Mother of son with severe epilepsy says ‘fight is not over’ as Brexit bans EU states fulfilling UK prescriptionsThe mother of a nine-year-old boy with a severe and rare form of epilepsy who was told Brexit would end the supply of a life-changing cannabis medicine that saved her son’s life has been given a six-month…
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Decades-old tradition is grounded as priority shifts to tackling other drugs, such as meth Helicopters that have for decades taken to the skies of New Zealand every year to search for cannabis-growing operations will stay on the ground this year amid a shift in policing priorities.Light aircraft and helicopters have mounted aerial surveillance operations searching…
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Proposals would allow only Dutch residents to enter city’s 166 marijuana-selling coffee-shopsForeigners face being banned from Amsterdam’s cannabis coffee-shops as part of wide-ranging plans to discourage organised crime and cut back on drugs tourism that have drawn mixed reactions from residents and business owners.Backed by police and prosecutors, the city’s mayor, Femke Halsema, has tabled…
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Exclusive: police commissioner says move may also decrease violence and help inmates beat opioid addictionsPrisons should trial free cannabis schemes for drug-dependent inmates to ascertain whether it could reduce overdose deaths, bring down violence and help people overcome opioid addiction, a police and crime commissioner has said.The North Wales PCC, Arfon Jones, said that if…
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Government gives two weeks notice that access to epilepsy treatment for nine-year-old Alfie Dingley will endThe mother of a nine-year-old boy with a rare and severe form of epilepsy has told how she fears her son could die after the government announced his supply of a life-changing cannabis medicine from the Netherlands would stop because…
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Drug supply experiment falters as Netherlands plan for greenhouses stirs anxiety among local residentsA Dutch trial of state-regulated cannabis cultivation farms to supply coffee shops risks being derailed by an outbreak of nimbyism after locals protested about the location of one of the new facilities.The plans to take over greenhouses on the outskirts of Etten-Leur,…
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Study shows that consumers of drug are not aware they could be risking a lifetime of tobacco addictionHundreds of thousands of people who smoke cannabis describe themselves as non-smokers, a study has revealed. Experts fear the findings mean cannabis users may not appreciate that smoking the drug carries many of the same health risks as…
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All-share deal will create world’s largest weed company, as industry hopes for further liberalisation in USTwo of the leading players in Canada’s booming cannabis sector have announced merger plans that will create the world’s largest weed company, as the industry hopes for further liberalisation in the US under Joe Biden.Tilray and Aphria announced an all-share…
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Richard DeLisi, now 71, was sentenced to 90-year prison term in 1989 for marijuana trafficking, as part of era’s ‘war on drugs’A man believed to be the longest-serving inmate for non-violent, marijuana charges has been released from a Florida prison, and is set to spend the holidays with family for the first time in more…
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Commission on Narcotic Drugs removes substance from ‘world’s most dangerous’ categoryThe UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs has voted to remove cannabis from a category of the world’s most dangerous drugs.The move follows the recommendation by the World Health Organization (WHO) that research into its medical use is made easier. Continue reading…
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