Abstract Background The use of Cannabis for Therapeutic Purposes (CTP) has recently
become legal in many places. These policy and legal modifications may be related to …

Introduction Hemp (Cannabis sativa subsp. sativa), commonly used for industrial purposes,
is now being consumed by the public for various health promoting effects. As popularity of …

Cannabis is commonly characterized as the most normalized illicit drug. However, it remains
a prohibited substance in most parts of the world, including Europe, and users can still be …

BACKGROUND: March 2011 marked the 50th anniversary of the Single Convention on
Narcotic Drugs. This legal instrument, the bedrock of the current United Nations based …

Background Ion mobility spectrometry is used for the rapid detection of drugs at points of
security but are unable to differentiate some drugs leading to the instrument alarming for a …

Background Various countries and states, including Israel, have recently legalized cannabis
for therapeutic purposes (CTP). These changes have received mass media coverage and …

• It shifted the focus of the multilateral drug control framework to incorporate a more
prohibitionist approach to the non-medical and non-scientific use of certain substances.• …

In the late 1960s, the cause of cannabis law reform briefly rose to remarkable cultural
prominence in several Western countries, notably the United Kingdom and the United …

This book uses a human rights perspective–developed philosophically, politically and
legally–to change the way in which we think about drug control issues. The prohibitionist …

What are the overall patterns in cannabis policy-making processes, and how can we
understand and explain converging and diverging tendencies across different contexts? A …