INCB President calls on the United States Government to address initiatives aimed at pe rmitting recreational drug use

VIENNA, 13 March 2013 (UN Information Service) – Allowing for the recreational use of cannabis “would be a violation of international law, namely the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961, to which the United States is party.”

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