Items tagged with cannabis
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| Sooner or later, marijuana will be legal [28.09.2010] | It's as predictable as the sun rising and setting. Even though police made more than 850,000 marijuana arrests last year, a recent government report ... |
| Marijuana legalization measure gets big lift [26.09.2010] | In a dramatic shift of sentiment, nearly half of California's likely voters now want to legalize marijuana use in the state, according to a new Field ... |
| A chance for a scientific drugs policy [21.09.2010] | Last week Professor Roger Pertwee called for cannabis to be licensed for sale, and now Tim Hollis, the Association of Chief Police Officers' lead off ... |
| Cuts prompt police to call for debate on drugs and redirect resources [18.09.2010] | One of Britain's most senior police officers has said youngsters caught carrying personal amounts of drugs such as cannabis should "not be criminalis ... |
| License cannabis sales, expert says [14.09.2010] | Policymakers should consider allowing the licensed sale of cannabis for recreational use, says one of the UK's leading researchers of the drug. Profe ... |
| California's Prop 19, on legalizing marijuana, could end Mexico's drug war [05.09.2010] | On Nov. 2, Californians will vote on Proposition 19, deciding whether to legalize the production, sale and consumption of marijuana. If the initiativ ... |
| Cannabis in Mexico [27.08.2010] | In August 2010, Mexican President Felipe Calderon declared that he would support a national debate on the issue of legalisation, reversing his previo ... |
| Prague high [24.08.2010] | Although the partial decriminalization of cannabis at the beginning of this year didn't transform the capital into the new Amsterdam, as some headlin ... |
| Cannabis farmers take up arms to defend crops in booming trade [16.08.2010] | Illicit cannabis factory farmers are arming themselves with sawn-off shotguns, CS sprays and machetes and even setting booby traps to protect their c ... |
| Kerlikowske draws the wrong conclusions [16.08.2010] | In "Has the time come to legalize drugs?" Andres Oppenheimer, the influential opinion maker about Latin American affairs at the Miami Herald, describ ... |
| How ideology shapes the evidence and the policy [01.08.2010] | In the United Kingdom, as in many places, cannabis use is considered substantially within a criminal justice rather than a public health paradigm wit ... |
| The case for small-scale domestic cannabis cultivation [01.07.2010] | The shift to (inter)regional production, trade and domestic cultivation has become an irreversible international trend. Until now, the focus of most ... |
| Marijuana Legalization [30.06.2010] | A number of other countries have implemented changes in law that significantly reduce the extent of criminalization of marijuana use. Only in Austral ... |
| Marijuana, Made in Germany [10.06.2010] | German cannabis plantations are now edging imports from Morocco and Afghanistan out of the market. The trend began after the Dutch government began d ... |
| Morocco tells Europe: don't go soft on cannabis [10.06.2010] | Morocco has cut cannabis traffickers’ revenue to less than one-third of its 2005 level but its efforts could be undermined if Europe relaxes its poli ... |
| Berlin set to relax cannabis laws [18.05.2010] | A new marijuana policy could make it legal for individuals to posses up to 15 grams (0.5 ounces) of the drug in the German capital. The regulation wo ... |
| Budgetary benefits of cannabis regulation [20.04.2010] | In the United States the discussion on the pros and cons of regulating cannabis is well advanced. The national television news programme CNBC has ded ... |
| Regulating cannabis could help cut Dutch state deficit [13.04.2010] | Decriminalizing cannabis in the Netherlands and regulating the back-door of the coffee-shops and cultivation of cannabis would save 160 million euro ... |
| Dry spell: Hashish prices skyrocket, users fret amid shortage [31.03.2010] | For the past two months local drug consumers in Egypt – which the most conservative estimates place at around 7 million – have been in the throes of ... |
| 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 ... |
| Cannabis policy: Time to move beyond the psychosis debate [11.03.2010] | Researchers, research funders and policymakers should give greater voice to the risks and harms associated with particular cannabis policies and to t ... |
| 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 ... |
| Adverse health effects of non-medical cannabis use [17.10.2009] | For over two decades, cannabis, commonly known as marijuana, has been the most widely used illicit drug by young people in high-income countries, and ... |
| Council may enter drug trade [24.09.2009] | A City Council majority is backing a plan to legalise the sale of cannabis, which could see two thirds of the market taken away from criminal gangs. ... |
| Stepping away from the darkness [19.08.2009] | The Drug War has failed. After more than 20 years of tirelessly pushing for the same policy, the efforts have not been able to bring the expanding il ... |
| Drug policy reform in practice [14.08.2009] | The academic journal Nueva Sociedad recently released an issue to promote the debate in Latin America on drug policy reform. TNI contributed with the ... |
| City trying to ‘hash out’ pot issue [07.07.2009] | A new Social Affairs Committee report on cannabis has recommended that the City Council seriously consider decriminalisation of the substance’s as be ... |
| Committee wants coffee shops to cater to locals only [01.07.2009] | Limit the sale of cannabis to local users, reconsider the distinction between hard and soft drugs, raise the legal age for drinking alcohol from 16 t ... |
| Assessing the impact of cannabis use on trends in diagnosed schizophrenia in the United Kingdom from 1996 to 2005 [27.06.2009] | A recent systematic review concluded that cannabis use increases risk of psychotic outcomes independently of confounding and transient intoxication e ... |
| Round Table on Alternative Development [15.03.2009] | The last of the four ‘round tables’ of the high-level segment of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs was devoted to the broad issue of Countering illici ... |
| Global Illicit Drug Markets 1998-2007 [15.03.2009] | This report commissioned by the European Commission, found no evidence that the global drug problem has been reduced during the period from 1998 to 2 ... |
| Cannabis Use in Canada [01.03.2009] | Cannabis is the most commonly used illicit drug in Canada, used by 1 in 7 adults and 1 in 4 students. Other forms of drug use (e.g., alcohol or injec ... |
| The consequences and costs of marijuana prohibition [01.03.2009] | This report draws on a wide range of data sources to assess the consequences and costs of enforcing criminal laws that prohibit the use of marijuana. ... |
| Toward a Paradigm Shift [12.02.2009] | Prohibitionist policies based on the eradication of production and on the disruption of drug flows as well as on the criminalization of consumption h ... |
| Toward a Paradigm Shift [11.02.2009] | The Commission Gathered at its Second Meeting, in Bogota The Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy presented its conclusions at a press co ... |
| Banks told to accept cannabis cafe customers [06.02.2009] | Banks must accept cafes which sell cannabis and marijuana as clients, says finance minister Wouter Bos. The minister fears that if these businesses, ... |
| 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 ... |
| Smoking without Borders [13.01.2009] | Cannabis license The Hungarian Civil Liberty Union (HCLU) produced a video on the debate on cannabis policy and the tolerated sale of small quantitie ... |
| Voters agree heroin scheme, but throw out dope [30.11.2008] | The Swiss look set to approve the government's drugs policy, including the prescription of heroin to addicts, but will reject a plan to decriminalise ... |
| Dutch mayors call for growing marijuana [23.11.2008] | The Dutch government should licence the growing and supply of marijuana to the country’s 700 or so coffee shops that sell cannabis, according to a gr ... |
| Local councils support tolerant cannabis policy [18.11.2008] | Most of the Dutch local councils that have so-called coffee shops which sell marijuana say they have no problem with the current policy of tolerating ... |
| An Overview of Cannabis Policy [31.10.2008] | On October 2, 2008, the Beckley Foundation launched in the House of Lords its Global Cannabis Commission Report, an authoritative guide to the effect ... |
| Fate of drug laws hazy but voters will decide [23.10.2008] | A first opinion poll found that the prescription of heroin for addicts stands a good chance of passing on November 30. However, a proposal to decrimi ... |
| Cannabis Policy: Moving Beyond Stalemate [01.09.2008] | Despite cannabis being the most widely used illegal drug, and therefore the mainstay of the ‘war on drugs’, it has only ever held a relatively margin ... |
| Characterization of the crack cocaine culture in the city of São Paulo: a controlled pattern of use [01.07.2008] | In the city of São Paulo, the culture of crack use has undergone considerable changes over these 11 years since it was first described. The sociodemo ... |
| Cannabis debate in Australia [04.06.2008] | In Australia a vicious debate on cannabis policy started when Alex Wodak, the head of the Sydney drug and alcohol clinic at St Vincent's Hospital, su ... |
| Costa in Amsterdam [02.06.2008] | The head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Antonio Costa, recently visited Amsterdam on 24 April. Accompanied by some officials of the Net ... |
| The Cannabis Debate: Polak vs Costa [27.05.2008] | Antonio Costa, the Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and Frederick Polak, a Dutch psychiatrist have been engaged in an ... |
| Cannabis dreams drift away [07.04.2008] | Following decades of rising cannabis use and talk of liberalisation, Switzerland had appeared poised to become the marijuana capital of Europe. The c ... |
| Cannabis: Classification and Public Health [01.04.2008] | The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs reviewed the classification of cannabis in the light of real public concern about the potential mental he ... |
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