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Switzerland Adult-Use Cannabis Pilot Program Delayed By ‘Quality Issues’

Written by Frank Schuler on September 16, 2022. Posted in Business, Policy.

Switzerland has worked to launch a pilot adult-use cannabis program in various jurisdictions, including in Basel where the country’s first pilot program was set to launch today. A pilot program...

Prohibition Treaties Will Not Stop Cannabis Legalization In Germany

Written by Johnny Green on September 14, 2022. Posted in Policy.

I have helped work on cannabis reform efforts since the late 1990s when medical cannabis reform initiatives were being heavily pursued on the West Coast of the United States. Those efforts culminated...

Is The Biden White House Waiting On Germany To Move Ahead On Recreational Reform?

Written by Marguerite Arnold on September 12, 2022. Posted in Policy.

The US president is putting off further conversation about American cannabis reform until after the mid-terms. Is he waiting for Germany if not Europe beyond that, to go first? President Joe Biden’s...

Members Of German Bundestag Travel To North America To Examine Cannabis Legalization

Written by Marguerite Arnold on September 12, 2022. Posted in Business, Policy.

Eight members of the Bundestag’s Health Committee head to North America to educate themselves about how reform works in both California and Canada A delegation of eight members of the Bundestag’s...

Political Clashes Over Legalization Continue From Bavarian Politicians

Written by Marguerite Arnold on September 12, 2022. Posted in Policy.

Lawyers for the Bundestag Scientific Service of the Bundestag issue analysis of cannabis legalization, claiming it violates EU law – and the cry is picked up, again, by the conservative state...

CSU Critiques Of Traffic Coalition Plan To Legalize Cannabis Meets Wide Mockery

Written by Marguerite Arnold on September 12, 2022. Posted in Policy.

CSU leader Markus Söder and Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach trade barbs over current government drug policy – which goes viral on German Twitter It all began so innocently. Markus...

People In London Support Cannabis Decriminalization By Wide Margin

Written by Frank Schuler on September 11, 2022. Posted in Policy.

Back in May we reported that London Mayor Sadiq Khan announced that a commission would be launched to explore, among other things, cannabis policy reform. Cannabis reform is spreading across the European...

German Poll: More Than 60 Percent Support Cannabis Legalization

Written by Johnny Green on September 11, 2022. Posted in Policy.

Germany is in the midst of a cannabis legalization effort that is more complicated and robust than anything that has ever occurred since the dawn of cannabis prohibition so many decades ago. After the...

Attend CanEx Jamaica Business Conference And Expo September 15-17th, 2022

Written by Johnny Green on September 8, 2022. Posted in Business, Entertainment, Policy, Science.

The fifth installment of CanEx Business Conference and Expo is taking place in Montego Bay, Jamaica from September 15-17, 2022. The CanEx Jamaica Business Conference and Expo is an annual...