which now includes 39 member countries. IMCPC has issued a declaration addressing UNGASS 2016 that calls on the UN to take the following actions:
•• Recommend that increased attention
and resources be given at the national and international levels to treatment with medical cannabis and cannabinoids, and its research, in particular.
•• Invite all countries to secure stable,
safe, economically available access to medical cannabis and its derivatives to everyone who is indicated medically for such treatment.
•• Require that the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on the World Drug Problem request that governments either exclude cannabis from the 1961 UN Convention with no other actions, or prepare, debate and accept a Special UN Convention on Cannabis that would be based on scientific evidence, human rights and the well-being of societies. Many advocates will be traveling to
William Brownfield: “We’ll call for pragmatic and concrete criminal justice reform.”
New York to participate in this landmark moment for cannabis reform at the United Nations. There’s real hope that the next shift to end prohibition will not be in a single state or country, but worldwide. Jahan Marcu is Freedom Leaf’s Science Editor and Director of R&D for Green Standard Diagnostics.
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