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Malta is an insignificant city state in the middle of a sea, but the leaders of both political parties came out in favour of debating Canada or Portugal type of decrim yesterday. Much of it seems to be preelection posturing, but I would be cautiously optimistic.
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Cicero posted:Germany might get legal recreational weed: https://www.marijuanamoment.net/germany-set-to-legalize-marijuana-nationwide-after-major-parties-reach-agreement/ Malta just legalised recreational cannabis about an hour ago. Law has to be signed by the president to come into force, but that's usually a formality. https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/cannabis-bill-approved-in-parliament-in-first-for-europe.921310 quote:The bill makes it possible for those who use cannabis to legally grow and purchase buds and seeds for personal use. edit: Malta is kind of a basketcase of a country, charitably speaking, and functions despite itself and the best efforts of its politicians, but I hope this thing gives momentum to other EU countries a podcast for cats fucked around with this message at 17:21 on Dec 14, 2021 |
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Bunch of things. It's a very corrupt place with a very unique political culture that's built around corruption. Economically that doesn't really have much going for it except for whatever its latest hustle is. Most recently it got onto the FATF graylist of countries that seriously need to get their money laundering poo poo together or else, mostly due to poor/lax controls over the banks and banklike institutions registered there. Prior to that, it tried to get into medical cannabis and paralelly become the blockchain jurisdiction of choice, but that got sidetracked by the investigation (and scandal) of a politically motivated assassination of a prominent journalist that was ordered by a close associate of the then PMs. His chief of staff, IIRC. Then they dabbled in golden passports for shady people wanting to get access to EU. Before that it was the online gambling flag of convenience for operators wanting/needing to have an gambling licence that's recognized in the EU. Even before that it was an actual shipping flag of convenience with a side hustle of looking the other way when Libya needed to work around sanctions through local businesses. Legalization of recreational cannabis was an election promise of the previous PM, the one who had to resign because of his ties to the assassination. There is a similar debate around legalization of sex work and government support of songbird studies that closely mirror Japanese whale research. Edit: i meant to write that it was ordered by a close business associate of the PMs chief of staff a podcast for cats fucked around with this message at 06:14 on Dec 15, 2021 |
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Recreational weed has been “legal” in Malta since December, but you can still not buy it legally. The cannabis clubs/associations that are supposed to be the legal avenue cannot be set up yet, because the adminstrative framework to regulate and oversee them does not exist yet. The locals trying to work with the authority that was set up have been saying it’s a couple of months away, but I’m getting a feeling it will stay a couple of months away for the next 6-12 months or so.
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a podcast for cats posted:Recreational weed has been “legal” in Malta since December, but you can still not buy it legally. The cannabis clubs/associations that are supposed to be the legal avenue cannot be set up yet, because the adminstrative framework to regulate and oversee them does not exist yet. The locals trying to work with the authority that was set up have been saying it’s a couple of months away, but I’m getting a feeling it will stay a couple of months away for the next 6-12 months or so. 6 months later the chair of the authority has been sacked and there is even less clarity than there was. To quote the papers about her dismissal, "But in a statement, Dimech said that over the last 10 months, she had worked without any functional office, “no staff, no budget and a political strategy and decision strategy I disagreed with.”", There's a new appointee, but there are very few reasons to think that things will become any less muddled or that associations or clubs are any closer than they were.
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