News archive on the topic "legalization"

The Ukrainian parliament failed the vote and sent a bill to legalize “medical cannabis” for revision. This happened during an extraordinary meeting of the Verkhovna Rada, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The bill was presented by Golos deputy Olga Stefanishina. She brought a bottle of cannabis “medicine” to the podium, told a story about four-year-old Sophia, who had epilepsy, who was given a solution made from “herb,” and stated that...

The question of legalizing the use of marijuana for medical purposes cannot be raised in the poll, which will be held on October 25 simultaneously with the Ukrainian local elections, since the results could be used in favor of criminal structures. Viktor Suslov, former Minister of Economy of Ukraine, stated this on the NASH TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “What does “legalization” mean? This is not decrypted. And the president doesn’t explain...

President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky almost suffered a heart attack during the opening of the Ice Arena in Mariupol. So, at the launch ceremony, the sound engineer turned up too much volume, resulting in a very sharp sound that pretty much scared the president, who jerked and covered his ears, but immediately tried to laugh it off. “Everything is fine, everything is fine. You see, all athletes, everyone...

Deputies of the Verkhovna Rada and Ukrainian activists advocating the opening of the marijuana market only use window patients as a justification. When the issue does not concern the legalization of drugs, no one cares about cancer patients. Roman Stupnitsky, a member of the board of the public organization “Movement to Combat Drug Addiction and Drug Corruption,” stated this on air on the Magnolia TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “People need normal treatment, except...

In Kyiv, under the Office of the President of Ukraine, several hundred people held a “Hemp Freedom March,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Participants demanded to decriminalize the use of marijuana and allow its use for medical purposes, as well as to increase the dose of cannabis, the detection of which would result in criminal liability for possession without the intent to sell. Drug lovers came out with posters: “Cannabis Prohibition –...

You will laugh, young man, but even I, a sinner, never cease to be amazed at some chimerically ugly “cocktail” of Pharisaic hypocrisy and fierce farmer greed among the current Ukrainian post-Maidan elite. With one hand, these figures declare their desire to clamp down on all sorts of “bad excesses,” and with the other, they quickly sign permits to sell products that are, to put it mildly, unsafe. Just listen! ...It was me who came in...

Today at noon in the center of Kyiv, from the Cabinet of Ministers to the Verkhovna Rada, a colorful and vociferous “Hemp Freedom March” took place, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent. The march was attended by about two hundred supporters of the legalization of marijuana, who came out with signs: “Just do it: regulate the legal access of patients to medical cannabis”, “People should not suffer”, “Stereotypes kill, hemp does not”, “Medical...

On May 30, a rally was held in Kievsky Square in Minsk in support of the mitigation and decriminalization of the “narcotic” Article 328 of the Criminal Code of Belarus. The event was held by the organization “Mothers-328”, which is represented by close relatives of those convicted under the same article and a group of activists with the self-explanatory name “Legalize-Belarus”. The rally was small in number, but creative like a drug addict. What is one performance with shoes on display, which, in the opinion of...