In Vienna now, at the 63rd reconvened session, the Commission on Narcotic Drugs is considering the
@WHO recommendation for the (re-)scheduling of cannabis and cannabis-related substances.

Conference room paper here: http://bit.ly/2JiYbyx 

https://www.unodc.org/documents/commissions/CND/CND_Sessions/CND_62Reconvened/ECN72020_CRP19_V2006823.pdf


ps. This will result in the potentially the most consequential vote on #cannabis policy since the 1961 Single Convention

This @IDPCnet graphic summarises the 2/12/20 vote of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs Member States to remove cannabis from schedule IV of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs

Australia voted ‘yes’

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The outcomes of this vote are:

- Medicinal cannabis is no longer in schedule IV of the UN drug control conventions

- A step forward to decolonise & modernise the UN drug treaty regime

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While welcomed, these improvements are to a drug control system developed from 1912 in the context of imperialism, colonialism, racism & old information

Drugs should be classified into schedules based on evidence, according to their therapeutic value & risk to public health.

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For international civil society statements & analysis see, eg:

@IDPCnet @WOLA_org @TransformDrugs @InstitutoRIA
@drugpolicyctr:

https://idpc.net/media/press-releases/2020/12/un-green-lights-medicinal-cannabis-but-fails-to-challenge-colonial-legacy-of-its-prohibition

@Drug_Science:

https://www.drugscience.org.uk/cannabis_un_schedule/

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