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Removal of cannabis and cannabis resin from Schedule IV of the Single Convention on narcotic drugs, 1961

This article is about cannabis rescheduling in United Nations treaties. For other uses, see Cannabis rescheduling (disambiguation).

The removal of cannabis and cannabis resin from Schedule IV of the Single Convention on narcotic drugs, 1961 is a change in international law that took place in 2021,[1][2] on the basis of a scientific assessment by the World Health Organization.[3]

Since the adoption of the United Nations' Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs in 1961,[4] cannabis and cannabis resin had been listed in Schedule IV, the most tightly restricted category, reserved for drugs that are "particularly liable to abuse and to produce ill effects" and whose "liability is not offset by substantial therapeutic advantages."[5] Its initial placement in this category was not based on science, and no international scientific assessment had been undertaken until 2018.[6] The removal of cannabis and cannabis resin from that Schedule entered into force in 2021,[2] after a vote on December 2, 2020, by the UN Commission on narcotic drugs.[7] Since 2021, cannabis and cannabis resin remain listed in Schedule I of the Single Convention, alongside extracts and tinctures of cannabis.[8]

  1. ^ "The International Drug Control Conventions Schedules of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961 as amended by the 1972 Protocol, as at 22 January 2021 [ST/CND/1/Add.1/Rev.7]". United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs. January 22, 2021.
  2. ^ a b Riboulet-Zemouli, Kenzi; Krawitz, Michael Alan (August 5, 2022). "WHO's first scientific review of medicinal Cannabis : from global struggle to patient implications". Drugs, Habits and Social Policy. 23 (1): 5–21. doi:10.1108/DHS-11-2021-0060. ISSN 2752-6739. S2CID 247421561.
  3. ^ "WHO review of cannabis and cannabis-related substances". World Health Organization. Retrieved May 26, 2021.
  4. ^ Mills, James (2016). "The IHO as Actor: The case of cannabis and the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs 1961". Hygiea Internationalis. 13 (1): 95–115. doi:10.3384/hygiea.1403-8668.1613195. PMC 6440645. PMID 30930679.
  5. ^ UNODC (2013). The International Drug Control Conventions: Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961 as amended by the 1972 Protocol, Convention on Psychotropic Substances of 1971, United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances of 1988; with final acts and resolutions (PDF). New York: United Nations.
  6. ^ Danenberg, E.; Sorge, L. A.; Wieniawski, W.; Elliott, S.; Amato, L.; Scholten, W. K. (August 1, 2013). "Modernizing methodology for the WHO assessment of substances for the international drug control conventions". Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 131 (3): 175–181. doi:10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2013.02.032. ISSN 1879-0046. PMID 23548737.
  7. ^ "UN commission reclassifies cannabis, yet still considered harmful". UN News. December 2, 2020. Retrieved May 26, 2021.
  8. ^ Kwai, Isabella (December 2, 2020). "U.N. Reclassifies Cannabis as a Less Dangerous Drug". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved May 26, 2021.

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