Tag: regulation
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Maroc : Plaidoyer pour une amnistie des cultivateurs et l’usage récréatif du cannabis
Wednesday, 28 April 2021A la vielle de la promulgation de la loi sur les usages légaux, la Coordination des zones d'origine du cannabis, qui se compose d'agriculteurs et de descendants de cultivateurs de cannabis dans les r ...
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The Future of Cannabis in the Caribbean
Friday, 23 April 2021Two years after the presentation of the 2018 CARICOM report “Waiting to Exhale - Safeguarding our future through responsible socio-legal policy on Marijuana” at the CND, this years’ side event the or ...
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Germany: Greens campaign for legal cannabis on 4/20
Tuesday, 20 April 2021April 19 will go down in German political history as the day Annalena Baerbock was elected the Green Party's first-ever chancellor candidate. Assuming the party is ready to govern, the very next day ...
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After ‘Green Rush,’ Canada’s legal pot suppliers are stumbling
Sunday, 18 April 2021When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government’s legalized marijuana in 2018, a primary goal was to create a more equitable justice system — not a major new business sector. Investors, however, thou ...
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Cannabis should be legal but controlled in France, says MP
Monday, 12 April 2021Cannabis should be legalised in France and there should be a public debate about it, says the head of a parliamentary committee after a year spent looking into its different uses. The committee’s res ...
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Cannabis bill to be law by 2023
Tuesday, 06 April 2021The possession, cultivation and use of cannabis for private use is expected to be passed into law in two years’ time. The legalisation of the private and commercial use of cannabis forms part of the ...
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New chairman of CLA wants ganja industry to earn maximum benefits globally
Friday, 02 April 2021Reforming the Cannabis industry into one which earns maximum benefits globally, is the goal of newly appointed Chairman for the Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA), LeVaughn Flynn. Flynn, who has writ ...
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Pilot trials with cannabis
Thursday, 01 April 2021On 15 May 2021, an amendment to the Narcotics Act permitting pilot trials involving the controlled dispensing of cannabis for recreational purposes in Switzerland will come into force. The trials wil ...
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La culture légale du cannabis, une opportunité écologique
Sunday, 28 March 2021“L’augmentation rapide de la culture illicite de cannabis dans le Rif au cours des dernières décennies, ainsi que les mauvaises pratiques de conservation des sols, ont fait des ravages sur les forêts ...
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Culture du cannabis : Quel impact sur la biodiversité et les ressources ?
Friday, 26 March 2021L'impact de la culture du cannabis sur la biodiversité et les ressources a été au centre d'un webinaire organisé à l'initiative de l'Alliance marocaine pour le climat et le développement durable, en ...
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New York reaches a deal to legalize recreational marijuana
Thursday, 25 March 2021State lawmakers finalized a deal to legalize recreational marijuana in New York, paving the way for a potential $4.2 billion industry that could create tens of thousands of jobs and become one of the ...
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Morocco’s cannabis legalization bill: Translated and annotated
Thursday, 18 March 2021Morocco is legalizing cannabis at a breakneck pace, with its legalization bill likely to receive approval within a month of its conception. The bill, so far only available in Arabic, contains a wealt ...
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Golding pledges to overhaul ganja industry
Tuesday, 16 March 2021Leader of the Opposition, Mark Golding, says Jamaica's ganja industry can assist in the economic recovery of the island, providing much needed foreign exchange and creating employment. Should his par ...
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Ganja growers want meeting with Industry Minister, call for amnesty
Friday, 12 March 2021The Ganja Growers Association Jamaica (GGPAJ) has called for a meeting the Ministry of Industry Investment & Commerce (MIIC) to discuss the issue of ganja growers, their licenses, the impending and l ...
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Mexico’s lower house approves recreational cannabis bill
Thursday, 11 March 2021Mexico’s lower house has approved a bill that would legalise the recreational use of cannabis, putting the country on the path to becoming one of the world’s largest regulated markets for the drug. T ...
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Morocco adopts bill legalizing medical production of cannabis
Thursday, 11 March 2021Morocco’s government adopted bill 13-21, intending to legalize the production of cannabis for medicinal and therapeutic use in its weekly meeting after a few weeks of discussion. After the approval, ...
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Will XTC-Shops replace dealers in the future?
Tuesday, 02 March 2021It’s Friday night. You’re planning on going to a festival with your friends. But first you take your bicycle and you take a trip to the ‘XTC-shop’. The cashier calculates exactly how much MDMA your p ...
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MP to propose debate on cannabis legalisation in France
Monday, 01 March 2021The legalisation of recreational cannabis is “possible” in France, and the country should hold a public consultation or referendum on its use, the head of a parliamentary commission on the subject ha ...
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Mexico could soon become the largest legal marijuana market in the world
Thursday, 25 February 2021After decades of strict drug policy, Mexico’s congress is expected to pass a federal law this year that would for the first time create a legal cannabis trade in the country—the Senate passed the bil ...
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La légalisation du cannabis supervisée par une agence «placée sous la tutelle de l’Etat»
Thursday, 25 February 2021Le Maroc veut rattraper son retard sur les pays ayant légalisé la culture du cannabis à des fins thérapeutiques et bénéficier ensuite des recettes financière. Le marché mondial de l’usage médicinal d ...
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New Jersey governor signs laws to legalize marijuana use, decriminalize possession
Monday, 22 February 2021Legislation to set up a recreational marijuana marketplace, decriminalize cannabis and loosen penalties for underage possession of the drug and alcohol was signed into law by New Jersey Gov. Phil Mur ...
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Burt warns London over cannabis licensing act
Saturday, 20 February 2021Premier David Burt has expressed doubt over whether a new law to license cannabis production in Bermuda will get the royal assent from Governor Rena Lalgie, and says the island’s relationship with th ...
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Chamber of Deputies rejects move to relax cannabis laws
Thursday, 28 January 2021The Chamber of Deputies rejected a proposal to loosen cannabis laws in the Czech Republic, put forward by 40 deputies from six different parties. The bill was strongly supported by the Pirate Party, ...
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Mexico on the brink of legalizing marijuana — But on what terms?
Thursday, 28 January 2021Mexico is on the verge of becoming the third country in the world, after Uruguay and Canada, to legally regulate cannabis for personal, adult use. This comes after years of strategic litigation, a la ...
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Mexico moves to create world’s largest legal cannabis market
Tuesday, 12 January 2021Mexico’s health ministry published rules to regulate the use of medicinal cannabis, a major step in a broader reform to create the world’s largest legal cannabis market in the Latin American country. ...
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Dutch high hopes for legal cannabis farms hit by nimby protests
Sunday, 03 January 2021A Dutch trial of state-regulated cannabis cultivation farms to supply coffee shops risks being derailed by an outbreak of nimbyism after locals protested about the location of one of the new faciliti ...
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Cannabis grow clubs want High Court to decide if customers can ‘sit back, relax and enjoy the fruits’ of their joint labour
Friday, 18 December 2020In September 2018, the Constitutional Court decriminalised the private cultivation of cannabis by adults for personal private consumption. This created an opportunity for businesses to ‘privately’ gr ...
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Legal cannabis law tabled in House of Assembly
Saturday, 12 December 2020Legislation to lay the framework for legal cannabis in Bermuda was tabled in the House of Assembly. Kathy Lynn Simmons, the Attorney-General and the Minister of Legal Affairs said the Cannabis Licens ...
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Legalization advocates hope to end Mexico’s drug war
Saturday, 12 December 2020A determined political movement to end the war on drugs has taken shape across Europe and North America. Harm reduction advocates say lives can be saved and resources spared, if only the state would ...
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Inside the weed legalization bill the House of Representatives just passed
Friday, 04 December 2020The House of Representatives passed the MORE Act on Friday by a vote of 228-164. It was 2018, Democrats were about to gain control of the House of Representatives, and cannabis justice advocates knew ...
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House passes sweeping reform bill to decriminalize marijuana
Friday, 04 December 2020The U.S. House of Representatives passed sweeping legislation that would decriminalize marijuana at the federal level, the first time either chamber of Congress has voted to legalize cannabis. The me ...
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Netherlands to draw 10 recreational marijuana growers this week
Monday, 30 November 2020The Dutch government will hold a draw to choose 10 marijuana cultivators for the country’s upcoming pilot program, according to a letter to Parliament from the medical and justice ministers. The winn ...
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Mexico may become the third country to legalise cannabis
Saturday, 21 November 2020On November 19, the Senate began debating a bill that would make Mexico the third country in the world, after Uruguay and Canada, to legalise cannabis for recreational use nationwide. For Mexico, the ...
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Medical marijuana grow licences exploited by criminals to sell weed on the illegal market, police say
Thursday, 19 November 2020A lack of oversight into who is growing medical cannabis and how much is being grown is allowing criminals to sell pot on the illegal market, according to police and pot activists. That's creating te ...
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Mexican Senate committees approve marijuana legalization bill with floor vote planned soon
Friday, 13 November 2020Several Mexican Senate committees on Friday tentatively approved a revised bill to legalize marijuana during a joint hearing, with a formal in-person vote scheduled next week. The legislation, which ...
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Mexico is poised to legalize marijuana, but advocates don’t like the details
Sunday, 08 November 2020It's the moment for which advocates of legal marijuana here have been waiting: Mexican lawmakers, working under a court order, have until mid-December to finalize rules that will make the country the ...
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Marijuana use among teens down 2 years after legalization
Thursday, 29 October 2020Two years after the sale of marijuana was legalized in Canada, and researchers have yet to see the feared increase in use, says Michael Boudreau, a criminology professor at St. Thomas University. Abo ...
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Position Paper of the Fair Trade Cannabis Working Group in the Caribbean
Thursday, 29 October 2020The Position Paper "For inclusive business models, well designed laws and fair(er) trade options for small-scale traditional cannabis farmers” produced by The Fair(er) Trade Cannabis Working Group ai ...
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Government urged to sell cocaine and ecstasy in pharmacies
Monday, 19 October 2020Cocaine, ecstasy and amphetamines should be “nationalised” and sold legally in government-run pharmacies to undermine global drug-related crime, the UK drugs reform charity Transform has recommended. ...
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‘Tide is turning’: New Zealand’s cannabis referendum sparks debate in Australia
Sunday, 18 October 2020The cannabis legalisation referendum was watched closely by progressive politicians and campaigners in Australia. For the first time, the 2019 National Drug Strategy Household Survey showed that more ...
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California outdoor marijuana cultivators to designate products by growing region
Thursday, 15 October 2020California’s marijuana market is borrowing a page from the state’s world-famous wine industry thanks to a new law intended to help outdoor cannabis growers brand and market their products by highligh ...
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Cannabis referendum: More than 100 doctors back legalising recreational use
Thursday, 15 October 2020More than 100 doctors have come forward to put their names behind cannabis legalisation, in response to the New Zealand Medical Association's backtracking from opposing the bill to neutrality. They s ...
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Mexican Senate set to pass bill to legalize marijuana in next few days
Thursday, 15 October 2020Sen. Ricardo Monreal, the leader of Lopez Obrador’s MORENA party in the upper chamber of Congress, said in an interview that a vote on the proposal will take place later this week or next week. “The ...
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amaMpondo traditional leaders reject Private Use Cannabis Bill
Saturday, 10 October 2020Traditional leaders from the amaMpondo nation and cannabis farmers in the Eastern Cape have rejected the Private Use Cannabis Bill. They are calling for a comprehensive consultation process that must ...
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Cannabis referendum: Health experts lay out the case for voting 'yes'
Thursday, 08 October 2020Four of the country's top medical experts are urging voters to tick 'yes' in the cannabis referendum, saying it's not a vote for the drug, but against a status quo that is failing to protect vulnerab ...
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Switzerland set to launch cannabis pilot projects 2021
Thursday, 08 October 2020In September 2020, the Swiss parliament adopted a modification to the Federal Act on Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances. The change provides a legal framework for a pilot project that would see le ...
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Mexico, plagued by cartel wars, on cusp of legal cannabis 'green rush'
Thursday, 01 October 2020Senate majority leader Ricardo Monreal expects a law to be passed before December for recreational use of the drug, allowing regulated private firms to sell it to the public. Indeed the legal cannabi ...
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Cannabis: A rush to corporate capture?
Wednesday, 30 September 2020Finance minister Tito Mboweni expects the newly legal cannabis industry to pour an estimated R4 billion into the government’s dwindling tax coffers while simultaneously unlocking the country’s stagna ...
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Special permit to enable more small farmers to enter medical cannabis field
Monday, 28 September 2020The Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA) says the Cultivator's (Transitional) Special Permit Policy, which is in an advanced stage of completion, will enable more small and subsistence farmers to acces ...
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L'appel de trois maires LR pour "légaliser la consommation de cannabis"
Saturday, 26 September 2020Les maires Les Républicains Gil Avérous (Châteauroux), Boris Ravignon (Charleville-Mézières) et Arnaud Robinet (Reims) réclament dans cette tribune la légalisation de la consommation de cannabis, aya ...
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