INCB Cannabis Control Initiative | UN CND side event 2021
Channel: FDM | Forum Drugs Mediterranean (ex-FAAAT)
Date: 07/06/2021

Presentation of INCB's Cannabis Control Initiative. Event titled “Way forward in the control and monitoring requirements of cannabis and cannabis-related substances: INCB Guidelines on the International Drug Control Requirements for the Cultivation, Manufacture and Utilization of Cannabis for Medical and Scientific Purposes” organized by the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) on 13 April 2021 during the 64th Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND). ✅ INCB monitor page: bit.ly/INCBmonitor

Cornelis De Joncheere 🇺🇳 INCB President 1:54 –– Hideo Eno 🇯🇵 Min. Health, Japan 8:38 –– Henrik Greve 🇩🇪 Bfarm, Germany 13:50 –– Stacey Harper-Avilla 🇺🇸 DEA, USA 22:08 –– Justice Tettey 🇺🇳 UNODC 30:25 –– Questions from the audience 36:00.

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⏩⏩⏩ Read FAAAT's Contribution to INCB Cannabis Guidelines: https://faaat.net/incb
⏩⏩ Flyer from the side event: https://web.archive.org/web/20210415210159/https://www.unodc.org/documents/commissions/CND/CND_Sessions/CND_64/side_events_flyers/Updated_8_April_Flyer_Way_forward.pdf
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⏩⏩⏩ Read FAAAT's Contribution to INCB Cannabis Guidelines: https://faaat.net/incb
🌱🌞🍁  Contribution to INCB draft Int'l Guidelines on cannabis. 
Contents:
1. Human rights approach: “more than an added value”
2. UN-system human rights due diligence and Cannabis, in practice (Human rights, the environment, and biological diversity; Human rights of indigenous peoples, peasants, and rural communities; INCB and T&CM: an amnesia; Freedom of religion and belief)
3. Home cultivation and self-medication
4. Cannabidiol: from stance to insistence
5. (Lack of) civil society participation
6. Other technical issues

In 2020, the INCB launched its “Cannabis Initiative.” When the Contribution was issued, the drafts of INCB's Cannabis Guidelines raised a series of questions and concerns. In this Contribution, we recommend that: The INCB should exercise due diligence –just like it has done with regards to death penalty and other human rights-related issues. The Board should also importantly take into account the specificity of this plant and its traditional, cultural, social, economic ties to millions of people that have knowledge, skills, and a continued burden of criminalization over their heads –they need to be acknowledged and included in the process. Finally, INCB must be fully open to inputs from key affected populations, civil society and academics, and not just government officials and the largest private sector companies.

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