Items tagged with medical cannabis
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| Turin votes in favour of legalizing cannabis [13.01.2014] | Turin's city council has approved a motion in favour of making the drug legal for therapeutic purposes, making it the first of Italy's large cities t ... |
| Morocco: Istiqlal party proposes first draft law to legalize cannabis [28.12.2013] | According to La Vie Eco, the Istiqlal Party has recently proposed a draft law to decriminalize and regulate the cultivation of cannabis for medical a ... |
| What do Israelis want? Pot! When do they want it? Now! [22.12.2013] | An estimated 1,000 Israelis attended a rally in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square on Saturday night to support the legalization of marijuana. As the crowd chan ... |
| Moroccan party holds hearing for legalizing marijuana crops [04.12.2013] | One of Morocco’s main political parties, the Party for Authenticity and Modernity (PAM), established by a close adviser to the king, started the proc ... |
| Israel seeks to tighten medical marijuana regulations [03.12.2013] | Israel's Health Ministry has expressed opposition to granting general practitioners the right to prescribe medical marijuana. Instead, the ministry w ... |
| Local medical marijuana firm to open next week [30.11.2013] | History is expected to be created next week when Jamaica's first medical marijuana company, which is intended to be instrumental in extracting the me ... |
| Czechs can’t access medical marijuana half year after legalization [14.11.2013] | The Czech Republic’s parliament legalized medical marijuana this year by an overwhelming majority, with the law becoming effective April 1. But some ... |
| Drugs legislation is hampering clinical research, warns David Nutt [03.11.2013] | The UK's drug laws are preventing scientists from carrying out vital research to unlock our understanding of the brain and find new treatments for co ... |
| Gov't actively looking into reforming ganja law [27.10.2013] | Justice Minister Mark Golding has said consideration is being given to reforming the law relating to ganja in Jamaica to allow its use, but within ce ... |
| Few problems with cannabis for California [25.10.2013] | At a time when polls show widening public support for legalization California’s 17-year experience as the first state to legalize medical marijuana o ... |
| Medical marijuana licences no longer a home-grown option [01.10.2013] | Starting next year, thousands of medical marijuana users will have to dig up their gardens and start buying only from suppliers approved and licensed ... |
| The city of Utrecht wants to convince mentally ill marijuana users to smoke better pot [12.09.2013] | Thanks in part to the Netherlands' policy of marijuana decriminalization, there are people living in the Dutch city of Utrecht whose addiction to can ... |
| Maroc: vers une légalisation de la culture du cannabis? [05.08.2013] | Le Parlement marocain est en train d'examiner un projet de loi sur la légalisation de la culture du cannabis proposé par la Coalition marocaine pour ... |
| The argument for cannabis as medicine: Will ideology or science prevail? [05.08.2013] | In Saint Lucia and throughout the Caribbean, we at the Caribbean Harm Reduction Coalition have observed the therapeutic value of cannabis (marijuana) ... |
| Fate of LA pot shops left to voters [18.05.2013] | Los Angeles politicians have struggled for more than five years to regulate medical marijuana, trying to balance the needs of the sick against neighb ... |
| DEA: Warning letters to 11 pot dispensaries don’t signal war on state law [30.04.2013] | The Drug Enforcement Administration sent cease-and-desist letters to 11 medical-marijuana dispensaries because they are within 1,000 feet of schools ... |
| Cannabis to substitute crack [22.04.2013] | The mayor of Bogota has recently proposed a pilot scheme with crack cocaine addicts to explore the substitution of crack made of cocaine base paste ( ... |
| Rival marijuana measures thrown into the electoral pot [20.04.2013] | Dozens of medical marijuana activists rallied outside Los Angeles City Hall, declaring war on an enemy. Their target was not the federal government, ... |
| Denver's 4/20 pot parties a "coming out for cannabis" [14.04.2013] | Tens of thousands of people will attend Saturday's "4/20" rally in Denver, creating perhaps the largest collectively produced cloud of marijuana smok ... |
| Bill introduced in Congress would fix conflict between state, federal marijuana laws [12.04.2013] | A bill introduced in Congress would fix the conflict between the federal government’s marijuana prohibition and state laws that allow medical or recr ... |
| A map that shows the dramatic spread of legal weed in the US [07.04.2013] | Looking at the recent spread of liberalized marijuana laws across the United States, it's hard not to think we're entering some kind of Weed Spring. ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| French court rejects sick man's cannabis plea [12.03.2013] | A French man suffering from a muscular disease since childhood had his request to be given the right to use cannabis for medicinal reasons rejected b ... |
| Colorado medical-marijuana businesses have declined by 40 percent [02.03.2013] | In the summer of 2010, after legislators passed a law legitimizing dispensaries, there were 1,117 medical-marijuana businesses in Colorado. By the en ... |
| New Health Canada marijuana regulations may drive some into the bush [20.02.2013] | The Conservative government's new medicinal pot system may lead some patients to illicitly grow their pot outdoors. Under proposed changes taking eff ... |
| U.S. can proceed with plans to close Oakland pot shop, court says [14.02.2013] | A U.S. magistrate judge on Thursday sided with federal prosecutors in dismissing a lawsuit by the city of Oakland that challenged as illegal federal ... |
| 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 ... |
| California high court seems inclined to uphold bans on pot shops [06.02.2013] | The California Supreme Court appeared inclined to uphold municipal bans against medical marijuana dispensaries. Meeting for oral arguments, the state ... |
| Medical marijuana is greenlit [05.02.2013] | Medical marijuana may soon be legally sold and available via doctors' prescriptions, with senators overwhelmingly approving the legislation in a 60-7 ... |
| Ontario’s top court upholds country’s marijuana laws in medicinal pot case [31.01.2013] | Canada’s ban on marijuana was effectively upheld when Ontario’s top court struck down the country’s laws related to medicinal pot much to the chagrin ... |
| Czech Parliament backs medical marijuana, with a catch [29.01.2013] | The Czech Senate approved a bill allowing for the legal sale of cannabis for medical purposes, affirming a decision of the country’s lower house of p ... |
| The DEA's marijuana mistake [24.01.2013] | A pro-marijuana group lost its legal battle when a federal appellate court ruled that marijuana would remain a Schedule I drug, defined as having no ... |
| Marijuana still a drug with no accepted medical use, court says [23.01.2013] | Marijuana will continue to be considered a highly dangerous drug under federal law with no accepted medical uses, after a U.S. appeals court refused ... |
| In California, it’s U.S. vs. State over marijuana [12.01.2013] | In a case that highlights the growing clash between the federal government and those states that have legalized marijuana for medical or recreational ... |
| Judge in San Francisco lets biggest medical pot shop stay open [08.01.2013] | A federal magistrate judge ruled that a medical-marijuana dispensary that bills itself as the world's largest can continue to operate, at least for n ... |
| Rocky Mountain high: Pot a $200M industry in Colorado [04.01.2013] | Vigorous regulation of a thriving medical-marijuana industry in Colorado offers the best glimpse of what is coming to Washington when it launches its ... |
| Studying marijuana and its loftier purpose [31.12.2012] | Marijuana is illegal in Israel, but at a government-approved medical marijuana farm at a secret location near the city of Safed, is at the cutting ed ... |
| Parts of Colorado's pot legalization strategy exported to other states [29.12.2012] | The sequential strategy will look familiar to Coloradans: first, pass a medical-marijuana law; then put dispensaries in place; then go for recreation ... |
| Battle over nation's largest pot dispensary heads to U.S. court [18.12.2012] | A showdown over the fate of the country's largest medical marijuana dispensary heads to federal court, and the outcome could hint at what lies ahead ... |
| For medicinal use only? [17.12.2012] | The Czech Republic already has one of the world’s most liberal approach to recreational drug possession. And it will get more liberal still: beginnin ... |
| President's pot comments prompt call for policy [14.12.2012] | President Barack Obama says he won't go after pot users in Colorado and Washington, two states that just legalized the drug for recreational use. But ... |
| Support growing for medical marijuana in Israel [01.11.2012] | More than 10,000 patients who have official government permission consume marijuana in Israel, a number that has swelled dramatically, up from servin ... |
| Medical marijuana: disabled veteran's appeal could change US drugs policy [22.10.2012] | A disabled veteran has told an appeals court that the department of veteran affairs policy on medical marijuana has caused him pain and significant e ... |
| Medical Marijuana: Will Colorado's "green rush" last? [20.10.2012] | When people go to the polls two weeks from now they won't just be voting for candidates, in some states, they'll be passing judgment on social issues ... |
| Medical marijuana advocates seek reclassification of drug [15.10.2012] | A medical marijuana advocate urged a federal appeals court to require the U.S. government to relax, or at least rethink, a more-than-40-year-old rule ... |
| Oakland sues U.S. to halt closure of marijuana dispensary [10.10.2012] | The city of Oakland has sued to block U.S. authorities from closing down a medical marijuana dispensary that bills itself as the world's largest, mar ... |
| Powerful Court quietly takes marijuana case that could shatter federal prohibition laws [10.10.2012] | On October 16, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, the federal appeals court that usually handles cases involving government regulations, ... |
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