Our colleagues Kenzi and Farid from the Cannabis Embassy, went to the Palais De Nations in Geneva on 19 February 2025,  to smoke a joint on the Centenary of Cannabis Prohibition, to take a moment to reflect on this incredible journey with a plant.

Myrtle and Ami will be attending the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna (CND68) this March to represent Fields Of Green For ALL as well as the Cannabis Embassy. We will be hosting a side event at CND: Cannabis in Africa on the Centenary of its Prohibition: Between Illegality and Opportunity on 12 March at 3pm (4pm in SA) and we will share links for the event in due course. We will also be holding an exhibition at the International Centre, showcasing important issues around our Centenary campaign. Watch this space for pics and videos of the exhibition.

Lest we forget…

In 1925, Cannabis made its entry in international law via two treaties: the first one, signed in Brussels, acknowledged the health benefits of the plant, by including it among the monographs to be standardised across countries’ pharmacopoeias internationally. The second treaty, signed in Geneva, placed some products of Cannabis under an international monitoring which was to eventually evolve into full-blown control in the post-second world war era.

For millennia, Cannabis has been intertwined with human civilisation, utilised for its fibre, seeds, health and psychoactive properties. Historical records across continents underline its significance as one of humanity’s longest plant allies. Contemporary advances in paleoarchaeology are not only showing that Cannabis was among the earliest domesticated plants, but also that humans have known and used all of its aspects and properties from time immemorial.

Aluta continua…