This conference aims at understanding the alternative and sustainable use of cannabis variations as industrial hemp and as a medicine. The guest speakers will highlight that cannabis can be a boost for growth and employment in the European Union.
This conference will provide a new and urgently needed framework for drug control reforms based on key tenets of Sustainable Development, grounded in public health, sustainable development and human rights.
There will be a consultation for all relevant stakeholders such as civil society representatives and organisations to take part and share their experience and expertise during the lead up to the UNGASS in April.
The outcome of the Dialogue will inform intergovernmental deliberations on operational activities of the UN system to be undertaken by the General Assembly in the second half of 2016.
UNAIDS and the Permanent Missions of Colombia, Norway and Switzerland to the United Nations (UN) will be hosting a side event at UN headquarters in New York in the margins of the Informal Interactive Stakeholder Consultation (IISC).
Please join Open Society Foundations for an international panel of researchers and growers from Colombia, Morocco, Peru, and the United States, who will discuss the role of drug crop production in poverty and development.