Recreational consumption, however, will continue to be prohibited in international regulations
The UN recognized this Wednesday the medicinal properties of cannabis in a vote in Vienna of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, the executive body on drug policy of the United Nations.
A simple majority of the 53 States of the Commission have decided to withdraw cannabis and its resin from Schedule IV of the 1961 Convention on drugs, which means that the medical usefulness of that plant, whose recreational consumption will continue to be prohibited in international regulations.
Almost all the States of the European Union -with the exception of Hungary- and many of America have added a simple majority of 27 votes to approve the change -one of the most important issues in the field of drugs in recent decades - while most countries in Asia and Africa opposed.