On Wednesday, The UN drug policy body voted to remove cannabis from the mostly tightly controlled drugs.
Member nations of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs voted 27-25 to remove it from Schedule IV of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, which allows national bans for drugs with “particularly dangerous properties.” One country abstained from voting.
Cannabis was earlier in the same category as heroin, fentanyl analogues and other opioids. The vote came on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) recommendation to make research into the medical use of cannabis easier.
However, the commission has not yet legalized cannabis. It is still listed among drugs that are “highly addictive and liable to abuse.”
The WHO recommended that cannabis still be listed under Schedule I level of control, as it recognised “the high rates of public health problems arising from cannabis use.”
The WHO had also recommended that “extracts and tinctures of cannabis” be removed from Schedule I, which has not been followed by the UN body.
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