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• Press release • 41st ECDD cannabis review
  17 novembre 2018

  This week at the headquarters of WHO (World Health Organization) in Geneva (Switzerland), the Expert Committee on Drug Dependence (ECDD) meets to undertake the final part of the scientific review of cannabis, resin, extracts, THC, and CBD extracts [1]. Their outcome is likely to change the scheduling status of cannabis within the international drug control Treaties [2].
  WHO never updated its policy on cannabis since 1954 [3] – although THC was identified in 1964 and its mechanisms of action (...)

• The Marijuana Justice Act of 2017 Introduced
  24 mai 2018, par Farid Ghehioueche

  Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Rep. Barbara Lee have introduced comprehensive marijuana reform legislation, the Marijuana Justice Act to both chambers of Congress.
  This marks the first time that companion legislation has been introduced in both chambers of Congress remove marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act (CSA).
  The bills, S. 1689 and HR 4815 would (1) remove marijuana from the US Controlled Substances Act, thereby ending the federal criminalization of cannabis ; (2) (...)

• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Brings Former Marijuana Policy Project Director
  5 février, par Farid Ghehioueche

  In her much loved dinner prep Instagram livestreams, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has made it clear that she thinks marijuana prohibition is a “tool” used to oppress people of color in the United States. But other than the fact she’d legalize cannabis and advocate for the release of people who have been incarcerated for nonviolent drug offenses, she hasn’t released much info on her ideas around cannabis.
  Those looking for clues to any potential strategy got another one this week, (...)

• Breaking news : WHO changes position on medical Cannabis after 60 years.
  5 février, par Farid Ghehioueche

  Breaking news : WHO changes position on medical Cannabis after 60 years.
  Geneva, Switzerland, January 31st, 2019.
  For the first time since Cannabis was included in the Single Convention drug treaty, the scheduling status of Cannabis within International law is being updated. The World Health Organization (WHO), the only agency mandated to do so, has officially assessed all available evidence and is issuing scientific recommendations on the therapeutic value and harms related to Cannabis (...)

• UN Launches First-Ever Full Review Of Marijuana’s Status Under International Law | Marijuana Moment
  12 septembre 2018

  Here’s what the UN experts have determined so far : “There are no case reports of abuse or dependence relating to the use of pure CBD. No public health problems have been associated with CBD use,” an annex attached to Ghebreyesus’s letter reads, noting that research has shown it to be effective in treating epilepsy. “CBD has been found to be generally well tolerated with a good safety profile.”
  “Cannabidiol (CBD) is not specifically listed in the schedules of the 1961, 1971 or 1988 United Nations (...)

• USA : le chef de la santé de l’administration Obama reconnait l’utilité du cannabis en médecine.
  5 février 2015, par Farid Ghehioueche

  Au lendemain de la discussion au Sénat français, c’est une nouvelle qui aurait fait l’effet d’une bombe aux pays des Lumières. Imaginez le responsable de l’INSERM et de l’INPES, ou le chef de l’ANSM et de la DGS reconnaitre sur un plateau de télévision "qu’il y a des éléments qui démontrent que l’utilisation du cannabis est bénéfique pour traiter certaines pathologies et symptômes".
  Cette déclaration du Docteur Vivek Murthy est importante pour plusieurs raisons.
  D’une part parce qu’il affirme que "ces (...)

• Transforming Global Drug Policy : From A Punisher Paradigm to Embracing Human Rights
  8 avril

  The human rights implications of the global war on drugs cover a dizzying array of governmental abuses of their citizens. Whether it’s the mass imprisonment of drug users in the US, the death squad-style atrocities of Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody anti-drug campaigns, the spraying of herbicides on coca-growing peasants in Colombia, forced drug treatment camps in Southeast Asia, or the resort to the death penalty for drug offenses in any number of countries, the quixotic (...)

• USA : un juge en Californie pourrait annuler la loi fédérale contre le droit de cultiver.
  23 mars 2015

  Dans une brève Reuters reproduite ci-dessous, on apprenait mi-février que la Cour fédérale de Justice en Californie du District de Sacramento prendrait prochainement une décision symboliquement forte en ce qui concerne la classification du cannabis au tableau 1 des Stupéfiants et plus généralement pour l’ensemble des personnes vivant dans les 23 Etats US disposant de législations rendant légal l’utilisation de cannabis thérapeutique.
  Selon cet article, la juge Mueller devait rendre son verdict le 25 (...)

• Key UN summit could lead to international rescheduling of cannabis
  5 février, par Farid Ghehioueche

  The UN currently places cannabis in the strictest categories in the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961 and the Convention on Psychotropic Substances of 1971, which only allow its use for medical and scientific purposes under strict controls.
  At the CND meeting this week, the WHO could recommend rescheduling or descheduling the following cannabis categories within the UN Drug Control Conventions :
  Cannabis plant and cannabis resin. Extracts and tinctures of cannabis. (...)

• Deep-rooted Herer Hemp Inc. sees a wide, challenging horizon
  5 février, par Farid Ghehioueche

  Hemp entrepreneur Dan Herer and an executive group have established Herer Hemp Inc., a new entity that has positioned itself to develop products across all major industrial hemp sectors in the USA.
  “We just took hemp off Schedule 1,” Herer said of recent changes at the federal level in the USA that saw hemp reclassified as a common agricultural crop. “We’re now gonna be able to get crop insurance, have bank accounts — and grow tens of thousands of acres of crops without the restrictive (...)

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