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			<title>Cannabis cafés and self-growing: Czechia presents draft of new marijuana law</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ The Czech government presented a draft of a cannabis regulation bill that, does not include the previously envisioned regulated cannabis market. The Pirates party, which has traditionally been a stro ...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2024 19:48:56 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Minister signs bill banning recreational use of weed</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Public Health Minister Cholnan Srikaew has signed proposed legislation regarding cannabis in Thailand, emphasising that it cannot be used for recreational purposes. &quot;The new law will clearly stipulat ...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2024 15:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>As the mayor of Amsterdam, I can see the Netherlands risks becoming a narco-state</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ In the Netherlands, we used to look on the international “war on drugs” with a certain amount of disdain. Its solutions were prohibition, criminalisation, stiff penalties and sentences; our national  ...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2024 16:57:23 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Barcelona city council threatens to shut down cannabis social clubs</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ The Barcelona City Council is considering tightening regulations on access to cannabis social clubs. The concept of cannabis social clubs has drawn numerous locals and tourists to Barcelona over the  ...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2024 20:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Swiss capital Bern considers legal cocaine project</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Switzerland's capital is examining a pilot project to allow the sale of cocaine for recreational use - a radical approach to the war on drugs that is not thought to have been tried elsewhere. The mun ...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2023 14:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>High time: after five years, Dutch start legal cannabis trial</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ The Netherlands’ legal weed experiment kicked off in Breda and Tilburg, with Europe’s first ever licensed and controlled cannabis arriving in city coffeeshops. Health minister Ernst Kuipers joined Br ...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 18 Dec 2023 20:26:17 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Legal Cannabis cultivation pilot set to begin on Friday</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ The Netherlands’ long-awaited experiment with regulated cannabis cultivation starts in Tilburg and Breda on Friday. Coffeeshops in these two municipalities will be the first to sell weed that was leg ...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2023 05:57:55 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Scholz’s SPD puts cannabis legalisation on hold</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Germany’s plans to legalise cannabis appear to be in limbo after the Social Democratic Party of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s three-party coalition announced that the law will not be passed this year as i ...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 18 Dec 2023 20:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>After 50 years, a Danish commune is shaken from Its utopian dream</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Founded in 1971 by squatters on an abandoned military base, Christiania was devised as a post-’60s anarchistic utopia, where people could live outside of Denmark’s market economy. Denmark’s governmen ...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jan 2024 15:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>NSW drug law overhaul would allow six marijuana plants for personal use</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ People would be allowed to grow six marijuana plants for personal use and give their friends pot as a gift under a proposed law being introduced to the New South Wales parliament, as the government c ...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 18 Dec 2023 21:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Germany will likely legalize adult-use cannabis in 2024</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ The coalition government in Germany is finalizing details for long-awaited cannabis legalization, including dates for cannabis cultivation and the establishment of cannabis clubs. The legalization of ...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2023 13:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>German government to loosen up cannabis legalisation law</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Recreational use of cannabis is set to become legal in Germany. The government has agreed the final draft of the legislation that will be discussed and voted on in the Bundestag next year. According  ...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2023 12:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Cannabis loopholes to be closed</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ 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, Public Health Minister Cholnan Srikaew said. Dr C ...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2024 16:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Cannabis : pourquoi la France bloque quand nos voisins européens assouplissent la législation</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ « Clubs de cannabis, culture à domicile, Weed care… » : l'Allemagne, le Luxembourg, les Pays-Bas, la Belgique et la Suisse - ces pays frontaliers de la Lorraine et de la Franche-Comté - assouplissent ...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 19 Nov 2023 13:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>‘Prohibition is failing’</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Former Australian Federal Police boss Mick Palmer has said the prohibition of cannabis use “is not just failing, it is causing real harm” as he described his journey from a hard-nosed policeman to a  ...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2023 19:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Spain’s confusing cannabis policies spark similar problems faced by US states</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ “For some years, there was the possibility to regulate and keep it in the hands of those who aren’t crime-related,” said Óscar Parés, deputy director of the Barcelona-based ICEERS, speaking of past e ...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2023 15:36:53 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Weed is now legal in Thailand. How long will the high times last?</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ 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, essentially legalizes marijuana overnight? But the high t ...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2024 16:52:30 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>State Department’s permissive reading of international drug treaties is ‘good sign’ for marijuana rescheduling, lawyer says</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Recent comments by a U.S. State Department official to a United Nations (UN) drug commission are being seen by some legal experts as “a good sign” for marijuana’s potential domestic move to Schedule  ...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2024 15:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>High times in Basel: Swiss city experiments with recreational cannabis</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ 370 adults taking part in Basel’s “Weed Care” scheme – a 2.5-year recreational pot smoking study. Its aim is to examine the impact of regulated cannabis supply on the health and consumption behaviour ...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2023 11:25:25 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>B.C. toxic drug deaths ‘largely preventable,’ coroner says, amid push for expanded safer supply access</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ The BC Coroners Service is urging the province to “immediately pursue” expanded access to safer supply as a new report on toxic drug deaths finds many of them have been “largely preventable.” The Cor ...]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2023 09:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
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