Author: Hazel Norman

Belize Offers Automatic Expungements For First-Time Cannabis Offenders

Written by Hazel Norman on January 20, 2025. Posted in Policy.

Cannabis prohibition is one of the most harmful public policies in human history. Starting in the early 1900s, cannabis prohibition has ruined countless lives across the globe and wasted a tremendous...

Rate Of Legal Cannabis Buyers Continues To Increase In Uruguay

Written by Hazel Norman on January 19, 2025. Posted in Business, Policy.

Uruguay became the first nation on earth to adopt a national adult-use cannabis legalization law back in 2013. The first legal recreational sales were launched in registered pharmacies in Uruguay in...

Legal Cannabis Cultivators Call For Adult-Use Legalization In Morocco

Written by Hazel Norman on January 19, 2025. Posted in Policy.

Legal cannabis cultivators and advocates in Morocco are urging the nation’s lawmakers to adopt recreational cannabis legalization. Morocco first adopted its current medical cannabis policy in...

Medical Cannabis Prescriptions Are Decreasing In Poland

Written by Hazel Norman on January 10, 2025. Posted in Policy.

Medical cannabis reform was implemented in Poland in 2017, and as of November 2022, the nation’s doctors were approving roughly 3,000 medical cannabis patients a month. After years of an increasing...

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South African Human Rights Commission Urges Police To Halt Cannabis Arrests

Written by Hazel Norman on January 6, 2025. Posted in Policy.

Last year South Africa became the latest country to adopt a national adult-use cannabis legalization measure, codifying a prior landmark court decision which determined that prohibition policies against...

Textile Industry Members In India And South Korea Forge Hemp Partnerships

Written by Hazel Norman on January 4, 2025. Posted in Business.

At a recent meeting hosted by the Wool and Woolens Export Promotion Council, members of the textile industries in both India and South Korea announced plans to, among other things, forge partnerships...

Morocco’s Legal Industry Produced 4,000 Tons Of Cannabis In 2024

Written by Hazel Norman on January 3, 2025. Posted in Business.

Morocco’s National Agency for the Regulation of Cannabis Activities (ANRAC) Director General Mohamed El Guerrouj recently announced at an annual board meeting that the nation’s emerging...

Lawmakers Criticized In Australia For Failing To Legalize Cannabis

Written by Hazel Norman on December 27, 2024. Posted in Policy.

A lawmaker in Australia is criticizing his peers for failing to approve an adult-use cannabis legalization measure this year. Legalise Cannabis WA MP Dr. Brian Walker recently lashed out at Australia’s...

France’s Medical Cannabis Trial Receives Another Extension

Written by Hazel Norman on December 27, 2024. Posted in Policy.

Health authorities in France recently announced that the nation’s medical cannabis trial experiment will be extended until July 31st, 2025. The announcement is welcomed news to the reported 1,800...