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Cannabis Embassy Official @cannabisembassy.bsky.social · Sep 2

“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.”

A Century Underground: 100 Years of Cannabis Prohibition | High Times

The year 2025 marks a somber milestone: the centenary of international cannabis prohibition. What began in Geneva in 1925, when global powers agreed to

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Cannabis Embassy Official @cannabisembassy.bsky.social · Aug 27

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Cannabis Embassy Official @cannabisembassy.bsky.social · Mar 14

Last day of CND in Austria

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Cannabis Embassy Official @cannabisembassy.bsky.social · Mar 13

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

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Cannabis Embassy Official @cannabisembassy.bsky.social · Mar 12

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

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ENCOD @encod.bsky.social · Mar 11

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.
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A conference room with blue squared tables and some people attending.

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Cannabis Embassy Official @cannabisembassy.bsky.social · Mar 11

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

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Cannabis Embassy Official @cannabisembassy.bsky.social · Mar 9

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

Centenary of Cannabis Prohibition - UNOV CND Exhibition | HION

Organised by Fields of Green for ALL, non profit company (Sough Africa) and the Cannabis Embassy.

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Cannabis Embassy Official @cannabisembassy.bsky.social · Mar 7

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

1925–2025: a century of international pharmaceutical law

The 1925 Brussels Pharmacopoeia Agreement and Geneva Opium Convention were foundational in shaping international pharmaceutical regulation. The former sought to standardise potent medicines, while ...

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Cannabis Embassy Official @cannabisembassy.bsky.social · Mar 7

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

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Cannabis Embassy Official @cannabisembassy.bsky.social · Feb 28

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.

Centenary of Cannabis Prohibition: Global Cannabis History Year – Magazín Konopí

This year 2025 marks a significant and somber milestone: 100 years since the beginning of international cannabis prohibition. ...

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Cannabis Embassy Official @cannabisembassy.bsky.social · Feb 23

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.

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Cannabis Embassy Official @cannabisembassy.bsky.social · Feb 20

1925 - 2025 The Centenary Of Cannabis Prohibition - Fields of Green for ALL

Our colleagues Kenzi and Farid from the Cannabis Embassy, went to the Palais De Nations in Geneva on 19 February 2025, to smoke a joint on the Centenary of Cannabis Prohibition, to take a moment to re...

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Cannabis Embassy Official @cannabisembassy.bsky.social · Feb 20

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.

1925 - 2025 The Centenary of Cannabis Prohibition.

YouTube video by Fields of Green for ALL

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Cannabis Embassy Official @cannabisembassy.bsky.social · Jan 30

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.

Cannabis may be more effective than opioids, Yale study finds

Research shows that non-psychoactive compounds in the cannabis plant, such as CBD, CBG, and CBN, could provide a safer alternative to pain therapy than the drugs currently used

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Cannabis Embassy Official @cannabisembassy.bsky.social · Dec 31

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

Cannabis Extract Study Finds No Genotoxic Effects, Highlighting Need For Further Research

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

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Cannabis Embassy Official @cannabisembassy.bsky.social · Dec 23

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.

Daily marijuana use outpaces daily drinking in the US, a new study says

Millions of people in the U.S. report using marijuana daily or nearly every day, and those people now outnumber those who say they are daily or nearly-daily drinkers of alcohol.

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Cannabis Embassy Official @cannabisembassy.bsky.social · Dec 23

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.

Cannabis thérapeutique : le ministère de la Santé décide de prolonger l'expérimentation pour six mois

Les 1 800 patients inclus dans le protocole vont pouvoir bénéficier des médicaments jusqu'au 31 juillet 2025, le temps d'un sevrage ou de solutions alternatives, précise une source proche du dossier à...

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Cannabis Embassy Official @cannabisembassy.bsky.social · Dec 20

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

Cannabis pollen dispersal across the United States - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Cannabis pollen dispersal across the United States

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Cannabis Embassy Official @cannabisembassy.bsky.social · Dec 20

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.

Adults Overwhelmingly Oppose Marijuana Criminalization

Only 12% said "the possession and sale of marijuana should be illegal under all circumstances"

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Cannabis Embassy Official @cannabisembassy.bsky.social · Dec 8

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.”

War On Drugs Has 'Completely And Utterly' Failed, United Nations Human Rights Commissioner Says - Marijuana Moment

The United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights is calling on the international community to move away from punitive, criminal drug policies, saying that the global war on drugs “has failed...

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Cannabis Embassy Official @cannabisembassy.bsky.social · Dec 4

hope it rocks!

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Cannabis Embassy Official @cannabisembassy.bsky.social · Nov 29

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

Matt Grimshaw @thedocumattarian.bsky.social · Nov 28

Ran out of king size but I can still roll an L... Happy #Danksgiving & trust me - you WISH you were smoking this - straight from episode SIX of SEEWEED youtu.be/mPllmPA-LEY

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Cannabis Embassy Official @cannabisembassy.bsky.social · Nov 29

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Cannabis Embassy Official @cannabisembassy.bsky.social · Nov 29

Easy on the cranberry sauce...