UN Commission Removes Marijuana from List of Most Dangerous Drugs | World

In practice, the decision does not eliminate the need for countries to establish controls against drug proliferation. Nor does the measure have the power to change, by itself, the policies adopted by each nation on marijuana and its derivatives.

However, with reclassification, marijuana no longer occupies a list of substances considered “particularly susceptible to abuse and harmful effects” me “incapable of producing therapeutic benefits”.

On that list of the most dangerous drugs, marijuana was placed next to substances like heroin. Now, cannabis ranks among other narcotics such as morphine, which the organization also recommends controlling but admits to have less harmful potential.

The decision follows a recommendation from the WHO itself and was approved by 27 countries. Another 25 voted against and one representation abstained. Delegations rejected other recommendations such as deletion of all the lists of some components of cannabis.

Countries that legalized the recreational use of marijuana

The recreational use of marijuana is allowed in countries such as Uruguay, Canada and Georgia, which recently passed laws that eliminate the penalty for those who use the substance or that completely legalize the use of the drug.

Legalization was also recently passed in parts of the United States, where there was a referendum on the same day as the presidential election.

Mexico, on the other hand, may be the next to allow the use of narcotics: the Senate approved the legalization of marijuana last month for medicinal and recreational purposes.

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