A long-awaited Senate bill that would legalize cannabis at the federal level has finally been unveiled. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said since February that the new legislation was almost ready to...
As support for cannabis legalisation continues to grow throughout the US, politicians are increasingly calling for an end to prohibition. A few weeks ago, the Marijuana Opportunity, Reinvestment and...
Last week, we wrote about an anonymous survey recently launched by The Global Cannabis Cultivation Research Consortium (GCCRC) to help learn more about cannabis growers. The GCCRC uses this data to help push...
Abe Cohn dirige THC Legal Group, une équipe d’avocats spécialisés dans le cannabis fournissant des services juridiques à l’industrie de la marihuana.
A long-awaited Senate bill that would legalize cannabis at the federal level has finally been unveiled. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said since February that the new legislation was almost ready to drop. This...
As support for cannabis legalisation continues to grow throughout the US, politicians are increasingly calling for an end to prohibition. A few weeks ago, the Marijuana Opportunity, Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE)...
Last week, we wrote about an anonymous survey recently launched by The Global Cannabis Cultivation Research Consortium (GCCRC) to help learn more about cannabis growers. The GCCRC uses this data to help push sensible...
Adults in Mexico are to be allowed to apply for permits to grow and consume their own cannabis, after the country’s Supreme Court finally decriminalised recreational weed. The move comes after a frustrating few years in...
Do you or have you ever grown cannabis (legally or illegally)? Do you think that laws relating to cannabis are wrong? If the answers to these questions are ‘yes’, then help us gather data in this cannabis grower survey...
The Americas have led the way on cannabis reform, with countries including Canada and Uruguay having legalised recreational use, along with several US states. The relationship between cannabis and indigenous communities...
A new study funded by the US National Institute of Justice (NIJ) has concluded that the level of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in a person’s blood, urine or saliva can’t be used to gauge their level of intoxication[i]...
The legalisation of recreational cannabis use in Canada in 2018 felt groundbreaking. The realisation of a long-held dream for many relatively quickly rolled out, provided a beacon of hope: that the cannabis plant would...
In many parts of the world, the possession and use of cannabis remains prohibited, despite the unstoppable wave of legalisation in some jurisdictions. Where marijuana use is prohibited, users have to be discreet and...
With Mexico set to become the world’s largest legal cannabis market, all eyes have been focused firmly on the country’s legislators for the past several months. With the Senate having first approved a legalisation bill...
Despite progress in cannabis legislation, weed remains forbidden in many countries. As a result, hundreds of tons of cannabis are seized every year. In France, about 50 tons are confiscated each year, while in the...
New York has become the fifteenth US state to legalise recreational cannabis use, yet the first to actively implement legislation to redress the social and racial disparities caused by prohibition. The new bill – which...
Earlier this month, the Moroccan government approved bill 13-21 to legalise the cultivation of marijuana for therapeutic and industrial purposes. Through this law, the Moroccan government is pursuing three objectives:...
Mexico is on the verge becoming just the third country in the world to legalise recreational cannabis, after the Chamber of Deputies overwhelmingly approved a bill to permit adults over the age of 18 to cultivate and...
The widespread prohibition of cannabis can have dramatic consequences in terms of public health. Indeed, forced to obtain their weed via the black market, consumers who do not produce their own cannabis often find...
Update: Since this article was published, an arrangement has been reached to allow the import of Bedrolite to the UK until July 1. The British and Dutch health authorities are now working towards finding a more...
With marijuana now legal in several US states and the whole of Canada, demand for millions of people to have their cannabis convictions expunged is growing. In states like California and Illinois, the elimination of...
For the first time since 2009, the Democratic Party is set to control the US Senate, House of Representatives and the Whitehouse, presenting what many see as the perfect opportunity to finally legalise cannabis at the...
Israel and Mexico are the countries that have most recently (2020) decided to fully legalise cannabis, not only for medical and industrial purposes, but also for recreational use. In another development, Lebanon has...
It’s amazing that in spite of all the scientific evidence supporting the safety of cannabidiol (CBD), there remains a need to convince the political powers-that-be to allow the production and sale of this medicinal...
A vote to decriminalise cannabis at the federal level swept through the lower chamber of the United States Congress on Friday, December 4th, passing with a majority of 228 to 164. For now, though, it’s unlikely that the...
Just shy of six decades after cannabis was first categorised as a narcotic by the United Nations (UN), member states have finally voted to recognise the plant’s medicinal potential, accepting a proposal to reschedule it...
Last week the EU Court of Justice overruled the French ban on cannabidiol (CBD) arguing that CBD is not a narcotic and had “no psychotropic effect or harmful effect on health”. This long-awaited decision is a big...
With Joe Biden projected to have won the US presidential election, change is now afoot in the White House. The Democrats, who are generally favourable to marijuana reform, have regained executive control, although it...
A proposal to legalise recreational marijuana in New Zealand has been rejected by voters in a national referendum, dealing a major blow to any hopes of ending prohibition in the immediate future. Polls conducted in the...
Following on from our recent blog post explaining the ambiguous legal status of Spain’s cannabis social clubs, Seedsman spoke to two leading activists about the current state of play in the campaign to achieve legal...
The legal status of cannabis in Spain can be a complicated and confusing matter to get your head around, with the country’s uniquely ambiguous laws leaving even those at the forefront of the Spanish cannabis community...
For 1,000 years or so, cannabis has been widely cultivated and consumed in South Asia, not only for medicine, food and fibre, but also for recreational and spiritual purposes, in the form of bhāṅg, caras and hashish. In...
As my alarm clock was going off this dark and chilly morning, my mind went to work as panic flooded my veins. It sucks to be a person ridden with PTSD, but this plays a big part of the reason we are having this...
In Part One, I briefly scratched the surface of how the Federal Government, in collusion with a few of the wealthy and powerful, brought about the ‘Prohibition of Cannabis’ in the United States. This not only affected...
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