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Cannabis is currently classified as a class B drug in the United Kingdom after being downgraded from class B to class C in 2004, and back again to class B in May 2008. However, recently appointed Crime Prevention Minister, Norman Baker, has said legal cannabis should be “considered” and has urged resources to be channeled into tackling hard drugs.
Morocco is among the world’s top three cannabis producers in the world but condemns cannabis production on paper. However, because the country’s economy benefits from it, two political parties have drafted a bill that will legalize cultivation and allow farmers to sell their produce directly to the government.
Russell Brand, British comedian and former husband of Katy Perry, has joined with some 90 celebrities, health experts, lawyers and politicians (including Sir Richard Branson and Sting) in signing a letter to the Prime Minister asking for reformed drug policy.
The UK government recently scheduled khat as a class C controlled substance, making it illegal to possess, grow or use. For some background, khat, a plant native to the Horn of Africa and the Arabian peninsula, is a mild stimulant with a lesser physiological dependence rating than tobacco or alcohol.
The Czech Republic has been seen in the past twenty years as a very liberal country in terms of attitude towards the cannabis plant and the laws associated with it. US cannabis magazines regularly published articles about the Czech “cannabis heaven on Earth.”
Delegates at the British Medical Association's annual representative meeting in Harrogate are to debate whether cannabis should be legalized. "Existing drug policy is contradictory and ineffective. The number of drug users has sky rocketed in the last 30 years despite the introduction of tougher and tougher drug laws. Our policy makers aren't prepared to have a sensible, rational, evidence-based debate on drugs."
Plumes of pungent smoke rise above the small but prosperous southern Albanian village of Lazarat, while gunfire and the occasional rocket-propelled grenade or even mortar greet the police advance.
When it comes to the legalization of marijuana in the States, the whole world is watching.
Jamaica will decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana, the government announced today. ..
Mexico’s president is hinting that he is considering making marijuana legal south of the border, San Francisco Weekly reports. In an interview published...
Women the world over are ending prohibition again. That's the motto of the International Women’s Cannabis Coalition consisting of over 250 members worldwide
A report commissioned by the government of Bermuda has endorsed legalizing marijuana for medical purposes and decriminalizing personal use of the drug.
While prohibitionists futiley try to prove history's first cannabis overdose, the World Health Organization said that alcohol kills 3.3 million people worldwide each year
It’s tough to select the set of rules In blending between those ready to seize the moment and those whose regulate a business still illegal in 48 states.
A London School of Economics report outlining negative outcomes and collateral damage from the war on drugs called for evidence-based approaches to drugs.
Uruguay will formally unveil the regulations for its legal marijuana commerce next week, although the broad outlines are already known. The stuff will...
Yesterday, the Amsterdam District Court sided with Mayor Eberhard van der Laan to ban marijuana cafes in its famous Red Light district. The plan calls for
Keep fighting, German Stoners. I live in Washington state and there was a time I didn't think we'd ever see legalization either.
