UFCM - I Care ceases operations

At its general assembly on February 18, 2023, the UFCM-i Care association unanimously decided, by the votes represented, to finalize the closure of the association's activities.

Since 2012, UFCM-I Care has been raising public, healthcare professional, and political community awareness about the need to legalize medical cannabis in France.

The association's objectives included informing and combating stigmatization, guiding patients and healthcare professionals, and supporting and defending patients' rights and interests.

Each year, UFMC-I Care organized an international symposium on pharmacological advances and therapeutic uses of cannabinoids, generally in Strasbourg but in Paris in 2018, which brought together between 200 and 300 people. Renowned panelists came to these conferences: Raphaël Mechoulam, Franjo Grotenhermen, Ethan Russo or Raquel Peyraube.

From its creation, patients took the lead of the association and had set a goal to stop once healthcare professionals and the medical production sector took the front line.

«This is what is happening to this day and this is what we are doing, perhaps a little more radically than planned, but the context is there,» explains the press release.

In the press release, the association's board members thank «all those who ensured the success of its activity as well as our financial partnersSensi Seeds, Storz & Bickel, Aurora, Solanaceae editions...).»

UFCM - I Care conferences remain available on YouTube.