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Des Humphrey (right) with Dutch coffeeshop entrepreneur, Nol Van Schaik |
NORML UK |
Des Humphrey (right) with Dutch coffeeshop entrepreneur, Nol Van Schaik |
NL Coffeeshop & Cannabis Nieuws |
In a maddening show of spineless backsliding after 35 years of tolerance, the conservative government of the Netherlands seems hellbent on turning the clock back to a darker time in Dutch history — a time when the cannabis trade was driven underground and people had to access the black market for marijuana.
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The Dutch make lots of money on cannabis tourism — so obviously, that’s a problem they have to fix. Wait a minute… |
The conservative government of the Netherlands said on Thursday it is delaying plans to ban tourists from buying marijuana in Dutch “coffee shops” until at least May 2012 — but said it still intends to implement the ban.
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Coffee shop owner Said Faggouss was kidnapped by masked gunmen from his business on Dec. 8. |
A Dutch man who was kidnapped from his cannabis-dispensing coffee shop in Amsterdam last December, escaped from his captors in Belgium on Tuesday, according to Dutch police.
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Sweet Tooth #3 cannabis bud, grown in Finland |
For all the progress toward a European Union, there is still no unified approach to medical marijuana in Europe, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
Denver has learned a lot about implementing marijuana policy — and officials from around the world have been flocking here to study this city’s secrets.
The Mile High City hosted its second annualMarijuana Management Symposium on Thursday, October 27, welcoming policy makers, police personnel and reps from cannabis companies from across the country, as well as Australia, Canada, the Netherlands and Uruguay for discussions about what Denver did right — and what they can learn from our mistakes.
More stringently, in other words.
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Researchers at UCSF argue that the cannabis industry should be regulated more like tobacco than alcohol, for public health reasons. Sales should be “subject to a robust demand reduction program modeled on successful evidence-based tobacco control programs,” they write.
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A New York and Netherlands-based biotechnology company focusing on medical cannabis research says they plan to start making pot-infused bubblegum in the Netherlands that they plan to sell internationally.
Axim Biotechnologies, which already makes a product called CanChew that contains CBD, say they will manufacture CanChew and a new product, MedChew, which will contain THC. Officials with the company tell in-PharmaTechnologist.com they are already conducting clinical trials on patients with Multiple Sclerosis as well as inflammatory bowel problems and Crohn’s disease in Amsterdam.
The motivation behind the prohibition philosophies of U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell could have something to do with his political campaigns being funded with the help of the black market cocaine trade. Now, while the theory is purely speculation, a recent drug bust on a cargo ship in a Caribbean port reveals that the Kentucky lawmaker may be more rooted in Scarfacian principles than those of any good old’ boy from the Bluegrass State.