2020 will have been an eventful year, especially for CBD. And the end of the year is no exception, with two major events concerning the...
Ahead of the upcoming vote in December to tackle the reclassification of cannabis, the UN will meet next week to discuss recommendations on...
The United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) was scheduled to hold an important vote this week, notably to recognize the medical use of cannabis—a change that would...
For the first time in history, governments around the world must take a clear stance on the issue of medical cannabis. The “CND Monitor” is a...
In late January 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) recognized for the first time the usefulness and therapeutic potential of cannabis, and called on governments to...
On the occasion of the 26th International Conference on Harm Reduction, which is bringing together international experts and civil society representatives in Porto, 329...
The 62nd session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) opened on March 18 and will conclude tomorrow. As expected, the CND decided to postpone...
A kind of political inertia regarding drug-related issues seems to have taken hold at the UN, due in part to the interplay among its various institutions and the lack of a unified position...
The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB or OICS), a UN agency responsible for ensuring the application of international treaties on narcotics, has just...
As expected, the Narcotics Control Board's vote on cannabis has been postponed following delays in publishing the results of the 41st...
Until now, cannabis has always been classified in the most restrictive echelon of international treaties, a status that has enshrined its total prohibition and hampered the...
The WHO’s most recent assessment of cannabis, in 1954, fueled the prohibitionist movement that led to the banning of cannabis around the world. Today,...
Trump's Global call to action on the world drug problem, part of the international fight against drugs, was held in...
According to the Nigerian media, the representative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Nigeria, Harsheth Kaur Virk, has urged the country...
As announced by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Canada plans to legalize recreational cannabis by July 1, 2018. Canada is thus expected to...
The United Nations (UN) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have issued a public statement calling for the decriminalization of...
One of the major obstacles to the legalization of cannabis in France is our country's commitment to the United Nations drug treaties,...
You must be logged in to post a comment.