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Items tagged with recriminalisation

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Chewing over Khat prohibition 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 fi...
Colombia Takes Step Towards Drug Decriminalization Colombia's Supreme Court ruled against harsh punishments for small-time drug offenders, in a move towards easing up Colombia's zero-tolera...
Conservative senator opposes omnibus crime bill Conservative Senator Pierre Claude Nolin says he can't support the massive Bill C-10 mainly because of a section that deals with growing marijuan...
Copenhagen wants controlled cannabis shops 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 regu...
Dutch 'cannabis card' roll-out draws defiance 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 in...
Dutch cannabis cafes to start tourist ban in May New legislation to ban non-Dutch residents from cannabis-selling coffee shops in southern Netherlands should be enforced no later than May 1 next ye...
Dutch to ban sale of strong hashish cannabis 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 to...
High time: inside Amsterdam's 'coffee shops' Accessibility has made most Dutch indifferent to smoking weed, and ironically, the Netherlands has one of Europe's lowest rates of cannabis usage...
Impact Analysis Project of New Drugs Legislation 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 t...
Jury still out on government’s hash crackdown 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 ...
Law Could Hamper Drug Tourism in the Netherlands 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 v...
MP: Approval for city ‘coffee shop’ plan unlikely 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 embr...
Netherlands bans tourists from buying marijuana 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...
Netherlands to classify high-potency cannabis as hard drug 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 ...
Stephen Harper repeating same old mistakes with tougher pot laws, global group says 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 re...
The return of the underground retail cannabis market? The sale of cannabis to persons aged 18 or older is permitted in the Netherlands under certain conditions in commercial establishments called coffeesh...
Whither a Progressive Pot Policy? Cannabis has been taking centre stage in recent weeks. Former attorneys-general and Vancouver mayors in British Columbia have called for regulation an...

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