Cannabis Embassy Campus Vienna 2024

14 March 2024

Group photo | Cannabis Embassy Campus Vienna 2024: Popular Education on Drug Policy Advocacy | Cannabis Embassy – Legatio Cannabis — 大麻大使馆 — سفارة القنب

The Cannabis Embassy Campus Vienna is a popular education programme on drug policy advocacy & anti-prohibition literacy.

🌱✨ A dynamic and enlightening learning experience exploring the rich history and future of the United Nations drug control & global grassroots cannabis civil society movements.

The first edition was held on 13 March 2024 at Wohlmut Arts Centre, Vienna, Austria, a day prior to the start of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs’ 67th meeting & High Level Segment.

The Campus sessions were attended by participants from Aotearoa-New Zealand, Austria, Brazil, Czech Republic, France, Italy, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

This Campus session also received the support of the HempClub which published this blog post on the day.

Session 1 International Law + Stories & history of the global grassroots cannabis civil society movement

→ International Law & United Nations 101 (45 min.)

  • International Law
  • Self-executing treaties
  • Inter-governmental organisations
  • The United Nations family
  • How the UN is organised
  • Not all IGO is UN
  • UN drug control agencies
  • The International Narcotics Control Board
  • UN health agency: WHO
  • Other UN agencies concerned with plants and people using them

→ International Cannabis Law – advanced (1h)

  • Analysis of the legal regime for cannabis contained in the drug control instruments (1961 Single Convention, 1971 Convention, 1988 UN Convention).

→ Anti-prohibitionist activism at the UN, 1998–2024 (1h30)

  • Before 1998: first grassroots cannabis opposition to drug treaties (1964, 1990) and lead-up to UNGASS 1998 (1987, 1988, 1990)
  • UNGASS 1998
  • Early 2000s: Changes in UN drug control apparatus & birth of civil society movements
  • 2008 and the one year delay
  • 2009: a new recycled 10-year anti-drug plan
  • 2012 to 2016: of Cages & Kaffeeschnüffler

Session 2 Legacy & Biopiracy: Cannabis, International Law, & Intellectual Property

→ People, Plants, and Intellectual Property (IP): a short History (1h)

  • Basic terms & definitions (based on two WIPO documents)

  • Introduction to the history of treaties on “genetic resources”

  • Plants and plant’s reproductive materials = seeds & cuts & genomic information

  • History of treaties in the field (videos by Geoff Tansey & Guy Kasler)

  • Basic types of classic IP (patents, trademarks, trade secrets, copyright) and new forms/issues (plant variety protection rights, DSI)

  • What is Biopiracy? The value of GR & TKs: Immaterial assets & specific modalities of access; What is bioprospecting; When bioprospecting turn into Biopiracy.

→ Current International Law landscape of IP Privileges on Legacy & Craft Cannabis (1h15)

  • Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) & Nagoya Protocol
  • FAO’s Plant Treaty/Seed Treaty (International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture – ITPGRFA)
  • World Trade Organisation/TRIPs Agreement
  • Introduction to World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) [the UNODC of IP]
  • UPOV [the INCB of seeds / sometimes called Monsanto treaty] and Breeders’ Privileges (Plant Variety Protection Rights)
  • Digital Sequence Information (Int’l law on GRs II)
  • Other: Patents, Human Rights, CITES

→ Aotearoa Case Study (1h – By Jenna-Rose Astwood, Tū Wairua project)

  • Concern w/ biopiracy: Protection of TK & TK holders/practitionners

  • Appropriation

  • Protection of biological heritage

  • Lack of protective mechanisms

  • A discussion on the use of term “GR”.

→ GRATK Treaty, the IGC and its treaty-making work (45 min.)

→ Conclusion: Cannabis, TK, GR, and us – open discussion (cancelled)

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Campus Vienna 2024 | Cannabis Embassy – Legatio Cannabis — 大麻大使馆 — سفارة القنب
Campus Vienna 2024 | Cannabis Embassy – Legatio Cannabis — 大麻大使馆 — سفارة القنب
Group photo | Cannabis Embassy Campus Vienna 2024: Popular Education on Drug Policy Advocacy | Cannabis Embassy – Legatio Cannabis — 大麻大使馆 — سفارة القنب
Group photo | Cannabis Embassy Campus Vienna 2024: Popular Education on Drug Policy Advocacy | Cannabis Embassy – Legatio Cannabis — 大麻大使馆 — سفارة القنب
Information table at the Cannabis Embassy Campus Vienna 2024: Popular Education on Drug Policy Advocacy | Cannabis Embassy – Legatio Cannabis — 大麻大使馆 — سفارة القنب
Information table at the Cannabis Embassy Campus Vienna 2024: Popular Education on Drug Policy Advocacy | Cannabis Embassy – Legatio Cannabis — 大麻大使馆 — سفارة القنب
| Cannabis Embassy Campus Vienna: Popular Education on Drug Policy Advocacy | Cannabis Embassy – Legatio Cannabis — 大麻大使馆 — سفارة القنب
Cannabis Embassy Campus Vienna 2024: Popular Education on Drug Policy Advocacy | Cannabis Embassy – Legatio Cannabis — 大麻大使馆 — سفارة القنب
Kenzi Riboulet-Zemouli | Cannabis Embassy Campus Vienna 2024: Popular Education on Drug Policy Advocacy | Cannabis Embassy – Legatio Cannabis — 大麻大使馆 — سفارة القنب
Cannabis Embassy Campus Vienna 2024: Popular Education on Drug Policy Advocacy | Cannabis Embassy – Legatio Cannabis — 大麻大使馆 — سفارة القنب
Jenna-Rose Astwood | Cannabis Embassy Campus Vienna 2024: Popular Education on Drug Policy Advocacy | Cannabis Embassy – Legatio Cannabis — 大麻大使馆 — سفارة القنب
Cannabis Embassy Campus Vienna 2024: Popular Education on Drug Policy Advocacy | Cannabis Embassy – Legatio Cannabis — 大麻大使馆 — سفارة القنب
Cannabis Embassy Campus Vienna 2024: Popular Education on Drug Policy Advocacy | Cannabis Embassy – Legatio Cannabis — 大麻大使馆 — سفارة القنب
Cannabis Embassy Campus Vienna 2024: Popular Education on Drug Policy Advocacy | Cannabis Embassy – Legatio Cannabis — 大麻大使馆 — سفارة القنب
Cannabis Embassy Campus Vienna 2024: Popular Education on Drug Policy Advocacy | Cannabis Embassy – Legatio Cannabis — 大麻大使馆 — سفارة القنب
Cannabis Embassy Campus Vienna 2024: Popular Education on Drug Policy Advocacy | Cannabis Embassy – Legatio Cannabis — 大麻大使馆 — سفارة القنب
Wohlmut, Wien | Cannabis Embassy Campus Vienna 2024: Popular Education on Drug Policy Advocacy | Cannabis Embassy – Legatio Cannabis — 大麻大使馆 — سفارة القنب
NORML France in Vienna | Cannabis Embassy Campus Vienna 2024: Popular Education on Drug Policy Advocacy | Cannabis Embassy – Legatio Cannabis — 大麻大使馆 — سفارة القنب
Farid Ghehiouèche | Cannabis Embassy Campus Vienna 2024: Popular Education on Drug Policy Advocacy | Cannabis Embassy – Legatio Cannabis — 大麻大使馆 — سفارة القنب
Cannabis Embassy Campus Vienna 2024: Popular Education on Drug Policy Advocacy | Cannabis Embassy – Legatio Cannabis — 大麻大使馆 — سفارة القنب
Cannabis Embassy Campus Vienna 2024: Popular Education on Drug Policy Advocacy | Cannabis Embassy – Legatio Cannabis — 大麻大使馆 — سفارة القنب
Cannabis Embassy Campus Vienna 2024: Popular Education on Drug Policy Advocacy | Cannabis Embassy – Legatio Cannabis — 大麻大使馆 — سفارة القنب
Cannabis Embassy Campus Vienna 2024: Popular Education on Drug Policy Advocacy | Cannabis Embassy – Legatio Cannabis — 大麻大使馆 — سفارة القنب
Memorial wall during the Cannabis Embassy Campus Vienna on 13 March 2024 & the Proclamation of the Cannabis Embassy, Vienna (Austria) 17 March 2024 | © Maren Krings photography | Cannabis Embassy – Legatio Cannabis — 大麻大使馆 — سفارة القنب
Cannabis Embassy Campus Vienna 2024: Popular Education on Drug Policy Advocacy | Cannabis Embassy – Legatio Cannabis — 大麻大使馆 — سفارة القنب
Cannabis Embassy Campus Vienna 2024: Popular Education on Drug Policy Advocacy | Cannabis Embassy – Legatio Cannabis — 大麻大使馆 — سفارة القنب
Cannabis Embassy Campus Vienna 2024: Popular Education on Drug Policy Advocacy | Cannabis Embassy – Legatio Cannabis — 大麻大使馆 — سفارة القنب
Session 1: International law, Cannabis, and history of advocacy & civil society movements | Cannabis Embassy Campus Vienna: Popular Education on Drug Policy Advocacy
UN drug control: timeline 1945–2030 | Cannabis Embassy Campus Vienna: Popular Education on Drug Policy Advocacy
Drug control treaties related to Cannabis | Cannabis Embassy Campus Vienna: Popular Education on Drug Policy Advocacy
Two leading activists: Farid Ghehiouèche & Joep Oomen (RIP) at the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs, Vienna 2013 | Cannabis Embassy Campus Vienna: Popular Education on Drug Policy Advocacy
UN drug control apparatus: Treaty mandates and delegated mandates | Cannabis Embassy Campus Vienna: Popular Education on Drug Policy Advocacy
UN drug control apparatus: nominations of INCB members | Cannabis Embassy Campus Vienna: Popular Education on Drug Policy Advocacy
The 3 WHO ECDD reports on cannabis | Cannabis Embassy Campus Vienna: Popular Education on Drug Policy Advocacy
| Cannabis Embassy Campus Vienna: Popular Education on Drug Policy Advocacy
Single Convention on Narcotic drugs: all legal regimes for Cannabis | Cannabis Embassy Campus Vienna: Popular Education on Drug Policy Advocacy
Single Convention on Narcotic drugs: the legal regime for adult use | Cannabis Embassy Campus Vienna: Popular Education on Drug Policy Advocacy
Worldwide cannabis activists at the UN, Vienna 2014 | Cannabis Embassy Campus Vienna: Popular Education on Drug Policy Advocacy
Single Convention on Narcotic drugs: legal regimes | Cannabis Embassy Campus Vienna: Popular Education on Drug Policy Advocacy
Khoi king with Fields of Green for ALL activists in front of Parliament in Pretoria, South Africa | Cannabis Embassy
Kaffeeschnüffler action in front of the UN, Vienna 2014 | Cannabis Embassy Campus Vienna: Popular Education on Drug Policy Advocacy
Kaffeeschnüffler action in front of the UN, Vienna 2014 | Cannabis Embassy Campus Vienna: Popular Education on Drug Policy Advocacy
Session 2: Intellectual Property, International law, Cannabis, and Biopiracy | Cannabis Embassy Campus Vienna: Popular Education on Drug Policy Advocacy
Session 2: Intellectual Property, International law, Cannabis, and Biopiracy | Cannabis Embassy Campus Vienna: Popular Education on Drug Policy Advocacy – What is Biopiracy (by NGO Public Eye, Switzerland)
Session 2: Intellectual Property, International law, Cannabis, and Biopiracy | Cannabis Embassy Campus Vienna: Popular Education on Drug Policy Advocacy – Main areas of Intellectual Property law
Session 2: Intellectual Property, International law, Cannabis, and Biopiracy | Cannabis Embassy Campus Vienna: Popular Education on Drug Policy Advocacy – Main areas of Intellectual Property law
Session 2: Intellectual Property, International law, Cannabis, and Biopiracy | Cannabis Embassy Campus Vienna: Popular Education on Drug Policy Advocacy
Cannabis Embassy – Legatio Cannabis — 大麻大使馆 — سفارة القنب
Presentation by Jenna-Rose Astwood | Cannabis Embassy Campus Vienna 2024: Popular Education on Drug Policy Advocacy | Cannabis Embassy – Legatio Cannabis — 大麻大使馆 — سفارة القنب
Presentation by Jenna-Rose Astwood | Cannabis Embassy Campus Vienna 2024: Popular Education on Drug Policy Advocacy | Cannabis Embassy – Legatio Cannabis — 大麻大使馆 — سفارة القنب
Presentation by Jenna-Rose Astwood | Cannabis Embassy Campus Vienna 2024: Popular Education on Drug Policy Advocacy | Cannabis Embassy – Legatio Cannabis — 大麻大使馆 — سفارة القنب
Presentation by Jenna-Rose Astwood | Cannabis Embassy Campus Vienna 2024: Popular Education on Drug Policy Advocacy | Cannabis Embassy – Legatio Cannabis — 大麻大使馆 — سفارة القنب
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