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      With Germany legalising cannabis, Europe is reaching a tipping point. Britain, take note | Steve Rolles

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 07:00

    Regulating cannabis use is no longer radical but an increasingly normalised strategy. The ‘tough on drugs’ approach is archaic

    Germany’s cannabis reforms were approved this week, overcoming the final legislative hurdle when the Bundesrat, Germany’s upper house, voted through the bill that passed with a huge majority in the Bundestag (lower house) last month. Germany is a significant addition to the growing list of countries defecting from the drug war consensus that had held for more than half a century. More than half a billion people now live in jurisdictions establishing legal adult access to cannabis for recreational use.

    When Germany’s new law comes into force on 1 April, it will decriminalise possession of up to 25g of cannabis for personal use (and up to 50g in the home), allow requests to remove criminal records for past possession offences, legalise home growing of up to three cannabis plants for personal use, and establish a regulatory framework for not-for-profit associations within which cannabis can be grown and supplied to members.

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      ‘They’re all high’: Louisiana police say rats eating marijuana in evidence room

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 12 March - 10:00


    New Orleans superintendent tells council committee that rodents have infested the building and requests to move headquarters

    Cops in New Orleans are on the tail of a brazen gang of narcotics traffickers who broke into the evidence room at police headquarters and pilfered all the pot: a swarm of rodents with a hankering for the high life.

    “The rats are eating our marijuana. They’re all high,” Anne Kirkpatrick, superintendent of the city’s police department, told a council committee meeting on Monday.

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      Britain’s reputation as the home of the ‘rule of law’ is in tatters. Labour can fix it with these three pledges | Kojo Koram

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 27 February - 09:00

    Legalising cannabis, removing racial bias from convictions and reforming legal aid will help repair the damage of Tory misrule

    • Our writers and experts name the pledges Labour must include in its manifesto

    The criminal justice systems in Britain, the home of “the rule of law”, are broken. England and Wales together spend more on prisons than any other country in Europe except Russia. There is a backlog of almost 65,000 cases as defendants wait for years to have their day in court, and with recent figures showing 42% of prisoners who take their own lives are on remand – meaning they haven’t been sentenced – this purgatory is costing not just money, but lives.

    At a time of dwindling resources, here are concrete manifesto commitments that an incoming Labour government should make.

    Dr Kojo Koram teaches at the School of Law at Birkbeck, University of London

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      Germany on track to partly legalise cannabis for personal use after heated debate

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 23 February - 05:00

    Politicians hope to reclaim market from drug dealers but doctors say it risks young people’s health

    Germany’s parliament is expected to partly legalise cannabis on Friday after a heated debate about the pros and cons of allowing easier access to the drug.

    Under the new legislation, which will make Germany the third country in Europe to legalise the drug for personal use, cannabis would be removed from the official list of banned substances. Adults would be allowed to possess 25g of it at one time.

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      Mike Tyson urges Biden to free thousands locked up over cannabis: ‘Right these wrongs’

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 19 February - 12:30

    Boxer tells the Guardian it’s time for president to grant clemency to those in prison and ‘end cannabis prohibition once and for all’

    The former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson has urged Joe Biden to follow through on his commitment to “correct our country’s failed approach to marijuana” and give clemency to the thousands of nonviolent cannabis offenders still languishing in federal lockups.

    “President Biden has the power to effect real change – he can right these wrongs and grant clemency to those who are sitting in prison for cannabis offenses,” Tyson told the Guardian. “We know the failed war on drugs was wrong and no one should be sitting in jail for cannabis. It’s time our country moves forward and end cannabis prohibition once and for all.”

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      A greener weed: the UK firm growing carbon-neutral cannabis

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 17 February - 10:00

    Glass Pharms hope its approach could show the way for all kinds of energy-intensive horticulture in the UK

    For 26 years, Olivier Dehon worked in the corporate sector, ending up as chief financial officer for Xerox in the UK and Ireland before retiring four years ago. Last month he delivered his first consignment of high-strength cannabis.

    Dehon’s dope is legal and above board, produced to supply the UK’s burgeoning market for medical cannabis on prescription. What’s more, Dehon and his colleagues believe it is the first carbon-neutral indoor weed grown anywhere in the world.

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      Wonder drug: is the UK ready for the green rush of medicinal cannabis?

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Sunday, 11 February - 08:00 · 1 minute

    In the US, medical cannabis is a multi-billion dollar industry. We go behind the scenes at one of Britain’s top-secret growing facilities and meet the experts who believe it’s high time the drug’s potential was harnessed in the UK, too

    You might not quite have noticed, but Britain is in the midst of a cannabis revolution. This one plant, its proponents say, has the potential to reshape modern medicine. It’s happening, quickly and quietly; with scientists and doctors ushering in a new era of hi-tech flower power. As of today, over 60 countries have legalised some form of medicinal cannabis: since November 2018 that’s also been the case in Britain. Some 30,000 of us have already been prescribed cannabis for conditions ranging from arthritis to epilepsy, anxiety to multiple sclerosis. Experts predict the list will soon grow longer and specialist surgeries are springing up nationwide to cater for ever-growing demand.

    At the Curaleaf Clinic on London’s Harley Street, I meet Chris Cowan, 47. He was 13 when he first smoked cannabis: one joint with friends, illicit and casual, in early 90s rural Warwickshire. It would be nine years before a doctor would diagnose him with clinical depression and many more until his PTSD would be identified. Medicinal cannabis was decades from legalisation and yet, as far back as then, he knew intuitively its effect on him was more than the hit of a recreational high. “While friends would be giggling or rolling around intoxicated,” he says, “I found a calm I’d never felt before – that’s the only way I can describe it. The older I got, the more I noticed. Cannabis was medicinal, alleviating the traumas in both my body and mind.” Only 30 years later would the British medical and legal system catch up.

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      La France interdit officiellement la vente de HHC, le CBD en danger ?

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Tuesday, 13 June, 2023 - 09:30

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    La France vient officiellement d'interdire le HHC, un dérivé de synthèse du cannabis jugé addictif.

    La France interdit officiellement la vente de HHC, le CBD en danger ?