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Germany: Following the example of his opposite number in Bavaria in criticising the federal plan to legalise recreational cannabis, North Rhine-Westphalia’s health minister Karl-Josef Laumann
Belgium: British American Tobacco (BAT) is to take a challenge to Belgium’s top administrative court, the Council of State, against the royal decree banning nicotine- and cannabinoid-containing
Czech Republic: National anti-drug coordinator Jindřich Vobořil said yesterday that CBD and HHC should not be banned, but specifically regulated in a similar
Lithuania: The Seimas (parliament) has approved the government’s 12-year agenda on drug, tobacco and alcohol control, which aims to reduce supply and consumption,
Iceland: A proposal that a Ministry of Health working group draws up a bill enabling companies to apply for licences to produce and distribute medicinal
Portugal: The chief inspector of the National Operations of the Economic and Food Safety Authority (ASAE), Ana Oliveira, has told the press that
Netherlands: The local authority of Amsterdam has approved the decision to prohibit tourists and residents from smoking cannabis in the streets of the
Belgium: The Federal Public Service for Health, Food Chain Safety and the Environment has updated its positive list of notified herbal products for smoking, which includes
Czech Republic: National anti-drug coordinator Jindřich Vobořil has told media he hopes proposed legislation on the regulated cannabis market will go to the
Czech Republic: Prime minister Petr Fiala has met with ministers and national anti-drug coordinator Jindřich Vobořil and agreed to scrap the proposed enforcement
UK: The House of Commons is to debate psilocybin access rights on Thursday (18th May). The Conservative Drug Policy Reform Group, the Royal College
Bulgaria: A bill to amend the Law on the Control of Narcotic Substances and Precursors has been reintroduced in Parliament by the centre-right party Democratic Bulgaria.
France: Health minister François Braun has said that hexahydrocannabinol (HHC) will be banned in the coming weeks. "It is not classified as narcotic
Germany: Bavaria's health ministry has criticised the federal Ministry of Health's draft law to legalise recreational cannabis. "Federal Health Minister Lauterbach's draft law
Czech Republic: On 10th May, the Czech Republic notified through the EU Commission's TRIS database a draft regulation to add hexahydrocannabinol (HHC) and
Lithuania: This week, the Rural Affairs Committee of the Seimas (parliament) decided that the legislation regulating the industrial hemp sector should be improved,
Bulgaria: The Ministry of Agriculture has issued a decree changing the requirements for hemp cultivation licences. It raises the THC cap from 0.2% to 0.3%
Lithuania: The Department of Drug, Tobacco and Alcohol Control (NTAKD) supports an initiative to decriminalise the possession of small amounts of cannabis, media
Czech Republic: Following a recent announcement that the State Agricultural and Food Inspection Authority (SZPI) is to introduce a ban on the sale
Italy: The Ministry of Health reports that over 1.5 tonnes of medical cannabis were sold in 2022, of which only 0.2 tonnes were produced
Germany: A bill to regulate recreational cannabis clubs, possession and consumption has reportedly been leaked to the press. In addition to the rules already presented
Germany: The Ministry of Health has published a technical report on the effects of the legalisation of recreational cannabis in Canada, the US and Uruguay, evaluating
Luxembourg: The Health and Justice ministries have published a proposal for the introduction of a recreational cannabis pilot programme. However, ministers have said the bill
Germany: Health minister Karl Lauterbach has sent a first draft of a bill to legalise recreational cannabis to other ministries for pre-publication review, press reports.
Denmark: The Ministry of Health is planning to ban hexahydrocannabinol (HHC), press reports. Health minister Sofie Løhde told a news channel: “When new substances appear on the
France: Deputy Victor Habert-Dassault, from the Republicans, presented a parliamentary question to the minister of health asking whether the government is considering banning
Italy: The Military Pharmaceutical Chemical Institute has temporarily suspended production of medical cannabis due to the poor state of the facilities and the lack
Greece: The government has issued a Ministerial Decision updating the requirements to apply for marketing authorisation for finished cannabis-containing medicinal products.
UK: CBD company Legacy 369 must stop using ads with medicinal claims for unlicensed CBD products, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruled today. An
Czech Republic: The Ministry of Agriculture has confirmed to CannIntelligence that a forthcoming ban on the sale of CBD and other cannabinoids will apply
Belgium: The Federal Public Service for Health, Food Chain Safety and the Environment has updated its positive list of notified herbal products for smoking, which includes
Lithuania: The Seimas (parliament) is to reconsider decriminalising possession of small quantities of cannabis. Members yesterday accepted the Ethics and Procedures Committee’s view
UK: During a parliamentary debate on medical cannabis, Will Quince, minister for health and secondary care, said he understood the government intended to respond to the
Lithuania: A bid to decriminalise possession of small quantities of cannabis was removed from the parliamentary agenda today, with procedural issues to be
Germany: The Ministry of Health has notified through the European Commission’s TRIS database a bill to add the synthetic cannabinoid ADB-BUTINACA to the New Psychoactive Substances
Bulgaria: The Ministry of Interior has released the results of a police operation that seized 5,670 products containing hexahydrocannabinol (HHC) "with extremely vague documentation".
Portugal: The Liberal Initiative party, an opposition party with eight seats in Parliament, has introduced a bill to legalise recreational cannabis. The bill
Finland: The citizens’ initiative “Cannabis to be legal, regulated and taxed”, published in October 2022, has achieved the necessary 50,000 declarations of support.
UK: Conservative MP David Mundell told the Scottish Herald newspaper that the cannabis industry has huge economic potential but faces a lot of regulatory
Bulgaria: The National Drugs Council has agreed to add hexahydrocannabinol (HHC) to Schedule 1 of the Regulation on the Classification of Plants and Substances as Narcotics as an
EU: The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) has released its technical report on hexahydrocannabinol (HHC) and other semi-synthetic cannabinoids in Europe.
Sweden: The Public Health Agency has added H4-CBD, a hydrogenated version of CBD, to the list of substances under investigation, while hexahydrocannabinol (HHC)
Luxembourg: Following Germany’s recent announcement on legalising cannabis, Luxembourg's minister of health, Paulette Lenert, expressed optimism for the country's plans to legalise adult-use
Czech Republic: The National Anti-Drug Headquarters (a police department) together with the Ministry of Defense and customs officials have proposed to include hexahydrocannabinol
Austria: Christian Stocker, general secretary of the governing People’s Party, has said the party is firmly against the idea of following Germany’s example in
Germany: The Health Ministry has presented new key points for the cannabis legalisation project. In phase one, non-profit cannabis clubs will be allowed to grow
Netherlands: All ten growers in the Closed Coffee Shop Chain experiment have been selected and instructed, media reports. The first phase of the
Poland: Polish authorities have informed the European Commission (EC) through the TRIS database that the country intends to add HHC-O (hexahydrocannabinol acetate), a synthetic cannabinoid
Czech Republic: Yesterday, the government approved the 2023-2025 Addiction Policy Action Plan setting topics that the country should prioritise in this period, media
