Items tagged with recriminalisation
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| Minister signs bill banning recreational use of weed [08.01.2024] | Public Health Minister Cholnan Srikaew has signed proposed legislation regarding cannabis in Thailand, emphasising that it cannot be used for recreat ... |
| Cannabis loopholes to be closed [20.11.2023] | The Public Health Ministry in Thailand has completed the first draft of the Cannabis-Hemp Act and said it will not reclassify cannabis as a narcotic, ... |
| Weed is now legal in Thailand. How long will the high times last? [10.11.2023] | 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 ... |
| Thailand to clamp down on cannabis use in major U-turn on drug policy [22.09.2023] | Thailand’s new prime minister, Srettha Thavisin, has said his government will “rectify” its cannabis policy and limit its use to medical purposes wit ... |
| Instant fines for drug possession in Belgium: €1,000 for cocaine [06.08.2023] | More than a thousand immediate fines were levied in Belgium for possession of drugs during July alone, mainly at festivals, according to Justice Mini ... |
| Thailand’s cannabis lovers face comedown amid legalisation U-turn [09.06.2023] | One year after Thailand decriminalised cannabis, Thailand’s Ganja TV, a Facebook page with 90,000-odd followers, are looking on as rival politicians ... |
| South Australia's 'counter-productive' cannabis crackdown likely to be defeated [03.07.2018] | The South Australian government’s plan to introduce jail sentences for people caught in possession of cannabis faces defeat in the state’s parliament ... |
| South Australia's cannabis crackdown based on 'nonsense', experts warn [02.07.2018] | The South Australian government’s plan to introduce harsher penalties for cannabis possession is based on “nonsense” reasoning and flies in the face ... |
| Indonesia criminal code overhaul a step backwards for drug policy [30.03.2018] | As more countries move away from drug prohibition, Indonesia is about to step up its efforts to defend it. Proposed revisions to the country's crimin ... |
| Why did Ecuador toughen up drug laws? [02.10.2015] | Ecuador's Congress approved tougher penalties for small-time drug traffickers, an about-face from a more liberal policy which may have been prompted ... |
| As US states allow pot sales, Dutch reverse course [07.03.2014] | The Netherlands, the world pioneer in pot liberalization, has recently taken a harder line toward marijuana, with mixed results seen particularly in ... |
| Italy's strict drug law goes up in smoke [16.02.2014] | On February 12, the Constitutional Court ruled that the Fini-Giovanardi law setting out penalties related to the sale and possession of illegal drugs ... |
| Italy relaxes cannabis penalties [12.02.2014] | Italy's Constitutional Court struck down an anti-drug law from 2006 that imposed tough sentencing for the sale and possession of cannabis, putting it ... |
| A step back in Spanish drug policies [18.12.2013] | In the past few weeks, the attention of the international drug policy community has been focused on the cannabis regulation bill in Uruguay. The grea ... |
| "Think cannabis is harmless?" No. Does anyone? [23.10.2013] | Cannabis is associated with psychosis (a symptom) and schizophrenia (an illness where this symptom is persistent) in complex, contradictory and myste ... |
| Hemp-seed muesli led to ACT drug-driving charge: Laws under fire [11.10.2013] | The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) new drug-driving laws have come under fire after a senior public servant who ate a breakfast muesli containing ... |
| Majority of the Dutch favour cannabis legalisation [03.10.2013] | An opinion poll in the Netherlands in August 2013 showed that 54% of the Dutch are in favour of legalising cannabis, while 38% opposes it. There is n ... |
| Tourist cannabis cafe ban leads to surge in dealing in the south [10.05.2013] | The decision to ban foreigners not resident in the Netherlands from the country’s cannabis cafes has led to an ‘explosion’ in drugs-related crime in ... |
| Police raid Maastricht coffeeshops after owners let tourists back in [07.05.2013] | Police have raided several coffeeshops in Maastricht after their owners indicated they would revert to selling soft drugs to foreign visitors. Coffee ... |
| Maastricht mayor to clamp down on cannabis cafe foreign sales [01.05.2013] | Maastricht mayor Onno Hoes has warned the city's 13 cannabis cafes that he will take legal action if they go ahead with plans to sell marijuana to no ... |
| Ex-president slams Brazil's tough anti-drug bill [25.12.2012] | A bill calling for tougher sentences for drug possession and mandatory internment of addicts in Brazil has drawn fire from ex-president Fernando Henr ... |
| Dutch 'weed pass' law driving cannabis trade underground [08.10.2012] | Maastricht - formerly a mecca for drug tourists from across western Europe - has called for police reinforcements to handle "aggressive" street pushe ... |
| New cannabis rules not working [08.07.2012] | The new rules affecting the sale of cannabis in coffeeshops in three southern Dutch provinces are having an adverse effect according to a new study. ... |
| Netherlands bans tourists from buying marijuana [03.05.2012] | For visitors to the Netherlands who enjoy the relaxing effects of marijuana, life has just become a little less easy going, particularly for those Ge ... |
| Dutch 'cannabis card' roll-out draws defiance [30.04.2012] | New Dutch laws to stub out the sale of cannabis to foreign dope tourists kicked in Tuesday -- and were met with defiance from southern coffee shops i ... |
| Law Could Hamper Drug Tourism in the Netherlands [01.04.2012] | While there are many attractions that draw visitors to Amsterdam nearly a quarter of this city’s more than four million foreign tourists a year will ... |
| Whither a Progressive Pot Policy? [01.03.2012] | Cannabis has been taking centre stage in recent weeks. Former attorneys-general and Vancouver mayors in British Columbia have called for regulation a ... |
| Dutch to ban sale of strong hashish cannabis [01.03.2012] | The Netherlands moved to ban the sale of potent hashish cannabis eroding 40 years of liberal drug policy, over fears that the proceeds were flowing t ... |
| Stephen Harper repeating same old mistakes with tougher pot laws, global group says [01.03.2012] | The Global Commission on Drug Policy says it’s “very weird” that Canada is taking a tougher line on marijuana when governments across the globe are r ... |
| Chewing over Khat prohibition [10.01.2012] | In the context of a fast changing and well documented market in legal highs, the case of khat (Catha edulis) provides an interesting anomaly. It is f ... |
| 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 ... |
| Conservative senator opposes omnibus crime bill [16.12.2011] | Conservative Senator Pierre Claude Nolin says he can't support the massive Bill C-10 mainly because of a section that deals with growing marijuana pl ... |
| Dutch cannabis cafes to start tourist ban in May [15.12.2011] | New legislation to ban non-Dutch residents from cannabis-selling coffee shops in southern Netherlands should be enforced no later than May 1 next yea ... |
| High time: inside Amsterdam's 'coffee shops' [20.10.2011] | Accessibility has made most Dutch indifferent to smoking weed, and ironically, the Netherlands has one of Europe's lowest rates of cannabis usage. A ... |
| Netherlands to classify high-potency cannabis as hard drug [07.10.2011] | The Dutch government has said it will move to classify high-potency cannabis alongside hard drugs such as cocaine and ecstasy, the latest step in the ... |
| The return of the underground retail cannabis market? [01.09.2011] | The sale of cannabis to persons aged 18 or older is permitted in the Netherlands under certain conditions in commercial establishments called coffees ... |
| Colombia Takes Step Towards Drug Decriminalization [25.08.2011] | Colombia's Supreme Court ruled against harsh punishments for small-time drug offenders, in a move towards easing up Colombia's zero-tolerance drug la ... |
| Jury still out on government’s hash crackdown [18.03.2010] | It was exactly six years ago this week that police conducted their first full-scale raid on Pusher Street, the famed road in the city’s Christiania a ... |
| MP: Approval for city ‘coffee shop’ plan unlikely [15.01.2010] | The Copenhagen City Council’s plan to set up shops selling cannabis as a way to remove the market from the control of gangs is not likely to be embra ... |
| Police crackdown on Christiania in Copenhagen [14.01.2009] | A recent change in Danish cannabis control policy has had significant implications for the structure of the retail-level cannabis market in Copenhage ... |
| Danish cannabis policy in practice [01.01.2007] | Danish drug policy has been reversed from liberal to more repressive, especially in 2003, when the Danish liberal-conservative government that had be ... |
| Impact Analysis Project of New Drugs Legislation [01.10.2001] | The first major post-communist reform of Czech drug laws was completed as early as 1990. Among other legislative changes that were seen as returns to ... |
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