Items tagged with cannabis

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U.S. marijuana laws ricochet through Latin America [07-01-13] Leaders from across Latin America responded within days of the Colorado and Washington vote, demanding a review of drug-war policies that have mired t...
Groups seek to influence new rules for growing, selling pot [06-01-13] The Washington state Liquor Control Board (LCB), charged with launching the world's first regulated marijuana market for social use, expects to b...
Rocky Mountain high: Pot a $200M industry in Colorado [05-01-13] Vigorous regulation of a thriving medical-marijuana industry in Colorado offers the best glimpse of what is coming to Washington when it launches its ...
Mexico considers marijuana legalization after ballot wins in U.S. [04-01-13] The success of legalization initiatives in Colorado and Washington has sparked a new conversation in a nation that is one of the world's top mari...
Racism's Hidden History in the War on Drugs [03-01-13] The first anti-drug law in the US was a local law in San Francisco passed in 1875, outlawing the smoking of opium and directed at the Chinese. Marijua...
Many towns have no plans to ban tourists from cannabis cafes [01-01-13] Tourists will not be banned from a majority of the Netherlands’ cannabis cafes, despite new residency requirements which came into effect on January 1...
Pro-marijuana campaign looks ahead after 2012 victories [30-12-12] After a decades-long campaign to legalize marijuana hit a high mark in 2012 with victories in Washington state and Colorado, its energized and deep-p...
Parts of Colorado's pot legalization strategy exported to other states [29-12-12] The sequential strategy will look familiar to Coloradans: first, pass a medical-marijuana law; then put dispensaries in place; then go for recreationa...
Les coopératives de cannabis sans but lucratif aspirent à la légalité [26-12-12] L'autoculture de cannabis croît et se multiplie. C'est la tendance observée par l'Observatoire français des drogues et des toxicomanies...
Canada could learn from Colorado and Washington on pot [25-12-12] The decision by voters in Colorado and Washington to legalize marijuana represents a seismic shift in public attitudes. This historic reform will only...
Uruguay postpones vote on 'state as dealer' approach to drug regulation - but not for long? [23-12-12] Uruguay has been on the vanguard of drug policy reform in the Americas, proposing a state regulatory market for the cultivation and consumption of mar...
Legalise ganja to treat HIV, cancer, doctors tell gov't [23-12-12] Marcus Day of the Caribbean Drug and Alcohol Research Institute believes the time has come for regional governments to legalise marijuana to counterac...
Reefer Madness Revisited [21-12-12] Rob Kampia, co-founder and executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP), has co-authored most of the medical marijuana laws on the books....
Marijuana, not yet legal for Californians, might as well be [20-12-12] Let Colorado and Washington be the marijuana trailblazers. Let them struggle with the messy details of what it means to actually legalize the drug. M...
The next seven states to legalize pot [18-12-12] By legalizing marijuana through direct democracy, Colorado and Washington have fundamentally changed the national conversation about cannabis. As many...
Britain has not simply fallen out of love with illegal drugs [18-12-12] "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" summed up the response from the Home Office, and later David Cameron, to the publication of the ...
Task force created to regulate legalized marijuana in Colorado [17-12-12] It has been a little over a month since Coloradans approved a groundbreaking law legalizing small amounts of marijuana for recreational use. Now that ...
President's pot comments prompt call for policy [15-12-12] President Barack Obama says he won't go after pot users in Colorado and Washington, two states that just legalized the drug for recreational use....
Federal government should allow states to sanction marijuana businesses [14-12-12] President Obama’s statement of tolerance toward legalized marijuana is welcome. The real question is not whether federal agents will go after users. I...
Marijuana not high Obama priority [14-12-12] President Obama says recreational users of marijuana in states that have legalized the substance should not be a "top priority" of federal l...

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