CND side event on Friday, March 16, 2018: Conference Room M5, 13: 10-14: 00
As more and more countries move toward legal regulation for non-medical marijuana, the government has pushed the limits of three UN drug control treaties. At the 61st session of the Narcotics Drugs Commission (CND) in March 2018, the TNI, Washington Office in Latin America (WOLA) and the Global Drug Policy Observatory (GDPO) organized a side event to explore the issue, to address the challenges and opportunities involved. At that time an innovative report on the issue was presented: Balancing the Stability of the Agreement and Amendment: International Modification of the UN drug control convention to facilitate marijuana regulation.
Regulating cannabis for non-medical and non-scientific uses is clearly prohibited by UN drug conventions. Nevertheless, subnational and national jurisdictions prefer to formally marijuana for adult use, through state-level ballot initiatives and laws, as has happened in the United States since 2012, or through new national laws, as in Uruguay in 2013, and as in Canada, where legislation is currently being considered parliament. Such reforms have posed great challenges to the international legal framework for drug control. This side event explores the choice of how the country can move forward with marijuana regulation by respecting international law.
The 61st session of the Narcotics Commission took place in Vienna (Austria) between 12 March and 16 March 2018. The TNI organized another event to address the growing tension between the UN drug control convention and the non-medical policy change. marijuana, exploring a number of reform options that can be pursued by reform-minded countries like Canada and the United States.
Learn more read here http://druglawreform.info/en/item/8252-regulating-cannabis-in-accord-with-international-law-options-to-explore