Uruguay to sell marijuana to take profits from dealers. Netherlands to close prisons for lack of criminals. A new high at parliament: pot protest on MPs' doorstep - UK Politics - UK. Founded more than three decades ago, the National Organisation for the Reform of Marijuana Laws has played a key role in persuading 17 states to adopt some form of cannabis decriminalisation – mostly for medicinal users. The group hopes to highlight the discrepancy within European law over who can use medicinal marijuana and who cannot.
In the Netherlands, sufferers of chronic diseases are allowed to smoke Bedrocan, a strand of cannabis licensed by the Dutch government. Under the Schengen Agreement, as long as a Dutch person has a certificate stating that their cannabis is for medicinal use they can smoke it in another European country without penalty. Councillor calls for cannabis cafes in Brighton. Copenhagen votes to legalise marijuana. The scheme, if approved by the Danish parliament at the start of next year, could make the city the first to fully legalise, rather than simply tolerate, marijuana consumption.
"We are thinking of perhaps 30 to 40 public sales houses, where the people aren't interested in selling you more, they're interested in you," said Mikkel Warming, the Mayor in charge of Social Affairs at Copenhagen City Council. "Who is it better for youngsters to buy marijuana from? A drug pusher, who wants them to use more, who wants them to buy hard drugs, or a civil servant?
" The proposal will then be sent to to the Danish Parliament for approval early next year. "We want to make it a little bit more concrete what kind of decriminalisation we want: should it be a public buying system, should there be an age limit? "