the recreational use of cannabis. Led by Prime Mi ... |
| Canada's legal weed struggles to light up as smokers stick to black market [17.04.2019] | When Melissa, a resident of Halifax, Nova Scotia, went to one of Canada’s first government cannabis stores, she wasn’t impressed. “You can’t look at ... |
| Lebanon’s green gold: The debate to legalize cannabis [15.04.2019] | Lebanon is about to take a historic step for the Arab World with a proposed bill to legalize the cultivation of cannabis for medical use. But in the ... |
| Alex Berenson and the last anti-cannabis crusade [10.04.2019] | The encroaching specter of mass legalization of cannabis has triggered a strange reprisal of the alarmist themes of Anslinger’s assault on the plant ... |
| How cannabis is firing up the U.S. supply chain [04.04.2019] | With the recreational use of cannabis now legal in 10 states and the District of Columbia and medical marijuana legal in 23 states, marijuana is on i ... |
| Can marijuana create a path to justice? [02.04.2019] | The fight to legalize marijuana has never been easy, as evidenced by the recent collapse of months-long efforts in New Jersey and New York. A key iss ... |
| Cannabis regulation and local authorities in Europe [31.03.2019] | Local and regional authorities across Europe are confronted with the negative consequences of a persisting illicit cannabis market. Increasingly, loc ... |
| Don't be greedy! Why cannabis companies should support home cultivation [20.03.2019] | One of the great things about the cannabis industry is that it has dramatically sped up the process of ending cannabis prohibition and achieving advo ... |
| Tunisian activists call for regulating cannabis production, distribution [17.03.2019] | The Coalition for Legalizing Cannabis, a civil coalition of young activists, announced Feb. 23 at a press conference in Tunis that it is working on a ... |
| The great green gold rush [16.03.2019] | In South Africa’s richest suburb, against the backdrop of dazzling tower blocks belonging to law firms and insurance companies, a brand-new industry ... |
| Ce que gagnerait le Maroc à légaliser le cannabis [11.03.2019] | Mohamed Ben Amar, professeur de pharmacologie à l’Université de Montréal, connaît bien ces questions et milite pour une légalisation du cannabis, not ... |
| ReLeaf urge government to present tangible proposals to legalise cannabis for personal use [11.03.2019] | Cannabis campaigners want government to present tangible proposals for the legalisation of marijuana for personal use as they contest fears that regu ... |
| Legalisation: the chance to right wrongs [01.03.2019] | If New Zealand votes to legalise cannabis in 2020’s binding referendum, we will have a unique opportunity on our hands. Creating a licit market from ... |
| Belgium legislates in favour of medicinal cannabis [27.02.2019] | For some time now patients in Belgium have been able to use cannabis on medical grounds. So far the problem has been that suitable cannabis has been ... |
| Portugal rejects recreational cannabis, as medical becomes legal [26.02.2019] | The Portuguese parliament has rejected two proposals to legalise the cultivation and sale of cannabis for recreational purposes. The first proposal, ... |
| Is marijuana really legal in Mexico? [26.02.2019] | Mexico’s federal judges will be required to grant amparo appeals for the recreational use of marijuana. However, this does not imply that marijuana h ... |
| Doubts on pot use linger over amended drug law [22.02.2019] | Experts are saying that both users and producers of marijuana-based drugs for medical purposes will face numerous restrictions under the amended Narc ... |
| Legalize pot? Amid opioid crisis, some New Hampshire leaders say no way [20.02.2019] | The push to legalize recreational marijuana is sweeping the Northeast: Massachusetts, Vermont and Maine have done it, and the governors of Rhode Isla ... |
| Legalisation of cannabis in the UK would help protect its users from harm [15.02.2019] | New research highlights associations between teenage cannabis use and a range of mental health problems. The results suggested that use of the drug w ... |
| Drugs: researchers shouldn’t just focus on the harms [14.02.2019] | Most drug research focuses on the harms they cause, but studying the pleasure they provide will improve our understanding of why people use them. Amo ... |
| The cannabis black market will control 71 per cent of sales in Canada this year, Scotiabank says [13.02.2019] | A new research note from Scotiabank analysts estimate that the black market will control 71 percent of cannabis sales in Canada in 2019. The logistic ... |
| Slowing the legal weed freight train [12.02.2019] | Sabet's strategy for sabotaging legalization is to offer legislators what he calls "a true decriminalization and justice" bill, which would do away w ... |
| Cannabis co-ops seek to bring small producers, processors into legal market [10.02.2019] | British Columbia may be famous for its bud but some say Canada's new marijuana legalization framework is excluding the small producers with establish ... |
| Why so many Americans now support legalizing marijuana, in 4 charts [05.02.2019] | American views on marijuana have shifted incredibly rapidly. Thirty years ago, marijuana legalization seemed like a lost cause. In 1988, only 24 perc ... |
| A California conundrum: How to crack down on illicit sales without echoing the war on drugs? [04.02.2019] | In October 2018, the California Department of Consumer Affairs’ newly-established Cannabis Enforcement Unit teamed up with the Los Angeles Police Dep ... |
| Struggling to compete with fentanyl, Mexico’s poppy farmers ask for legalization [04.02.2019] | Guerrero is Mexico’s third-poorest state and the center of its opium industry. If the state of 3.5 million were an independent country, it would be t ... |
| 'Legalize marijuana without corporatized marijuana,' says New York mayor Bill de Blasio [03.02.2019] | New York Mayor Bill de Blasio supports Governor Andrew Cuomo's pledge to legalize recreational marijuana, but he doesn't want the the market to be ov ... |
| Why legal cannabis growers can’t compete with the black market — yet [01.02.2019] | Despite the persistent media buzz, there are no cannabis supply shortages in Canada, pot industry expert Michael Armstrong explains. “There’s all kin ... |
| Illicit drugs should be regulated and distributed by pharmacies, leading doctor suggests [30.01.2019] | A leading drug reform advocate and esteemed doctor is calling for a shake up to the illicit drug market, suggesting substances like MDMA, marijuana a ... |
| History, not harm, dictates why some drugs are legal and others aren’t [30.01.2019] | Drug-related offences take up a lot of the resources within Australia’s criminal justice system. In 2016–17 law enforcement made 113,533 illicit drug ... |
| Tightly regulated framework likely for 2020 vote on cannabis [26.01.2019] | The 2020 referendum to legalise cannabis looks likely to propose a tightly regulated framework, including strict rules on supply and possession, an a ... |
| How Canopy Growth became the jolly green giant of cannabis [24.01.2019] | The common wisdom among investors and analysts in the cannabis industry has been that bigger is better. They predict that cannabis will follow the pa ... |
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