UN Places HHC Under Same Regulations as Cannabis and Methamphetamine

UN Places HHC Under Same Regulations as Cannabis and Methamphetamine

Last week, the 68th session of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) voted almost unanimously to place hexahydrocannabinol (HHC) under Schedule II of the 1971 Convention. After over a year of warnings from various international health bodies and individual efforts from a swathe of countries to regulate this novel substance independently, this marks the most meaningful effort to date to control the rapid spread of HHC. HHC, a semi…