The IRS is trying to get its hands on Colorado’s Marijuana Enforcement Tracking Reporting Compliance, or METRC, a system that follows every marijuana plant from seed to sale. The agency wants annual gross sales reports for 2014 and 2015 –but, apparently, also information about customers of Rifle Remedies. Though properly licensed in Colorado to sell…
Inside a previously unremarkable circle of grass about 10 metres in diameter, a bold new precedent for drugs policy was set in the UK. Pitched on the grass at the Secret Garden Party festival in Cambridgeshire, was a tent run by The Loop, a not for profit drug and alcohol service. For those few days…
The federal government named Logan in Queensland as its second site for its drug-testing trial of new unemployment recipients from 2018 on Wednesday, drawing the ire of the local mayor. The Victorian government slammed the program when it was announced earlier this year and Premier Daniel Andrews says his stance has not changed. “I think…
HB 2355 applies to people found with any amount of cocaine or methamphetamine under two grams, any amount of heroin under one gram, any amount of oxycodone under 40 pills, any amount of MDMA ― also known as ecstasy ― under one gram or under five pills, and any amount of LSD under 40 units…
A bill signed by Gov. Kate Brown on Tuesday (August 15th, 2017) makes personal-use possession of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and other drugs a misdemeanor, not a felony. Oregon joined just a handful of other U.S. states in defelonizing drugs under the new law, which was supported by law enforcement groups and takes effect immediately. Original…
The new law takes effect immediately. (August 16th, 2017) *Link “It’s a great recognition of the fact that we don’t need to further criminalize and turn people into felons over substance abuse, mental health addiction — problems like that,” public defender Aaron Jeffers said Wednesday. “I think the hope is that this will open up the opportunity to…
The poor quality of research-grade marijuana is skewing the results of cannabis research, according to a report released earlier this year by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM). “Because of restrictions on production and vicissitudes in supply and demand, federally produced cannabis may have been harvested years earlier, is stored in a…
*slums in Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital ,where Indonesian President Joko Widodo has called for the execution of “suspects” Indonesia’s president, has instructed police to shoot suspected drug dealers. The rights group said Karnavian “should denounce the Philippines’ ‘war on drugs’ for what it truly is: a brutal, unlawful assault on the rule of law, human rights,…
A bipartisan group of Oregon lawmakers joined legislators from across the country on Monday (August 6th, 2017) in calling for the federal government to remove marijuana from the list of controlled drugs. The lawmakers’ vote to pass the resolution took place in Boston, at the National Conference of State Legislatures’ annual summit. If the federal…
Cannabis prohibition is a threat to public safety, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) – a bipartisan group that brings together lawmakers from across the country to coordinate lobbying campaigns. “[T]he National Conference of State Legislatures believes that the Controlled Substances Act should be amended to remove cannabis from scheduling,” the…
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