Author: Hazel Norman

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Brazil’s Supreme Court Decriminalizes Personal Cannabis Possession

Written by Hazel Norman on July 1, 2024. Posted in Policy.

Brazil’s top court issued a landmark ruling this week, determining that the nation’s cannabis prohibition policies toward individual consumers possessing a personal amount of cannabis are...

Mexico Regulators Authorize The Cultivation Of Low-THC Hemp

Written by Hazel Norman on June 24, 2024. Posted in Policy.

Mexico’s Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risks (COFEPRIS) has reportedly authorized the cultivation of low-THC hemp plants (less than 1% THC content). The announcement came...

Cannabis Pilot Trial Program Expands In The Netherlands

Written by Hazel Norman on June 24, 2024. Posted in Policy.

Regional cannabis commerce pilot trials are popping up in Europe, including in the Netherlands where the official launch of more pilot trials occurred in several municipalities this week. Trials first...

Italy’s Hemp Industry Seeks European Commission Intervention

Written by Hazel Norman on June 17, 2024. Posted in Business, Policy.

Much of Italy’s public cannabis policies are shaped by legal decisions. In late 2019, Italy’s Supreme Court ruled that laws against ‘small-scale domestic cultivation of cannabis’...

Thailand Issues Draft Regulation To Reclassify Cannabis As A Narcotic

Written by Hazel Norman on June 17, 2024. Posted in Policy.

Lawmakers in Thailand continue to move forward with their plan to reclassify cannabis as a narcotic, unveiling a draft regulation this week that would change the cannabis plant’s legal status....

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EMCDDA Releases The ‘European Drug Report 2024’

Written by Hazel Norman on June 17, 2024. Posted in Policy.

The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction has released its annual European Drug Report, in which it determines that cannabis “remains by far the most commonly consumed illicit...

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South Africa’s President Signs ‘Private Setting’ Cannabis Legalization Measure

Written by Hazel Norman on June 17, 2024. Posted in Policy.

Back in 2018, South Africa’s Constitutional Court issued a landmark ruling that deemed cannabis prohibition as it pertained to adult individuals to be unconstitutional. The 2018 decision stemmed...

Cannabis Shops In Thailand Expected To Close By April 2025

Written by Hazel Norman on May 13, 2024. Posted in Policy.

Thailand made a historic shift in cannabis policy in June 2022 by becoming the first country in the Southeast Asia region to remove cannabis from its national narcotics listing. It appears that policy...

Signature Drive In Switzerland Seeks To Legalize Cannabis For Adult-Use

Written by Hazel Norman on May 6, 2024. Posted in Policy.

Europe is currently home to three nations that have adopted a national adult-use cannabis legalization measure, and if cannabis advocates in Switzerland succeed in their effort, their country could...