Today we are continuing our discussion on Europe and its seemingly inevitable march towards the legalisation of cannabis. This week we’ll be focusing on Poland, Czechia, Denmark and Ireland.
This week in ISMOKE magazine we are be taking a look across the Channel to see what our European neighbours are up to with regard to cannabis law reform and future legalisation.
Spain
The Spanish constitutional courts have recently ruled that the 50-year-old unofficial policy of tolerance towards cannabis is in fact illegal. The country's main court has recently ruled that the regional parliaments don’t have the power to regulate Cannabis Social Clubs under the existing legal system and have hinted that the countries current relaxed attitudes towards cannabis consumption and social clubs may, in fact, be coming to an end.
Over the last few weeks, the debate around Skunk has in some circles, reared its head again.
In my circle, the debate is always there and the position is clear. Skunk is a favourite strain of many close friends and myself. Not some psychotic inducing evil and dangerous form of cannabis.
Skunk has, depending on who…
This week we’ll be looking at how the total legalisation of cannabis (i.e. medical AND recreational) is the only way to ensure the full and unhindered access for ALL medicinal cannabis patients.
In recent years in the US, a majority of states have voted to legalise the use of medical cannabis. Currently, 28 individual states…
This week I am taking a look at how reefer madness, propaganda and successive disastrous anti-drug campaigns have created the opportunity for political prohibitionists around the world to break up families, destroy lives, incarcerate vast numbers of people and even murder people in this failed "war on drugs".
Born out of the Nixon and Regan “Just…
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto issued a decree this week, legalising medical cannabis across the country.
Cannabis has been illegal in Mexico since 1920, but decriminalised since 2009.
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto
The case of Mexico is an excellent one for the worldwide anti-prohibition movement, as the Mexican President was once extremely opposed to drug legalisation.
However, his opinions clearly changed, and…
Few things in this world could ever match up to a mother's love, and I am in no doubt that prohibition isn’t one of them.
This week on ISMOKE we meet the warrior women - the mothers of mercy desperately fighting to treat their children using cannabis and cannabis-derived medicinal products.
Too often these women who are not only having to fight against the odds, but their doctors, the law and even the very services that have been established to help heal and treat their offspring’s ailments and to protect their health.
On Saturday 6th May we attended the Cardiff Global Cannabis March 2017. The event attracted hundreds of protesters who marched through Cardiff City to protest for our right to consume cannabis.
Attracting people from across the UK, the Cardiff Global Cannabis March was organised by Cardiff Cannabis Social Club, and last week saw the 7th annual event which has been running since 2010.
- Israel’s cabinet passed a bill on Sunday decriminalising cannabis use in the country.
- Cannabis still can’t be used in public, but incarceration will only be used if a person is caught reoffending 4 times.
- However, country's Green party say this is not enough - not true decriminalisation
- In some ways laws have become more strict for first-time offenders.