Malta’s law regulating medical marijuana is about to become less restricted, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat has announced. “Cabinet will start discussing changes to the law regulating medical marijuana in November,” Muscat told a media briefing yesterday. “It is only when we update the law on medical marijuana that we’ll start discussing possible legalisation for personal…
A key CNMI Senate committee will hold a hearing on a cannabis reform bill on Tuesday and, if its supporters get their way, the territory could join the eight U.S. states that have already enacted legalization, along with the District of Columbia. The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) may have a tiny population,…
As part of that new legal system, the Uruguayan government was given the right to regulate prices – as it does with many other industries like banking and healthcare. Since it became the first country to legalize recreational marijuana in 2013, one astounding feature of Uruguay’s new legal regime has caught the attention of cannabis…
WHILE the focus of the cannabis debate in South Australia has been on legalising it for medical uses, the real job and investment creation opportunity lies in building a recreational cannabis industry. There are now nine states in the US, including California, where cannabis for recreational and medical use is legal. And Canada is to…
It hasn’t been that easy. OTTAWA – Canada is set to become the first industrialized nation to legalize and regulate marijuana from production to consumption by next July, but increasingly, Canadians are wondering: What’s the hurry? The government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is pressing ahead with legislation to legalize cannabis, a move that a…
potentially tens of millions of dollars in crop damage California marijuana growers north of San Francisco faced mandatory evacuation orders as well as potentially tens of millions of dollars in crop damage and loss amid widespread wildfires in Wine Country and surrounding areas. There might be anywhere from 3,000 to 9,000 cannabis gardens in Sonoma…
Alaska has the most expensive legal green in the country Although Alaska voted to legalize recreational cannabis back in 2014, the past few months have arguably been the most defining for the state’s market. Pot sales continue to skyrocket throughout the largest U.S. state, while recently held elections have reflected local support for the budding industry. According…
Spannabis, the Hemp Fair, returns to Madrid on October 13, 14 and 15, 2017 Spannabis, the most important cannabis fair in the world, ( both by number of visitors, participants, and accredited media ) will bring to Madrid the latest innovations of this great industry offering all attendees the opportunity to know firsthand the authenticity…
Fires are spreading fast leaving firefighters thin on the ground The 2017 U.S. wildfire season is the third worst this decade, surpassed only by 2015 and 2012, according to National Interagency Fire Center tallies. A total of 3,692 Northern California fires have burned 411,742 acres in 2017. This amount is increasing rapidily during the current…
At one point, I felt a kind of blinding calm In a backpacking hostel during a stag weekend 10 years ago, I fell asleep on a top bunk next to an open window. Of course, that now strikes me as a stupid thing to have done, but at the time I didn’t give it a…
