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United Nations commission votes to remove marijuana from list of most dangerous drugs
https://thehill.com/policy/international/528320-united-nations-commission-votes-to-remove-marijuana-from-list-of-mostA United Nations panel has voted to remove medical cannabis from a list of dangerous drugs.
In the Wednesday vote, the Commission for Narcotic Drugs voted on several World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations related to cannabis. Among them was a recommendation that the drug be stricken from Schedule IV of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs. The list currently puts cannabis alongside drugs like heroin, cocaine and fentanyl.
While the vote will not have any immediate or binding effect on international cannabis laws, it will open doors for reforms that use such international agreements as guidelines, according to The New York Times.
“The world has changed since the early 1960s,” Alfredo Pascual of Marijuana Business Daily told the Times. “We will have the U.N., the main drug policy body, recognizing the medical usefulness of cannabis.
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