WHO Stuck Between Politics to Reschedule Cannabis within the UN

ince 1961, the United Nations considers cannabis as a Schedule I drug with “no accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.” The plant is scheduled as a dangerous drug, like heroin, in the Single Convention on Narcotic and Drugs. But things are about to change. Commission on Narcotic Drugs 61st Reconvened Session Earlier […]

Historic Cannabis Exposure in Rally Sport | Cannabis News Network

As a navigator Bart Hissink crashed, in 2009, with a hundred and sixty kilometers an hour against a tree. He was in a coma for two weeks! After a long road to recovery and lots of medication, mainly painkillers, Bart felt his life could be improved in trying something else. Cannabis! He believes people should have the constitutional […]

Mexico Ending The War on Cannabis? | Cannabis News Network

Mexico is one of the biggest producers of cannabis in Latin America. It is a clear example of the failures of prohibition and the war on drugs, with Mexico being one of the most violent countries in the world. But now important steps towards legalization of cannabis are being made. For the first time in […]

The curious case of medicinal cannabis in the Netherlands: The James Burton Story

In a Cannabis News Network special, James Burton speaks out on the turbulent history of medicinal cannabis in the Netherlands. 

Did you know about Sorgh painting cannabis in Rembrandt’s time? | Canna History HD

Cannabis News Network is launching a new series: Canna History. In cooperation with the Hash Marihuana & Hemp Museum we are going to present multiple historical, entertaining, and need to know facts about cannabis and hemp. “Three men and a woman are sitting around a table. They are singing, drinking beer and smoking. The man on […]

Het Nederlandse gedoogbeleid is failliet | Miniserie | Deel 1

Een driedelige miniserie over het failliete Nederlandse gedoogbeleid door Cannabis News Network.

Panel debate on Cannabis Social Clubs | Cannabis University | Cannabis Liberation Day 2017

Cannabis Social Clubs panel debate inside the Cannabis University at Cannabis Liberation Day 2017 with Rosaria Ricci, Martin Barriuso, Greg de Hoedt and Els Vermeesch. Rosaria Ricci Founder and chairwoman of the first Dutch Cannabis Social Club, Tree of Life in Amsterdam, since 2014. The club tries to obtain an exemption from the Opium Law […]

Cannabis Art: Fernando de la Rocque’s Blow Job Series | Cannabis News Network

Brazilian artist Fernando de La Rocque creates his works on paper by blowing cannabis smoke onto his precut stencils. Openly in favour of decriminalizing the illegal substance, Rocque has said, “more important than freedom to smoke marijuana is the freedom to think about it and make art with it.” Cannabis News Network is a news […]

Cannabis Social Club, how does it work?

On the 22nd of December 2014 Cannabis News Network released a video on the rise of Cannabis Social Clubs. The infographic in this video has now been extracted into a separate clip, to answer that one question: what are Cannabis Social Clubs?