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The Hague has become the first Dutch city to ban the smoking of cannabis around its city centre, central railway station and major shopping areas, in the latest example of a wider trend towards reining in country’s traditional gedoogbeleid (tolerance po [Read More] 17/04/18

A businessman believed to have a history of involvement in drug dealing, has been cleared of trying to bring heroin with a street value of almost £8m into Scotland. Russell Stirton, 58, was accused of handing 34kg of the drug to a lorry driver at a ser [Read More] 13/04/18

The second seizure of a coca plantation in Honduras within a year shows drug gangs are seeking to cut costs and turn the small Central American state into a producer rather than a transit hub for US-bound cocaine [Read More] 12/04/18

Endurance Runner Flavie Dokken Joins Wana Brands in Promoting Cannabis Use Among Athletes [Read More] 5/04/18

DEA busts multi-million dollar Afghanistan heroin smuggling ring with Bay Area connection; defendant said to have Taliban ties [Read More] 3/04/18

the Luxembourg health ministry announced a two-year pilot programme enabling around 100 patients access to medicine with cannabis extracts or cannabinoids. The types of treatments that are permitted include inhaling heated cannabis flowers, and use of can [Read More] 29/03/18

INTERPRETING DUTCH CANNABIS POLICY: REASONING BY ANALOGY IN THE LEGALIZATION DEBATE The Dutch depenalization and subsequent de facto legalization of cannabis since 1976 is used here to highlight the strengths and limitations of reasoning by analogy as [Read More] 28/03/18

A parliamentary report in the Australian state of Victoria, of which Melbourne is the capital city, has recommended the government explore the use of sniffer dogs, drug checking services at events and potential to regulate recreational cannabis. [Read More] 27/03/18

A six-year-old boy with epilepsy has presented a petition to No 10 calling for him to be granted a special licence to use medical cannabis. Alfie Dingley has a very rare form of the illness that causes up to 150 seizures per month. His parents want the go [Read More] 21/03/18

The use of small amounts of cannabis for personal use might be decriminalised if the strategy is adopted. The substance misuse strategy says it will look at political and public interest in the medical use of cannabis. It recognises the international de [Read More] 19/03/18