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Cannabis Social Clubs in Belgium: Organizational strengths and weaknesses, and threats to the model

by EXAMPLES OF CSC'S IN EUROPE

Cannabis Social Clubs can be found in many countries, but the term often covers very different empirical realities. Inspired by the Spanish CSCs and
similarly taking advantage of a grey area in the Belgian cannabis legislation, Belgian cannabis activists set up the first Belgian CSC in 2006, and there are
now at least 5 Belgian CSCs. This paper’s main objective is to analyse the (internal) strengths and weaknesses and the (external) opportunities and
threats of the model, as it exists today

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Coca-Cola Forced to Abandon $25 Million Project in India

by 2014

August 25, 2014

The enterprise that managed to prohibit the coca leaf internationally now has to try to save its face by “withdrawing” its application after denial by agency in India

“Coca-Cola is a shameless and unethical company that has consistently placed its pursuit of profits over the well-being of communities that live around its facilities. It is absolutely reprehensible for a globally recognized company like Coca-Cola to seek further groundwater allowances from an area that has become acutely water-stressed, and that too in large part due to Coca-Cola’s mining of groundwater alone, ” said Amit Srivastava of the India Resource Center which has led the campaign to challenge the new plant.