Nederland wordt overspoeld door cocaïne. En hoewel het mondiale drugsbeleid mislukt is, blijkt het niet eenvoudig dit van koers te laten veranderen, ziet Tom Blickman van het Transnational Institute. Daarom een pleidooi voor een experiment.

RT @vocnederland: ⚠️'Vrijwillige reductie veestapel met 20%. vrijkomende grond inzetten voor vezelteelten als vlas, hennep & olifantsgras.….

RT @vocnederland: Big Cannabis puts its growth hopes in dud buds.'Attendees of Cannabis Europa, some bleary-eyed after wading through plume….

Agriculture-focused MEPs are throwing their weight behind a push to secure EU rules on the cultivation of non-intoxicating #cannabis - a move aimed at bypassing national restrictions on hemp.

The conservative backlash against #cannabis regulation in Germany . To prevent leakage to the recreational market, the Health minister proposes to dispense medical cannabis to patients only after prior personal contact with a doctor. Dispatch is also prohibited. Sigh . .

RT @HassoSuliak: Bundesgesundheitsministerin @ninawarken macht ernst: Medizinal-#Cannabis künftig nur noch nach Arztbesuch und Beratung in….

RT @HassoSuliak: "Fernverschreibungs- und Versandhandelsverbot“: BMin @ninawarken will das Med.-#Cannabis|G ändern. Verschreibung nur noch….

RT @hanfverband: Jakob Manthey, der Koordinator der CanG-Evaluation, gewährt auf einer Fachtagung des Therapieladen erste Einblicke in die….

At the last CND in March 2025, Colombia led a resolution that creates an independent expert panel that will conduct a long-overdue review of the UN drug control ‘machinery’. Colombian ambassador Laura Gil explains the background.

RT @IDPCnet: 'Nothing ever happens in Vienna,' they said — but Amb. @Lauraggils proved otherwise. Breaking taboos, building coalitions & l….

Legal cannabis farmers in Morocco are unable to dispose of their crops because their products do not meet strict Western requirements for medicinal #cannabis. The situation is dire; many farmers are considering going back into illegality, says TNI's Pien Metaal.

De legale wietboeren in Marokko kunnen hun oogst niet kwijt, omdat hun producten niet voldoen aan de strenge Westerse eisen voor medicinale #cannabis. De toestand is nijpend; veel boeren overwegen terug de illegaliteit in te gaan, zegt Pien Metaal van TNI.

If 21 months of seeing the death of babies, women, children, journalists, doctors and other innocents was not enough, the ghetto plan should be turning on all the warning lights. Israel is behaving as if it is planning genocide and expulsion.

New government rules that re-criminalsed #cannabis for recreational use have plunged Thailand’s $1bn cannabis industry into a state of confusion, with shops scrambling to comply with the requirements, and many fearing they will be forced to close.

In the provinces Chefchaouen and Taounate in Morocco, residents claim water is being siphoned off illegally via hidden pipelines to irrigate illegal #cannabis plantations, further straining the already limited supply.

RT @Cat_FAC: #Mexico Desde 2021 que se aprobó el consumo lúdico de cannabis, la Suprema Corte de Justicia declaró inconstitucional prohibir….

Plus de 1400 personnes participent au projet Cann-L et les inscriptions sont encore ouvertes pour les Lausannoi-se-s. 3/3.

Un million de francs échappe désormais au marché noir local. Les consommateurs privilégient des produits moins dosés en THC pour leur santé. 2/3.

Le #cannabis pourrait bientôt être légalisé en Suisse. Un essai pilote à Lausanne sert de modèle pour répondre à la violence croissante liée à la drogue. 1/3.

Only 2,000 of the estimated 18,000 cannabis shops in Thailand will be left once authorities complete their plan to convert dispensaries to clinics with resident doctors. 2/2 .

Cannabis dispensaries must transition into medical clinics if they are to continue to run legally, says the Department of Thai Traditional and Alternative Medicine that is working on a draft of the new ministerial initiative to regulate the plant. 1/2.