Tag: Germany

Canadian Cannabis Giant Aurora Hits Heavy in Germany

Written by Amber Iris Langston on February 13, 2018. Posted in Business, ICBC Berlin, ICBC Vancouver, Medical.

If you are one of those entrepreneurs closely watching the public sector of cannabis finance, you have no doubt heard of Aurora. Aurora Cannabis Inc. is second only to Canopy Growth Corp as one of Canada’s...

Cannabis Patients’ Gun Rights Threatened in Germany

Written by Amber Iris Langston on February 8, 2018. Posted in ICBC Berlin, Politics.

In the United States, North and South are generally divided between the ideologies of liberal and conservative. Occasionally this pattern repeats itself in other locations. One of those is Germany,...

German Police Association Wants Legal Cannabis

Written by Amber Iris Langston on February 7, 2018. Posted in Cultural, ICBC Berlin, Politics.

“In the history of mankind there has never been a society without the use of drugs; this is something that has to be accepted.” Those words were uttered earlier this week by none other than...

German Medical Cannabis Patients Sign Up By the Thousands

Written by Amber Iris Langston on January 24, 2018. Posted in ICBC Berlin, Medical.

Last year the German Parliament made a move to greatly expand its tiny and nominally-functioning medical cannabis program to make patient access easier, allow doctors to prescribe cannabis for any ailment,...

Germany Inches Closer to Adult Use Cannabis

Written by Amber Iris Langston on October 31, 2017. Posted in Cultural, ICBC Berlin, Politics.

For citizens of Germany, legislation works a little differently. Theirs is a parliamentary body made of multiple parties – not just two primary bodies like the Democrats and Republicans –...

Canadian Cannabis Companies Now Exporting to Germany

Written by Amber Iris Langston on September 21, 2017. Posted in Business, ICBC Berlin, ICBC Vancouver.

The Land of Ideas (Germany), is getting a creative boost – legal cannabis from overseas. Canadian cannabis colossus Aurora, based in Alberta, announced their first shipment of the medicine to...

American Cannabis Activists Irk German Drug Czar

Written by Amber Iris Langston on August 30, 2017. Posted in ICBC Berlin.

Marlene Mortler, the Drug Czar of Germany, sounds like she has taken a cue from the garbled logic of US Drug Enforcement Administration and Kevin Sabet of Smart Approaches to Marijuana, a man I think...

German Cannabis Expert, Dr. Franjo Grotenhermen, Starts Hunger Strike

Written by Anthony Johnson on August 17, 2017. Posted in ICBC Berlin.

Germany has made great strides improving its cannabis laws in recent years, but there is still so much work to be done, as too many patients are still without safe access to a safe medicine. There was...

German Cannabis Community Celebrates Another Great Hanfparade

Written by Amber Iris Langston on August 16, 2017. Posted in ICBC Berlin.

Despite a little cold and rainy weather, a great crowd turned out this year for the 21st annual Berlin Hanfparade (or “Hemp Parade”) last Saturday, August 12th. According to Michael Knodt,...