According to international press, Raymond Yans from Belgium, president of the INCB, maintains that the application of the law, approved this week in the Uruguayan Senate, violates the Convention on Drugs of 1961
Comment by Joep Oomen – Encod
12 December 2013
Source: Associated Press
December 5, 2013
Moroccan party holds hearing for legalizing marijuana crops
Source: [Aljazeera
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09 December, 2013
FARC may have the answer to Colombia’s drug woes
The peace talks under way in Cuba face many challenges, not the least of which is gaining the US’ support.
By Nazih Richani, associate professor of political science and Director of Latin American studies at Kean university.
On Monday, November 4th, 2013, the Police of the Czech Republic launched an unprecedented operation evidently aimed at liquidating growshops, i.e. shops with accessories for growing plants. These shops offer entirely legal products, mainly growing technology, substrates, fertilizer and plant seeds. During the state-wide raid, more than 50 such shops that have been in business legally for many years had been cleared out by policemen without warning. All this based on a questionable legal article concerning the spreading of toxicomania (spreading of non alcoholic drug abuse) and a judicial decision of the Supreme Court from 2012 by which the owners of a garden store were given a suspended sentence for spreading toxicomania.
The Dawn of Cannabis Counterculture in the Heart of Europe: Lights Out?
7 November 2013
Source: Forbes
01 November, 2013