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“This is not a moment for celebration,” says longtime activist and Berkeley Patients Group co-founder Etienne Fontan. “It’s a moment to reflect on the generations harmed, the science suppressed, and the patients denied access to a plant that’s been with humanity since the beginning.”

Last day of CND in Austria

Got to ask questions to the World Health Organization and UNODC United Nations with fellow activists from Cannabis Embassy Fields of Green for ALL FAAAT & @vetsactioncouncil.bsky.social

Back at it educating world leaders on cannabis at 🇺🇳 in Vienna Austria

An impression of the ENCOD side event at the ongoing UNDOC conference in Vienna with our Chairman Farid Ghenouiche, Secretary Ana Afuera, the @cannabisembassy.bsky.social and many more from around the world. ow

Yesterday at the United Nations in Vienna Austria we protested on the steps with the cannabis plants they were ‘too uncomfortable’ to let us display for the 1 Centenary of Cannabis Prohibition in the EU display inside the UN

Centenary of Cannabis Prohibition - UNOV CND Exhibition Start Date: Mon, 10/03/2025 - 08:00 End date: Fri, 14/03/2025 - 16:20 Body: Organised by Fields of Green for ALL, a non-profit company (Sough Africa) and the Cannabis Embassy. Location: UNODC headquarters, UNOV, building M, 1st floor, Vienna

Our Ambassador's latest piece published today! @teluobir.bsky.social

Part of our display we’re setting up in the United Nations for the CND next week in Vienna Austria. More to come…

This article is from Kanopi Magazine - English version - in the Czech Republic. Myrtle Clarke wrote the piece with Kenzi Riboulet-Zemouli from the Cannabis Embassy. They analyze this somber milestone by looking at highlights along the international road Cannabis has traveled over a hundred years.

Fields of Green and its Cannabis Embassy global partners for All NPC highlight Article 2(9) of the 1961 Convention, allowing nonmedical cannabis regulation with harm reduction and reporting. They advocate using this to modernize policy without treaty changes, honoring Judge Leroy’s support.

19 February 2025 marks 100 years since Cannabis was prohibited internationally. Please see fieldsofgreenforall.org.za & cannabisembassy.org for more info and how to participate in our international Centenary advocacy campaigns during 2025.

Cannabidiol (CBD), cannabigerol (CBG), and cannabinol (CBN) are non-psychoactive cannabinoids that are found in cannabis alongside others such as tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) which is psychoactive and is the cannabinoid responsible for the high feeling commonly associated with the plant.

The researchers on this study tested a cannabis extract and found that it showed no significant genotoxic effects in any of the tested models.

For the first time, the number of Americans who use marijuana just about every day has surpassed the number who drink that often, a shift some 40 years in the making as recreational pot use became more mainstream and legal in nearly half of U.S. states.

During a meeting on Thursday, December 19, on the experimentation of therapeutic cannabis , the Ministry of Health decided to grant an authorization for an additional six months, France Inter learned.(New window)from a source close to the case.

This study lays the groundwork for developing sophisticated approaches to managing agricultural cross-pollination risks, potentially influencing both policy and practice.

The overwhelming majority of Americans say that marijuana ought to be legal for either medical or adult use, according to nationwide polling data compiled by the politically conservative-leaning think tank, the Manhattan Institute.

They are awakening... “Criminalisation and prohibition have failed to reduce drug use and failed to deter drug-related crime,” Commissioner Volker Türk said at a conference in Warsaw. “These policies are simply not working—and we are failing some of the most vulnerable groups in our societies.”

Check out this awesome documentarian @thedocumattarian.bsky.social his work SeeWeed is well worth the watch and share. #Cannabis #SeeWeed

Join Us: A global collective catharsis, looking back at 100 years of negative history –since the 1925 Geneva Opium Convention first brought “Indian hemp” under international drug control. #cannabis #CannabisEmbassy #100years #Centenary #Prohibition #EndProhibition

Activist volunteers from around the world make the Cannabis Embassy work possible at the United Nations #cannabis #CannabisEmbassy #Dagga #Ganja #Marijuana #UnitedNations #Weed

We issued Kevin Sabet the Passion For Ignorance and Unenlightenment Award for Cannabis "Myth-Information." The award went to the most deserving person for spreading lies at the United Nations. He deserves it for decades of lies. We issued it at one of our side events in Vienna, Austria, in March

26 June marks the Global Day of Action for the “Support. Don’t Punish” campaign. “A global advocacy campaign calling for drug policies based on health and human rights. Campaigners are dismantling the ‘war on drugs’ and building sustainable alternatives that uphold everyone’s rights and dignity.

What an inspiration to be in a room with 2,158 civil society participants from 115 nationalities at the UN Office in Nairobi for two days of “discussions, activities, inspiration, dialogue and achievement.”

Biopiracy Treaty: Cannabis Embassy's Opening Statement in Geneva at the #GRATK Diplomatic Conference on Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge. This is the Opening Declaration delivered by Paula Graciela Kahn from www.cosmovisioneshealing.org at @wipo 14 May youtu.be/8uiESNO_l8Q?...

Our Ambassadors are in Geneva, Switzerland, this week as they contribute to a new international legal instrument at the diplomatic conference at WIPO’s Geneva headquarters from May 13 to 24, 2024. See Event 15 May: wipo-int.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #CannabisEmbassy #FieldsofGreenForAll #FAAATnet

Cannabis Embassy Ambassador, Myrtle Clarke representing at the UN Summit for the Future held in Nairobi, Kenya cannabisembassy.org/un-summit-fo...

We are hosting online community learning & consultation spaces to inform & engage with diverse global communities about what is at stake with the upcoming UN @wipo Conference to advance a Treaty on Generic Resources and Traditional Knowledge. 🌈Support the delegation at cannabisembassy.org/support

Drug Policy reform can not happen in a vacuum. Fields of Green for ALL has gone to great lengths over the last decade to observe, participate and learn from activists, academics and experts from all over the world.

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🌱✨ Urgent Call for Solidarity! 🚀 We need YOU 🔗 Support the Cannabis Embassy's mission to Geneva! ko-fi.com/cannabisemba... Every donation, big or small (starting at 5€), helps us advocate for fair and ethical legal frameworks for Cannabis and other natural "drugs". 🌿📜

Cannabis #Biopiracy #Regulations The Cannabis Embassy team, have been following UN work on seeds by World Intellectual Property Organization – WIPO for years. In a month, we need to be in Geneva ➡➡➡ lnkd.in/d2RAZSvY ⬅⬅⬅ for the Diplomatic Conference which will inaugurate and approve this new treaty.

Cannabis #Biopiracy #Regulations The Cannabis Embassy team, have been following UN work on seeds by World Intellectual Property Organization – WIPO for years. In a month, we need to be in Geneva ➡➡➡ lnkd.in/d2RAZSvY ⬅⬅⬅ for the Diplomatic Conference which will inaugurate and approve this new treaty.

On Sunday 17 March 2024, the first General Assembly of the Cannabis Embassy [1st Parliament meeting] was held at Wohlmut, Vienna (Austria) in parallel of the United Nations' 67th Commission on narcotic drugs (CND).