by admin | 05 2025 | Ministry of External Affairs, Permanent Mission to Vienna (and New-York, Nairobi, the Hague)
The Cannabis Initiative (2019–2025) The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) launched a so-called “INCB Cannabis Control Initiative” in 2019, aiming to develop guidelines to assist Member States in complying with international drug control treaties concerning...
by admin | 04 2025 | Ministry of External Affairs
In 2025, the world reaches an unusual milestone: the Centenary of InternationalCannabisProhibition . One hundred years since the 1925 Geneva Opium Convention first drew Cannabis into the expanding machinery of global drug control —an act driven not by science or...
by admin | 12 2024 | Ministry of External Affairs, Permanent Mission to Geneva (and Paris, Rome, Montreal)
How can we ensure that the global cannabis transition is just, sustainable, and inclusive—especially for those historically marginalised by prohibition? This is not another book about how to grow or sell cannabis. It is about designing a post-prohibition future that...
by admin | 12 2024 | Ministry of External Affairs, Permanent Mission to Vienna (and New-York, Nairobi, the Hague)
[Letter sent by 181 NGOs from 56 countries to the INCB on 2 December 2021, sent again on repeated occasions, without answer]. Facing the lack of answer, sign-on is re-opened in 2025. To read the original pdf letter sent in 2021, click here . NGO Sign-on Letter NGOs,...
by admin | 10 2024 | Ministry of External Affairs
The year 2025 marks the Centenary of Cannabis Prohibition globally. A global collective catharsis, looking back at 100 years of negative history –since the 1925 Geneva Opium Convention first brought “Indian hemp” under international drug control. Meanwhile, cannabis...