On Tuesday June 27, Maine Governor Janet Mills signed into law a framework for the sale of recreational cannabis. This law...
On Wednesday, Ireland announced the legalization of cannabis for medical use. The project, on trial for five years, will facilitate access to cannabis products....
Regular Newsweed consumers will have noticed that we took a break last week. A chance for us to recharge our batteries. But since...
France's recent emulation of cannabis has taken many by surprise. Since the article published in L'Obs, the proposed law tabled by some fifteen...
Perhaps you're not familiar with the Cannabis Medical Bike Tour (CMBT) and are wondering what it's all about? The CMBT is Europe's biggest sporting event,...
The U.S. House of Representatives has just passed an amendment that permanently prevents the Department of Justice - which runs the DEA - from interfering...
CBD has emerged in recent years as a must-have wellness trend and potential remedy for a variety of conditions. A new study suggests that at...
On the initiative of François Michel Lambert, elected representative for the Bouches-du-Rhône region, some fifteen MPs today tabled a proposal to legalize recreational cannabis. The aim is to...
The eminent Conseil d'analyse économique (CAE), an independent body of recognized professional economists who advise the Prime Minister on policy, has just published a report in favor...
Since the ANSM approved the experimentation of medical cannabis in France, the CSST has been actively working on its implementation. A final hearing is scheduled for...
Despite the legalization of medical cannabis in the UK, domestic production has yet to get underway and medical cannabis products have to be imported - sometimes...
Weed Paradise has just installed France's first CBD vending machine in front of its hemp parapharmacy in Châtenois....
The Board of Directors of the National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA), Brazil's ANSM, recently unanimously approved the launch of a public consultation on the...
On the weekend of July 6-7, 2019, the very first edition of Hemp Expo will take place in Dudelange (Luxembourg). Hemp Expo is the first fair...
As it struggles to combat organized crime and international drug trafficking, Paraguay, the Latin American state bordered by Argentina, Brazil and...
A California appeals court has acquitted five prisoners charged with possession of cannabis. This jurisprudence seems to indicate that possession of cannabis in prison is not...
Cannabis has been used for thousands of years. Parts or traces of the cannabis plant have repeatedly been found on archaeological sites in Asia....
The legalization of recreational cannabis (almost) always comes after the legalization of medical cannabis, often a few years later. However, it has a disruptive effect on the...
Resistance against prohibition is gathering momentum in towns and cities across France, as the «18 joint» call approaches. In a week's time, rallies organized by anti-prohibition...
The Colombian Constitutional Court has just declared inapplicable two norms of the Police Code (articles 33 and 140) which prohibit the consumption of alcohol and...
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