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Vote On Updated German Legalization Measure Expected This Week

Written by Johnny Green on December 3, 2023. Posted in Policy.

Over the course of the last week, lawmakers in Germany reportedly reached an agreement to make changes to an adult-use legalization measure that is working its way through the Bundestag process. According...

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EMCDDA And Europol Release 2023 EU Cannabis Market Analysis

Written by Johnny Green on November 27, 2023. Posted in Policy.

The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) recently published an analysis, ‘EU Drug Market: Cannabis.’ The analysis details consumption rates, production, seizures by law enforcement,...

Parliamentary Assembly Of Bosnia And Herzegovina Host Medical Cannabis Meeting

Written by Hazel Norman on November 27, 2023. Posted in Policy.

Medical cannabis reform has swept the European continent, with many countries already having medical cannabis programs up and running in some form. European medical cannabis programs fall on a spectrum...

Venezuela’s AG Is Wrong To Criticize Cannabis Reform Efforts

Written by Hazel Norman on November 27, 2023. Posted in Policy.

Cannabis modernization efforts are spreading across the globe, and where adult-use policies are already in place cannabis legalization is succeeding by every measure. Humans will always consume cannabis,...

Registration Opens For Cannabis Pilot Projects In Bern And Biel

Written by Hazel Norman on November 27, 2023. Posted in Policy.

Switzerland is home to a very interesting public policy experiment. In May 2021, an amendment to Switzerland’s Federal Narcotics Act went into effect which permitted adult-use cannabis commerce...

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Toronto City Councilor Wants Cannabis Fund Answers

Written by Johnny Green on November 27, 2023. Posted in Policy.

Canada is still the only G-7 nation on earth to pass a national adult-use cannabis legalization measure involving cannabis products that are not low in THC. In fact, the only other nation to pass a...

Japan’s Cannabis Policies Continue To Evolve

Written by Johnny Green on November 27, 2023. Posted in Policy.

You wouldn’t know it by listening to cannabis opponents in Japan, but the nation is home to one of the lowest cannabis usage rates on earth. Lately, it seems that cannabis opponents in Japan have...

No Changes Expected To Luxembourg’s New Cannabis Law

Written by Hazel Norman on November 20, 2023. Posted in Policy.

Luxembourg became the fourth nation to ever pass a national adult-use cannabis law when it did so earlier this year. Luxembourg joined its European counterpart, Malta, which passed a national measure...

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Legalization Measure Moves Forward In South Africa

Written by Hazel Norman on November 20, 2023. Posted in Policy.

In September 2018 South Africa’s Constitutional Court issued a landmark ruling in which it determined that cannabis prohibition as it pertains to individual rights was unconstitutional. The Court...