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About Our Remarkable Ban and Return to YouTube

In an odd turn of events, we are pleased to announce we are back on YouTube after our channel was taken down. Unlike many other channels like our friends at Marihuana TV, which still remain banned. Over the past couple of months, YouTube channels related to cannabis started to being shut down. The only message […]

Cannabis News Network

May 8, 2018

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Trekt Uw Plant (TUP) – must shut down and disbanded

The first Belgian cannabis social club – Trekt Uw Plant (TUP) – must shut down and disband. The club was initiated in 2006, and after unsuccessful attempts in 2006 and 2008 to criminalize this club, it now happened. Members were given prison sentences of up to twenty months on probation, and a total of 121,250 […]

Cannabis News Network

June 29, 2019

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WHO Stuck Between Politics to Reschedule Cannabis within the UN

ince 1961, the United Nations considers cannabis as a Schedule I drug with “no accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.” The plant is scheduled as a dangerous drug, like heroin, in the Single Convention on Narcotic and Drugs. But things are about to change. Commission on Narcotic Drugs 61st Reconvened Session Earlier […]

Cannabis News Network

September 13, 2019

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FIRST LOOK: Johan van Laarhoven Case, Part 2

Earlier this week, lawyers of the former coffee shop owner Johan van Laarhoven from Tilburg showed a delegation of Thai lawyers how the Dutch tolerance policy on soft drugs works.

Cannabis News Network

August 23, 2015

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UN drugs watchdog out of tune with reality

Earlier this week, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) – the UN watchdog on compliance with the international drug control conventions – has released its latest position on cannabis which largely warns against ‘medical cannabis’ rather than welcoming the many advances in the therapeutic applications of the plant. Recreational and medical cannabis are “contrary to […]

Cannabis News Network

March 6, 2019

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Should Cannabis Social Clubs be included in the legalization discussion?

Cannabis Social Clubs in Spain: legal or not? pain now counts more clubs than the Netherlands has coffeeshops. But whereas the coffeeshops in the Netherlands can sell cannabis openly (if they stick to the rules, which is difficult with an illegal supply chain), Cannabis Social Clubs were for a couple days actually legal in 2017. Few […]

Mauro

October 8, 2018

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CBD products in the EU could soon only be available in pharmacies. Is it too late to change?

Cannabis News Network

July 4, 2019

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Looking back, looking forward

The green revolution is happening and it is televised. Cannabis News Network bringing news first, broadcasting main events sifting out essential developments. Mainstream media, naturally, are always lagging behind. We showed the game changing benefits of hemp and followed international politics, from the “Trial of the Plant” in South Africa, to the story of indigenous peoples in Colombia. Battles for […]

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December 24, 2018

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Coming up: Thai delegation investigating cannabis

The Dutch government, famous for its tolerant stands towards cannabis since the early ‘70s, have shifted towards a war on cannabis. This war is being waged on multiple fronts. One of these battles is against Johan van Laarhoven, a retired coffeeshop entrepreneur living in Thailand. The Dutch government accuses him of laundering money earned by […]

Cannabis News Network

August 28, 2015

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So what about hemp and CBD in China?

While the US only recently passed the 2018 Farm Bill which legalized industrial hemp, China is already ahead and has become the largest producer of hemp in the world with 400,000 acres/162,000 ha. Since a couple of years, China has also legalized the extraction of CBD from industrial hemp, which has been used in the increasing […]

Cannabis News Network

March 9, 2019

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