Global health experts at the United Nations are recommending that marijuana and its key components be formally rescheduled under international drug treaties. The World Health Organization (WHO) is calling for whole-plant marijuana, as well as cannabis resin, to be removed from Schedule IV—the most restrictive category of a 1961 drug convention signed by countries from around the world. (That's different from the U.S. federal system, under which Schedule I is where the supposedly most dangerous and restricted drugs—like marijuana, heroin and LSD—are classified.) "Today the World Health Organization has gone a long way towards setting the record straight. "It is time for us all to support the World Health Organization’s recommendations and ensure politics don't trump science."

Source: Forbes February 01, 2019 11:35 UTC