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For thousands of years, the hemp plant has been part of daily life in diverse cultures around the world. In 5th century BC, Greek historian Herodotus described the Scythian people who lived on the Eurasian edge of the western world, and where hemp also grew. So instead of calamus or spice cane, as labelled in the German standard translation of […]

But five months on and there has been no word or timetable about when legal stores might be opened, and pro-cannabis activists are getting impatient at what they consider unnecessary foot-dragging. Montana is a former soldier who said he used cannabis to cope with the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. A spokesman for Burkhard Blienert, […]

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“When we developed the idea in 2011, we tried different strains. “It’s like God’s garden — in the middle of a green area, surrounded by the mountains around Kasese,” Sosinsky said, explaining that the location on the equator was crucial for cannabis cultivation. First, he set up a power supply and hired more than 100 workers […]

El-Sissi, a military officer who has been running the country since deposing its elected president in 2013, takes the microphone, says a few words, then starts to laugh. Cannabis has been part of Middle Eastern culture for ages. Back in his native Damascus, Mahmoud said he and his friends smoked hashish, or cannabis resin, and took amphetamine […]

Earlier this year, the city’s mayor, Femke Halsema, touted a proposal to ban foreign tourists from entering cannabis-serving establishments as a way to reinvent the city’s image. In recent pre-pandemic years, the city attracted around 20 million tourists annually. “If they were to ban the tourists, 80% of our customers would be gone,” Mcguire told […]