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21st April 2023
Finland: The citizens’ initiative “Cannabis to be legal, regulated and taxed”, published in October 2022, has achieved the necessary 50,000 declarations of support. The initiative proposes to prepare a law that would allow the use, possession, personal cultivation, manufacture and sale of cannabis with age limits. It would create a regulatory system for the production and sale of cannabis and introduce a tax, and also define the difference between intoxicating and non-intoxicating cannabis. After a check of the declarations of support, the initiative will go to the parliament.9th November 2022
Finland: The government yesterday submitted a TRIS notification to the EU seeking to classify ten new substances as psychoactive substances banned from the consumer market. They include exahydrocannabinol (HHC) and other synthetic cannabinoids, such as ADB-B-5Br-INACA.
21st October 2022
- Finland: According to the new citizens’ initiative “Cannabis to be legal, regulated and taxed” published yesterday, the cannabis prohibition law should end in Finland. The initiative proposes to begin the preparation of a law for the legalisation, regulation and taxation of cannabis in Finland. If the initiative collects at least 50,000 declarations of support it can be submitted to the parliament. The initiative has collected almost 8,000 so far.
10th May 2022
- Finland: The Finnish government has proposed an amendment to the Act on Narcotic Drugs over the cultivation of industrial hemp. The proposal envisages, among other things, that hemp cultivation should be notified to the Finnish Medicines Agency (Fimea), and the hemp grower should keep a record of the hemp they grow and report it annually to the authority. If adopted, it will come into force on 1st January 2024.
2nd May 2022
- Finland: The Parliamentary Committee on Legal Affairs has rejected the citizens' initiative on cannabis use, media reports. The proposal was handed to Parliament in November 2020, based on the successful citizen’s initiative to decriminalise the use, possession and cultivation of cannabis for personal use.
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