MAPS: Conference On Cannabis Research In Brussels

[Peter Webster <vignes@xxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Int. Association for Cannabis as Medicine" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: en@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 23:57:53 +0100
Subject: IACM-Bulletin of 3 March 2002

* Europe: Conference on cannabis research in Brussels

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Europe: Conference on cannabis research in Brussels

About 100 invited scientists and governmental representatives met
for a scientific conference on cannabis in Brussels on 25 February
initiated by the health ministers of Belgium, the Netherlands, France,
Switzerland, and Germany, among them four health ministers of the
inviting countries and one drugs commissioner (Germany).

The conference gave an overview on the actual state of cannabis
research, including epidemiological, psychological, sociological,
and neurobiological topics on recreational use. The medical use of
cannabis was only a minor topic with a talk by a representative of
the Dutch Office for Medicinal Cannabis. Most of the participants
agreed in the medical potential of the drug with little opposition,
among them from a representative of the Swedish Health ministry.



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