Items tagged with cannabis and WHO
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| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Scheduling in the international drug control system [13.06.2014] | While often viewed as an obscure technical issue, the problem of scheduling lies at the core of the functioning of the international drug control sys ... |
| The Rise and Decline of Cannabis Prohibition [10.03.2014] | The cannabis plant has been used for spiritual, medicinal and recreational purposes since the early days of civilization. In this report the Transnat ... |
| Statement at the 2013 Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) [15.03.2013] | Ann Fordham of the International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC) delivered the NGO Statement to CND Plenary under Item 8: Preparations for the high-lev ... |
| Cannabis and the 1961 Convention [12.03.2013] | Over the past years, there have been some soft and hard defections on cannabis control. It is now time to discuss alternatives that are based on fact ... |
| The International Narcotics Control Board [29.02.2008] | This briefing paper brings together material and analysis from a number of recent reports that raise questions about the role and functioning of the ... |
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