Items tagged with WHO
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| Ban, ignore or regulate? Kratom and the Whac-A-Mole world of soft drugs [19.04.2023] | It’s a leaf, it’s sold as a dye, and it’s used as a drug: It’s kratom, and it’s all the rage in the Czech Republic. Kratom is among the dozens of psy ... |
| A global fight looms over Kratom, a possible opioid alternative [09.10.2021] | A World Health Organization meeting could determine the future of kratom, a widely available herbal supplement some tout as an alternative to opioid ... |
| Why is Asia divided on a green light for medical marijuana? [17.12.2020] | The issue of cannabis legalisation around the world was once again thrust into the spotlight following a vote by the United Nations’ Commission on Na ... |
| UN reclassification of cannabis could give India’s legalisation movement a boost [04.12.2020] | In a highly-anticipated vote held on December 2, the United Nations Commission for Narcotic Drugs reclassified cannabis as a less dangerous drug. The ... |
| Morocco votes ‘Yes’ in historic UN vote on cannabis [02.12.2020] | The UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) met to vote on several rescheduling recommendations on cannabis. Morocco provided an important “yes” vote t ... |
| United Nations approves WHO recommendation to reschedule cannabis in historic vote [02.12.2020] | The United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) accepted a World Health Organization (WHO) recommendation to remove cannabis and cannabis resin ... |
| Upcoming UN vote may be watershed moment for global medical cannabis – if only symbolic [28.11.2020] | During its reconvened 63rd session Dec. 2-4, the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) could – with a simple majority vote in a virtual meeting based ... |
| Some WHO cannabis recommendations draw strong opposition at recent UN meeting [30.07.2020] | Two of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) cannabis scheduling recommendations might face an uphill battle getting adopted later this year by the U ... |
| Not all WHO cannabis recommendations would loosen international control, UN drug agency says [26.06.2020] | An analysis by the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) concludes that most of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) cannabis scheduling reco ... |
| Cannabis rescheduling [25.06.2020] | In January 2019 the World Health Organization issued a collection of formal recommendations to reschedule cannabis and cannabis-related substances, t ... |
| United Nations body to meet again this month to discuss WHO cannabis recommendations [16.06.2020] | According to an email the CND Secretariat sent to permanent missions in Vienna, the “first topical meeting of the intersessional considerations of th ... |
| UN body preparing for December vote on WHO cannabis recommendations despite coronavirus [28.05.2020] | A document prepared by the chair of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) has laid out a course to keep on track for December’s key v ... |
| Global vote on cannabis as medicine expected to be delayed again [01.03.2020] | The United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) was set to hold a significant vote to reclassify cannabis as a medicine, a historic change to i ... |
| European Commission proposes unified EU vote on WHO cannabis scheduling recommendations [15.01.2020] | In advance of the March session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND), the European Commission has proposed that EU member nations vote in fav ... |
| The UN Drug Control Conventions [31.12.2019] | For more than ten years, TNI’s Drugs & Democracy programme has been studying the UN drug control conventions and the institutional architecture of th ... |
| UN Common Position on drug policy [01.12.2019] | In November 2018, the UN System CEB adopted the ‘UN system common position supporting the implementation of the international drug control policy thr ... |
| Regulating Drugs: Resolving Conflicts with the UN Drug Control Treaty System [29.11.2019] | There are good reasons to legally regulate drugs markets, rather than persist with efforts to ban all non-medical uses of psychoactive substances. Re ... |
| US attack on WHO 'hindering morphine drive in poor countries' [18.09.2019] | An attack on the World Health Organization (WHO) by US politicians accusing it of being corrupted by drug companies is making it even more difficult ... |
| Global marijuana trade is still five to seven years off, but Canada aims to be world's cannabis king [17.06.2019] | Cam Battley believes that in the not-too-distant future, his company — one of Canada’s largest licensed producers — will be exporting a “significant ... |
| Purdue Pharma accused of 'corrupting' WHO to boost global opioid sales [22.05.2019] | Purdue Pharma, the drug manufacturer that kickstarted the US opioid epidemic, corruptly influenced the World Health Organization in order to boost pa ... |
| Fair(er) Trade Options for the Cannabis Market [21.03.2019] | Policy changes over the past five years or so have dramatically reshaped the global cannabis market. Not only has there been an unprecedented boom in ... |
| The WHO’s First-Ever Critical Review of Cannabis [15.03.2019] | The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Expert Committee on Drug Dependence (ECDD or Expert Committee) released in January 2019 the outcomes of the fir ... |
| The UN Chief Executives Board unanimously endorses decriminalisation of people who use drugs [11.03.2019] | The Chief Executives Board of the UN, representing 31 UN agencies, has adopted a common position on drug policy that endorses decriminalisation of po ... |
| European Parliament passes cannabis resolution, joins WHO in supporting medical marijuana [13.02.2019] | Following reports about the World Health Organization (WHO) recommending a rescheduling of cannabis and several of its key components under internati ... |
| WHO recommends rescheduling cannabis in international law for first time in history [08.02.2019] | The World Health Organization has suggested that cannabis should be removed from Schedule IV of the 1961 UN Single Convention given the mounting evid ... |
| Tramadol: Three cheers for the Expert Committee on Drug Dependence [06.02.2019] | In November 2018, the Expert Committee on Drug Dependence (ECDD) held its 41st meeting in Vienna. The ECDD is a committee that operates under the aus ... |
| World Health Organization recommends rescheduling marijuana under international treaties [01.02.2019] | Health experts at the United Nations are recommending that marijuana and its key components be formally rescheduled under international drug treaties ... |
| UN committee unexpectedly withholds marijuana scheduling recommendations [07.12.2018] | The World Health Organization (WHO) was expected to make recommendations about the international legal status of marijuana, which reform advocates ho ... |
| Jeff Sessions is really going to hate the World Health Organization’s first-ever marijuana review [08.06.2018] | The World Health Organization met in Geneva, Switzerland, to review a first-of-its-kind report on the health and safety of cannabis, and President Do ... |
| Remarks Allyn Taylor at 2018 CND side event Regulating Cannabis in Accord with International Law [28.03.2018] | The prior panelists have made a concrete political and legal case for the codification of a treaty inter se to address the tension between state regu ... |
| There’s an opioid abuse problem unfolding in African cities and it’s not getting the attention it needs [16.03.2018] | Africa remains one of the regions least served with effective pain relief medicine and although Tramadol is not the strongest of analgesics, it is a ... |
| World Health Organization: Initial review of CBD doesn’t warrant scheduling [13.12.2017] | CBD, for now, should not be subject to international drug scheduling, a World Health Organization committee determined in an initial review of the ca ... |
| IDPC contribution for the pre-review of CBD and Tramadol at the 39th WHO Expert Committee on Drug Dependence [01.11.2017] | The Expert Committee on Drug Dependence (ECDD) of the World Health Organization (WHO) will hold its 39th meeting from 6th to 10th November 2017 in Ge ... |
| United Nations and World Health Organisation call for drugs to be decriminalised [01.07.2017] | The United Nations and World Health Organisation have issued a call for drugs to be decriminalised. Buried in a joint release on ending healthcare di ... |
| Tufton appeals to WHO for more leadership on ganja [24.05.2017] | Minister of Health, Christopher Tufton has called on the World Health Organisation (WHO) to remove cannabis from its current classification as a Sche ... |
| Ganja lobby wrong [15.05.2017] | The Ministry of Health (MoH) of Jamaica has indicated that it has begun taking steps to change the schedule class of marijuana to effect amendments t ... |
| Cannabis and Cannabis Resin [13.10.2016] | The scheduling under the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs assumes a scientific justification. However, cannabis and cannabis resin have never been ... |
| Not just a party drug: no ketamine means no surgery in some developing countries [03.03.2016] | My supply of ketamine is under threat. I’m not a recreational drug taker. I’m an anaesthetist, and for me ketamine is medicine. In rural hospitals in ... |
| Ketamine: why not everyone wants a ban [13.03.2015] | China is proposing there should be a worldwide ban on ketamine - the drug that can lead to users needing to have their bladders removed. But ketamine ... |
| The war on ketamine [08.03.2015] | In a dispute that pits the war on drugs against global health needs — and one UN agency against another — a pair of Canadian researchers is spearhead ... |
| The ketamine controversy, continued [06.03.2015] | The Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) in Vienna will decide next week between two opposite proposals by China and the WHO about international contro ... |
| UN special envoy: ‘The current international control system for drugs has failed’ [03.03.2015] | Marijuana will become an unavoidable policy issue for health watchdogs in coming years. Growing scientific evidence about the medical benefits and a ... |
| Why ‘Special K’ is good medicine [02.03.2015] | In the global world of illicit drug policies, the granddaddy of them all is the United States. But as the U.S. starts to, perhaps, question the effec ... |
| Ketamine control plan condemned as potential disaster for world's rural poor [27.02.2015] | A proposal that is about to come before the UN to restrict global access to ketamine, a drug abused in rich countries, would deprive millions of wome ... |
| The UK needs common sense about ketamine [17.02.2015] | Ketamine is a unique anaesthetic and analgesic that has unfortunately become a popular recreational drug. In an attempt to reduce recreational use, a ... |
| CND decision to schedule ketamine would undermine WHO treaty mandate [16.02.2015] | The 58th Session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) in March 2015 has been asked to consider a Chinese proposal to place ketamine – an esse ... |
| Fact Sheet on the Proposal to Discuss International Scheduling of Ketamine at the 58th CND [14.02.2015] | Ketamine is an essential medicine used for anaesthesia. It is the only available anaesthetic for essential surgery in most rural areas of developing ... |
| The International Drug Control Regime and Access to Controlled Medicines [25.12.2014] | The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that some 5.5 billion people around the globe inhabit countries with low to non-existent access to cont ... |
| What science says about marijuana [29.07.2014] | Federal scientists say that the damage caused by alcohol and tobacco is higher because they are legally available; if marijuana were legally and easi ... |
| The WHO calls for decriminalisation [16.07.2014] | Jamaica, Uruguay, Colorado, Washington—more and more places are rebelling against the UN conventions that established the criminalisation of narcotic ... |
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