Der Cannabis-Konsum soll verboten bleiben, künftig aber nicht mehr zur Anzeige gebracht werden. Nach dem Willen der Gesundheitskommissionen (SGK) von National- und Ständerat soll Kiffen im Ordnungsbussenverfahren geahndet werden.

bazonline.ch

An upper house of Parliament commission 19 January voted 8-0 in favour of fining anyone caught smoking cannabis.

genevalunch.com

On Thursday, 28th of January, 2010, the Antwerp Court of Appeal (Waalse Kaai 35A, 13e Room, Hall B, from 09.00 hs) will deal with the courtcase in appeal on the verdict against Trekt Uw Plant that was sentenced in february 2009 by the local Antwerp court. The case was scheduled earlier on 1st and 15th of October 2009, but on the request of the prosecutor general, it was postponed twice.

encod.org

After 40 years of defeat and failure, America's "war on drugs" is being buried in the same fashion as it was born – amid bloodshed, confusion, corruption and scandal. US agents are being pulled from South America; Washington is putting its narcotics policy under review, and a newly confident region is no longer prepared to swallow its fatal Prohibition error. Indeed, after the expenditure of billions of dollars and the violent deaths of tens of thousands of people, a suitable epitaph for America's longest "war" may well be the plan, in Bolivia, for every family to be given the right to grow coca in its own backyard.

independent.co.uk

Justice Minister to consider proposal to set up state-sanctioned cannabis stores in Copenhagen

The Copenhagen City Council’s plan to set up shops selling cannabis as a way to remove the market from the control of gangs is not likely to be embraced enthusiastically in parliament, according to a Conservative Party politician.

cphpost.dk

A retired academic who once called for cannabis to be legalised was appointed yesterday as the Government’s new adviser on the harm caused by drugs.

Les Iversen, a former pharmacology professor at the University of Oxford, was made interim chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. He replaces Professor David Nutt, who was sacked for criticising the Government’s decision to reclassify cannabis as a Class B substance.

timesonline.co.uk

Wenn die Versammlung die öffentliche Sicherheit 4-3 Ausschuss stimmte heute Morgen zu genehmigen Assembly Bill 390 - Rechtsvorschriften von Tom Ammiano, dass Steuer-und Legalisierung von Marihuana würde, auch für die rein Freizeitkonsum - es war einer beispiellosen Aktion in den Vereinigten Staaten.

"Es ist riesig. Es ist aufregend. Und wir haben wirklich zu danken [Demokratischen Ausschussmitglieder Nancy] Skinner, [Jerry] Hill, und Jared Huffman für ihre Unterstützung ", sagte der Ammiano Guardian. "Ich fühle mich wirklich befriedigt."

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MARIJUANA, ca. 1967 - ca. 1973. ARC Identifier 74404 / Local Identifier 428-MC-10701. Producer: National Archives and Records Administration. Creative Commons license: Public Domain