The City of Oakland's cutting-edge approach to its medical cannabis sector is about to make national headlines again with the long-awaited release of city plans for licensing large-scale marijuana grows. If the draft ordinances pass, the city stands to reap almost $38 million in taxes per year by growing one-fifth of all statewide medicinal marijuana.

eastbayexpress.com

Die Stadt Zürich will einen Pilotversuch für kontrollierten Verkauf von Cannabis starten. Ein Postulat der Grünen aus dem Jahr 2006, das erst am 16. Juni 2010 zur Beratung im Gemeinderat kam, verlangt einen wissenschaftlich begleiteten Versuch: Cannabis soll kontrolliert zum Verkauf kommen, und wer Haschisch und/oder Gras auf sich trägt oder konsumiert, soll von der Polizei nicht angezeigt werden. Gleichzeitig soll die Stadt die Prävention und Aufklärung über Suchtmittel ausbauen.

taz.de

In response to the health and social harms of illegal drugs, a large international drug prohibition regime has been developed under the umbrella of the United Nations.1 Decades of research provide a comprehensive assessment of the impacts of the global “War on Drugs” and, as thousands of individuals gather in Vienna at the XVIII International AIDS Conference, the international scientific community calls for an acknowledgement of the limits and harms of drug prohibition, and for drug policy reform to remove barriers to effective HIV prevention, treatment and care.

democracyinaction.org
old zack

In der Schweiz ist eine Psychotherapeutin verurteilt worden, weil sie ihren meist aus der gehobenen Gesellschaft stammenden Patienten die Drogen LSD, Ecstasy und Meskalin verabreichte. Ein Gericht in Zürich verhängte gegen die 62-Jährige eine Bewährungsstrafe von 16 Monaten sowie eine Geldbuße von umgerechnet 1500 Euro, wie die Nachrichtenagentur ATS am Montag berichtete.

afp

A Swiss court on Monday gave a suspended sentence to a psychotherapist who treated his high-society patients with LSD, ecstasy and mescaline saying the illegal drugs "expanded the consciousness."

expatica.com

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It’s being called a second Gold Rush. There are rumors of entrepreneurs from Amsterdam sniffing around empty storefronts in Oaksterdam. With polls showing that voters could legalize marijuana in the November election, everyone wants in on the Cannabis action. And that includes broke cities like Oakland.

baycitizen.org

The conflict between state and federal laws over the legality of medical marijuana is forcing some law enforcement officers to take on the unwelcome duty of delivering pot that caregivers attempt to ship through a parcel service.

Over the past year, the Billings Police Department has received an increasing number of calls from FedEx and UPS workers who discover packages containing what appears to be legal medical marijuana. A police investigator must then pick up the package, make phone calls to determine whether it is a Montana-legal product produced by a “caregiver” who is registered with the state and notify the distributor to retrieve the pot.

billingsgazette.com
whyprohibition.ca