DRUG POLICY & HUMAN RIGHTS: CANNABIS REGULATION AS A HUMANITARIAN MEASURE
Channel: Knowmad Institut
Date: 2023-03-21

Organized by the Elternkreis Wien 
Empower by the Knowmad Institut
With the support of: Law Enforcement Against Prohibition Deutschland, the Brazilian Harm Reduction and Human Rights Network,  Cannabis Verband Bayern

This side event focused on advocating a humanitarian approach to regulating cannabis to achieve UN Sustainable Development Goals. Speakers from Germany and Brazil shared their experiences with discrimination and stigmatization towards cannabis users and potential corporate capture and called for reform. The event highlighted the immediate need for the decriminalization of users, scientifically reasonable limits for cannabis consumption in driving laws, and regulation of industrial hemp. A constitutional and criminal law expert from the Knowmad Institut discussed the challenges of navigating EU and international drug laws for cannabis regulation. The CEO of the Knowmad Institut emphasized the potential of cannabis regulation to promote peace, social justice, and equality and called for the adoption of Rome Consensus 2.0 to achieve a humanitarian reform in drug policies.

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