For the first time in nearly a century, France vigorously defended the therapeutic potential of cannabis at the United Nations this week. The European nation is calling the historic World Health Organization (WHO) recommendation to declassify medical cannabis from Schedule IV “necessary.”
Opposite of how the United States schedules narcotics, with Schedule I being the most restrictive category and Schedule VI being the least restrictive, List IV of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs (the international treaty that regulates cannabis) is the most restrictive.
Symbolically, the UN refers to schedule IV substances as a “scourge”• on humanity. Some of these drugs include Fentanyl, Heroin, and Krokodil. However, Schedule IV also contains less harmful substances with medicinal and therapeutic value, including cannabis and hashish.
After more than two years of scientific analysis of all the available data, in January 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO)…
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