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Upcoming (if funding can be obtained. Help me attend on this crowdfunding page):

  • 24-25 Nov. 2026: “Entre el taller y la fábrica: ¿Fracasó la estandarización tecnológica de la marihuana? Una mirada desde las farmacopeas de Europa” @ Escuela doctoral, International Committee for the History of Technology @ UNAM (DF, México).
  • 16-17 Oct. 2026: “Difós tot i difús, codificat però modificat: El cànem (Cannabis L.) a les farmacopees oficials d’Europa, 1739–1939” @ 23rd Congrés Internacional d’Història de la Medicina Catalana (Granollers, Catalonia).
  • 7 Oct. 2026: “¿Codificación o modificación? Historia legal y clínica del cáñamo médico a través 200 años de farmacopeas oficiales” @ 4th Congreso Argentino de Cannabis y Salud (Rosario, Argentina).
  • 2-5 Sept. 2026: “Fuzzy terms & Co(mmo)dified medicines: Cannabis inter Pharmacopoeias Alpinas, 1739–1939” @ 47th International Congress for the History of Pharmacy (Innsbruck, Austria).

 

 

Barcelona

 

Berlin

 

Vilnius

 

 

Geneva

2026

  • [Selected for this conference, but I could not attend due to lack of funding] 25-27 June 2026: “Fuzzy terms & Co(mmo)dified medicines: Cannabis inter Pharmacopoeias Europae, 1739–1939 (Room 3.2 panel Cannabis: Myth, Policy and Co(mmo)dification)” @ Biennal Conference of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society (Paris, France)
  • 22 Apr. 2026: “Codex medicamentarius: lexicón normativum? Traductions, tradaptations et normativité linguistique à travers les pharmacopées européennes (à travers le cas du chanvre) XVIII-XXème siècles.” @ VI Jornadas Internacionales de Historia de la Traducción no Literaria (València, Spain)

2025

I refused to make public talks about any topic other than the Centenary of Cannabis Prohibition in 2025, but nobody seemed to be interested — hence the absence of entry in 2025.

 

 

2024

  • 67th Commission on Narcotic Drugs – Side event “Cannabis and Biopiracy” | United Nations, Vienna, Austria — 11 March 2024 | Cannabis & Biopiracy: Closing words on international law | Video recording
  • 13 March 2024: Cannabis & Biopiracy – Workshop and capacity-building session | Cannabis Embassy Campus Vienna | Vienna, Austria

2023

  • Cannabis Europa 2023 | Barbican Centre, London — 2 May 2023 | E.U. better believe it! | Video recording
  • UNCTAD | Palais des Nations, Geneva — 18 February 2023 | UNCTAD Workshop on industrial hemp: panel discussion | Slide PresentationAudio recordings (EN & FR)
  • Cannabis and psychedelics: the Czech Republic needs change! | Prague, Czechia — 14 February 2023 | Presentation of the study “Treaty Compliance Options for Cannabis Regulations in the EU: Models of decriminalisation and legal regulation compliant with International Law and EU Acquis”Video recordingSlide presentation

2022

  • International Narcotics Control Board | Vienna, Austria (video from Geneva) — 25 May 2022 | INCB hearing on trends in the legalization of cannabis for non-medical usesVideo recordingSlide PresentationStatement transcriptOther presenters
  • Fiera Indica-Sativa Trade | Bologna, Italy — 9 April 2022 | Cannabis: la legalizzazione è possibile! Come regolamentare la canapa in accordo con la convenzione unica sugli stupefacenti del 1961 | VidéoSlide presentation
  • Spannabis conference | Barcelona — March 2022 | Legalización del cannabis en el mundo: ¿justicia o negocio? | Video recording

2021

  • The Cannabis Conversation | Online — 16 December 2021 | Cannabis and International Drug Policy, EPISODE #93 | StitcherYoutubeSpotifyiTunesSummary & info
  • Colloque “Le cannabis en Polynésie : entre Justice, Santé et Économie, une question de société” | University of French Polynesia – Papeete, Tahiti — 18 November 2021 | L’approche post-prohibitionniste pour une réglementation durable du paka. | VidéoDiapositives
  • 2º Congreso Argentino de Cannabis y Salud | Chilecito, Argentina (Online) — 30 September 2021 | Mirada Global de la Regulación, con el Dr. Sergio Sanchez Bustos | Video
  • Cultivemos Argentina | Online — 5 July 2021 | Entrevista con Diego, fundador de Cultivemos Argentina | Video
  • Webinaire FPEA “Le cannabis déconfiné” 18 Joint 2021 | ONLINE — 18 June 2021 | Le cannabis déconfiné & déclassifié : Recommandations de l’OMS & changement de classification du cannabis par l’ONU | Diapositives
  • Society of Cannabis Clinicians’ Journal Club | Online — 4 June 2021 | Cannabis Nomenclature & Product Standardization. | Slide presentation
  • Fields of Green for ALL | Johannesburg (Online) — 20 April 2021 | Cannabis in South Africa: The People’s Plant. A Full Spectrum Manifesto for Policy Reform | Video
  • Centre for Biocultural Diversity | University of Kent — 1 April 2021 | From Menace to Medicine: Cannabis in Transition | InterviewPeople & Psychoactive Plants – webinar
  • I Congreso Científico Internacional Cannabis sativa L: un enfoque integral | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid — 18 February 2021 | Presentación del Informe Cannabis y Desarrollo Sostenbile, y discusión Cannabis Medicinal tras la reclasificación | Video | Slide Presentation.
  • Mission d’information « réglementation et impact des différents usages du cannabis » | Assemblée Nationale (France) — 17 FEBRUARY 2021 | Audition à l’Assemblée Nationale : Cannabis Social Clubs, Ressources génétiques et connaissances traditionnelles, et Appellations d’Origine | Video (1 h 03 min.) Diapositives

2020

  • #ActívateConInformación | Confederación FAC (online) — 9 December 2020 | La ONU reclasifica la planta de Cannabis | Video
  • Live NORML France | ONLINE — 6 December 2020 | Discussion sur la reclassification du Cannabis avec Farid Ghehiouèche et Kenzi Riboulet-Zemouli | Video Recording
  • III Congrés CannabMed | Col·legi Oficial de Farmacèutics de Barcelona — 6-7 Octobre 2020 | Cap a una farmacopea cannàbica / Hacia una farmacopea cannábica | Presentación PDFVideo en YouTube
  • State of Cannabis | ONLINE — 1 Octobre 2020 | Upcoming Cannabis vote inside United Nations – What you need to know | Video recording
  • Cannamerica | ONLINE — 22 August 2020 | Cannabis, Políticas Públicas Sostenibles, y la experiencia de Uruguay. | Archive on Youtube
  • Hemp Barons w/ Joy Beckerman | ONLINE — August 2020 (Series) | MOMENTUM IN INTERNATIONAL Cannabis POLICY | Part 1 (Episode 79)Part 2 (Episode 80)Part 3 (Episode 81)
  • European Policy Platform | ONLINE — 6 August 2020 | Cannabis Policy Reforms: European Progress | Archive Facebook LiveArchive on Youtube
  • Radio Free Cannabis w/ Steve DeAngelo | ONLINE — 26 July 2020 | Radio Free Cannabis #8 – Cannabis & Sustainable Development | Podcast ArchivePodcast on Youtube
  • Prohibition Partners Live | ONLINE — 22 JUNE 2020 | Overcoming the UN Deadlock | Program Archive
  • EUROPEAN INDUSTRIAL HEMP ASSOCIATION 17tH CONFERENCE | COLOGNE, GERMANY — 17 JUNE 2020 | ‘Hemp’ products: (p)review of terms and nomenclatures | Program ArchiveSlide Presentation
  • CannaTalks | ONLINE — 10 may 2020 | Cáñamo y Desarrollo Sostenible | Video del webinarioSlide Presentation

2019

Cultiva HanfKongress

Pyramid, Vienna, Austria — 11 October 2019

MOMENTUM IN INTERNATIONAL Cannabis POLICY

ParLiament Day on Hemp policies

SEIMAS, VILNIUS, LITHUANIA — 9 OCTOBER 2019

Statement to the PARLIAMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA

EUROPEAN INDUSTRIAL HEMP ASSOCIATION 16TH CONFERENCE

COLOGNE, GERMANY — 6 JUNE 2019

Approaching Hemp and Cannabis Policies Through the Lens of Sustainable Development (w/ Hana Gabrielová)

62nd Commission on Narcotic Drugs

United Nations, Vienna, Austria — 14 March 2019

Statement to the plenary on item 9(c): International Narcotics Control Board

2018

International Cannabis Policy Conference, Special UN event

United Nations, Vienna, Austria — 7 December 2018

Cannabis: Next steps for the Commission on Narcotic Drugs.

II Fòrum de Associacions i Clubs de Cànnabis de Catalunya

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain — 23 November 2018

Actualitat social, política i legal del fenomen dels CSC: De la política internacional a la realitat catalana

Open Session of the 41st meeting of the Expert Committee on Drug Dependence

World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland — 12 November 2018

Statement to the Experts of THE 41 ST MEETING OF THE ECDD

Cultiva HanfKongress

Pyramid, Vienna, Austria — 12 October 2018

Cannabis within the UN treaties: are changes finally coming?

Cannabis Box Forum

Expogrow, Irún, Spain — 15 September 2018

REGULACIÓN del CANNABIS al INTERNACIONAL

It’s about the future in patient care – how Cannabis will change medical care

Columbia University Global Center, PARIS, FRANCE — 12 SEPTEMBER 2018

Access issues: rights, policy & regulation

EUROPEAN INDUSTRIAL HEMP ASSOCIATION 15TH CONFERENCE

COLOGNE, GERMANY — 13 JUNE 2018

Cannabidiol and Cannabis Related Substances: a Brief Update on WHO/UN Review Process

Société Civile et Politiques Cannabis, Drug Policy Encounters

Geneva, Switzerland — 9 June 2018

Pieces of history and pathways for the future of Cannabis scheduling internationally

European Youth Event 2018

European Parliament, Strasbourg, FRANCE — 2 June 2018

Debate. Marijuana: Smells like teen spirit – or escape from reality?

II Congrés CannabMed

CCCB, Barcelona, Spain — 13 May 2018

UN PUENTE ENTRE LA MEDICINA CANNÁBICA Y LOS PACIENTES: Perspectiva Internacional

2017

International symposium on prospects for development and growth in the rural cannabis cultivating areas of the Moroccan central Riff

Mohammed VI center, Chefchaouen, Morocco — 30 April 2017

Normalisation du Cannabis: l’instrument indispensable pour des politiques de développement socio-économiques inclusives et durables

67th Commission on Narcotic Drugs – Side event “Cannabis and Biopiracy”

United Nations, Vienna, Austria

21 March 2024

 

Cannabis & Biopiracy: Closing words on international law

Cannabis Embassy Campus Vienna

Vienna, Austria

13 March 2024

 

Cannabis & Biopiracy – Workshop and capacity-building session

Cannabis Europa 2023

Barbican Centre, London

2 May 2023

 

E.U. better believe it!

SPANNABIS CONFERENCES

Barcelona

March 2022

 

Legalización del cannabis en el mundo: ¿justicia o negocio?

Cannabis and psychedelics: the Czech Republic needs change!

Prague, Czechia

14 February 2023

 

Presentation of the study “Treaty Compliance Options for Cannabis Regulations in the EU: Models of decriminalisation and legal regulation compliant with International Law and EU Acquis”

UNCTAD

Palais des Nations, Geneva

18 February 2023

 

UNCTAD WORKSHOP ON INDUSTRIAL HEMP – PANEL DICUSSION

International Narcotics Control Board

Vienna, Austria (video from Geneva)

25 May 2022

 

INCB hearing on trends in the legalization of cannabis for non-medical uses

Fiera Indica-Sativa Trade

Bologna, Italy

9 April 2022

 

Cannabis: la legalizzazione è possibile! Come regolamentare la canapa in accordo con la convenzione unica sugli stupefacenti del 1961

Colloque “Le cannabis en Polynésie : entre Justice, Sant´et Économie, une question de société”

University of French Polynesia – Papeete, Tahiti

18 November 2021

 

L’approche post-prohibitionniste pour une réglementation durable du paka.

Webinaire FPEA “Le cannabis déconfiné” 18 Joint 2021

ONLINE

18 June 2021

 

Le cannabis déconfiné & déclassifié : Recommandations de l’OMS & changement de classification du cannabis par l’ONU

Society of Cannabis Clinicians’ Journal Club

Online

4 June 2021

 

Cannabis Nomenclature & Product Standardization.

2º Congreso Argentino de Cannabis y Salud

Chilecito, Argentina (Online)

30 September 2021

 

Mirada Global de la Regulación, con el Dr. Sergio Sanchez Bustos

Cultivemos Argentina

Online

5 July 2021

 

Entrevista con Diego, fundador de Cultivemos Argentina

Fields of Green for ALL

Johannesburg (Online)

20 April 2021

 

Cannabis in South Africa: The People’s Plant. A Full Spectrum Manifesto for Policy Reform

Centre for Biocultural Diversity

UNIVERSITY OF KENT (ONLINE)

1 April 2021

 

From Menace to Medicine: Cannabis in Transition

I Congreso Científico Internacional Cannabis Sativa L: un enfoque integral

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

18 February 2021

 

Presentación del Informe Cannabis y Desarrollo Sostenbile, y discusión Cannabis Medicinal tras la reclasificación

Mission d’information « réglementation et impact des différents usages du cannabis »

Assemblée Nationale (France)

17 FEBRUARY 2021

 

AUDITION à l’Assemblée Nationale : Cannabis Social Clubs, Ressources génétiques et connaissances traditionnelles, et Appellations d’Origine

The Cannabis Conversation

Online

16 December 2021

 

Cannabis and International Drug Policy, EPISODE #93

#ActívateConInformación

Confederación FAC (online)

9 December 2020

 

La ONU reclasifica la planta de Cannabis

Live NORML France

ONLINE

6 December 2020

 

Discussion sur la reclassification du Cannabis avec Farid Ghehiouèche et Kenzi Riboulet-Zemouli

III Congrés CannabMed

Col·legi Oficial de Farmacèutics de Barcelona

6-7 Octobre 2020

 

Cap a una farmacopea cannàbica / Hacia una farmacopea cannábica

State of Cannabis

ONLINE

1 Octobre 2020

 

Upcoming Cannabis vote inside United Nations – What you need to know

Cannamerica

ONLINE

22 August 2020

 

Cannabis, Políticas Públicas Sostenibles, y la experiencia de Uruguay.

Hemp Barons w/ Joy Beckerman

ONLINE

August 2020 (Series)

 

MOMENTUM IN INTERNATIONAL Cannabis POLICY

European Policy Platform

ONLINE

6 August 2020

 

Cannabis Policy Reforms: European Progress

Radio Free Cannabis w/ Steve DeAngelo

ONLINE

26 JUly 2020

 

Radio Free Cannabis #8 – Cannabis & Sustainable Development

Prohibition Partners Live

ONLINE

22 JUNE 2020

 

Overcoming the UN Deadlock

EUROPEAN INDUSTRIAL HEMP ASSOCIATION 17tH CONFERENCE

COLOGNE, GERMANY

17 JUNE 2020

 

‘Hemp’ products: (p)review of terms and nomenclatures

CannaTalks

ONLINE

10 may 2020

 

Cáñamo y Desarrollo Sostanible

Cultiva HanfKongress

Pyramid, Vienna, Austria

11 October 2019

 

MOMENTUM IN INTERNATIONAL Cannabis POLICY

ParLiament Day on Hemp policies

SEIMAS, VILNIUS, LITHUANIA

9 OCTOBER 2019

 

Statement to the PARLIAMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA

EUROPEAN INDUSTRIAL HEMP ASSOCIATION 16TH CONFERENCE

COLOGNE, GERMANY

6 JUNE 2019

 

Approaching Hemp and Cannabis Policies Through the Lens of Sustainable Development (w/ Hana Gabrielová)

62nd Commission on Narcotic Drugs

United Nations, Vienna, Austria

14 March 2019

 

Statement to the plenary on item 9(c): International Narcotics Control Board

International Cannabis Policy Conference, Special UN event

United Nations, Vienna, Austria

7 December 2018

 

Cannabis: Next steps for the Commission on Narcotic Drugs.

II Fòrum de Associacions i Clubs de Cànnabis de Catalunya

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain

23 November 2018

 

Actualitat social, política i legal del fenomen dels CSC: De la política internacional a la realitat catalana

Open Session of the 41st meeting of the Expert Committee on Drug Dependence

World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

12 November 2018

 

Statement to the Experts of THE 41 ST MEETING OF THE ECDD

Cultiva HanfKongress

Pyramid, Vienna, Austria

12 October 2018

 

Cannabis within the UN treaties: are changes finally coming?

Cannabis Box Forum

Expogrow, Irún, Spain

15 September 2018

 

REGULACIÓN del CANNABIS al INTERNACIONAL

It’s about the future in patient care – how Cannabis will change medical care

Columbia University Global Center, PARIS, FRANCE

12 SEPTEMBER 2018

 

Access issues: rights, policy & regulation

EUROPEAN INDUSTRIAL HEMP ASSOCIATION 15TH CONFERENCE

COLOGNE, GERMANY

13 JUNE 2018

 

Cannabidiol and Cannabis Related Substances: a Brief Update on WHO/UN Review Process

Société Civile et Politiques Cannabis, Drug Policy Encounters

Geneva, Switzerland

9 June 2018

 

Pieces of history and pathways for the future of Cannabis scheduling internationally

European Youth Event 2018

European Parliament, Strasbourg, FRANCE

2 June 2018

 

Debate. Marijuana: Smells like teen spirit – or escape from reality?

II Congrés CannabMed

CCCB, Barcelona, Spain

13 May 2018

 

UN PUENTE ENTRE LA MEDICINA CANNÁBICA Y LOS PACIENTES: Perspectiva Internacional

International symposium on prospects for development and growth in the rural cannabis cultivating areas of the Moroccan central Riff

Mohammed VI center, Chefchaouen, Morocco

30 April 2017

 

Normalisation du Cannabis: l’instrument indispensable pour des politiques de développement socio-économiques inclusives et durables