ENCOD Press release 12. March 2026 Press release march 12th, 2026 Sunny premiere of travelling cannabis policy exhibition at CND in Vienna VIENNA – International delegates taking part in the annual Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) Vienna were welcomed by activists from seven countries and a unique exhibition on cannabis policy in France and the […]
Press release Vienna, March 5th 2026 ENCOD at the #CND69 ENCOD’s delegation to CND69 in Vienna from Monday 9th to 13th will be huge. With 31 members, we hope to show that our community is concerned and that we need to meet policymakers to achieve changes. CND69 challenges The 69th session […]
VIENNA – A new travelling exhibition comparing the divergent cannabis policies of France and the Netherlands will premiere in Vienna on March 12, coinciding with the annual meeting of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND). The year 2026 marks a dual 50th anniversary: the birth of the Dutch tolerance policy for cannabis, which […]
Commission on Narcotic Drugs – 68th session Tuesday March 11th, 2025 10:00 – 11:00 AM (Vienna) – ROOM : MOE05 1925-2025 : One centenary of Cannabis as a narcotic drug under international control This side event, in link with an exhibition, aims to present the long journey of cannabis from 1925 to the present day, […]
0:00:00 Introduction by Etienne Fontan 0:04:39 State of the art of cannabis therapeutics today by Dr Ethan Russo – the PDF presentation is available here. 0:17:25 The change in treaty status of cannabis by Dr Pavel Pachta 0:35:56 Overview of the recently published article on WHO cannabis review history by Michael Krawitz. The link to […]
Dear friends and colleagues, It is our pleasure to announce that the statement Support patient access to medicine, vote yes! has been released by the UN under document symbol E/CN.7/2020/NGO/7. Feel free to send it to your governments and national authorities, to ensure they are aware that civil society is monitoring them, and ensure they […]
We are pleased to share with you a report on the side events organized during the 63rd session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (2-6 March 2020). The report was compiled by the UNODC.
This years CND took place in the shadow of the Corona virus. Many delegates did not attend the meeting and certain decision making was postponed. Nonetheless, the whole Encod Executive Committee attended the event. Hereby, we want to give you a short overview of some of the discussions that took place throughout the week. On […]
