All posts tagged "United Nations"

Legal

UN Warns Adult-Use Cannabis in US States Violates International Treaty

The United Nations' International Narcotics Control Board's annual report states that the failure of the US...

Joint Opinions

The Hidden Problem with the WHO’s Reclassification of Cannabis

There appear to be signs of political manipulation behind the UN health agency’s recommendations on marijuana,...

Politics

World Health Organization Delays Cannabis Rescheduling Recommendation

The last-minute delay by the United Nations’ public health agency has cannabis advocates frustrated and clamoring...

Politics

U.N. ‘Shadow Report’ Blasts Drug War as ‘Failure’

Will the U.N. take heed when it revisits the question of drug policy in 2019?

Politics

Activists Bash Trump’s ‘Global Call’ to Renew Drug War at U.N.

As the United Nations General Assembly met in New York this week, President Trump issued a...

Politics

Appeal To a Higher Power: Can the UN End Marijuana Prohibition?

The UN’s World Health Organization committee on drug dependence is re-examining CBD, which could lead to...

Politics

UN Drug Report Calls for Research and Regulation on Cannabis

The United Nation Office on Drugs and Crime recently released its annual global report — it...

Politics

Cannabis Decriminalization Movement Goes Global

The United Nations' 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs — the first international treaty to prohibit...

Politics

UNGASS Still Supports Prohibition

While a legion of drug policy reform advocates have spent their life savings traveling to New...

Politics

Drug Policy Reform on Center Stage at UNGASS

This 4/20, while many cannabis users will be somewhere at a smoke out, the most hardcore...

Medical

NY: Proposed Medical Marijuana Upgrades Are Nothing Without Chronic Pain

As it stands, there are only 2,675 patients in the entire state that have been approved...

Politics

Cannabis Reform Set for Debate at UN

With the United Nations General Assembly Special Session scheduled to meet later this year in New...

Joint Opinions

Attorney General Holder Announces Administration Will Consider Rescheduling Cannabis

In response to growing national momentum towards cannabis re-legalization as well as an increasing number of...

Politics

Uruguay to Become First Country to Legalize Cannabis

Update: The bill was signed into law by President Jose Mujica on Dec. 24. Today, barring...

Politics

Guatemalan President Urges Countries To Overhaul Drug Policy In UN Speech

Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina spoke out against the failed drug war and urged nations to...