section_path: History/Scientific assessment by the World Health Organization
section_name: Scientific assessment by the World Health Organization
paragraph_text: Scientific assessment by the World Health Organization
  
  The scientific assessment was initiated in December 2016 with the announcement at the Commission on Narcotic Drugs by ECDD secretary, Dr Gilles Forte. The ECDD vowed to pre-review cannabis "within the next eighteen months from the 38th meeting" which was held in November 2016.