TD criticises hard-hitting UN attack on legalising cannabis

A hard-hitting attack by a UN monitoring body on cannabis legalisation in Uruguay and within the US has been criticised by a drug law campaigner here.

The semi-judicial agency charged with enforcing international drug treaties said such moves posed “a grave danger to public health”.

The strongly-worded statement from the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) sends a message ahead of an upcoming high-level review of the laws, which will be followed by a special session of the UN General Assembly in 2016.