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Concerns raised over ‘poorly regulated’ medical cannabis programmes: UN-backed narcotics control board

Concerns raised over ‘poorly regulated’ medical cannabis programmes: UN-backed narcotics control board

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Concerned about legislative developments over the non-medical use of cannabis around the world, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) warned on Tuesday that “poorly regulated medical cannabis programmes” could allow supplies to be diverted illegally for purely recreational use, harming not helping users.

That’s one of the warnings contained in the INCB’s annual report, which is calling on governments to do more to ensure pain relief and other medicine is available to all those in need.

Professor Richard Mattick, a Board Member of the INCB, spoke to Julia Dean from the UN Information Centre in Canberra, Australia, and said that the dangers associated with regular recreational use of cannabis were not properly understood.

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Julia Dean, UNIC Canberra
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UNIC Canberra