Top 10 cannabis business stories of 2020
Here’s a look back at the year that was through the lens of MJBizDaily‘s most-read marijuana business stories of 2020. Top 10 […]
Category: World Health Organization
The 2020 Global Cannabis Regulatory Roundup
As a strange year heads to a final, painful finish, there have been some major (and some less so) changes afoot in […]
UN Removes Cannabis From Schedule IV
The United Nations Commission for Narcotic Drugs, based in Vienna, Austria, voted to remove cannabis for medical use from its Schedule IV […]
United Nations approves WHO recommendation to reschedule cannabis in historic vote
The United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) on Wednesday accepted a World Health Organization (WHO) recommendation to remove cannabis and cannabis […]
How Far Away Is Adult Use Cannabis Reform On The Global Calendar?
There is an ineffable logic to the pace of reform these days. Nowhere is that clearer in both the success of voter […]
Upcoming UN vote may be watershed moment for global medical cannabis – if only symbolic
The medical cannabis industry could be in for one of its biggest symbolic wins in decades if a United Nations vote next […]
Week in Review: Cannabis investors eye NJ, program delays in Illinois and Maine, House votes to protect adult-use markets & more
Some of New Jersey’s medical marijuana operators already are investing heavily to expand cultivation facilities and other infrastructure to prepare for the […]
Some WHO cannabis recommendations draw strong opposition at recent UN meeting
Two of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) cannabis scheduling recommendations might face an uphill battle getting adopted later this year by the […]
South Africa Reschedules CBD and THC
The South African government has taken a leap into the future (ahead also of the expected World Health Organization (WHO) decision on […]
Not all WHO cannabis recommendations would loosen international control, UN drug agency says
An analysis by a United Nations monitoring body concludes that most of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) cannabis scheduling recommendations would either […]