17 - 20 Jun 2024 | Amsterdam

Eighths and pains: The ongoing trials and tribulations of cannabis in healthcare

Speakers:

Finn Age Hänsel

Founder & CEOSanity Group

Clarissa Sowemimo-Coker

CEOOxford Cannabinoid Technologies

Karan Wadhera

Managing PartnerCasa Verde

Sarah Sinclair

Journalist & EditorProhibition Partners

About this Session:

The road to legalisation for medical cannabis has been slow and arduous. Cannabis’ recorded use as a therapy goes back thousands of years, but moral panic in the 1920s saw a global blanket ban from The League of Nations in 1928. The following 100 years saw slow progress, but in the last decade Canada, Georgia, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, South Africa, Thailand, and Uruguay, as well as 24 US states have legalised marijuana for public consumption, and 50 countries, from Sri Lanka to Switzerland have ratified it for medicinal use. From epilepsy to glaucoma, marijuana’s possibilities are varied, but its use remains contentious. Critics argue it’s dangerous, and that the grass isn’t always greener, while advocates hope to blaze a trail, pointing to medicinal benefits as well as the potential tax pot. Will cannabis ever reach the highs to which it aspires? Or is society too disjointed to unleash it?

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