Cannabis

Cannabis and Climate

2022-12-23T20:25:10+00:00

Environmental impacts are rarely taken into account in the cannabis regulation debate. The assumption is that legal regulation would automatically reduce the negative environmental consequences of th ...

The green wave hits Europe: Recent cannabis regulation initiatives in Europe

2022-03-15T12:30:24+00:00

The Future of Cannabis in the Caribbean

2021-04-23T15:49:43+00:00

Two years after the presentation of the 2018 CARICOM report “Waiting to Exhale - Safeguarding our future through responsible socio-legal policy on Marijuana” at the CND, this years’ side event the or ...

A Sustainable Future for Cannabis Farmers

2021-04-16T14:56:45+00:00

Learn how lessening the barriers for small farmers while raising them for large companies can help to steer legal cannabis markets in a more sustainable and equitable direction based on principles of ...

Position Paper of the Fair Trade Cannabis Working Group in the Caribbean

2020-10-29T14:47:44+00:00

The Position Paper "For inclusive business models, well designed laws and fair(er) trade options for small-scale traditional cannabis farmers” produced by The Fair(er) Trade Cannabis Working Group ai ...

Rescheduling cannabis at the UN level

2020-10-19T14:01:23+00:00

Following its first-ever critical review of cannabis, in January 2019 the World Health Organization's Expert Committee on Drug Dependence (ECDD) issued recommendations to reschedule cannabis and cann ...

Cannabis Regulation and Development

2020-09-09T17:26:29+00:00

Significant policy shifts have led to an unprecedented boom in medical cannabis markets, while a growing number of countries are moving towards the legal regulation of adult non-medical use. This tre ...

Cannabis rescheduling

2020-06-25T14:32:19+00:00

In January 2019 the World Health Organization issued a collection of formal recommendations to reschedule cannabis and cannabis-related substances, these present an opportunity for African government ...

The Challenges of Medicinal Cannabis in Colombia

2019-10-29T12:13:50+00:00

In July 2016, the Colombian government enacted Law 1787, which regulates the use of medicinal cannabis and its trade in the country. With this decision and a series of subsequent resolutions, Colombi ...

Cannabis regulation and local authorities in Europe

2019-07-08T15:29:35+00:00

Local and regional authorities across Europe are confronted with the negative consequences of a persisting illicit cannabis market. Increasingly, local and regional authorities, non-governmental pres ...

Fair(er) Trade Options for the Cannabis Market

2019-03-21T16:28:06+00:00

Policy changes over the past five years or so have dramatically reshaped the global cannabis market. Not only has there been an unprecedented boom in medical markets, but following policy shifts in s ...

The WHO’s First-Ever Critical Review of Cannabis

2019-03-16T14:46:08+00:00

The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Expert Committee on Drug Dependence (ECDD or Expert Committee) released in January 2019 the outcomes of the first-ever critical review of cannabis, recommending ...

Better to Ask Forgiveness Than Permission

2018-06-27T08:43:58+00:00

In recent years, the international debate on drug policy reform has intensified, and with it has come a productive exchange of information between academics, activists and advocates on the diverse mo ...

Medicinal cannabis policies and practices around the world

2018-04-24T15:47:21+00:00

Although cannabis remains a prohibited substance worldwide, in recent decades a series of political, legislative and judicial processes in various parts of the world have given rise to various forms ...

Want teens to smoke less pot? Legalize it

2018-02-06T11:02:40+00:00

Those favoring strict drug laws believe that, as marijuana becomes more available and less stigmatized, teen drug use will go up. It's a straightforward and logical belief. The reality is that, to da ...

CBD may protect against psychiatric risk from high-THC cannabis strains

2017-09-07T14:42:25+00:00

A study by neuroscientists at Indiana University finds that a nonpsychoactive compound in cannabis called cannabidiol, or CBD, appears to protect against the long-term negative psychiatric effects of ...

Let’s learn from the mistakes of drug reform pioneers

2017-05-02T17:14:54+00:00

Countries around the world are moving towards a legally regulated cannabis market. But what can we learn from them about the implications of cannabis legalisation? What are the different models avail ...

Risk of psychosis from cannabis use lower than originally thought, say scientists

2017-04-21T12:32:49+00:00

Scientists at the University of York have shown that the risk of developing psychosis, such as hallucinations, from cannabis use is small compared to the number of total users. The research, publishe ...

Cannabis legislation in Europe

2017-03-23T10:02:59+00:00

At a time of increased debate on the laws controlling the use of cannabis in the European Union, this report answers some of the questions most often asked about cannabis legislation. Using a questio ...

Morocco and Cannabis

2017-03-10T15:39:03+00:00

This policy briefing discusses whether or not the aim of reducing cannabis cultivation is realistic or beneficial for Morocco, what it would actually mean for the major production area the Rif – one ...