The Dutch government selected the first marijuana growers in Europe who will be legally authorized to cultivate the plant for commercial purposes as part of a pilot program. The Dutch Health and Justice ministers made the announcement in a letter to the country’s parliament. The 10 successful applicants out of [...]
In line with a recommendation from the World Health Organization (WHO), a United Nations drug panel narrowly voted to remove cannabis from the most restrictive scheduling category. Twenty-seven countries in the UN’s Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) favored deleting marijuana from Schedule IV of the 1961 Single Convention, while 25 [...]
Israel could legalize adult-use marijuana in nine months under a plan recommended by a government task force charged with evaluating the policy change. If that happened – and Mexico had not yet implemented its legalization plans – then Israel would become the third country in the world, after Uruguay and [...]
Preliminary results from New Zealand’s referendum on recreational marijuana legalization indicate the measure has been rejected by voters, though 17 percent of votes have yet to be counted. Of the votes cast on election night, 46 percent – 1,114,485 – were in favor of cannabis legalization while 53 percent – [...]
The Mexican Senate’s majority leader said the chamber is set to vote on a marijuana legalization bill before the end of October. Ricardo Monreal, Senate leader of the ruling MORENO party, said the bill – which would establish Mexico as the world’s largest legal cannabis market – is “likely to [...]
The hopes of marijuana reform advocates that New Zealand would become the third country after Uruguay and Canada to legalize recreational marijuana appear to be slipping away. The country is set to become the first in the world to decide on the measure through a national referendum on October 17, [...]
New Mexico’s legislature may not be in session but House and Senate lawmakers still met recently to hear what financial experts have to say about the potential economic impact of marijuana legalization in the state. The joint Interim Revenue Stabilization and Tax Policy Committee received forecasts from the Tax Foundation, [...]
Canadian law enforcement arrested four men who flew a helicopter at low altitude to smuggle cannabis across the US-Canada border. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Ontario and Quebec made the arrests as part of a 16-month joint investigation with US Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and Ontario Provincial Police into [...]
Cannabis tourism in Amsterdam could be one of the casualties of the COVID-19 pandemic. As coronavirus restrictions begin to loosen and borders start reopening, residents of Amsterdam are circulating a petition demanding that municipal authorities take steps to ensure mass tourism doesn’t return to the city’s streets. One of the [...]
More than one year on from legalizing adult-use marijuana in Canada, a comparison of surveys on marijuana use suggest consumption rates have largely remained steady, while more consumers are opting for the legal market over illicit sources. Canada became the second country in the world to legalize recreational marijuana in [...]