(Photo: Unsplash / Kimzy Nanney)A minor legal change within the UN removing some barriers for medical cannabis use has resulted in a clear split in the African countries group. International drug control is technically an extremely complex policy area, and a politically highly emotional debate. The vote of the international community, nevertheless, was limited to removing some barriers for medical cannabis use in national health systems. Egypt also created the first drug control agency in the world in 1929, ahead of the American DEA. Thus, two countries decided to jump this ideological obstruction to get the benefits of medical uses of cannabis: South Africa and Morocco.

Source: The North Africa Journal May 26, 2021 18:56 UTC