From your last link...Here's a link to a pdf of the review referred to in the above excerpt from the Dec 2017 WHO newsroom comment on CBD:
And here's the press release re the Jun 2018 (pre-)review:
This 2020 document (links to pdf) details in full the scheduling decision arrived at through the critical (evidence-based) review of November 2018:
So, the result of the vote?
UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs reclassifies cannabis to recognize its therapeutic uses
On 2nd December 2020, the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND), the drug policy making body of the UN re-classified cannabis and cannabis resin under an international listing that recognizes its medical value.www.who.int
Statements on the vote from the various member countries here (pdf):
UN commission reclassifies cannabis, yet still considered harmful
In reviewing a series of World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations on cannabis and its derivatives, the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) zeroed-in on the decision to remove cannabis from Schedule IV of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs — where it was listed alongside specific...news.un.org
[Turkey seemed particularly upset that they were on the side outvoted by 27:25, but there appears to be a different interpretation of democracy in the then as now present Turkish regime compared with many European countries.]
Summary news article here:
We're over 3¹/₂ years on from this decision, the German state* has done its best to obfuscate and hinder the supposed "legalisation" process behind a mountain of (surprise-surprise!) bureaucracy and postponed decisions. Ho-hum.
(*As a federal state the individual states have played a considerable role in the varying degrees of hindrance across the country as a whole).
How's it looking in other parts of the world? Is the ongoing liberalisation in the USA a consequence of the UN decision, or was it as much a forerunner?
Meanwhile, the United States voted to remove cannabis from Schedule IV of the Single Convention while retaining them in Schedule I, saying it is “consistent with the science demonstrating that while a safe and effective cannabis-derived therapeutic has been developed, cannabis itself continues to pose significant risks to public health and should continue to be controlled under the international drug control conventions”.
With the Single Convention, the difference between Schedule IV and Schedule I is that Schedule IV has "no medical use". Kind of the reverse of the US.
I think this has much to do with medical use being commonly accepted now and the the US was a forerunner.
The US has only cared about what the UN says when it suits them, though. There is that.
