The Global Cannabis Commission Report was Convened by Amanda Feilding – Director of the Beckley Foundation To download the full report click here. Authors of the Report: Professors Robin Room – Wayne Hall – Peter Reuter – Benedikt Fischer – Simon Lenton Commissioners of the Conclusions and Recommendations: – Robin Room – Wayne Hall – [...]
Cannabis Commission
Cannabis is by far the most widely used illegal drug, (accounting for 166 million users out of a total of 200 million users of all illegal drugs), yet it is rarely mentioned in international drug policy discussions. Amanda Feilding convened a team of the world’s leading drug policy analysts to put this right by compiling a comprehensive overview of the subject.
The Commission, in its Report, also identified possible routes forward, including depenalisation, decriminalization, and a regulated legal market. It also discussed how individual countries might reform cannabis policies to suit their particular needs. One suggestion is that countries should join together with similarly disposed nations to denounce the current international drugs conventions and instead draw up cannabis-specific conventions more suitable for their culture.
Cannabis Policy: Moving Beyond Stalemate Extended Summary Prepared for UNGASS Vienna-March-2009 To download click here “That which is prohibited cannot easily be regulated” Cannabis came under the control of the international narcotics treaties as an afterthought, in an era when use of the drug was confined to relatively small groups in a scattering of cultures. [...]
Conclusions & Recommendations To download click here Translations available: French German Spanish Portuguese Italian Russian Greek Serbian Conclusions About Cannabis Use and Harms In the last half century recreational use of cannabis has become widely established among teenagers and young adults in a broad range of developed countries and in some developing countries. [...]
Mexico Legalizes Drug Possession New York Times – August 21, 2009 Lessons from the Dutch New York Times – by Prof. Peter Reuter in Room for debate blogs – July 19th, 2009. City trying to ‘hash out’ pot issue Denmark.dk – the official website of Denmark. 7th July 2009. Beckley Foundation issues Global Cannabis Commission [...]
Background Cannabis is subject to international control by the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, as amended in 1972 (http://www.incb.org/incb/convention_1961.html), and it is also affected by the 1988 Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (http://www.incb.org/incb/convention_1988.html). Because a basic principle of these conventions is that legitimate use of substances covered by them [...]
Fernando Henrique Cardoso Former President of Brazil The report of the Global Cannabis Commission convened by the Beckley Foundation is a valuable contribution to our thinking on the thorny subject of illicit drugs. It is based on solid research and it is argued in an imaginative and yet realistic fashion. The failure of the ‘War [...]
The History of Cannabis Use and Prohibition Cannabis came under the control of the international narcotics treaties as an afterthought in an era when use of the drug was confined to relatively small groups in a scattering of cultures. But the situation has transformed over the last half-century, with the use of cannabis increasingly becoming [...]
Convened by Amanda Feilding – Director of the Beckley Foundation To download the full report click here. Commissioners of the Global Cannabis Commission Report and Authors of the Report’s Conclusions and Recommendations: Robin Room – Peter Reuter – Wayne Hall -Benedikt Fischer – Simon Lenton – Amanda Feilding The Beckley Foundation, a UN-accredited NGO, [...]
The Beckley Foundation’s Global Cannabis Commission is now published as a book in association with Oxford University Press entitled: ‘Cannabis Policy: Moving Beyond Stalemate’ Cannabis, marijuana, pot, ganja – it goes by many names – is by far the most widely used illegal substance, and accounts for more arrests than any other drug. Politicians the [...]
