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Cannabis legalisation has been a hot topic for all the major news outlets yet again this week, after a new publication launched yesterday by Volteface and The Adam Smith Institute.
In the aptly named Tide Effect, author Boris Starling argues that cannabis legalisation and regulation is now inevitable due to a tidal shift in perception and the amount of countries re-visiting their cannabis laws. He argues that we should look to the market-based approach currently seen in some US states for ideas on how to approach UK Cannabis legalisation and regulation.
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As the political dust begins to settle after an election that transcended the US to be one of the craziest parts of an already crazy year (Brexit, anyone?), we can stand back and take a look at the positives to come out of all this, which are some shiny new US Cannabis Laws in 8 states.
Alongside (although also somewhat overshadowed by) the US Presidential election, there were ballots for cannabis laws to change (either medically or recreatinally) in 9 states. 8 of the 9 bills passed, making Tuesday an extraordinary day for cannabis reform.02
Women are helping to shape the cannabis industry in the US!
Female ganjapreneurs are in the limelight, climbing up the high ranks of power in the cannabis industry. For these women, times have never been better; there are more opportunities than ever before to leave traditional jobs and succeed in green pastures.
According to the Pew Research Center, women make up 36% of executives in the marijuana business, much more than the average 22% for female executives in all other industries.
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Dabbing has hit the UK, with cannabis extracts becoming more popular and widely available. However, a lot of cannabis users have yet to try a Nectar Collector, an exciting and efficient new way to consume cannabis extract.
Think of a Nectar Collector as a glass water pipe - it's as simple as heating the titanium or glass tip and you're good to go.26
High Society is a new VICE documentary series about drugs in the UK. This episode takes a look at how current cannabis laws are failing the UK.
The presenter meets figures such as Lee Harris (candidate for Cannabis is safer than Alcohol and owner of London's oldest head shop), Greg de Hoedt (president of the United Kingdom Cannabis Social Clubs) and Black The Ripper (UK Rapper and cannabis advocate).
This 20-minute episode on the UK cannabis scene doesn't have enough time to go into much detail, but you get a sense from watching the documentary that UK perception is changing, with the documentary pointing out quite rightly that more than half of both people and MPs want to see legal access to cannabis in one form or another.
Several positive topics are covered including the April 20th celebrations in Hyde Park, Medical and recreational cannabis. In one scene the presenter meets Greg who tells him how he quit cannabis whilst at uni only to find it was an effective medicine for his Crohn's Disease.
Ital Samson aka Black The Ripper has gained a lot of attention for his various videos featuring cannabis consumption in public places, and he features in the documentary, as does Lee Harris who ran for mayor for Cannabis is Safer than Alcohol to make a statement.
I felt this episode could have gone into more detail on all of the topics covered, but being limited to 20 minutes it did a good job to cover several key areas.
Some of the negative sections included a scene about a granny growing cannabis in Birmingham, (not itself a bad thing, but it was presented as tied to gangs and with hijacked electricity - not painting a good picture!), and another about some of the gangs who go around stealing cannabis crops. I feel that these scenes, in particular, should have been highlighted to be problems caused by prohibition, but perhaps this shows the disparity in perception of the UK cannabis campaign from the outside.
After all, the law puts us all in the same boat, does it not?
Watch the documentary How Weed Laws Are Failing the UK and read the youtube description below:
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