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Cannabis advocacy continues to progress in 2017 with news that has given the cannabis community grounds for optimism. WHO will conduct its 1st official evaluation of cannabis’ medicinal value. If the results are favourable, the stringent international restrictions on cannabis may ease and cannabis may finally be reclassified. Read more.
Since the beginning of 2017, the cannabis community has had good reason to be optimistic. World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced that it will carry out its first assessment this year of the medicinal value of cannabis and its derivatives. For the first time in 82 years – since the plant was banned internationally – WHO is re-examining the therapeutic value of cannabis. Depending on the results of this report, which has been formally labelled a “pre-review,” it may result in a relaxation of the strict and restrictive international controls on the therapeutic use and the potential and long-awaited reclassification of cannabis.
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