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Seattle Hempfest 2010: Planet's Largest Pot Festival

cannabisculture.com — CANNABIS CULTURE - Seattle Hempfest, the world's largest annual "cannabis re-legalization protestival", is less than a week away, from August 21-22. Organizers say this years' event, which stretches across three Seattle waterfront parks and features live music and speeches from well-known cannabis activists, will focus on "responsible use and harm More... (World)

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A Dutch City Seeks to End Drug Tourism

nytimes.com — MAASTRICHT, the Netherlands — On a recent summer night, Marc Josemans’s Easy Going Coffee Shop was packed. The lines to buy marijuana and hashish stretched to the reception area where customers waited behind glass barriers. Most were young. Few were Dutch. Thousands of “drug tourists” sweep into this small, picturesque city in the southeastern part More... (World)

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Maastricht ban on tourists in marijuana cafes upheld by EU court

guardian.co.uk — Its name may be synonymous with European unity ? but increasingly its coffee shops are not. Moves by the Dutch border town of Maastricht to ban foreigners from its marijuana cafes have been upheld by the European court, in a rare contravention of EU laws governing free markets and free movement of people. In response to what it terms an influx of h More... (World)

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Amsterdam Foreign tourists could be banned from coffee shops

europolitics.info — There may be clouds on the horizon for border-area coffee shops and their non-resident customers because municipalities could be authorised to limit access to such establishments to residents of the Netherlands. This measure, ordered to discourage drug tourism, was validated by Advocate-General Yves Bot of the EU Court of Justice, on 15 July. In hi More... (World)

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Guidebook delivers the dope on marijuana trips

travel.usatoday.com — First of all, I am not endorsing this guidebook. But it rates a mention because, of the piles of new travel books that land on my desk each week, this one explores previously uncharted territory. Cannabis Trips: A Global Guide that Leaves No Turn Unstoned (Running Press, $16.95) by Bill Weinberg, a former editor at High Times magazine, looks at the More... (World)

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Rwanda: Government Seeks to Legalize Marijuana for Medical Use

allafrica.com — Kigali Africa — The Ministry of Health has forwarded a bill to parliament that seeks to legalize the use of marijuana and other narcotics to be used strictly for medical purpose.he Minister of Health, Dr. Richard Sezibera, presenting the draft law governing drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors in Rwanda, attributed the bill to protection o More... (World)

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Marijuana's role in creating a new kind of cuisine

makeahistory.com — The piece explains how marijuana is inspiring chefs and restaurants to create a new kind of cuisine, making its claim after interviewing "a handful of chefs [who] are unabashedly open about marijuana's role in their creative and recreational lives and its effect on their restaurants.... More... (World)

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High Times in the German Capital

abcnews.go.com — Berliners have long enjoyed their city's soft stance on marijuana. It's not uncommon to see someone taking a deep drag on a joint in a city park or rolling one in the back of a café. Now, though, the German capital may take a further step toward becoming one of the most weed-tolerant in Europe. The city-state's top health official told SPIEGEL tha More... (World)

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Legalizing marijuana could help Juárez, officials say

elpasotimes.com — EL PASO -- A new drug war, this one over whether marijuana legalization would help or hinder Juárez, got under way Monday. City Reps. Beto O'Rourke and Susie Byrd called a news conference to say they believe reforming drug laws and legalizing marijuana would help reduce violence in Mexico. O'Rourke and Byrd, joined at the Paso del Norte Bridge by f More... (World)

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Berlin Germany Set to Relax Cannabis Laws

spiegel.de — A new marijuana policy could make it legal for individuals to posses up to 15 grams (0.5 ounces) of the drug in the German capital. The regulation would make Berlin among the most cannabis-friendly in Europe. Berliners have long enjoyed their city's soft stance on marijuana. It's not uncommon to see someone taking a deep drag on a joint in a city p More... (World)

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