As western countries began to debate their cannabis laws, the WHO Expert Committee said it strongly reaffirmed its earlier opinion that cannabis is a drug of dependence producing public health and social problems, that its control must be continued, and that a medical need for cannabis as such no longer existed. The next year it recommended placing tetrahydrocannabinols in the strictest category of the treaty then being drafted.[1]
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