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Items tagged with decriminalization

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Cannabis taxation: a win-win all round, Richard Branson tells MPs [24-01-12] The market for cannabis in Britain should be regulated and taxed, and responsibility for drug policy moved from the Home Office to the health depart...
It’s time to end the failed war on drugs [23-01-12] After 50 years of the failed drug war, it is time for today’s leaders to find the courage to speak out. For all the successes I’ve had in busine...
Copenhagen wants controlled cannabis shops [09-01-12] The Copenhagen City Council is pushing ahead with a proposal to decriminalise cannabis, and has set up a committee to investigate the best way to regu...
Drugs bill goes to Parliament [09-01-12] Draft legislation that foresees the decriminalization of the possession of small quantities of drugs for personal use but the leveling of criminal c...
Towards a smarter drugs policy [07-01-12] The loudest voices in US drug policy debates call either for enforcing prohibition with ever-increasing ferocity or for giving up altogether by letti...
A resounding success or a disastrous failure [05-01-12] Two observers and scholars of the 2001 Portuguese drug policy reform consider divergent accounts of the reform which viewed it as a ‘resounding succes...
Drug Policy in the Andes [15-12-11] Fifty years after signing the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and 40 years after the U.S. government declared a "war on drugs,...
Sanctionner l'usage de stupéfiants par une contravention? [07-12-11] Actuellement, l'usage de stupéfiants est puni d'une amende maximale de 3 750 euros et d'un an d'emprisonnement. Une proposition de...
The politics of pot [01-12-11] Polls show overwhelming support for amending the laws. In fact, 50 percent of Americans—the largest portion ever recorded—now favor legalizing marij...
It's time to end the phoney war on drugs [29-11-11] We are supposedly engaged in a "war on drugs." What war on drugs? A phoney war, because it provokes that which it proclaims to repress. Take...
Portugal and the drug war [23-11-11] Portuguese drug policy and the drug treatment system are not without challenges and problems. No system is perfect and operates within a constantly ...
Legal marijuana gets one step closer [21-11-11] A committee has now been established to determine the best way to legalise the sale of hashish, with special stores owned by the council presenting i...
Extraordinary General Assembly of Cannabis Users Association Pannagh [19-11-11] The General Assembly of Cannabis Users Association Pannagh denounces the disproportionate intervention of the Municipal Police of Bilbao against th...
Why is it only 'formers' who want to talk about drugs? [18-11-11] Former head of MI5 Eliza Manningham-Buller today joins an increasingly long list of "formers" and "exes" who have publicly conde...
Ex-head of MI5 calls on government to decriminalise and regulate cannabis [17-11-11] The former head of MI5 believes the "war on drugs" has proved fruitless and it is time to consider decriminalising the possession and use of...
Swiss cannabis smokers will be allowed to grow four marijuana plants each [17-11-11] Cannabis smokers in Switzerland will soon be allowed to grow up to four marijuana plants each at home to stop them buying drugs on the black market. ...
Minister considers Portuguese drugs strategy [04-11-11] Junior Health Minister Roisin Shortall, who is in charge of Ireland’s drugs strategy, said she had an "open mind" in relation to Portugal’s ...
Decriminalize pot, aldermen urge — but mayor says not so fast [03-11-11] Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Wednesday he would not be rushed into decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana because doing so creates its ...
Cash-strapped Chicago mulls easing marijuana law [02-11-11] Alderman Danny Solis introduced an ordinance to the City Council that would make possession of small amounts of marijuana a ticketable offense with a...
Chicago’s pot dilemma: Should marijuana users just be ticketed? [01-11-11] Last year, Chicago Police officers arrested more than 23,000 people on misdemeanor marijuana charges, and most of those cases were dropped. From 200...
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