Tag: regulation

  • Uruguay leads world in cannabis regulation but US law intrudes

    Wednesday, 28 February 2018

    Uruguay was the first country in the world to fully regulate the cannabis market and so break free from a global prohibitionist regime that has prevailed for decades and is now under strain. The nati ...

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  • Tribes cut out of California pot market might grow their own

    Monday, 26 February 2018

    American Indian tribes that say they have been cut out of California's legal marijuana market have raised the possibility of going their own way by establishing pot businesses outside the state-regul ...

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  • Drugs should not be in the hands of organized crime

    Sunday, 25 February 2018

    Drug overdoses are one of the leading causes of death in the United States and are contributing to decline in life expectancy. The opioid epidemic has cost an estimated $1 trillion since 2001. And ye ...

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  • It’s about ‘harm-reduction’, not ‘recreational cannabis’

    Sunday, 25 February 2018

    Malta is poised to become a centre for the production of medical marijuana – while also relaxing its cannabis legislation further – after decades of a no-compromise, ‘zero tolerance’ policy towards a ...

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  • Entkriminalisierung von Cannabis: Theoretische Mehrheit im Bundestag

    Thursday, 22 February 2018

    Im Deutschen Bundestag besteht eine theoretische Mehrheit, die die Entkriminalisierung des Cannabiskonsums vorantreiben will. Die Bundestagsfraktionen von FDP, Linken und Grünen stellen ihre Vorschlä ...

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  • How New Zealand laws contributed to a synthetic drug crisis

    Wednesday, 21 February 2018

    Had things gone another way, the Psychoactive Substances Act (PSA) might be the grand pillar of Peter Dunne’s parliamentary legacy, a test case for the world to watch. Unfortunately for Dunne, as it ...

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  • Report: 99% of California cannabis growers are still unlicensed

    Monday, 19 February 2018

    The backers of Prop. 64, the 2016 Adult Use of Marijuana Act, sold California voters on the promise that small and medium businesses would be the engine powering the state’s $7 billion legal cannabis ...

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  • Marijuana producers enter retail race as legalization looms

    Sunday, 11 February 2018

    As the race to produce enough cannabis for the soon-to-be-legal market gets increasingly crowded, licensed producers are setting their sights on the next frontier in the race for maximum pot profitab ...

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  • Marijuana legalization could be delayed beyond July 1, government officials say

    Tuesday, 06 February 2018

    Federal officials are predicting the legalization of cannabis will only occur two to three months after Bill C-45 is adopted by Parliament, in order to ensure a smooth transition to an open market fo ...

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  • Big Sur’s legendary weed growers being left behind in legal era

    Monday, 05 February 2018

    For decades, hidden in creases of the wild and rugged Santa Lucia Mountains, farmers have eked out a living growing some of the nation’s most esteemed cannabis, hanging onto the hope that someday the ...

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  • Vente de cannabis: le National prend les devants

    Friday, 26 January 2018

    Des projets pilotes de distribution de cannabis devraient pouvoir être menés. Après le niet de la Confédération, la commission de la santé publique du National prend les devants. Par 13 voix contre 6 ...

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  • Marijuana addiction is real, and teenage users are most at risk

    Monday, 15 January 2018

    Cases of substance-use disorders are exactly what the federal government is hoping to avoid in its push to legalize recreational marijuana, and they may be the biggest test of whether legalization is ...

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    teen use | substance-use disorder | canada | legalization | regulation | cannabis
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  • Elio Di Rupo en faveur des cultures communales de cannabis

    Thursday, 11 January 2018

    Produire du cannabis et le distribuer aux consommateurs sous contrôle des communes. La mesure a été adoptée aux Pays-Bas suite à l’accord du gouvernement Rutte III. En Belgique, le président du PS et ...

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  • Investors are delusional when it comes to Canadian marijuana companies

    Wednesday, 10 January 2018

    As the July deadline for the provinces to legalize marijuana approaches, the stock prices of Canadian publicly-traded weed producers have been on a tear. On Monday alone shares in Canopy Growth Corp. ...

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  • New Hampshire lawmakers approve marijuana legalization

    Tuesday, 09 January 2018

    The New Hampshire House of Representatives voted to legalize marijuana, five days after the Trump administration moved to rescind federal guidelines protecting state cannabis laws. Under the bill, wh ...

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  • How legalization is already hurting California's small pot farmers

    Monday, 08 January 2018

    Legality is more nuanced than it may seem in a state that legalized weed. And California's mom-and-pop growers are up against a confluence of factors pushing them out of the industry: federal prohibi ...

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  • Vermont House votes to legalize marijuana

    Thursday, 04 January 2018

    The Vermont House passed a bill to legalize recreational possession of marijuana just hours after Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded a Department of Justice policy on legal marijuana. Lawmakers ...

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  • Kriminalbeamte fordern regulierten Marihuana-Markt

    Thursday, 04 January 2018

    Der Bund Deutscher Kriminalbeamter (BDK) hat sich für eine regulierte Legalisierung von Cannabis in Deutschland ausgesprochen. „Es ist an der Zeit, auch hier das Kiffen für Konsumenten vollständig zu ...

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  • The end of cannabis tolerance in Spain

    Tuesday, 02 January 2018

    After decades of relative tolerance towards Cannabis in Spain, the Constitutional Court decides that cannabis clubs are criminal. Years of government criminalizing strategy pay off. The national parl ...

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  • California rings in new year with broad legalization of marijuana

    Monday, 01 January 2018

    The arrival of the new year in California brought with it broad legalization of marijuana, a much-anticipated change that comes two decades after the state was the first to allow pot for medical use. ...

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  • Steve DeAngelo digs in

    Monday, 01 January 2018

    "We are looking in 2018 and 2019 at an extinction event for 75 percent of the existing cannabis industry in California," says cannabis activist/entrepreneur Steve DeAngelo of Harborside. For DeAngelo ...

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  • Hippy dream now a billion-dollar industry with California set to legalise cannabis

    Saturday, 30 December 2017

    On Monday, California, the US’s most populous state, and the world’s sixth biggest economy, will officially legalising cannabis. Overnight a shadow industry worth billions of dollars annually will em ...

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  • How Congress unwittingly turned the nation's capital into the Wild West of marijuana

    Friday, 29 December 2017

    It’s not the promise of prompt delivery that has residents of Washington, D.C., spending fifty bucks for nondescript glass jars, nor is it the small jars themselves. It is the unmentioned “gift” whic ...

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  • I grow pot in California for a living. I’m worried about legalization

    Friday, 29 December 2017

    As the daughter of a back-to-the-land homesteader and pot farmer, I learned never to speak of what my father did. We lived a simple life in times when only growing a few plants could sustain us. It’s ...

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  • Californian growers and retailers brace for cannabis competition

    Wednesday, 27 December 2017

    California has long been a cannabis pioneer. The state became a hub for the drug-induced counterculture of “turn on, tune in, drop out” of the 1960s, from hash-smoking hippies of Haight-Ashbury in Sa ...

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  • Dutch councils vie to produce cannabis in bid to cut out criminals

    Wednesday, 27 December 2017

    At least 30 companies want to get into the legal production of cannabis in the Netherlands, according to Paul Depla, the mayor of Breda, whose council is among two dozen vying to take part in governm ...

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    coffee shop | netherlands | regulation | cannabis
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  • California's top marijuana regulator talks about what to expect Jan. 1, when legal pot market opens

    Monday, 25 December 2017

    California's legal pot market opens for business on Jan. 1. The day will be a milestone, but what exactly will happen then and, especially, in the weeks and months to come is unclear. Lori Ajax, the ...

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  • With legalization ahead, nonprofit’s certification program will test businesses offering pot products

    Sunday, 24 December 2017

    Marijuana consumers are likely to have a flood of options when pot becomes legal next summer and now a not-for-profit group is stepping in to help determine which products to trust. The National Inst ...

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  • Marijuana doomsday didn't come

    Tuesday, 19 December 2017

    It's been a five years since Colorado's voters approved Constitutional Amendment 64, legalizing recreational marijuana in the state. Sales commenced four years ago this January. Although the amendmen ...

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  • Lawmakers, pot growers say California's marijuana cultivation rules favor big corporate farms

    Monday, 18 December 2017

    California’s new rules allowing marijuana cultivation favor large corporate farms despite a promise in Proposition 64 that small growers would be protected, according to a group of state lawmakers an ...

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  • Étude sur le cannabis: nouvelle demande

    Tuesday, 12 December 2017

    Les Villes de Berne, Bienne, Lucerne et Zurich examinent le dépôt de nouvelles demandes auprès de l’OFSP, après le rejet jugé «surprenant» de la demande d’autorisation de l’Université de Berne pour m ...

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  • How Uruguay made legal highs work

    Sunday, 10 December 2017

    Uruguay’s switch to a legal marijuana market has not been without its hitches. Notably the resistance of most pharmacists to act as outlets for the recreational marijuana (medical marijuana remains i ...

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  • California’s limit on big growers just vanished. Here’s why

    Wednesday, 06 December 2017

    In an unexpected move that has small cannabis farmers and some state lawmakers up in arms, California regulators have created a licensing loophole that could allow large-scale cannabis growers to ope ...

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  • Portugal’s radical drugs policy is working. Why hasn’t the world copied it?

    Tuesday, 05 December 2017

    In 2001, Portugal became the first country to decriminalise the possession and consumption of all illicit substances. Rather than being arrested, those caught with a personal supply might be given a ...

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    drug checking | HIV/AIDS | regulation | cannabis | drug consumption rooms | portugal | incarceration | harm reduction | decriminalization
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  • A taxing problem: how to price, tax legal weed to stamp out the black market

    Tuesday, 05 December 2017

    Stamping out the illicit market is one of Ottawa’s major goals as the country approaches a July 2018 deadline for the legalization of recreational marijuana — leaving politicians little time to lay o ...

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    canada | regulation | cannabis | US drug policy
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  • Legalization of marijuana unlikely to kill Canada’s black market right away

    Monday, 04 December 2017

    From texting a local dealer to dropping into a neighbourhood dispensary or ordering online, Canada’s black market for recreational marijuana has seen significant changes in recent years and will see ...

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    drug markets | canada | legalization | regulation | cannabis
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  • Légalisation du cannabis: oui de Berset aux études

    Monday, 04 December 2017

    L'Université de Berne pourrait être autorisée à mener son étude sur la vente légale de cannabis. L'Office fédéral de la santé publique (OFSP) est en train d'étudier comment compléter la loi actuelle ...

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  • Federal marijuana legislation approved by House of Commons, moves on to Senate

    Tuesday, 28 November 2017

    The federal government's plan to legalize marijuana by next summer is a step closer. Bill C-45 received final approval Monday in the House of Commons, passing by a vote of 200-82. It now moves to the ...

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    canada | legalization | regulation | cannabis
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  • Councils call for more experimental approach to cannabis production

    Monday, 27 November 2017

    Councils have pleaded with the Dutch government to give them more autonomy in their experiments with legal cannabis production rather than imposing a ‘one size fits all’ solution. The new government ...

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    pilot project | netherlands | regulation | cannabis
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  • Federal government proposes 'micro' cultivation licences for small growers, rolls out public cannabis consultation

    Tuesday, 21 November 2017

    The federal government has proposed a licensing program that could allow for more of B.C.'s 'micro' producers to be included in the legal mix. Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor announced the re ...

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  • Here are the new rules for legal marijuana in California, effective Jan. 1

    Friday, 17 November 2017

    Cannabis businesses in California can’t be within 600 feet of schools. Shops have to close by 10 p.m., and they need 24-hour video surveillance. Those regulations are in the new rule book for Califor ...

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  • Le coup de frein à la dépénalisation du cannabis fait tousser les experts

    Wednesday, 15 November 2017

    Pas question d’analyser les effets d’une vente régulée de cannabis sur les consommateurs et sur le marché illégal. L’Office fédéral de la santé publique (OFSP) a opposé son veto à l’Université de Ber ...

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    switzerland | regulation | cannabis
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  • Bern cannabis study rejected for legal reasons

    Tuesday, 14 November 2017

    The University of Bern cannot conduct a study on the effects of the regulated sale of cannabis in pharmacies on behalf of the city’s authorities. In a written reply the Federal Office of Public Healt ...

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    pilot project | switzerland | regulation | cannabis
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  • L'Uni de Berne ne pourra pas se servir de cannabis

    Tuesday, 14 November 2017

    Ce projet devait permettre d'étudier les effets de la régularisation de la vente de cannabis sur les consommateurs et sur le trafic de stupéfiants à Berne. D'autres villes comme Genève, Zurich, Bâle ...

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  • Don't 'bank' on ganja! - Lawmaker says J'cans might be clinging to false hopes

    Thursday, 09 November 2017

    The viability of Jamaica's legal ganja and hemp industry has been called into question, with lawmaker Marisa Dalrymple Philibert suggesting that Jamaicans might be clinging to false hope as there are ...

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    banking | jamaica | medical cannabis | regulation
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  • California proposes armored cars to transport pot tax money

    Tuesday, 07 November 2017

    California should use armored cars to transport hundreds of millions of dollars in cash tax payments expected next year with the state's legal marijuana market, the state treasurer said. The state on ...

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    taxation | banking | money laundering | california | legalization | regulation | cannabis | US drug policy
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  • Dutch councils queue up for regulated marijuana project

    Tuesday, 07 November 2017

    So far 25 of the Netherlands’ 380 local authorities have come forward to say they wish to take part in trials to regulate marijuana production. The new government plans to set up experiments to grow ...

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    coffee shop | netherlands | regulation | cannabis
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  • Les 500 000 fumeurs suisses de cannabis valent une fortune

    Sunday, 05 November 2017

    Le cannabis légal ? La bataille politique promet d’être âpre, mais les vents poussent en ce sens. Le succès commercial de l’herbe en vente légale, le CBD, malgré sa faible teneur en substance psychot ...

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    opinion polls | switzerland | regulation | cannabis
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  • Ready or not, recreational marijuana use is coming to Canada

    Saturday, 04 November 2017

    Proposing legislation to legalize the recreational use of marijuana was the easy part for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. With about eight months to go before Canada becomes the second nation after Ur ...

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    cannabis industry | canada | legalization | regulation | cannabis
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  • Canada government facing resistance from Senate over pot law

    Friday, 03 November 2017

    The Canadian government’s plan to legalize recreational marijuana by next July could be in jeopardy, with opposition brewing among some in the Senate and concerns that the deadline to pass the bill i ...

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