North America’s biggest companies have seen their market values lose billions, prompting comparisons to dotcom bust Cannabis may be legal in Vancouver but visitors looking to score are likely to run into a seemingly counterintuitive suggestion: try the black market. Recreational marijuana was legalised across Canada in October 2018. And yet on Reddit, the specialist…
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Law change hailed by supporters as chance for country to benefit from rising global demand for medicinal cannabis products Malawi has passed a bill decriminalising cannabis for medicinal and industrial purposes, almost five years after a motion to legalise industrial hemp was adopted.The country follows in the footsteps of Zimbabwe, Zambia and Lesotho, neighbouring south-east…
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The regulation of all drugs is not utopia – it’s a pragmatic way to take control of the situation Prof Dan Howard SC, head of the special inquiry into illicit amphetamine use in New South Wales, has handed down his report to the NSW government following a lengthy commission looking into both the drug “ice”…
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Prosecutors working with not-for-profit tech group to use algorithms to find eligible cases in decades-old court documents Los Angeles moved this week to dismiss nearly 66,000 marijuana convictions, years after the state voted to legalize the drug. The county is working with a not-for-profit technology organization, Code for America, to use algorithms to identify eligible…
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Mayor cites survey of tourists in the Wallen and Singel as she looks to clean up overcrowded red-light areas The mayor of Amsterdam has sought to win political backing for her cleanup of overcrowded red-light areas by revealing that a third of foreign tourists and nearly half of Britons would be less likely to visit…
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FSA says cannabidiol foods are not properly authorised and pregnant women should not eat them Pregnant women, breastfeeding mothers and people taking medication should not eat foods containing CBD, an ingredient derived from the cannabis plant, a regulator has warned. In its first ever safety advice to consumers on cannabidiol products, the Food Standards Agency…
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Psychosis link to high potency drug must be investigated, warn mental health chiefsOne in 20 adults would take cannabis on a regular basis if it were legalised, similar to the number of people who currently use it, according to a poll for a leading mental health charity. A YouGov poll conducted for Rethink Mental Illness…
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Black merchants affected by the war on drugs are denied licenses and thrown into debt as white owners thrive A Los Angeles government program set up to provide cannabis licenses to people harmed by the war on drugs has been plagued by delays, scandal and bureaucratic blunders, costing some intended beneficiaries hundreds of thousands of…
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Mice cured of MRSA, raising hopes of treating antibiotic-resistant bacteria A compound made by cannabis plants has been found to wipe out drug-resistant bacteria, raising hopes of a new weapon in the fight against superbugs. Scientists screened five cannabis compounds for their antibiotic properties and found that one, cannabigerol (CBG), was particularly potent at killing…
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He is in his mid-20s and says taking drugs calms his anxiety, but he is very unhappy and even tells me he doesn’t want to live any more I have a 25-year-old son, the younger of two. I believe he is addicted to cannabis, which he says he needs to combat his anxiety. He doesn’t…
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