Items tagged with thresholds
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| It's official: recreational cannabis reform is now law [18.12.2021] | A bill to allow recreational cannabis use has been signed by President George Vella and is now part of Maltese law. Legal Notice 478 notes that the A ... |
| Cannabis bill approved in parliament, in first for Europe [14.12.2021] | Parliament approved a cannabis law that will allow users to carry, buy and grow amounts of the drug, making Malta the first European country to intro ... |
| Cannabis reform is one vote away from becoming law [30.11.2021] | The cannabis reform bill in Malta is one step away from being passed in parliament after it cleared committee stage. In a four-hour-long sitting MPs ... |
| Getting closer! Final stage before Malta’s cannabis reform becomes law to start next week [23.11.2021] | It’s looking ever more likely that Malta will pass a landmark cannabis reform bill into law. The bill passed its second reading (the debate stage) in ... |
| Ouvertures sur le cannabis : «Une solution insuffisante» [26.10.2021] | En Luxembourg chaque ménage sera autorisé à cultiver quatre plants. Il revient par contre aussi sur l’annonce en grande pompe de la légalisation du c ... |
| No smoking allowed: An early look inside Malta’s planned cannabis associations [23.10.2021] | Malta will soon allow people to purchase weed from “cannabis associations”, an exciting step forward for the country’s long-suffering cannabis commun ... |
| Government scales back legal cannabis plans in policy revamp [22.10.2021] | Luxembourg's governing coalition continues to drag its feet on fulfilling its election promise to legalise the production and sale of cannabis, but c ... |
| Cannabis legalisation will allow regulated associations and home growing of plants [06.10.2021] | Under proposed cannabis legalisation in Malta, non-profit associations can grow cannabis to distribute among their members, Equality Minister Owen Bo ... |
| Owen Bonnici presents first reading on cannabis reform [04.10.2021] | The minister for reforms Owen Bonnici has tabled the first reading of Malta's government proposed cannabis reform. Taking to Twitter, Bonnici said th ... |
| Drugs Commissioner: Possession of six grams of cannabis should no longer be a criminal offence [23.08.2021] | The Federal Commissioner on Narcotic Drugs, Daniela Ludwig (CSU), advocates that in future the possession of cannabis up to a personal use limit of s ... |
| Cannabis reform: possession up to 7g, cultivation of four plants at home [30.03.2021] | Prime Minister Robert Abela of Malta launched a public consultation process on a White Paper to strengthen the legal framework on the repsonsible use ... |
| Mexico’s lower house approves recreational cannabis bill [11.03.2021] | Mexico’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 ... |
| Norway seeks to decriminalise recreational drug use [19.02.2021] | Norway's government proposed a bill aimed at decriminalising the possession and use of small amounts of narcotics, saying users should be offered tre ... |
| Mexican Senate committees approve marijuana legalization bill with floor vote planned soon [13.11.2020] | Several Mexican Senate committees on Friday tentatively approved a revised bill to legalize marijuana during a joint hearing, with a formal in-person ... |
| Dominica parliament amends marijuana legislation [27.10.2020] | The Dominica parliament approved the amendment to the Drugs Prevention Misuse Act even as government legislators urged that the passage of the bill s ... |
| Cannabis Bill carries harsh penalties [14.08.2020] | If a person is found with more than 1kg of dried cannabis or nine flowering plants they could be jailed for up to 15 years. These are just some of th ... |
| Here are the new cannabis rules proposed for South Africa – including limits, penalties and criminal records [11.08.2020] | Justice and Correctional Services minister Ronald Lamola has published the draft Cannabis for Private Purposes Bill. The bill will give effect to the ... |
| Cannabis legalization bill clears first hurdle [21.06.2020] | A bill to legalize cannabis use in Israel was approved by the Ministerial Committee for Legislation, passing its first hurdle on the way to becoming ... |
| Government reveals cannabis referendum legalisation details [01.05.2020] | Proposed cannabis legalisation will ban items designed to appeal to young people, set a four-year prison term for selling to under 20-year-olds and a ... |
| Bremen lockert Grenzwerte für Cannabis [06.03.2020] | Wer in Bremen bis zu zehn Gramm Cannabis für den Eigenkonsum in der Tasche hat, wird ab April nicht mehr strafrechtlich verfolgt. Bei bis zu 15 Gramm ... |
| Canberrans can now grow and smoke cannabis, though some questions remain unanswered [31.01.2020] | Canberrans can now grow dope, keep a small amount of the drug at home and smoke it without fear of committing a criminal offence … kind of. Friday ma ... |
| Marijuana commission greenlights recreational and medicinal usage [23.12.2019] | The Bahamas National Commission on Marijuana has green-lighted recreational and medicinal marijuana, insisting that Bahamians should own 51 percent o ... |
| German drug czar pushes for uniform cannabis laws [17.12.2019] | Cannabis is illegal in Germany, but each state has different regulations on how much is allowed for personal possession. Germany's drug commissioner ... |
| Brazilian court decision could encourage other cannabis companies to seek approval for cultivation [06.12.2019] | After Brazil’s health authority shelved a proposal on domestic cannabis cultivation, a court decided in the opposite direction, allowing – for the fi ... |
| Mexico: president-elect Amlo's party moves toward marijuana legalization [08.11.2018] | The party of Mexico’s president-elect has submitted legislation to legalize the possession, public use, growth and sale of marijuana in what would be ... |
| 5 facts about cannabis laws in Germany [10.03.2018] | Germany's drug laws have evolved over the past 30 years, with punishments becoming more severe, and, paradoxically, the definition of "drug offender" ... |
| 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, ... |
| Mexico's president may have been bluffing about his support for weed decriminalization [19.06.2016] | The sudden derailing of much-anticipated reforms to legalize medical marijuana in Mexico, as well as raise the possession threshold, has raised doubt ... |
| Mexico's president proposes legalising medical marijuana [21.04.2016] | Following his statement at the United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) in which he called for more prevention, partial decriminaliza ... |
| Colombia’s Supreme Court removes cap on legal amount of drugs [14.03.2016] | Colombia’s Supreme Court has overruled a previous ruling in which it had set a maximum amount of marijuana a person can carry. The latest sentence ma ... |
| Colombia decriminalizes marijuana cultivation up to 20 plants [11.08.2015] | Colombia’s Supreme Court ruled that growing up to 20 plants of marijuana is not a crime. The possession of small amounts of the drug had already been ... |
| Drug policy and incarceration in São Paulo, Brazil [14.06.2015] | This briefing paper analyses the impact of drug policy on incarceration in São Paulo (Brazil), based on information collected among 1,040 people caug ... |
| Ganja law needs police support, says Golding [30.05.2015] | Minister of Justice Senator Mark Golding, says that the success of recent changes to the Dangerous Drugs Act, accommodating decriminalising possessio ... |
| The path to legalizing marijuana in Chile [19.04.2015] | Chile’s Congressional Health Committee approved a bill that would modify the country’s current drug law, known as Law 20,000. The bill would allow up ... |
| Im Görlitzer Park wird weiter gedealt [08.04.2015] | Seit dem 31. März gilt im Görlitzer Park die Null- Toleranz-Regelung. Wer mit kleinsten Mengen Marihuana oder Haschisch erwischt wird, muss mit einer ... |
| Das sind die Cannabis-Pläne der Grünen [19.03.2015] | Der Entwurf der Grünen für ein Cannabiskontrollgesetz wird in erster Lesung im Bundestag behandelt. Er sieht vor, dass Erwachsene künftig 30 Gramm Ca ... |
| Null Gramm Toleranz im Görlitzer Park [13.01.2015] | Kiffer in Berlin dürfen weiterhin bis zu 15 Gramm Cannabis für den Eigenbedarf dabei haben, ohne strafrechtlich verfolgt zu werden – jedoch nicht meh ... |
| Cannabis umnebelt die Koalition [25.11.2014] | In der Großen Koalition in Berlin ist eine Debatte um die zulässige Menge für Eigenkonsum von Cannabis entbrannt. Die CDU will das Limit auf sechs Gr ... |
| Mexico City lawmakers propose legalizing sale of marijuana, regulating production in capital [12.02.2014] | Lawmakers proposed allowing the sale of marijuana within Mexico City. The local legislature controlled by the leftist Democratic Revolution Party is ... |
| Know your limit: Germany seeks uniform law on marijuana [24.05.2013] | The laws regarding cannabis possession in Germany are nothing if not confusing. It is illegal to possess or consume marijuana. Except that carrying a ... |
| Cannabis pass abolished? Not really [30.10.2012] | The new coalition government of conservative liberals (VVD) and social-democrats (PvdA) presented its coalition agreement on Monday. They agreed to a ... |
| How to determine personal use in drug legislation [23.08.2011] | Distinguishing between drug possession for personal use and supply and trafficking is widely acknowledged as one of the most difficult and controvers ... |
| Conviction by Numbers [27.05.2011] | Threshold quantities (TQs) for drug law and policy are being experimented with across many jurisdictions. States seem attracted to their apparent sim ... |
| TNI-EMCDDA Expert Seminar on Threshold Quantities [20.01.2011] | A wider trend for drug law reform is arising out of a felt need to make legislation more effective and more humane. Within this trend, a number of co ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| New drug guidelines are Europe's most liberal [23.12.2009] | Long known for a liberal policy on drugs, the Czech Republic is now officially quantifying its status as one of European Union's most lenient member ... |
| Mexico: The Law Against Small-Scale Drug Dealing [01.10.2009] | In August 2009, Mexico adopted a new law against small-scale drug dealing, which introduces some significant advances in key subjects, such as the re ... |
| On the threshold [01.12.2008] | This paper offers a critique of the UK Government’s decision to abandon its former plans to introduce thresholds into drugs legislation via section 2 ... |
| The role of the quantity in the prosecution of drug offences [01.04.2003] | All countries use legal or judicial means to grade the severity of the offence of drug possession and related actions. Frequently this is done by ref ... |
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