This fall, a global regulatory body could move to decriminalize the demonized plant for the first time in more than 60 years, ...

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), “January 2025 - WHO: World Health Organization recommends five NPS and one medicine for scheduling”, news clip, 24 January 2025. United Nations Office ...

Pledges to work towards “international drug control" as wins majority 50 votes by UN's Economic and Social Council.

But Bolivians' legal right to chew the leaf was lost when the country (then under a dictatorship) joined the UN's 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, which has since underpinned ...

Pakistan has been elected as a member of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) for a four-year term, starting in 2026. This election reflects Pakistan’s commitment to global drug ...

Understanding these definitions allows us to move forward within the confines of the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs (Amendment) 1972 and the British Misuse of Drugs Act 1972 laws.

We are bound to these obligations due to the UK signing the UN Single Convention of Narcotic Drugs. “This limits the use of cannabis to strictly medical, scientific or research purposes.