Items tagged with cannabis
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| Four Decades Later, It's Time to Scrap the Dead-End Drug War [17.06.2011] | I recently returned from the desert city of Durango, Mexico, where forensic officials are still trying to identify some 240 corpses discovered this y ... |
| Is France's cannabis debate stuck in a cul-de-sac? [16.06.2011] | The issue of legalising cannabis is once again making headlines in France following the release of a parliamentary report on Wednesday recommending t ... |
| Légalisation contrôlée du cannabis [15.06.2011] | The parliamentary report recommends “controlled legalisation” of the cultivation and consumption of cannabis in France. The report, compiled by a wor ... |
| A Call to Shift Policy on Marijuana [14.06.2011] | More people are arrested in New York City on charges of possessing small amounts of marijuana than on any other crime on the books. Nearly all are bl ... |
| The Global Commission: breaking the Vienna Consensus [07.06.2011] | TNI has been closely involved with the Global Commission on Drug Policy which presented its report in New York on June 2. Some years ago we published ... |
| Netherlands: Pot shops to be off limits to foreign tourists [06.06.2011] | The Netherlands plans to ban foreign visitors from pot shops in a move that opponents have labeled "tourism suicide." The Dutch government is trying t ... |
| Drugs and the law: state of confusion [02.06.2011] | Forty years after the introduction of the 1971 Misuse of Drugs Act, more than 2.8 million people report using illicit drugs every year in England and ... |
| Pot Penalties May Be Modernized [18.05.2011] | Sponsored by San Francisco Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, AB 1017 aims to give prosecutors more discretion in how they charge weed growers and processors, ... |
| Colorado pot advocates push for legalization in 2012 [15.05.2011] | Pot legalization backers hope to start gathering signatures as soon as this summer to put the question to voters. Given Colorado`s low signature thre ... |
| Delaware governor signs bill making it the 16th state to legalize medical marijuana [13.05.2011] | Gov. Jack Markell has signed legislation making Delaware the 16th state to allow the use of medical marijuana. The new law allows people 18 and older ... |
| Federal prosecutors step into debate over medical marijuana, warn of potential criminal cases [03.05.2011] | Several states have started reassessing their medical marijuana laws after stern warnings from the federal government that everyone from licensed gro ... |
| Federal pot prosecutions have not let up [30.04.2011] | When the Obama administration declared 18 months ago that it would stop arresting people who complied with their states' medical marijuana laws, advo ... |
| The Obama Administration’s drug control policy on auto-pilot [29.04.2011] | In a widely watched You Tube video, U.S. President Barack Obama is asked whether or not the drug war may in fact be counterproductive. Instead of the ... |
| Study: tens of thousands of Finns have grown their own cannabis [26.04.2011] | An estimated 40,000 – 60,000 Finns have tried growing cannabis at home. The number of active home growers in Finland is about ten thousand, but they ... |
| Medical marijuana: Federal pressure stirs legal confusion [21.04.2011] | Threatened medical-marijuana crackdowns by federal prosecutors in other states have stoked fears about whether state employees, dispensary owners and ... |
| Legalizing Marijuana: An Exit Strategy from the War on Drugs [19.04.2011] | U.S. drug policy needs to be altered; legalization must be subject to serious debate. Legalization could eliminate illegal demand for Mexican marijua ... |
| Portland legislator pushes bill to legalize, tax marijuana in Maine [19.04.2011] | Imagine walking into a neighborhood store to buy beer, wine, liquor and cigarettes. But on your way home you make one more stop – to buy marijuana, l ... |
| Ruling brings optimism for medical marijuana users [14.04.2011] | The Ontario Superior Court in Canada declared the rules that govern medical marijuana access and the prohibitions laid out in sections 4 and 7 of the ... |
| Jamaica panel to review pot decriminalization [13.04.2011] | Top government officials will review recommendations to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana for personal and religious use in Jama ... |
| Pot Politics on Capitol Hill: Proponents Aim to Shift Industry's Image [30.03.2011] | Supporters of decriminalizing marijuana are hoping to build momentum on Capitol Hill after a historic election that saw the politics of pot take cent ... |
| A sensible approach to marijuana legalization that protects young people [27.03.2011] | The marijuana-legalization debate can too quickly become polarized. Guest columnist Roger Roffman argues that both sides need to tone down the rhetor ... |
| The future of Dutch cannabis policy [14.03.2011] | The municipality of the Dutch city of Utrecht recently announced two scientific experiments on cannabis policy. One experiment will be to set up a cl ... |
| Dutch city wants to grow cannabis in a cooperative [11.03.2011] | The Dutch city of Utrecht wants cannabis smokers to grow their own marijuana in a cooperative, a move which would go against the Netherlands' drive t ... |
| On the Frontline of Northeast India [01.03.2011] | Conflict and underdevelopment in the region have contributed to drug consumption and production, and are hampering access to treatment, care and supp ... |
| Washington state should lead on marijuana legalization [16.02.2011] | Marijuana prohibition is more than a practical failure; it has been a misuse of both taxpayer dollars and the government's authority over the people. ... |
| Drug War Anniversary a Time for Reflection and Action [11.02.2011] | Some anniversaries provide an occasion for celebration, others a time for reflection, still others a time for action. This June will mark forty years ... |
| Happy toking [10.02.2011] | This week’s Economist-YouGov poll contains some exciting news for devotees of the weed. A huge majority of Americans, more than two to one once don’t ... |
| The Prospects for Drug Reform: California [09.02.2011] | The West Coast is a different world when it comes to progress on drug policy reform. Three of the four states most likely to see strong pushes for ma ... |
| Foreign potheads seek alternatives to Dutch coffee shop [06.02.2011] | Learning to grow their own weed or finding a dealer: French and Belgian potheads are seeking alternatives to the famous Dutch coffee shop as The Hagu ... |
| The development of international drug control [01.02.2011] | The emergence of more pragmatic and less punitive approaches to the drugs issue may represent the beginning of change in the current global drug cont ... |
| Wash. politician proposes selling pot in liquor stores [29.01.2011] | A Washington State Democrat has introduced a bill to legalize marijuana and sell it in liquor stores. Rep. Mary Lou Dickerson filed House Bill 1550 o ... |
| Cannabis social clubs in Spain [24.01.2011] | Cannabis social clubs (CSC) are noncommercial organisations of users who get together to cultivate and distribute enough cannabis to meet their perso ... |
| Marijuana advocates debate a new legalization effort [03.01.2011] | The campaign for Proposition 19, which lost 54% to 46% in November, wants to start drafting a new initiative in the spring and to complete it by July ... |
| Cannabis Social Clubs en Espagne [01.01.2011] | Les Clubs Sociaux du Cannabis (CSC) sont des associations d’usagers qui s’organisent pour s’auto-approvisionner sans avoir recours au marché noir. Pr ... |
| Cannabis clubs plug a gap in Spanish drugs laws [28.12.2010] | Private cannabis clubs are at the vanguard of a new movement of pro-cannabis campaigners in Spain. The members spotted a gap in Spain's drugs laws wh ... |
| Juries are giving pot defendants a pass [24.12.2010] | Prosecutors say they are increasingly mindful of as marijuana use wins growing legal and public tolerance: Some jurors may be reluctant to convict fo ... |
| Court backs Dutch ruling on coffee shops [16.12.2010] | The European Court of Justice (ECJ) said that a municipal regulation imposed by the city of Maastricht prohibiting local coffee-shop owners from admi ... |
| Non-residents in the Netherlands and access to coffee-shops [16.12.2010] | Under the 1976 Law on opium (Opiumwet 1976), the possession, dealing, cultivation, transportation, production, import and export of narcotic drugs, i ... |
| One toke over the line [16.12.2010] | After an annual survey of teen drug use nationwide found that marijuana smoking is on the rise among eighth- through 12th-graders, Kerlikowske attrib ... |
| Calif. Pot Proponents Gird for 2012 [28.11.2010] | Despite Proposition 19's loss at the polls this month, marijuana-legalization advocates in California are already working on their comeback plan for ... |
| Liberal Dutch marijuana policy taking another hit? [18.11.2010] | The new conservative Dutch government wants to force the country's marijuana cafes to become "members only" clubs, a move that would effectively bloc ... |
| A hunger strike divides Switzerland [17.11.2010] | Imprisoned cannabis farmer Bernard Rappaz has been on hunger strike for more than 80 days in protest at a prison sentence he considers too high. Doct ... |
| Legal marijuana: Not if, but when [16.11.2010] | One might have expected the principals of the Proposition 19 campaign to partially decriminalize marijuana possession and use to be a little chagrine ... |
| Prop. 19 Failure Means Advocates Have Clean Slate [16.11.2010] | Drug use and abuse are social and pubic health issues. But these drug laws started as purity laws in a progressive effort to stop pharmaceutical comp ... |
| Prop 19 was only the beginning… [15.11.2010] | An interesting blog on Calitics, a leading progressive community blog for California politics: California voters came out in droves to support Propos ... |
| Voters approve Arizona medical marijuana measure [14.11.2010] | By a narrow margin, Arizona voters have given their OK to legalized medical marijuana for people with chronic or debilitating diseases. The decision ... |
| Backers of Legal Marijuana Find Silver Lining in Defeat of California Measure [13.11.2010] | Proposition 19, which would have legalized in California, received more votes than the Republican nominee for governor. It also received untold news ... |
| U.S. appeals court judge endorses legal marijuana [10.11.2010] | A U.S. federal appeals court judge says the United States should consider legalizing marijuana. Judge Juan Torruella tells a law school audience in P ... |
| What should we do about cannabis? [09.11.2010] | No serious commentator doubts that cannabis is potentially damaging to the user. Like tobacco, it is typically smoked and thus shares the potential f ... |
| Pot legalization advocates are undeterred by the defeat of Prop. 19 [07.11.2010] | Despite Proposition 19's loss at the polls last week, marijuana legalization advocates in California are already working on their comeback plan for 2 ... |
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