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Enjoyable News Show this week with @KowalskiKatya for @VoltefaceHub - plenty of contraversy and more of a 'drug policy' focus this week 🚨 Ben Sessa barred in sex scandal: 01:00🇳🇱 Dutch cannabis pilot bad news: 09:30🍃 Teeside cannabis club update: 16:00☹️ Oregon to roll back decrim policies: 19:00🇫🇷 France removing flower from medical market: 31:00🇩🇪 German artist advertises medical cannabis: 40:00
Volteface Industry news show with Katya Kowalski
We discuss:
CB1 Medical recent price increase (now dropped)
Medisonal opens making the total clinic count 43!!
Script Assist launch 'Find a Doctor'
Ananda Developments Plc announce a new trial
Curaleaf and GROW® Pharma Media Watch
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In this episode Paul and Katya discuss the recent German governments revised cannabis policy and explore if this is a good thing or a step backwards.
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Welcome to Volteface TV - keeping you up to date and informed on global cannabis reform and drug policy. In this episode Paul North, Director of Volteface and guest Alfredo Pascual discuss where Europe is at with regards to recreational cannabis reform.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
03:00 - Where is Europe at with regards to recreational cannabis reform?
06:00 - Differences between North America and Europe
09:30 - How politicians see cannabis reform as a public health issue
12:00 - Is a public health approach the only way to see cannabis reform in Europe?
13:40 - How did Germany get cannabis reform on the agenda
17:40 - How stigma and fear infiltrates reform policies
21:20 - Can policies be changed over time to be more effective
27:00 - Discussion around the 'grey market' vs corporations
31:40 - Germany update, next steps and process
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Welcome to Volteface TV - keeping you up to date and informed on global cannabis reform and drug policy.
In this episode Paul and Katya discuss why the UK politicians won't openly support UK drug policy reform and crucially break down what we can do about it! Like and subscribe for more content! For daily cannabis and drug policy news - www.volteface.me
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We can’t understand the history of war without including drugs, and we can’t understand the role of drugs in society without including war. Drugs have been a historic cause of war and since at least 1971, war itself has been the primary frame through which our society has understood its relationship with controlled substances. For remembrance weekend, Jay Jackson writes on war, and drugs.
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VF Head of Policy & Public Affairs, Jay Jackson, interviews journalist and drug policy reform advocate Mattha Busby about his book 'Should All Drugs be Legalised". In their discussion they touch on the Portuguese model, imperialism, racial justice, Joe Biden and much more.
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Volteface staff Paul North, Jay Jackson and Katya Kowalski discuss if Liz Truss and her new Ministers are going to legalise cannabis or have any positive impact on drug policy reform.
Would Truss consider a legal cannabis market?
Will we see any positive movement towards more liberal policies?
Or are we about to take one big step backwards....
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Four years on from legalisation, why are so few people accessing the cannabis based medicines they need? One of the most commonly discussed topics in the medical cannabis industry - what is stopping the market getting off the ground?
Katya Kowalski and Paul North discuss this in detail and explore what needs fixing before the industry can effectively expand.
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In this episode Paul, Katya and George break down all the big talking points over the past month in the world of cannabis and drug reform.
Topics covered: Germany legalises cannabis, the UK drug strategy, the Taliban troll the world, Malta facing resistance to reform, wider European update and Mice eating cannabis?!
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