Last week, the Australian Senate's Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislative Committee held its first hearing on the legalization of adult...
The government of the Australian state of Victoria has said it is open to discussions on decriminalizing the personal use of cannabis, raising the possibility of a...
New Zealand's Ministry of Health has for the first time granted cultivation authorization for research on an indigenous magic mushroom, Psilocybe...
The Fiji government is looking to generate alternative sources of revenue, and the creation of a medical cannabis industry is on its list of potential options for...
As regular Newsweed consumers will have noticed, we've been on hiatus for the past 2 weeks. But since there's no news to wait for us, here's a...
The leaders of three states in Australia - Victoria, New South Wales and Western Australia - simultaneously introduced bills on 20...
Australia has become the first country in the world to legalize the use of psychedelics to treat certain mental disorders. Under the new regulations, which are...
A new study by an Australian government agency highlights the fact that the country's aborigines are treated very differently from non-aboriginals when they...
Vanuatu has become one of the first countries in Oceania to allow companies to grow cannabis for medicinal and industrial purposes, after the...
In Australia, licensed psychiatrists will be able to prescribe MDMA and psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, from July 2023. The Therapeutic...
Australia's Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO), which advises Parliament on budgetary matters, recently published a report exploring two options on how to approach...
The year 2023 will be eventful and full of cannabis events in Europe and beyond. Here's the calendar of cannabis events for 2023. All specific dates are subject to change.
The Australian Greens are preparing a campaign to legalize cannabis, an initiative already carried in 2018. According to The Guardian, the Greens, on the advice of a constitutional lawyer,...
Last week, New Zealand health authorities began allowing the use of locally produced medical cannabis products, putting an end to the...
Last Friday, the Fijian Parliament approved an amendment to the Drugs Act aimed at decriminalizing hemp and paving the way for...
The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) is to become the first Australian jurisdiction to decriminalize small amounts of drugs. Under a proposed law...
A member of the Australian Green Party has reintroduced a bill proposing to legalize and regulate cannabis in South Australia. The...
New Zealand patients will soon be able to receive cannabis flowers after the arrival of three Australian products. Australian Natural Therapeutics Group...
A large-scale observational study of medical cannabis, originally launched in the UK, is now present in Australia and looking for participants. The project...
New Zealand police have budgeted over 600,000 $ for a national cannabis eradication program, a year after the operation was cancelled. Officials had...
