Cannabis: WHO reevaluates its position, it's the first time it happens.

Cannabis removed from the list of drugs? For now it is only a hypothesis but, according to what was announced by Marco Perduca, former radical senator and member of the Luca Coscioni Association, it could soon become reality by the World Health Organization.

The news, learned from the press, leaked out in recent days in Geneva during the open session of the Commission of Experts on Drug Addiction of the World Health Organization which for the first time in the history of the United Nations will start a review of the therapeutic properties of cannabis.

Associazione Coscioni, Società della Ragione, Forum Droghe and Fondazione DRCNet presented on that occasion a document in support of the repositioning of cannabis in the international tables. “Italy did not participate in the pre-review phase, and yet for 10 years it has continuously updated its regulatory framework on “therapeutic cannabis”; we will see if the Government will be able to seize this historic opportunity”, Perduca declared to the press.

According to Perduca, “if the rich world can use cannabis-based therapies, it is not clear why countries that are victims of Western prohibition cannot grow cannabis, often a traditional plant, and help their citizens just like those of countries that, from the post-war period to today, have imposed draconian laws against the production and therapeutic use of the medical plant”.

To reach a final decision, the chemical, pharmacological, toxicological, epidemiological aspects as well as the therapeutic uses of the plant will have to be studied.