To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. On 2 December 2020 the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) voted to recognize, for the first time in history, the medical value of cannabis. The long-awaited decision comes nearly 60 years after cannabis was first included in the strictest category of the 1961 United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs (hereinafter also referred to as “Convention”). Through this historical vote the drugs in Schedule IV of the Convention concerning dangerous substances with high potential toxicity and low, or even no therapeutic power – a subset of those already in Schedule I – no longer include cannabis.