http://www.drugnews.org/ Media Awareness Project Drug News en-us Thu, 12 Mar 2026 07:04:27 -0700 Wed, 16 Apr 2025 16:10:02 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Modperl editor@mapinc.org (MAP Editor) webmaster@mapinc.org (MAP Webmaster) http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v15/n728/a06.html Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec 2015 - The Loosening of Marijuana Laws in Much of the U.S. Increases Competition. BADIRAGUATO, Mexico - He started growing marijuana as a teenager and for four decades earned a modest living from his tiny plot tucked at the base of these rugged mountains of western Mexico. Wed, 30 Dec 2015 08:00:00 GMT http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v15/n728/a06.html http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v15/n709/a09.html Toronto Star, 19 Dec 2015 - Fight Breaks Out After Pair Who Were 'Like Brothers' Reportedly Took Psychedelic Drug Ayahuasca A spiritual retreat in Peru turned deadly when a 29-year-old Canadian allegedly stabbed a British man after the pair took a hallucinogenic brew. Sat, 19 Dec 2015 08:00:00 GMT http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v15/n709/a09.html http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v15/n696/a01.html Baltimore Sun, 12 Dec 2015 - MEXICO CITY - The Mexican government on Friday granted the first permits allowing the cultivation and possession of marijuana for personal use. The federal medical protection agency said the permits apply only to the four plaintiffs who won a favorable ruling from the Supreme Court last month. The court said growing and consuming marijuana is covered under the right of "free development of personality." Sat, 12 Dec 2015 08:00:00 GMT http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v15/n696/a01.html http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v15/n687/a09.html Sun-Sentinel, 03 Dec 2015 - MEXICO CITY - President Enrique Pena Nieto came out against legalizing marijuana Wednesday, the same day his government announced a national public debate on the issue. He suggested the recent, informal debate on the issue has created confusion. Mexico's Supreme Court ruled in November that growing, possessing and smoking marijuana for recreation is legal under the right to freedom, but that ruling applied only to the four people involved in the case. - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom Thu, 03 Dec 2015 08:00:00 GMT http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v15/n687/a09.html http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v15/n682/a07.html Los Angeles Times, 03 Dec 2015 - PRESIDENT OPPOSES LEGAL POT Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto came out strongly against legalizing marijuana, the same day his government announced a national public debate on the issue. He suggested the recent, informal debate has already created confusion. Mexico's Supreme Court ruled in November that growing, possessing and smoking marijuana for recreation is legal under the right to freedom, but that ruling applied only to the four people involved in the case. Thu, 03 Dec 2015 08:00:00 GMT http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v15/n682/a07.html http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v15/n672/a09.html Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov 2015 - Mexico's drug violence casts a long shadow over the city of Ocotlan, and the Southern Californians who love it. The children paid no heed to the priest from Jalisco as he celebrated a fiesta Mass in the backyard of a La Puente ranch, or to their parents urging them to sit still for the misa, or even to the rooster crowing nearby. Thu, 26 Nov 2015 08:00:00 GMT http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v15/n672/a09.html http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v15/n648/a08.html The Virgin Islands Daily News, 13 Nov 2015 - BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Colombia's government plans to legalize the cultivation and sale of marijuana for medicinal and scientific purposes, officials said Thursday in a surprise shift by the longtime U.S. ally in the war on drugs. The change is coming in an executive decree that President Juan Manuel Santos will soon sign into law. It will regulate regulating everything from licensing for growers to the eventual export of products made from marijuana, Justice Minister Yesid Reyes said. Fri, 13 Nov 2015 08:00:00 GMT http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v15/n648/a08.html http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v15/n648/a03.html Washington Post, 13 Nov 2015 - Colombia plans to legalize the cultivation and sale of marijuana for medicinal and scientific purposes, government officials said in a surprise shift by the longtime U.S. ally in the war on drugs. The change comes in an executive decree that President Juan Manuel Santos will soon sign into law. With it, Colombia joins countries from Mexico to Chile that have experimented with legalization or decriminalization amid changing attitudes toward drug use and policies. - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom Fri, 13 Nov 2015 08:00:00 GMT http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v15/n648/a03.html http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v15/n643/a06.html Washington Post, 11 Nov 2015 - Despite U.S. Efforts to Cut Off the Drug at the Source, Colombia Is Again the World's Top Coca Producer Tierradentro, Colombia - Illegal coca cultivation is surging in Colombia, erasing one of the showcase achievements of U.S. counternarcotics policy and threatening to send a burst of cheap cocaine through the smuggling pipeline to the United States. Wed, 11 Nov 2015 08:00:00 GMT http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v15/n643/a06.html