International Cannabis News
International cannabis hemp news in general gathered from all different sources and everywhere by the cannabis community and our cannabis news bot.
5,348 topics in this forum
-
-
- 420 Crew
- 1 reply
- 847 views
DEA UK [a very looooooong read, but very interesting none-the-less] A Statement from the Drug Equality Alliance (DEA) We believe the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 c.38 (“the Act”) is being administered in an arbitrary and discriminatory manner based on historical and cultural factors that lack a consistent and objective basis contrary to Article 14 and within the ambit of other convention rights. This denies equal protection to persons engaged in property activities with “controlled drugs”, s2(1)[a], with respect to persons engaged in identical property activities with the drugs alcohol and tobacco. At the outset, it is vital to bear in mind these facts about the Act: ·…
Last reply by WantDaChronic, -
-
- 3 replies
- 970 views
22/11/08 Copyright © 2008 The Press Association. All rights reserved Amsterdam will close almost a fifth of its marijuana cafes to comply with a national ban on having them near schools, the city's mayor said. Another city, Eindhoven, said it would start issuing permits to cannabis growers in order to better regulate the trade - if the national government approves. The plans were announced as 33 major Dutch cities held a "weed summit" to discuss the nation's long-standing policy of tolerating marijuana use while routinely arresting growers. Cannabis is technically illegal in the Netherlands, but can be sold in small amounts in designated cafes - euphemistically …
Last reply by Major Overgrow, -
-
- 420 Crew
- 7 replies
- 1.1k views
The first time I read this I thought the journalist was taking the piss, then I scroll down to see the comments and read that the journalist was not being sarcastic at all. http://newmatilda.com/2008/04/04/innocent-...tial-smackheads There has been some comment lately about the rights and wrongs of drug testing in schools. A new report has found that it would be a rather costly and pointless exercise, but this has not ended the argument. Miranda Devine is one who comes down firmly on the pro-testing side. Devine says some of our "most powerful tools" in the fight against drugs are "judgmental and intolerant adults", and she should be commended for sticking to her area…
Last reply by WantDaChronic, -
-
- 0 replies
- 691 views
HEATHER SOKOLOFF AND JOSH WINGROVE From Thursday's Globe and Mail November 20, 2008 at 4:20 AM EST http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/sto...eandHealth/home © Copyright 2008 CTVglobemedia Publishing Inc. All Rights Reserved Small doses of marijuana improve the function of aging brains, scientists find Turns out a few dances with Mary Jane can do wonders for an aging brain. Yes, a daily toke in later-middle and old age can help slow memory loss, or the onset of diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and multiple sclerosis, a new study suggests. It's a pre-emptive strike, one not effective at reversing previous memory loss. But aging boomers still shouldn'…
Last reply by kiwi_farmer, -
-
- 420 Crew
- 1 reply
- 956 views
Thursday November 20th, 2008 http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/city/article/486711 © 2008 CanadaEast Interactive, Brunswick News Inc. All rights reserved HAMMONDVALE - Even the RCMP officers responsible for catching local drug dealers were stumped by a find they made in Hammondvale last month. No longer are high-inducing baked goods limited to hash brownies. The District 3 RCMP plain clothes unit executed a warrant at a residence in the rural community outside Sussex on Oct. 22, and in an earlier press release revealed the significant seizure. The bust netted about five pounds of marijuana, hash oil, the painkiller OxyContin, scales and marijuana growing e…
Last reply by WantDaChronic, -
-
- 4 replies
- 911 views
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,454971,00.html © 2008 FOX News Network, LLC. All rights reserved SACRAMENTO — State and federal drug enforcement officials say they have pulled more than 5 million marijuana plants from public and private land this year, a record amount. The state Department of Justice, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and other agencies announced Wednesday that they have seized 5.2 million marijuana plants. Most of those were on public land. John Gaines, chief of California's Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement, says more than half the nation's domestically produced marijuana is grown in California. State and fede…
Last reply by Major Overgrow, -
- 0 replies
- 643 views
Bulletin on Drug Policies THE RIGHT TO HEALTH While those who can are starting to enjoy the fruits of their last harvest, others continue being denied even the right of access to what is to them an essential source of well-being. The criminalization of plants whose therapeutic value is well recognized is causing the most extreme contradictions between laws, their interpretation, reality and the right to health. This problem is widespread all over Europe, where a citizen doesn’t seem to be allowed to use a plant for his own personal well-being, if in fact that plant is included among those that are declared illegal ("controlled") by International Conventions. On the cont…
Last reply by Dragonfan, -
- 4 replies
- 947 views
ENCOD MORE THAN HALF OF DUTCH LORD MAYORS WANT TO LEGALISE CANNABIS published Wednesday 19 November 2008 by encod Lord mayors in favour of legalising soft drugs chain - Source: Binnenlands Bestuur, 19 November 2008 More than half of all Dutch lord mayors with one or more coffeeshops on their territory, want to legalise the entire soft drugs-chain. The lord mayors want to get rid of the "frontdoor - backdoor problem, created by a policy that tolerates the sale of weed, but not the production and delivery. That is the result of a telephone survey of weekly magazine Binnenlands Bestuur (Domestic Administration) among the 106 municipalities that have one or more coff…
Last reply by Major Overgrow, -
- 0 replies
- 609 views
AlterNet By Paul Armentano, NORML. Posted November 17, 2008 According to a new report released by the Centers for Disease Control, fewer Americans are smoking cigarettes than at any time in modern history. "The number of U.S. adults who smoke has dropped below 20 percent for the first time on record," Reuters reported. This is less than half the percentage (42 percent) of Americans who smoked cigarettes during the 1960s. Imagine that. In the past 40 years, tens of millions of Americans have voluntarily quit smoking a legal, yet highly addictive intoxicant. Many others have refused to initiate the habit. And they've all made this decision without ever once being threat…
Last reply by Dragonfan, -
- 0 replies
- 691 views
AlterNet DrugReporter [sorry it's such a loooooooooong read] By Vince Beiser, Miller-McCune Magazine. Posted November 18, 2008. On a chilly, overcast morning in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, a steady trickle of sallow-faced drug addicts shambles up to a storefront painted with flowers and the words "Welcome to Insite." One by one, they ring the doorbell and are buzzed into a tidy reception area staffed by smiling volunteers. The junkies come here almost around the clock, seven days a week. Some just grab a fistful of clean syringes from one of the buckets by the door and head out again. But about 600 times a day, others walk in with pocketfuls of heroin, cocai…
Last reply by Dragonfan, -
-
- 420 Crew
- 1 reply
- 659 views
examiner.com November 18 J.D. Tuccille Norm Stamper is the former Seattle Police Chief, a position he held from 1994 through 2000. So he'd seem to be an unlikely person to advocate drug legalization. But that's exactly what he's done time and again, drawing off his 34 years of police experience, and his knowledge of the failures of the war on drugs. In 2005, he wrote the following words for the Los Angeles Times: Sometimes people in law enforcement will hear it whispered that I'm a former cop who favors decriminalization of marijuana laws, and they'll approach me the way they might a traitor or snitch. So let me set the record straight. Yes, I was a cop for 34 year…
Last reply by Frazz, -
-
-
- 420 Crew
- 2 replies
- 700 views
Otago Daily Times Wed, 19 Nov 2008 A man who refused a drug test and was sacked from a meat processing plant has lost his claim for unjustified dismissal. Jonathon Parker took his employer Silver Fern Farms Ltd, owners of the Oringi plant near Dannevirke, to the Employment Relations Authority. Mr Parker worked at the plant from February 2002 until his dismissal on December 7, 2007. He was a union member and there were no warnings or disciplinary issues in respect to his performance before he was sacked. Because of concerns about drug use, the union and the company management had agreed on a drug testing policy which was introduced in January 2007. A key theme of the po…
Last reply by bufo marinus, -
-
-
- 420 Crew
- 4 replies
- 944 views
The Beckley Foundation Policy Programme - Reacting to concerns that international drug policy debates are insufficiently informed by the growing evidence base, the Beckley Foundation directs a programme of research and policy analysis. In spite of 40 years of prohibition, drugs are cheaper, purer and more widely avaialble than ever before. The Beckley Foundation Drug Policy Programme (BFDPP) was set up to develop a scientifically-evaluated evidence base, and provide a rigorous, independent review of current global drug policy. It aims to cast light on the current dilemmas facing policymakers within governments and international agencies, and to work with them in order to …
Last reply by freddie, -
-
-
- 420 Crew
- 2 replies
- 817 views
Dutch drug policy shaken by coffeeshop closures -------------------------------------------------------- Author: Robert Chesal Date: 24-10-2008 Source: Radio Netherlands Worldwide Copyright: Radio Netherlands Worldwide 2008 Two southern Dutch town mayors have taken the dramatic step of shutting down all local businesses currently legally selling cannabis. It's the first time a blanket stop has been introduced in a Dutch town. The two towns, Bergen op Zoom and Roosendaal, claim they are suffering from the nuisance caused by foreign tourists in search of soft drugs banned in their own countries. In total eight coffeeshops, the name used f…
Last reply by Major Overgrow, -
-
- 0 replies
- 746 views
The Washington Times Jacob Sullum Saturday, November 15, 2008 Last week, voters in Massachusetts approved a ballot initiative that eliminates criminal penalties for possessing up to an ounce of marijuana, replacing them with a $100 civil fine. Michigan, meanwhile, became the 13th state to allow the medical use of cannabis. As Bruce Mirken of the Marijuana Policy Project noted, the percentage of voters approving those initiatives (65 and 63, respectively) exceeded Barack Obama's share of the vote in each state. Furthermore, the results in Massachusetts and Michigan seem to reflect national opinion. For years polls have indicated that a large majority of Americans t…
Last reply by Dragonfan,