The very first fair-trade coffee was an effort to import a Guatemalan coffee into Europe as Indio Solidarity Coffee. Since the founding of organizations such as the European Fair Trade Association (1987), the production and consumption of fair trade coffee has grown as some local and national coffee chains started to offer fair trade alternatives.
Unfortunately, the state of Nebraska is yet to approve any medical marijuana laws. A medical marijuana initiative to amend the stateâs constitution to legalize marijuana for patients with debilitating medical conditions failed to acquire the necessary signatures to make the November 2016 ballot.
Recreational use of marijuana (also called cannabis) is illegal under California law. It is likely that a legalization initiative, probably the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Initiative, will be on the ballot November 2016, with a good chance of passage. Medical use, however, has been legal since Proposition 215, the âCompassionate Use Act,â passed in 1996 (Cal. Health & Safety (H&S) Â§ 11362.5). In 2003, Senate Bill 420 (Cal. H&S Â§ 11362.7 et. seq.) created a system of optional medical marijuana ID cards (Cal.