Kenzi RIBOULET-ZEMOULI

Independent researcher based in Barcelona. Founding member of the think-tank FAAAT and the NGOs NORML France, IMCPC & CATNPUD.

Human rights-components, ethics, and sustainability of legally-regulated settings related to the use, marketing, and production of controlled plants, fungi, products and substances.

Upgrading public action on psychoactive substances:

SOUND DRUG POLICIES = Resilient SOCIETIES + Sustainable planet.

Based in Barcelona, Kenzi is a French-Algerian interdisciplinary researcher, advocate for sustainable drug policies.

Focused on Action-research as a catalyzer for legal and social changes, Kenzi is particularly involved in studying alternative pathways for cannabis policy reforms, linking international law with local grassroot initiatives. He anchors his work on the ethics, human rights aspects, fair trade components, and criteria of sustainability of legally-regulated use, production and marketing of controlled plants, products or substances.

ORCID: 0000-0003-2761-1533

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MONITORING COUNTRIES POSITIONS ON CANNABIS SCHEDULING VOTES

63rd COMMISSION ON NARCOTIC DRUGS of the UNITED NATIONS, March–December 2020

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“Drugs don’t deserve drug policy. To tackle and mitigate drug-related harms, we rather need healthcare, poverty, social, educational, agricultural, geopolitical, security and development policies – that are sensible, and integrate drug-related factors. But we do not need a drug-centred sui generis policy.”

TEXTS

CBD as a ‘narcotic’? Food for thought

Aug 21, 2020 | Report

ISBN: 979-10-97087-77-7

[Fact sheet CND63 – Changes in the scope of control over cannabis] Clarifying the recommendation on CBD products

Mar 1, 2020 | Report

[Fact sheet CND63 – Changes in the scope of control over cannabis] Clarifying the evidence behind the recommendations.

Mar 1, 2020 | Report

[Fact sheet CND63 – Changes in the scope of control over cannabis] Traditional medicine, Cannabis & the 1961 Convention

Mar 1, 2020 | Report

Cannabis à l’ONU : un outil pour suivre la position de chaque pays

Feb 28, 2020 | Press

Cannabis Scheduling & EU common position – Elements Document (February 2020)

Feb 24, 2020 | Report

DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.31659.18724

ONU : entre inertie politique et conservatisme, le cannabis en ballottage défavorable

Jan 28, 2020 | Press

Scope and definition of the exemption covering “hemp” in the international drug control Conventions. A total exemption – by purpose

Oct 17, 2019 | Report

DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.15697.28008

Dossier OMS y cannabis medicinal

Aug 1, 2019 | Article

Published in Soft Secreta España 2019 nº04.

Memo: Changes in the scope of international control of medical Cannabis and cannabinoids

Jun 24, 2019 | Report

Memo for State Parties: Changes in the scope of international control of medical Cannabis and cannabinoids. 4th inter-sessional meeting, 62nd Commission on Narcotic Drugs, June 24th, 2019. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.26406.78409

Livre blanc. Cannabis thérapeutique en France: Quelle régulation pour les patients ?

Jun 15, 2019 | Report

DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.29834.31682/1

Cannabis & Sustainable Development

Mar 15, 2019 | Report

Paving the way for the next decade in Cannabis and hemp policies.

Alignement des politiques mondiales en matière de drogues avec les objectifs de développement durable de l’agenda 2030

Mar 13, 2019 | Report

(Collectif) Recommandation de la plateforme interassociative française sur les drogues.

The Crimson Digest, Volume 2

Mar 12, 2019 | Report

Analysis of the 40th and 41st WHO ECDD reviews outcomes and the INCB’s update on Cannabis.

The Crimson Digest, Volume 1

Nov 12, 2018 | Report

Briefing on the international scientific assessment of cannabis: Processes, stakeholders and history.

ECDD40 Procedural, methodological and terminological bias.

May 31, 2018 | Report

Joint civil society contribution to the 40th meeting of the World Health Organization's Expert Committee on Drug Dependence

Application du Droit à un Recours et à Réparation des Victimes de violations flagrantes du droit international des Droits Humains pour les personnes concernées par la Prohibition

May 2, 2018 | Statement

58 ans de violations générales et systématique des Droits Humains au nom du « contrôle des drogues ». Traduction de la Contribution au rapport du Haut Commissaire aux Droits Humains des Nations Unites, en application de la resolution CDH 37/42.

Application of the Right to a Remedy and Reparation for Victims of gross violations of International Human Rights Law in the case of people affected by Prohibition

May 2, 2018 | Statement

58 years of global & systematic Human Rights violations in the name of drug control. Re-edition of the Contribution to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights's report pursuant to resolution HRC 37/42.