WHO recommends removal of cannabis from dangerous drugs list – 07/02/2019

The World Health Organization (WHO) recommended that eliminate cannabis (as well as cannabis resin) of the most restrictive list of the drug convention dating from 1961.

Following a scientific evaluation that culminated in November 2018, the WHO experts recommended in their final report "Eliminate Cannabis and Cannabis Oil List IV", the more strictly controlled category in the Treaty of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961.

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The Committee noted that List IV is in particular composed of "harmful substances with limited medical benefits" and considers that the maintenance of cannabis "at this level of control severely restrict access and research on possible treatments derived from the plant"

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The results of this report support the letter that Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of WHO, sent on 24 January to the Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN), Portuguese Antonio Guterres, in which he recommends removing cannabis from its list of dangerous drugs.

Information accompanies the initiative: António Guterres was the Prime Minister of Portugal when this country promulgated a policy of decriminalizing drug possession, an initiative he encouraged in a speech to the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs last year.

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With this letter, WHO will try to have the proposal made by the 53 member countries of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs and put it to the vote, at the 62nd session of the United Nations, to be held in Vienna, Austria from 14 to 22 March this year.

In December 2017, WHO had already issued a public recommendation to not catalog Cannabidiol (CBD), one of the major active components of marijuana, as a drug.

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"Recent studies on animals and humans show that the use of cannabidiol could have effects therapeutic value for convulsions because of epilepsy and related conditions, "said the WHO at that time.

With information from Telam.