Overview

Cannabis is the substance psychoactive under international control most widely used around the world. It is estimated that, in 2013, 181.8 million people aged 15 to 64 consumed cannabis without medical purposes around the world (estimates of uncertainty: 128, 5-232, 1 million) (UNODC, 2015). There is one disturbing treatment of disorders increasing demand by the consumption of cannabis and associated health conditions in high-and middle-income countries, and in international policy dialogues, greater attention has been paid to the impact on human health of the consumption of cannabis and related disorders. All this led to the decision to publish this update report about the social effects and on the health of non-medical cannabis use. In 1995, the World Health Organization (who) convened a meeting of experts on cannabis as a result of which was a report on the consequences of cannabis use on health (who, 1997) and, since then, have become important research on this topic... This publication is based on the contributions of a wide range of experts and researchers in different parts of the world. It is intended to present the current knowledge on the impact for the health of non-medical cannabis use. In the process of finalization of the present report, taking into account the update on cannabis and the resin of cannabis (Madras, 2015) commissioned by the Secretariat of the Committee of experts of the who on drug dependence and presented to the thirty-seventh session of the Committee of experts in November of 2015 (2015 who).

Official version in Spanish of the original work in English: The health and social effects of nonmedical cannabis use. © World Health Organization 2016. ISBN: 978 92 4 151024 0 some rights reserved. This work is available in the 3.0 license pursuant to OIG Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/igo).