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- Nov 29, 2020
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WORLD HEMP CONGRESS 2020 Call GOVERNMENTS to Support patient access to medicine - vote YES in UN!

Updated: Jul 7, 2023

"Support patient access to medicine, vote yes!"

now is the time for the final global campaign for Medical Cannabis, addressed to the

UNITED NATIONS in Vienna 2 - 4 December 2020, to UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs department. The proposed document text to the UN is posted online on the website of the reconvened 63rd CND session.

WORLD HEMP CONGRESS UN STATMENT for the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) was established by Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), with total of 193 NGO signing, from 52 different countries!, and is implemented under a UN working document E/CN.7/2020/NGO/7.

WORLD HEMP CONGRESS internationally officially lobbying, is in public interest, represented before International State Institutions, under the project leading NGO Društvo zeliščarjev Pomurje / Herbalists Association of Pomurje NGO in the public interest in the field of agriculture & NGO international voluntary organization, Rakičan, Lendavska 3, 9000 Murska Sobota, Slovenija-EU, by state decision MKGP RS/EU 2015-125/2019/2-VN, official entry in the UN register. Internationally is committed to agriculture, health, social, economy with emphasis in alternative organic production, natural healing and innovations in the field of herbalism, which should be a weight for pharmaceutical healing and international advocacy.

WORLD HEMP CONGRESS Team, Partners and GLOBAL ACTIVISTS!

Please CALL your governments, embassies and decision makers, to support the proposed legislative changes and finally place the Medical Cannanbis in its rightful legal place in medicine and enable development and innovation, for our common global quality of life and successful legal international business.

Take action to improve access to cannabis for patients! In case you are not aware of relevant government authorities' in charge of "drug control" in your country, you can find their contact in this list (from last year though). You can also find here contacts of the Embassy of your country in Vienna, Austria (where the UN headquarters hosting the vote is located).

To date there have been a total of 193 NGO signing, from 52 different countries!

The CND monitor to track the position of your government on the vote vote.https://kenzi.zemou.li/CNDmonitor/
Understand WHO medical cannabis recommendations (2020) video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHnBumHLXOE
A memo to understand the recommendations "in a nutshell" https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333972228_UN_Commission_on_Narcotic_Drugs_Memo__Changes_in_the_scope_of_international_control_of_medical_Cannabis_and_cannabinoids
Crimson Digest (vol.1), full history + background on Cannabis & the treaties https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333825934_The_Crimson_Digest_Vol_1_Briefing_on_the_international_scientific_assessment_of_Cannabis_Processes_stakeholders_and_history

Thank you, for your cooperation and especially to the UN CND project working team for statment, that leads and represents this campaign for EU and GLOBAL NGOs.

Lobbying call based on the UN working team report, prepared by:

Majda Robić, President of the Association of Herbalists Pomurje, NGO Official Lobbyist and WORLD HEMP CONGRESS CEO, with Team and Partners

FINALE RESULT:

UN commission reclassifies cannabis, no longer considered risky narcotic. The UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) took a number of decisions on Wednesday, leading to changes in the way cannabis is internationally regulated, including its reclassification out of the most dangerous category of drugs.

In reviewing a series of World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations on marijuana and its derivatives, the CND zeroed-in on the decision to remove cannabis from Schedule IV of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs — where it was listed alongside deadly, addictive opioids, including heroin. The CND’s 53 Member States voted to removed cannabis – where it had been placed for 59 years – from the strictest control schedules, that even discouraged its use for medical purposes. With an historic vote of 27 in favour, 25 against, and one abstention, the CND has opened the door to recognizing the medicinal and therapeutic potential of the commonly-used but still largely illegal recreational drug.

WORLD HEMP CONGRESS STATEMENT:

THE GREAT GLOBAL CANNABIS VICTORY before the UNITED NATIONS! THANKS to all activists at the global level, NGOs, to UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs department, to World Health Organization (WHO), to UN and the National Ambassadors, EU Commissioners, to Responsible Institutions and Decision-makers, in particular to the Working Group, who has persistently led the efforts and the process before the UN, and last but not least, thanks to PRESS, WHC Team and to all, who have enabled and supported the amendment of such important professional regulations, and enable a historical shift and development in this area as well.

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