Tag: global drug policy

Uruguayan President Jose Mujica has signed into law legislation making Uruguay the first country to create a legal, state-regulated marijuana industry. Mujica quietly signed the bill Monday...

Hemp has been around for centuries in as many varied uses as can be possible for a single material. After being totally illegal in the United States...

A prominent group of Australian doctors and experts want cannabis reintroduced as medicine.

Matt Ferner lists the 13 reasons 2013 has been the best year ever for marijuana (and it’s consumers).

Sri Lanka’s Minister of Indigenous Medicine, Salinda Dissanayake, announced that he will introduce a bill to legalize marijuana.

Canadian regulations are restricting industry growth, according to the Hemp Trade Alliance.

Jose Mujica is not a man who compromises his beliefs. Before he became President of Uruguay, he was shot six times and spent fourteen years in a...

The petition to decriminalize cannabis in British Columbia was about 100,000 signatures short of making it to the ballot.

The Uruguayan Senate approved the government’s marijuana legalization bill on a 16-13 vote Tuesday evening. It already passed the lower chamber, and it’s the president’s bill, so...

The Uruguay Senate is expected to pass a bill Tuesday that would make it the first nation in the world to regulate the cultivation, distribution, and sale...

Nigeria’s anti-narcotics agency claims that most farmers are abandoning food crops for cannabis.

  Ok, let’s start a petition to allow Uruguayan nationals to become president. Actually, can we just kidnap Jose Mujica and get him on deck for 2016?...

Morocco is set to study the potential benefits of looser cannabis laws.

It looks like the fat lady is about to sing. According to the Drug Policy Alliance, which has an operative in Montevideo, the Uruguayan Senate will vote next week,...

British publications have gotten their hands on a leaked UN document that reveals fundamental splits among nations as the international organization prepares for the UN General Assembly...

A new petition is gaining steam to legalize cannabis in Germany. The petition asks the German government to legalize cannabis for adults over 18 and allow for...

Author Doug Fine recently spoke in London about the US cannabis revolution, asking if Britain is ready for its own.

Uruguay is blowing off the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) as it prepares to become the first country to legalize marijuana commerce, and the INCB is “concerned.” The South...

In response to the argument that legalizing marijuana will add to society’s problems, High Times points to New Zealand, where residents have been giving up the bottle...

The Czech Republic legalized medical marijuana this year, but due to strict guidelines there are many problems with access.