A watershed moment occurred as the United Nations removed cannabis for medicinal purposes on Wednesday. Removed from a category of the world’s most dangerous drugs. Marijuana had been in schedule IV since the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs. This was a long-delayed decision that can pave the road for expanding research on the substance. The long-delayed decision could clear the way for an expansion of marijuana research and medical use across the globe.
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In the United States, marijuana remains a schedule 1 substance regardless of this ruling by the United Nations. In the US the scheduling faces a possible change with a vote in the House of Representatives this week. The bill is widely seen by advocates as having a strong possibility of passing the democrat led House. The currently Republican-led Senate of McConnel, not so much.
The change is important in that numerous nations around the world. Nations including the US, have based their scheduling on this convention. Changing the schedule gives promotion to the concept that it’s not much a moral issue or legal issue to research cannabis as a medicinal tool.
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With a change in the federal law passing the MORE Act, Texas will still have to pass it’s own cannabis laws. Under the MORE Act the state of Texas will reserve the right to keep marijuana illegal if desired. The legislature will have to pass a bill and Governor Abbott to sign.