Topic: DRUGS - on December 31, 2013 at 2:22:00 PM CET
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Why you’re on The Cannabist, a brand new site dedicated to the culture of cannabis. Welcome!
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We love the stoners, but this site is for everyone. Click around and you’ll see stories on cooking, workplace issues, international news, pets, pot strains/edibles and entertainment (music, film, comedy, video games and more). Yes, our focus is marijuana; But as legalization spreads, so does cannabis’ influence on the world around us.
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 25, 2013 at 2:11:00 PM CET
Uruguay's neighbors now considering legalization of pot
LIMA, Peru — Argentina has given the first sign that Uruguay’s groundbreaking cannabis reform just may have started a domino effect across Latin America.
Following the momentous vote by its smaller neighbor’s senate this month — making it the first nation in the world to completely legalize the soft drug — Argentina’s anti-drug czar Juan Carlos Molina has called for a public discussion in his country about emulating the measure.
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 23, 2013 at 2:40:00 PM CET
Uruguay will keinen Drogen-Tourismus
Benjamín Liberoff, Direktor des Nationalen Amtes für Tourismus, betonte am Samstag (21.), dass Touristen nicht von dem Gesetz der Legalisierung von Marihuana profitieren werden. In einem Interview bekräftigte er, dass die neue Gesetzgebung nur für die uruguayische Bevölkerung gelte. “Unsere Regierung wird einen Drogen-Tourismus wie in den Niederlanden auf keinen Fall dulden”.
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 20, 2013 at 3:30:00 PM CET
Drugs on Film
Sarah Schönfeld squeezed drops of various legal and illegal liquid drug mixtures onto negative film which had already been exposed. Each drop altered the coating of the film. Much like the effect of some of these substances on humans, this can be a lengthy process – sometimes one that can barely be stopped.
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 17, 2013 at 4:57:00 PM CET
The Beginning of the End of the Drug War: Top 10 Stories of 2013
2013 will go down in history as the beginning of the end of our disastrous war on drugs. 58% of Americans nationally support marijuana legalization. World leaders like former UN head Kofi Annan are calling for an end to the drug war. US Attorney General Erik Holder is speaking out against racist mandatory minimum drug laws and mass incarceration. Celebrities like Will Smith, Scarlett Johansson and Jennifer Hudson joined 175 other celebrities saying No More Drug War in a letter to the President. Just last week, Uruguay became the first country in the world to legalize marijuana. Below are some of the top stories that made 2013 a watershed year in the fight to end America’s longest failed war.
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 16, 2013 at 4:02:00 PM CET
Knesset passes new cannabis law
Marijuana will now be collected by medical supply company Sarel, and packaged and distributed to approved pharmacies • Marijuana growers and some patients protest centralized distribution, saying it will lead to a monopoly and neglect of patients.
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 14, 2013 at 6:26:00 PM CET
Uruguay's Prez Rips Into U.N. Official Over Marijuana Law: ‘Stop Lying'
José “Pepe” Mujica shot back on Friday at the president of the International Narcotics Control Board, a U.N. agency, for saying that his administration refused to meet with the agency’s officials before legalizing marijuana this week.
Mujica batted down the criticism, insisting that his administration is open to discussing the law and accusing the INCB President Raymond Yans of applying a double standard by criticizing Uruguay, even as U.S. states pass laws to legalize recreational marijuana consumption.
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 12, 2013 at 4:40:00 PM CET
Bill O'Reilly OUTRAGED Over Marijuana Journalism
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 12, 2013 at 4:38:00 PM CET
Cannabispraxis in ausgewählten Staaten
Viel Arbeit für die Justiz in Österreich, Medizin und Krieg in den USA, ein erfolgloser Hanfpass in den Niederlanden und Geld durch Legalisierung in Marokko: Beispiele für die derzeitige Cannabisgesetze in ausgewählten Staaten
Österreich | USA | Niederlande | Marokko
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 12, 2013 at 4:36:00 PM CET
Uruguay marijuana decision 'breaks internationally endorsed treaty'
Uruguay's decision to legalise marijuana is in violation of an international convention on drug control, a Vienna-based body set up to monitor government compliance with such treaties has said.
Uruguay became the first country to legalise the growing, sale and smoking of marijuana on Tuesday, in a pioneering experiment that will be closely watched by other nations debating drug liberalisation.
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 12, 2013 at 4:35:00 PM CET
UNO stresst voll rum - Marihuana-Legalisierung in Uruguay
Die Legalisierung des Anbaus und Verkaufs von Cannabis in Uruguay verstößt nach Ansicht zweier UN-Behörden gegen internationales Recht. Das am Dienstag vom Senat in Montevideo verabschiedete Gesetz breche gleich mehrere Abkommen zur Kontrolle des weltweiten Drogenhandels, kritisierte der für die Umsetzung derartiger Abkommen zuständige Internationale Suchtstoffkontrollrat (INCB) am Mittwoch.
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 11, 2013 at 3:40:00 PM CET
Uruguay legalises production and sale of cannabis
The world's most far-reaching cannabis law has been passed by the Uruguayan parliament, opening the way for the state to regulate the production, distribution, sale and consumption of the planet's favourite illegal drug.
The law, effective from next year, will: allow registered users to buy up to 40g of marijuana a month from a chemist's; registered growers to keep up to six plants; and cannabis clubs to have up to 45 members and cultivate as many as 99 plants.
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