Sales of [cannabis] have overtaken alcohol in a city in Colorado, three years after the state became the first in the US to legalise recreational use of the [plant]. It is believed to be the first time legal marijuana sales have eclipsed those of alcohol anywhere in the US. A study by Georgia State University last year found…
As reported on Feb. 6th, 2018… Lesotho has become the first African country to permit the legal cultivation of cannabis – but the production of the drug has been restricted to two foreign-owned companies, while rural farmers and the wider population continue to be prohibited from harvesting their own. Cannabis – known as matekoane in Sotho, the main…
In the last few years, the US state marijuana legalization experiments have grown into a multi-billion dollar industry. But while companies build out multi-million dollar grow houses and edibles factories, huge numbers of people continue to face serious consequences for possessing negligible quantities. In 2016, there were almost 600,000 US marijuana arrests, more than for…
Eugene, OR. – Real Green or Just Real Estate? While communities all across the country lack adequate resources for treatment or prevention, we are spending approximately $50 billion a year on the war on drugs. That’s absurd. We need to get our priorities right … We need to stop criminalizing recreational marijuana use. Of course,…
“There were months of work getting ethics approval, designing the study, finding the instruments that we would use to collect psychometric data. Then, for four days, we were all holed up in a longhouse.” … In 2011, e was invited to an Indigenous community in a remote area of British Columbia. Working for the Centre…
The new penalties take effect today and will run for six months. They include a 30-day license suspension or a fine of $4,950. The Oregon Liquor Control Commission announced … that it was temporarily increasing penalties for pot shops that sell marijuana to minors. Previously the penalty was a 10-day license suspension or a $1,650…
According to the study, violent crime in such states has fallen by an average of 13% since legal cannabis was put on the books, and at even higher rates regarding homicide. Among U.S. states bordering Mexico that have medical marijuana laws (MMLs), they found that California saw the highest overall reduction in violent crime, at…
State Police Superintendent Travis Hampton told The Oregonian/OregonLive that he decided to halt most field testing in response to concerns raised by troopers. “This was simply a risk mitigation decision to protect our employees (and) their family members that may come in contact with their uniforms and the citizens that may accidentally be exposed to…
It said it acknowledged the “negative impact” of some drug use but added that prohibitionist policies “increased stigma”, telling political leaders not to “stoke fears” about drug use. It added that current laws treated people who use drugs as “sub-human, non-citizens and scapegoats for wider societal problems”. The Global Commission’s latest report advises political leaders…
In Toronto, safe injections sites are no longer illegal. One of the locations, which happens to be downtown, looks like a doctor office. It has an area that the user can “do their thing” while they have staff that watches them for any signs of trouble. Unlike other countries, in the United States doesn’t allow…
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