All posts by : ENCOD

6 February 2014

The United States federal government may not be ready to sanction marijuana use, but a new agriculture bill is set to legalize preliminary stages of hemp production in states that allow the practice. A new farm bill, passed by Congress on Tuesday, would allow universities and state agriculture departments to establish industrial hemp growing programs. If these research programs go well, they could pave the way for commercial hemp farming to become a reality.

6 February, 2014

By David Bienenstock

By all accounts, 31-year-old mother of three Gemma Moss recently smoked half a joint to help her sleep, and then she never woke up. It’s a tragic passing that quickly yielded giddy tabloid headlines touting her as “the first woman in Britain to be poisoned to death by cannabis”, as though some incredible sports record had just been achieved.

31 de enero, 2014

Los ecologistas franceses, socios del Gobierno de
François Hollande, han decidido relanzar el debate sobre la legalización
del cannabis con un proyecto de ley que aunque no tiene posibilidades de
salir adelante pretende poner en evidencia la falta de resultados de la
actual política de represión.

30.01.2014

Cristiano Avila Maronna, Advogado associado ao IDDD, mestre e doutor em direito penal pela USP, 2º vice-presidente do IBCCRIM,membro da Rede pense Livre: por uma política de drogas que funcione

Samy Abud Yoshima, administrador de empresas pela FGV-EAESP e mestre em economia pela FGV-EPGE/R

A guerra às drogas, que se apoia no paradigma proibicionista, fracassou miseravelmente. Nunca as drogas ilegais foram tão abundantes, tão baratas, tão acessíveis e tão potentes quanto hoje. Além de não ter sido capaz de suprimir oferta e demanda de psicoativos, a proibição produziu violência, corrupção e encarceramento em massa.

3 February 2014, by Ian Willoughby

In November, the Czech police’s drugs unit raided dozens of “grow shops”, businesses that sell products necessary for the cultivation of marijuana. The police justified the large-scale confiscation of goods on the grounds that a court had ruled it was illegal for the shops to offer in one place everything needed to grow the drug, from seeds to literature. This is disputed by the grow shop owners, including my guest today, Michal Otipka, who runs four in Prague. Before we got on to the legal niceties, I asked Otipka how he’d first got into the business.

3 february 2014

Dutch laws governing marijuana use are so liberal
that even the US pop star Miley Cyrus failed to
spark too much controversy when she lit a joint
on stage in Amsterdam last year.

Now, 35 mayors are urging the government to take
it a step further and let them grow cannabis too,
as a global shift in favour of legalisation is
leaving the once forward-thinking Netherlands lagging behind.