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Germany

Funeral guests in Germany get high after accidentally eating hash cake

A police investigation found a mix-up with the cakes led to 13 people needing medical treatment for dizziness and nausea.

Living

Places you'll be able to find cannabis by 2030

The market for cannabis is exploding. You'll be able to do much more than smoke it over the next decade.

Netherlands

Dutch municipalities advance in government-proposed 'weed experiment'

A "weed experiment" that could see cannabis that has been grown legally and tested for quality to be sold in Dutch "coffee shops" has moved one step closer to fruition, the country's health ministry has said.

World News

Euroviews. Europe faces a health crisis if cannabis products are not regulated to protect consumers ǀ View

The CBD market needs to be regulated. It’s not about the CBD itself, but about the way the products are treated and manufactured. Europe has a reputation for protecting its citizens, but when it comes to cannabis, it’s lagging behind.

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Luxembourg

'Time to try something else': Luxembourg official on cannabis policy

The minister insisted Luxembourg wouldn't become a cannabis tourism hotspot, mainly because non-residents wouldn't be allowed to buy it.

Luxembourg

Luxembourg could become first EU country to fully legalise cannabis

In an interview with Politico, Health Minister Etienne Schneider confirmed his government's plans to legalise production and consumption of cannabis for recreational purposes, while calling other European countries to do the same.

World News

Why cannabis should be legal, by the woman hoping to run the EU

Green MEP Ska Keller said she was in favour of legalising cannabis as she kicked-off Euronews' series of interviews with those in the running for the EU’s top job.

United Kingdom

First medical cannabis clinic opens in the UK

Britain legalised certain types of cannabis-based treatments last year.

United Kingdom

UK Hemp Earth Dispensary searches for perfect spliff roller

A business in the UK is holding a contest to see who can roll the perfect spliff in the fastest time — the prize? A job.

Living

Does cannabis contain the next “superfood”?

We sort fact from fiction.

World

Canada Legalises Recreational Marijuana

Canada has officially legalised the recreational use of Cannabis - making it the second country in the world to do so. Queues formed in the province of Newfoundland at midnight - where the first sales of legal Marijuana have taken place.

Canada

Canada legalises recreational use of cannabis

Do you think Canada's move to legalise cannabis is a wise one?

United Kingdom

Britain's changing attitude to marijuana

Britain's changing attitude to marijuana

United Kingdom

UK Home Office returns epileptic boy's medicinal cannabis oil

Britain's Home Office Saturday used a special power to return medicinal cannabis oil it had confiscated from an epileptic boy.

Italy

Italian police seize 10 tonnes of hashish off the coast of Sicily

Authorities estimate street value of seized is between 15 and 20 million euros

Denmark

Copenhagen's largest cannabis market shut down

Pusher St. in Copenhagen's alternative Christiania neighbourhood was unexpectedly closed on Tuesday morning

Spain

Southern Spain corroded by cocktail of drug gangs and jobless youth

Drug traffickers along Spain’s southern coast are acting with near impunity and luring unemployed youngsters to join their ranks.

Argentina

Marches in Peru & Argentina demand new cannabis laws

Countries dragging their feet on applying relaxations on medical grounds and patients are suffering, say campaigners.

Switzerland

Lidl offers locally grown Cannabis to Swiss shoppers

Lidl high? The German supermarket giant Lidl is now offering locally grown cannabis in its Swiss stores.

Greece

Greece: Government to fast-track plans to legalise medical cannabis pr

Proposals for the legal framework for domestic growers are due to be voted on later this month.