Articles tagged with "Europe"

In the post-High Times Cup era, two new cannabis competitions have emerged: the Elite Cup, in Amsterdam, and the Homegrown Cup, held in the southern city of Eindhoven.

Despite multiple raids a day by an extremely active anti-cannabis police task force, authorities can barely make a dent in illegal production.

Why are so many top-shelf cannabis-infused ointments, shampoos, and body creams made in the Czech Republic?

Some in Greece see the country’s newly legal hemp industry as a driver for economic prosperity.

A spokesman says the television personality, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, was detained by customs after leaving prescription cannabis powder in his luggage.

European politicians are mulling plans to expand medical cannabis options, but until the talk becomes reality it’s still slim pickings for Europeans in need.

Florida opens its first (limited) dispensary, Germany and Italy consider MMJ expansion, and a Maryland lawmaker denies a cannabis conflict of interest.

Medical use is up for discussion in Germany, while Italian officials will mull both medical and adult-use consumption.

Cannabis doesn’t carry the sort of health hazards tobacco does, a majority of studies say. But that doesn’t change the European habit of mixing the two.

Forty years of cannabis policy in the Netherlands has led to an almost unworkable situation for coffeeshops. In Utrecht, it’s getting better.