Items tagged with regulation
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Sessions reassures senators: No pot crackdown imminent [02.03.2017] | The Trump administration is causing serious paranoia among marijuana advocates with its hints of a federal crackdown on recreational use. But Attorne ... |
Sessions: More violence around marijuana than ‘one would think’ [27.02.2017] | The Justice Department will try to adopt “responsible policies” for enforcement of federal anti-marijuana laws, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said, ... |
As Trump said in the campaign, leave pot to the states [27.02.2017] | In pulling back from Mr. Trump’s assurance during the campaign that states should be left to decide their own marijuana policies, White House spokesm ... |
What’s next after new Dutch cannabis cultivation bill [25.02.2017] | In a landmark decision, the lower House of the Dutch parliament voted in favour of adding cannabis cultivation to it's tolerance policy. A move that ... |
Dutch MPs vote in favour of regulated marijuana cultivation [21.02.2017] | A narrow majority backed new legislation which would regulate marijuana cultivation under government control. The vote, by 77 to 72, would allow cann ... |
Can the government impede cannabis regulation in Spain? [17.02.2017] | Is cannabis regulation possible with a prohibitionist government in Spain? Cooperation between various forces in Congress, changes in public attitude ... |
Just how mainstream is marijuana? [17.02.2017] | Time to dispel any doubts you may still have that marijuana reform is truly a mainstream political issue. This week, a bipartisan group of U.S. repre ... |
Cities have right to regulate marijuana dispensaries: B.C. Supreme Court [16.02.2017] | Cities have the right to deny business licences to illegal marijuana dispensaries and to prohibit the cultivation or sale of marijuana through their ... |
Marijuana health trends mostly positive but still bear watching [01.02.2017] | Marijuana-related emergency room visits dropped, accidental poisonings are down and recreational marijuana failed to bring a much-feared spike in ado ... |
Wie Düsseldorf Cannabis legalisieren will [31.01.2017] | Düsseldorf will als erste deutsche Stadt Verkauf und Konsum von Cannabis legalisieren. Dem Körper ist es egal, wie die Droge erworben wurde, meint Ge ... |
‘Building the airplane while it’s being flown’ [30.01.2017] | In the outskirts of Sacramento, a handful of government workers face a daunting task: By next year, craft regulations and rules that will govern Cali ... |
High time for change: Flemish academics make case for legal marijuana [26.01.2017] | The simple realisation that federal drug policies are failing is what motivated the three academics – Paul De Grauwe, Jan Tytgat and Tom Decorte, eac ... |
Preston’s first cannabis club to challenge Home Office [25.01.2017] | Mike Dobson, a self-confessed cannabis user for 25 years, is seeking a judicial review following the Home Office’s refusal to issue a licence to allo ... |
Delays in Uruguay marijuana law leave door ajar for drug trafficking [23.01.2017] | Three years after Uruguay became the first South American country to create a legal market for marijuana, seven out of every ten cannabis consumers s ... |
Seiveright urges ganja farmers to look beyond ‘so so weed’ [19.01.2017] | Delano Seiveright, a director of the Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA), says that ganja growers should look beyond farming “so so weed” in seeking t ... |
A new era for cannabis clubs in Spain [13.01.2017] | Following the Supreme Court's judgements against cannabis clubs in 2015, ordinary courts have started interpreting them. Spain's major clubs, above a ... |
Marijuana reforms flood state legislatures [13.01.2017] | Legislators in more than a dozen states have introduced measures to loosen laws restricting access to or criminalizing marijuana, a rush of legislati ... |
Canada’s marijuana industry needs innovation to thrive, not protection [11.01.2017] | The Task Force on Marijuana Legalization and Regulation did not say, “create a marijuana marketing board.” Yet its recommendations would, if implemen ... |
Governor introduces bill to legalize recreational marijuana [10.01.2017] | As promised and just in the second week into the new year, Governor Eddie Calvo of Guam has introduced legislation for the recreational use of mariju ... |
Cannabis : 150 personnalités marseillaises demandent la "légalisation contrôlée" [08.01.2017] | Ils veulent la fin de la "prohibition du cannabis" qui est pour eux "un échec". 150 personnalités marseillaises, dont les députés socialistes Patrick ... |
Gang-ravaged Mexico stuck in weed ban as U.S. opens up [29.12.2016] | Mexican advocates for drug reform are voicing alarm about the country's widening gap with the United States on marijuana legislation, as criminal vio ... |
Mexican attitudes to marijuana mellow [24.12.2016] | In november 57% of Californians voted to legalise the growing and use of marijuana for recreational purposes. Liberalisation in the most populous bor ... |
Mellow drivers? [20.12.2016] | States with medical-marijuana laws have fewer traffic fatalities than those without, especially among younger drivers, a new study has found. You wou ... |
Copenhagen to once again push for legal cannabis trial [15.12.2016] | After three spurned attempts to get a trial programme for legal cannabis off the ground, city officials in Copenhagen will try once again. Led by May ... |
Pot task force recommends legal cannabis sales be limited to users over 18 [13.12.2016] | The task force appointed by the federal government to study the legalization of marijuana said cannabis sales should be restricted to those 18 and ol ... |
Chuck promises Rastas speedy approval of ganja requests [12.12.2016] | Justice Minister Delroy Chuck has moved to assure members of the Rastafarian faith in Jamaica that their requests to transport ganja to be smoked as ... |
7 reasons President Trump is unlikely to fight legal marijuana [07.12.2016] | With Donald Trump nominating Cabinet members who have spoken out against legal marijuana, some are arguing that the war on drugs may make a comeback. ... |
Düsseldorf moves forward with plans to legalize cannabis [06.12.2016] | Düsseldorf took the next step in its plan to legalize the regulated sale of recreational cannabis to over 18 year-olds, taking advice from experts i ... |
Trudeau’s bait and switch on legalization? [04.12.2016] | Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently expressed frustration around the current cannabis landscape, explaining, “Until we have brought in the propose ... |
Marijuana task force submits report outlining framework for legal system [29.11.2016] | Canada’s new legal marijuana regime is expected to feature a mishmash of provincial rules and a heavily regulated production system that will initial ... |
Five things to know about weed in Germany [24.11.2016] | The debate about legalizing cannabis continues in Germany - court cases in recent years have granted permission to use the drug for medical purposes, ... |
It's time to decriminalize drugs, commission report says [21.11.2016] | In a report released by the Global Commission on Drug Policy, that includes the former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan and former presidents of Colom ... |
Cannabis authority to grant conditional permits by year end [21.11.2016] | The Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA) in Jamaica expects to grant conditional licences by the end of the year for the growing and processing of ganj ... |
Medical marijuana is legal in California. Except when it’s not [21.11.2016] | California’s multibillion-dollar marijuana industry, by far the nation’s largest, is crawling out from the underbrush after voters opted to legalize ... |
Ruling party to support regulated cannabis cultivation after all [21.11.2016] | It seems that ruling party VVD will support regulating cannabis cultivation in the Netherlands. During a VVD conference a vast majority of party memb ... |
Jeff Sessions could reverse years of progress on marijuana policy [17.11.2016] | President-elect Donald Trump has nominated hardline drug policy reform opponent Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) to be Attorney General of the United Stat ... |
Berlin likely to semi-legalize marijuana [11.11.2016] | A coalition of political parties in the German capital agreed to push for partial decriminalization of cannabis. The initial effects will be limited. ... |
Marijuana reform went 8 for 9 on the ballot this week [10.11.2016] | Marijuana reform won in eight out of the nine states where it was put on the ballot, the strongest signal to date that the public is ready to embrace ... |
Getting regulation right [09.11.2016] | After close to three years, the final element of Uruguay’s historic cannabis law is set to be implemented in the coming weeks, as commercial sales ar ... |
Silver linings [09.11.2016] | One of the most striking juxtapositions of the 2016 U.S. elections is that on the same day that the nation elected to the presidency a candidate who ... |
California scrambles to implement new recreational pot law [09.11.2016] | Passage of marijuana-legalization initiatives in California and other states this week has given momentum to a national movement to decriminalize pot ... |
Marijuana legalization won big on Election Day. It will keep winning [09.11.2016] | In California voters approved legalization. The country’s most populous state and biggest economy will allow people to buy marijuana for recreational ... |
Rot-Rot-Grün will neuen Anlauf für Abgabe von Cannabis [08.11.2016] | Der geplante rot-rot-grüne Senat in Berlin will einen neuen Anlauf zum regulierten Verkauf sogenannter weicher Drogen starten. Das kündigten Vertrete ... |
Legalise weed growing: VVD proposal seeds dissent [08.11.2016] | VVD leaders in the south of the Netherlands are proposing an overhaul of cannabis laws to regulate cultivation, decriminalising what is currently a g ... |
Denmark approves medical cannabis trial [07.11.2016] | The Danish government announced that as of 2018, doctors will be able to prescribe medicinal cannabis to certain patients. The government said that a ... |
The trend toward legalizing recreational marijuana [04.11.2016] | House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said that she plans to vote in favor of legalizing recreational marijuana in California. "I will vote for it, but ... |
Pot tax would reduce profits, allow black market to thrive: report [31.10.2016] | The parliamentary budget watchdog says Ottawa stands to generate hundreds of millions of dollars – not billions – from the first year of recreational ... |
A lot has happened and a lot has not happened [20.10.2016] | At the recently concluded 6th Latin American and 1st Caribbean Conference on Drug Policy, held in Santa Domingo, Dominican Republic, I started a disc ... |
Medical marijuana and the green rush are changing Chile [17.10.2016] | In Santiago alone, there are more than 500 grow shops. This explosive expansion that has occurred since 2010 has exceeded all projections. The mariju ... |
What’s next for kratom after the DEA blinks on its emergency ban? [16.10.2016] | Researchers and users of kratom were stunned by the Drug Enforcement Administration’s abrupt withdrawal of its stated plan to place the Southeast Asi ... |
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