{"id":34476,"date":"2020-12-05T05:23:18","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T05:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=34476"},"modified":"2020-12-05T05:23:19","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T05:23:19","slug":"un-commission-reclassifies-cannabis-no-longer-considered-risky-narcotic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/un-commission-reclassifies-cannabis-no-longer-considered-risky-narcotic\/","title":{"rendered":"UN commission reclassifies cannabis, no longer considered risky narcotic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In reviewing a series of World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations on marijuana and its derivatives, the CND zeroed-in on the decision to remove cannabis from Schedule IV of the\u202f1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs\u202f\u2014 where it was listed alongside deadly, addictive opioids, including heroin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key-Points<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In reviewing a series of World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations on marijuana and its derivatives, the CND zeroed-in on the decision to remove cannabis from Schedule IV of the\u202f1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs\u202f\u2014 where it was listed alongside deadly, addictive opioids, including heroin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CND\u2019s 53 Member States voted to removed cannabis \u2013 where it had been placed for 59 years \u2013 from the strictest control schedules, that even discouraged its use for medical purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With an historic vote, the CND has opened the door to recognizing the medicinal and therapeutic potential of the commonly-used but still largely illegal recreational drug.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision could also drive additional scientific research into the plant\u2019s long-heralded medicinal properties and act as catalyst for countries to legalize the drug for medicinal use, and reconsider laws on its recreational use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In reviewing a series of World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations on marijuana and its derivatives, the CND zeroed-in on the decision to remove cannabis from Schedule IV of the\u202f1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs\u202f\u2014 where it was listed alongside deadly, addictive opioids, including heroin. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points In reviewing a series of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":34477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1364],"tags":[232],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-34476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-december-2020","tag-world-health-organizationwho"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34478,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34476\/revisions\/34478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34476"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=34476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}