Tag: INCB
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State Department’s permissive reading of international drug treaties is ‘good sign’ for marijuana rescheduling, lawyer says
Tuesday, 07 November 2023Recent comments by a U.S. State Department official to a United Nations (UN) drug commission are being seen by some legal experts as “a good sign” for marijuana’s potential domestic move to Schedule ...
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Willful blindness: INCB can find nothing good to say on cannabis legalisation
Tuesday, 14 March 2023In its report for 2022, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), the “independent, quasi-judicial expert body” that monitors the implementation of the UN drug control conventions, focuses on ...
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Willful Blindness: INCB can find nothing good to say on cannabis legalisation
Tuesday, 14 March 2023In its Report for 2022, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), the “independent, quasi-judicial expert body” that monitors the implementation of the UN drug control conventions, focuses on ...
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Germany will legalize cannabis — but nobody knows when
Wednesday, 17 August 2022Cannabis has become a part of everyday culture in Germany and now, policymaking. The coalition government of center-left Social Democrats (SPD), environmentalist Greens and neoliberal Free Democrats ...
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What about the UN? Coming down off that high
Sunday, 12 June 2022Thailand is the first country in Southeast Asia to delist the cannabis plant from the government's Category 5 narcotics list, following the publication of a Ministry of Public Health announcement in ...
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PH drug war, rights situation back under global scrutiny
Thursday, 31 March 2022The Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB) has assailed the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) for noting the “extrajudicial targeting” of persons suspected of drug-related activities — a violation of ...
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A Sustainable Future for Cannabis Farmers
Friday, 16 April 2021Learn how lessening the barriers for small farmers while raising them for large companies can help to steer legal cannabis markets in a more sustainable and equitable direction based on principles of ...
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Not all WHO cannabis recommendations would loosen international control, UN drug agency says
Friday, 26 June 2020An analysis by the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) concludes that most of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) cannabis scheduling recommendations would either have little impact on int ...
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Enquête L’Economiste-Sunergia: Cachez-moi ce fumeur de cannabis que je ne saurais voir!
Wednesday, 04 March 2020Voici une enquête qui va briser un tabou dans la consommation du cannabis. A la question, «existe-t-il dans votre entourage proche ou connaissez-vous un ami ou un parent qui fume du cannabis?», l’e ...
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In major shift, UN drug chief questions whether control treaties involving cannabis are out of date
Thursday, 27 February 2020The president of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) is questioning whether the agency’s decades-old drug conventions are outdated given global policy developments in recent years involv ...
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Human Rights and drug policy
Wednesday, 01 January 2020The Transnational Institute (TNI) has always believed in the need to find global answers to global problems, been a strong defender of multilateralism and an advocate of a well-functioning United Nat ...
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INCB Watch
Tuesday, 31 December 2019The objective of INCB Watch is to promote the transparency and accountability of the International Narcotics Control Board, by publishing news, publications and commentary about its activities. Go to ...
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The UN Drug Control Conventions
Tuesday, 31 December 2019For more than ten years, TNI’s Drugs & Democracy programme has been studying the UN drug control conventions and the institutional architecture of the UN drug control regime. As we approach the 2016 ...
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Canada's cannabis policy makes it an international rebel on drug treaties
Friday, 20 December 2019While many Canadians have focused on the supply problems and overly optimistic business projections that have marred Ottawa's marijuana legalization project, it's also left behind some international ...
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UN Common Position on drug policy
Sunday, 01 December 2019In November 2018, the UN System CEB adopted the ‘UN system common position supporting the implementation of the international drug control policy through effective inter-agency collaboration’, expres ...
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Regulating Drugs: Resolving Conflicts with the UN Drug Control Treaty System
Friday, 29 November 2019There are good reasons to legally regulate drugs markets, rather than persist with efforts to ban all non-medical uses of psychoactive substances. Regulated cannabis and coca markets are already a re ...
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ACT dope laws ‘flout UN treaty statutes’
Monday, 28 October 2019The UN narcotics agency has warned that the ACT Labor government’s move to legalise cannabis in the national capital had put Australia in violation of its international treaty obligations on illicit ...
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A global revolution in attitudes towards cannabis is under way
Thursday, 29 August 2019Uruguay paved the way when it legalised cannabis in 2013. But it is the reform in Canada, a G7 member, that has done most to heighten international tension over cannabis’s legal status. Last year it ...
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Luxembourg legal pot plan violates UN rules
Wednesday, 24 July 2019Luxembourg met a possible hurdle in legalising cannabis as a parliamentary question brought to light that the current plans are in violation of international drug control treaties. The Grand Duchy is ...
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INCB stronger than ever before on decriminalisation, capital punishment & extrajudicial killings
Friday, 28 June 2019The INCB dedicated one of its latest series of Alerts, from June 2019, to the issue of ‘State responses to drug-related criminality’, covering decriminalisation, proportionate sentencing, the death p ...
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Légalisation du cannabis : le Luxembourg enfume l’ONU
Thursday, 20 June 2019La volonté du Grand-Duché de légaliser le cannabis récréatif est clairement opposée à l’engagement pris pour limiter l’usage de cette substance à des fins médicales ou scientifiques. L’Organe interna ...
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The WHO’s First-Ever Critical Review of Cannabis
Friday, 15 March 2019The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Expert Committee on Drug Dependence (ECDD or Expert Committee) released in January 2019 the outcomes of the first-ever critical review of cannabis, recommending ...
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Tramadol: Three cheers for the Expert Committee on Drug Dependence
Wednesday, 06 February 2019In November 2018, the Expert Committee on Drug Dependence (ECDD) held its 41st meeting in Vienna. The ECDD is a committee that operates under the auspices of the World Health Organisation (WHO), and ...
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Struggling to compete with fentanyl, Mexico’s poppy farmers ask for legalization
Monday, 04 February 2019Guerrero is Mexico’s third-poorest state and the center of its opium industry. If the state of 3.5 million were an independent country, it would be the top opium producer in the Americas. The roughly ...
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Canada's legalization of marijuana could hurt farmers in poorer countries
Wednesday, 17 October 2018For decades poor farmers in countries like Jamaica and Morocco have risked the wrath of governments to grow cannabis as a cash crop. But as Canada becomes the first country in the G7 leading industri ...
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UN drugs board slams Canada cannabis legalization
Wednesday, 17 October 2018After recreational marijuana became legal in Canada, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) slammed the decision in a statement calling the step incompatible with UN international drug trea ...
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IDPC response to the INCB Annual Report for 2017
Monday, 08 October 2018In the approach to the 2019 Ministerial Segment and its review of international drug control, the INCB’s Annual Report for 2017 is arguably of special importance. The INCB has chosen to stress the co ...
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Russia cites UN body to blast Canada’s cannabis legalization
Thursday, 28 June 2018Opponents of the Trudeau government’s plan to legalize marijuana in Canada are getting some unexpected if, perhaps, unwelcome support from the Russian government. In an official statement by the Russ ...
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Better to Ask Forgiveness Than Permission
Friday, 15 June 2018In recent years, the international debate on drug policy reform has intensified, and with it has come a productive exchange of information between academics, activists and advocates on the diverse mo ...
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INCB hearing on the use of cannabis for medical and non-medical purposes
Monday, 07 May 2018The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) held a meeting with civil society representatives on the “the use of cannabis for medical and non-medical purposes”. The meeting brought together a nu ...
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INCB should exert caution in presenting data on cannabis regulation
Sunday, 06 May 2018At the recent 63rd Session of the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD) of the Organisation of American States, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) member who was present, ...
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In bid to intimidate Canada on cannabis regulation, INCB is reckless and wrong
Friday, 04 May 2018On May 1, Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland appeared before the Canadian Senate’s Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade (AEFA) to discuss the international dimension ...
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“The drug market is thriving” while the Commission on Narcotic Drugs limps along
Sunday, 08 April 2018“The drug market is thriving” is one of the key messages in UNODC’s 2017 World Drug Report. This is an important admission from the UN’s lead agency for drugs given that it is now less than nine mont ...
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Britain’s stringent rules on medical cannabis harm patients
Saturday, 17 March 2018In 2016 Britain harvested 95 tonnes of legally grown cannabis, twice as much as a year earlier, and more than any other country. The International Narcotics Control Board, an independent monitor link ...
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International Narcotics Control Board remains troubled by Canada's pot legalization plan
Thursday, 08 March 2018The International Narcotics Control Board is expressing concerns about the Trudeau government's plan to legalize recreational cannabis use in Canada, warning the move will place Canada in violation o ...
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UK revealed to be world's biggest producer of medical cannabis
Tuesday, 06 March 2018The UK is the world's largest producer and exporter of legal cannabis for medical and scientific use, according to a report from the UN's International Narcotics Control Board (INCB). The UK produced ...
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If the U.S. legalizes marijuana, what happens to its international drug treaties?
Wednesday, 10 January 2018When Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded a Barack Obama-era federal policy that allowed recreational marijuana in Colorado and Washington, he did more than reignite a domestic legal and cultural ...
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IDPC response to the INCB Annual Report for 2016
Saturday, 30 September 2017The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) Annual Report for 2016 is, as usual, a mixed bag of high quality data and sometimes doubtful political views. It is the final Report of the Presidency ...
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After blowing July 1 deadline, Canada seems likely to legalize pot while ignoring UN treaties
Wednesday, 19 July 2017Since a July 1 deadline to start withdrawing from international narcotics treaties has passed, the federal government is left with fewer, and much more awkward, ways of legalizing marijuana by July o ...
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The new opium wars
Wednesday, 01 February 2017Are pharmaceutical companies based in advanced economies the right ones to soothe the developing world’s pains? The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), a UN-established independent body sup ...
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IDPC response to the 2015 Annual Report of the International Narcotics Control Board
Wednesday, 28 September 2016The Annual Report of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB or Board) for 2015 is, like the broader international drug policy debate, coloured by what was then the approaching United Nations ...
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Cannabis Regulation and the UN Drug Treaties
Thursday, 16 June 2016As jurisdictions enact reforms creating legal access to cannabis for purposes other than exclusively “medical and scientific,” tensions surrounding the existing UN drug treaties and evolving law and ...
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The other opioid crisis – people in poor countries can’t get the pain medication they need
Thursday, 24 March 2016Hospitals in the U.S. and Europe routinely prescribe opioids for chronic cancer pain, end-of-life palliative care and some forms of acute pain, like bone fractures, sickle cell crises and burns. But ...
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TNI at CND 2016: reports from Vienna
Monday, 21 March 2016The Transnational Institute (TNI) attended the 59th session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna from the 14-22nd March. The CND negotiated the outcome document to be approved at the 2016 ...
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Top US international drug official signals green light for countries to decriminalize
Wednesday, 09 March 2016William Brownfield, Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, gave a qualified go-ahead for countries to decriminalize drugs. A consensus outcome document ...
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IDPC response to the 2014 Annual Report of the International Narcotics Control Board
Wednesday, 07 October 2015The advent of regulated cannabis markets in Uruguay and some US states over the past few years has constituted a profound shock to the international drug control regime, with the differing views repr ...
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International Law and Drug Policy Reform
Friday, 03 July 2015Drug policy reform is currently higher on the international agenda than it has been in recent memory. With a United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on drugs set for 19-21 April 2016 ...
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The 2015 Commission on Narcotic Drugs
Sunday, 14 June 2015The international drug control regime is facing the most profound challenge of its existence. Member states have for some time been experimenting with new responses to the ‘world drug problem’; howev ...
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UNGASS 2016: Prospects for Treaty Reform and UN System-Wide Coherence on Drug Policy
Tuesday, 28 April 2015This paper explores key lessons from the 1990 Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly on Drug Abuse (UNGASS 1990) and the 1998 Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly on ...
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Dr. Lochan Naidoo - A frank conversation about drugs
Sunday, 29 March 2015The President of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), Dr Lochan Naidoo, became a member of International Doctors for Healthier Drug Policies (IDHDP) while attending CND 2015 in Vienna an ...
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