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Political Parties In Portugal Propose Adult Use Laws

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Team Leafie Report … Two political parties in Portugal, Left Bloc and Liberal Initiative, have each presented proposed laws for adult-use cannabis legalisation in the country this week, according to a report in Portugal News. While the Liberal Initiative party proposes little-to-no state control over cultivation, trade or consumption.

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Cannabis laws in Luxembourg

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The proposed law would allow residents to cultivate up to four plants and consume at home, but public consumption remains illegal. In 2001 , the country decriminalized personal cannabis use and possession, which are typically punishable by a fine. The post Cannabis laws in Luxembourg appeared first on The Cannigma.

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Cannabis laws in Japan: Is weed legal?

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Some hemp cultivation is permitted in Japan, but on a relatively very small scale. Japanese authorities can prosecute citizens for violating its cannabis laws — even if they used it abroad. Organizers have described participants as more likely to have lived overseas where the laws are more permissive. Shutterstock).

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Malta: Prison over 0.02 grams of cannabis, and a 20-year wait for justice to be served

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Arrested in 2001 but arraigned 18 months later, Eugenio Camenzuli posted a guilty plea on his first sitting in 2006, but spent 20 years before an appeal overturned a prison sentence for just 0.02g of cannabis. The court of Criminal Appeal handed a 63-year-old man a suspended sentence for cultivating just 0.02 Malta Today reports.

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Tasmania: Australian Lawyers Alliance (ALA) Says How About Decriminalizing Cannabis. State Attorney General Says No Way Jose

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International and interstate examples of success, growing public support and the clear failure of current laws to stop drug use means the time is right for drug law reform in Tasmania, says the Australian Lawyers Alliance (ALA). Read the ALA’s report into drug law reform ‘Doing More Harm than Good’ here.

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Portuguse medical cannabis exports increase by 600% says new report

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In 2001 Portugal was in fact the first European state to decriminalize the use of all narcotic substances and in February 2019 the law authorizing the cultivation and export of cannabis came into force. In Greece electricity is very expensive, in Italy there are businesses you don’t want to be involved with .

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“Receivership Sale” AgTech Scientific Group Firesale Of It’s Greenhouse Facility Outside Lexington

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The complex in Bourbon County, Kentucky, was built in 2001 to grow ornamental flowers and was converted to cultivate hemp for CBD in 2019. Two years ago, AgTech merged with ColorPoint, formerly a large player in the ornamental horticulture industry.

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