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  • Coca leaf: Myths and Reality

    Tuesday, 16 June 2020
    Coca leaf: Myths and Reality

    Many myths surround coca. Every day press accounts around the world use the word coca in their headlines, when they refer in fact to cocaine. TNI's Drugs and Democracy Team expose the myths and reali ...

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    law enforcement | drug trade | alternative development | deforestation | cocaine | conventions | coca | reclassification | peru | colombia | bolivia
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  • Human Rights and drug policy

    Wednesday, 01 January 2020
    Human Rights and drug policy

    The Transnational Institute (TNI) has always believed in the need to find global answers to global problems, been a strong defender of multilateralism and an advocate of a well-functioning United Nat ...

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    extrajudicial killings | cambodia | philippines | iran | china | russia | thailand | law enforcement | compulsary detention | conventions | CND | UNODC | human rights | INCB | UN drug control | colombia
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  • Colombia

    Tuesday, 31 December 2019
    Colombia

    Overview of drug laws, legislative trends and drug policies in Colombia Colombia is in the midst of a peace process with the guerrilla groups, which includes the issue of drugs in the different phase ...

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  • Comparing models of drug decriminalisation

    Tuesday, 31 December 2019
    Comparing models of drug decriminalisation

    Decriminalisation refers to the repeal of laws and policies that define drug use and/or the possession of drugs for personal use as a criminal offence. The act remains illegal, but sanctions are admi ...

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    australia | germany | czech republic | spain | netherlands | portugal | decriminalization | uruguay | peru | colombia | brazil
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  • Growers' voices at the Commission on Narcotic Drugs

    Monday, 25 November 2019
    Growers' voices at the Commission on Narcotic Drugs

    From 16 to 18 October 2019, representatives of member states, intergovernmental organisations, and civil society attended the 6th Intersessional Meeting of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs. On 17 Oct ...

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    UN drug control | CND | colombia | coca | burma | opium | producers
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  • Inside the Walmart of weed

    Saturday, 23 November 2019
    Inside the Walmart of weed

    With Canada the largest nation to completely legalize marijuana, the world’s most valuable pot company, Canopy Growth Corp., founded in 2013 and now worth about $6.4 billion, is one of the most contr ...

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    social justice | patents | australia | cannabis industry | jamaica | germany | canada | medical cannabis | denmark | legalization | regulation | cannabis | US drug policy | colombia
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  • Canada’s cannabis colonialism

    Wednesday, 09 October 2019
    Canada’s cannabis colonialism

    Canadian weed companies have their eye on a massive prize: the lucrative medical and adult cannabis markets that are emerging around the world. Much of the hype around corporate cannabis is linked to ...

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    patents | jamaica | caribbean | st vincent and grenadines | fair trade | social justice | colombia | cannabis industry | canada
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  • Facing stiff competition, will Colombia's marijuana industry go up in smoke?

    Monday, 07 October 2019
    Facing stiff competition, will Colombia's marijuana industry go up in smoke?

    Cannabis company Clever Leaves has only managed to export a few marijuana derivatives because of the tight regulations threatening to choke Colombia’s ganja industry. Colombia was one of the first co ...

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    uruguay | cannabis industry | medical cannabis | colombia
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  • The Challenges of Medicinal Cannabis in Colombia

    Monday, 30 September 2019
    The Challenges of Medicinal Cannabis in Colombia

    In July 2016, the Colombian government enacted Law 1787, which regulates the use of medicinal cannabis and its trade in the country. With this decision and a series of subsequent resolutions, Colombi ...

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    fair trade | social justice | producers | cannabis industry | canada | regulation | legalization | medical cannabis | colombia
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  • Colombia is turning into a major medical marijuana producer

    Saturday, 07 September 2019
    Colombia is turning into a major medical marijuana producer

    Other countries are passing laws to permit the production, import and export of medical marijuana but Colombia has a leg up because it did so three years ago, says Rodrigo Arcila, president of the Co ...

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    cannabis industry | medical cannabis | colombia
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  • Cannabis in the Americas: It’s time to talk about marijuana policy

    Tuesday, 03 September 2019
    Cannabis in the Americas: It’s time to talk about marijuana policy

    There is now a unique moment to build a coherent regulatory framework that would prevent the growing cannabis market from being concentrated in the hands of large for-profit conglomerates, beholden t ...

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    fair trade | colombia | social justice | regulation | legalization | cannabis
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  • Coca, the illicit plant that funded Colombia’s civil war, is flourishing again

    Wednesday, 10 July 2019
    Coca, the illicit plant that funded Colombia’s civil war, is flourishing again

    It was eight years ago the last time planes came to spray poison on Noralba Quintero’s coca crop in the jungled foothills here by the mighty Magdalena River. Until recently, she thought those days we ...

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    peace | fumigation | eradication | colombia | coca | US drug policy
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  • Colombia has 100-plus licensed cannabis firms, but only a handful have registered cultivars

    Friday, 31 May 2019
    Colombia has 100-plus licensed cannabis firms, but only a handful have registered cultivars

    Interest in Colombia’s medical marijuana market is booming, but out of over 100 licensed cannabis companies operating in the country few have finished registering their first cultivars, a prerequisit ...

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    cannabis industry | medical cannabis | colombia
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  • A death foretold: Colombia’s crop substitution program

    Monday, 01 April 2019
    A death foretold: Colombia’s crop substitution program

    The government’s failure to comply with the coca crops substitution program in Colombia has left the future of almost 100,000 families in limbo and sets up a major setback in the country’s drug polic ...

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    fumigation | peace | eradication | alternative development | coca | colombia
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  • Fair(er) Trade Options for the Cannabis Market

    Thursday, 21 March 2019
    Fair(er) Trade Options for the Cannabis Market

    Policy changes over the past five years or so have dramatically reshaped the global cannabis market. Not only has there been an unprecedented boom in medical markets, but following policy shifts in s ...

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    amnesty | social justice | fair trade | st vincent and grenadines | india | cannabis industry | jamaica | morocco | canada | medical cannabis | WHO | UNODC | alternative development | cannabis | mexico | colombia
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  • Glyphosate alone won’t fix Colombia’s complex coca woes

    Thursday, 14 March 2019
    Glyphosate alone won’t fix Colombia’s complex coca woes

    Colombia’s Constitutional Court is debating lifting a judicial ban on the spraying of glyphosate during the aerial fumigation of illicit coca crops, a decision that is unlikely to fix the nation’s co ...

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    fumigation | eradication | coca | colombia
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  • New gangs 'Uberise' Europe's cocaine supply and bring more violence

    Friday, 14 December 2018
    New gangs 'Uberise' Europe's cocaine supply and bring more violence

    A surge in the supply of pure cocaine to Europe has led to a rise in drug-related murders as new criminal gangs muscle into a market previously dominated by the mafia, the EU drugs agency has said. T ...

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    crime | drug trade | cocaine | drug markets | morocco | violence | colombia
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  • Connecting the dots...

    Friday, 26 October 2018
    Connecting the dots...

    How can we resolve the tensions between current drug control policies and states’ human rights obligations? The international human rights framework clearly establishes that, in the event of conflict ...

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    conflict | fumigation | 2016 UNGASS | eradication | conventions | opium | afghanistan | producers | alternative development | human rights | cannabis | coca | UN drug control | incarceration | mexico | colombia
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  • Colombia continues to break records for cocaine production, report says

    Wednesday, 19 September 2018
    Colombia continues to break records for cocaine production, report says

    Colombia is desperate to shed its reputation as a nation dogged by the drug trade, but new figures from the United Nations show that it continues to break records for producing cocaine. In 2017, arou ...

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    fumigation | cocaine | peace | eradication | coca | colombia
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  • Murder in Colombia’s peace laboratory

    Thursday, 19 July 2018
    Murder in Colombia’s peace laboratory

    Colombian campesinos in Briceño, Antioquia have voluntarily uprooted their coca plants in exchange for government support to grow new crops. But with much aid delayed, the local economy has collapsed ...

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    peace | eradication | alternative development | cannabis | coca | colombia
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  • Colombia coca production hits new record high, US figures say

    Tuesday, 26 June 2018
    Colombia coca production hits new record high, US figures say

    US estimates of coca production in Colombia show the Andean nation has set a new record for the amount of the drug-producing crop under cultivation, confirming a trend that has been transforming regi ...

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    cocaine | eradication | coca | US drug policy | colombia
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  • Record coca, record murders: the flipside of “peace” in southern Colombia

    Wednesday, 20 June 2018
    Record coca, record murders: the flipside of “peace” in southern Colombia

    Hundreds of Colombian farmers, activists, and community organisers have been killed over the past 18 months, despite the landmark peace deal that supposedly ended 52 years of war. For them, and for l ...

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    crime | extrajudicial killings | peace | coca | colombia
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  • Colombia sees billion-dollar bonanza from legacy of marijuana trade

    Thursday, 03 May 2018
    Colombia sees billion-dollar bonanza from legacy of marijuana trade

    Farmers who want to be part of Colombia's medical marijuana project are required to destroy their illegal crops. Colombia has already issued 33 licenses and hopes to grow as much as 40.5 tons a year ...

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    cannabis industry | peace | canada | medical cannabis | producers | cannabis | colombia
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  • Medicinal cannabis policies and practices around the world

    Tuesday, 24 April 2018
    Medicinal cannabis policies and practices around the world

    Although cannabis remains a prohibited substance worldwide, in recent decades a series of political, legislative and judicial processes in various parts of the world have given rise to various forms ...

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    patents | puerto rico | philippines | australia | greece | italy | new zealand | jamaica | germany | israel | UK | france | canada | medical cannabis | czech republic | denmark | spain | netherlands | switzerland | US drug policy | uruguay | peru | mexico | colombia | chile | brazil | argentina
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  • “The drug market is thriving” while the Commission on Narcotic Drugs limps along

    Sunday, 08 April 2018
    “The drug market is thriving” while the Commission on Narcotic Drugs limps along

    “The drug market is thriving” is one of the key messages in UNODC’s 2017 World Drug Report. This is an important admission from the UN’s lead agency for drugs given that it is now less than nine mont ...

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    2019 HLM | philippines | 2016 UNGASS | canada | civil society | conventions | CND | human rights | INCB | UN drug control | harm reduction | colombia
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  • Colombia looks to become the world’s supplier of legal pot

    Saturday, 10 March 2018
    Colombia looks to become the world’s supplier of legal pot

    Tens of thousands of Colombians died in the U.S.-backed war on drugs. But after an official about-face on marijuana, Colombia is looking to exchange gun-toting traffickers for corporate backers in a ...

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    cannabis industry | medical cannabis | colombia
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  • Poppies, opium, and heroin

    Thursday, 01 March 2018
    Poppies, opium, and heroin

    Poppy cultivation in Mexico and Colombia is part of a local economy geared almost exclusively toward the illegal market abroad: it is driven by demand for heroin, primarily in the United States. Nort ...

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    fumigation | heroin | drug markets | law enforcement | eradication | opium | US drug policy | mexico | colombia
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  • Colombia’s two anti-coca strategies are at war with each other

    Tuesday, 20 February 2018
    Colombia’s two anti-coca strategies are at war with each other

    The government’s “comprehensive programme for illicit crop substitution” (PNIS) aims to replace the coca with a profitable legal crop. The crop-substitution strategy is set out in a peace accord that ...

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    decertification | peace | eradication | UNODC | alternative development | coca | US drug policy | colombia
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  • Canadian cannabis companies set their sights on South America

    Wednesday, 31 January 2018
    Canadian cannabis companies set their sights on South America

    Much has been made of the marijuana M&A spree afoot in Canada. Just this year alone, licensed producer Aurora Cannabis Inc. agreed to acquire CanniMed Therapeutics Inc for $852 million, which would c ...

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    cannabis industry | canada | medical cannabis | uruguay | colombia
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  • Blowing up: Britain’s cocaine glut

    Thursday, 07 December 2017
    Blowing up: Britain’s cocaine glut

    “It's as easy as buying a drink from an off-licence.” That is how Ellen Romans, a recovering drug addict, describes picking up cocaine near where she lives in London. And today top-notch blow is much ...

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    cocaine | drug markets | law enforcement | UK | colombia
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  • Colombian farmers keep growing coca despite government crackdown and U.S. pressure

    Friday, 27 October 2017
    Colombian farmers keep growing coca despite government crackdown and U.S. pressure

    According to the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, Colombia’s overall coca crop grew by a staggering 52 percent last year, to 345,000 acres, an area ten times the size of Miami. The military and police ...

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    peace | eradication | alternative development | coca | US drug policy | colombia
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  • Trump delivers shock rebuke to Colombia over cocaine surge

    Thursday, 14 September 2017
    Trump delivers shock rebuke to Colombia over cocaine surge

    U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening that he may decertify Colombia as a partner in the war against drugs unless the South American nation reverses a record surge in cocaine production. The sho ...

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    eradication | coca | US drug policy | colombia
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  • What does departure of top US anti-drug diplomat mean for LatAm policy?

    Wednesday, 30 August 2017
    What does departure of top US anti-drug diplomat mean for LatAm policy?

    The planned resignation of the US State Department's top anti-drug official raises further questions about the future of US counternarcotics efforts in Latin America, against a backdrop of uncertaint ...

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    brownfield doctrine | latin american debate | eradication | coca | US drug policy | colombia
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  • Coca and the Colombian Peace Accords

    Friday, 11 August 2017
    Coca and the Colombian Peace Accords

    Getting to the Briceño region in the heart of Antioquia requires an excellent vehicle, and a lot of time and luck. The week before our journey there in mid-July, heavy rains wiped out part of the roa ...

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    peace | eradication | coca | colombia
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  • What LatAm cities can learn from the failures of Brazil's UPP policing model

    Tuesday, 01 August 2017
    What LatAm cities can learn from the failures of Brazil's UPP policing model

    Community policing has become the go-to security strategy in the Americas. But as the case of the Rio de Janeiro's "pacification" policing experiment shows, its impact has been limited and short-live ...

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    extrajudicial killings | police pacification | law enforcement | colombia | brazil
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  • Uruguay’s marijuana law turns pharmacists into dealers

    Wednesday, 19 July 2017
    Uruguay’s marijuana law turns pharmacists into dealers

    The rules are a bit of a buzzkill. Drug users must register with the government. Machines will scan buyers’ fingerprints at every purchase, and there are quotas to prevent overindulgence. But when Ur ...

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    home cultivation | latin american debate | cannabis clubs | legalization | regulation | cannabis | uruguay | colombia
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  • After decades of war, Colombian farmers face a new test: Peace

    Tuesday, 18 July 2017
    After decades of war, Colombian farmers face a new test: Peace

    Every three months or so, Javier Tupaz, a father of six, heads downhill from his clapboard home to work in his cocaine laboratory. Under a black tent in the jungle, he shovels coca leaves into a gian ...

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    peace | eradication | alternative development | coca | colombia
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  • U.K. tobacco giant gets medicinal cannabis expertise

    Tuesday, 13 June 2017
    U.K. tobacco giant gets medicinal cannabis expertise

    Imperial Brands Plc gained the services of a leader in the field of medicinal cannabis as the British tobacco manufacturer seeks to further its push beyond cigarettes. Simon Langelier, a 30-year vete ...

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    cannabis industry | canada | medical cannabis | colombia
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  • Is Colombia sacrificing coca farmers' trust for US Aid dollars?

    Wednesday, 17 May 2017
    Is Colombia sacrificing coca farmers' trust for US Aid dollars?

    Colombia's defense minister divulged new coca eradication figures ahead of a meeting between Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and his US counterpart Donald Trump, a sign of commitment to US pol ...

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    peace | eradication | alternative development | coca | US drug policy | colombia
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  • Were peasant farmers poisoned by the U.S. war on drugs?

    Wednesday, 19 April 2017
    Were peasant farmers poisoned by the U.S. war on drugs?

    After a 15-year legal battle, a U.S. jury will begin deliberations over whether a U.S. security contractor must pay damages to 2,000 Ecuadoran farmers who say they were poisoned by the U.S. and Colom ...

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    eradication | coca | ecuador | colombia
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  • Confronting Colombia’s coca boom requires patience and a commitment to the peace accords

    Monday, 13 March 2017
    Confronting Colombia’s coca boom requires patience and a commitment to the peace accords

    Colombia is in the midst of a coca boom, perhaps its largest ever. The coca boom’s causes are complex, and Colombia’s government is hoping that the U.S. government will respond in a manner that recog ...

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    peace | eradication | coca | colombia
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  • Joint statement

    Monday, 13 March 2017
    Joint statement

    Exactly one year ago, in the 59th session of the CND, the Colombian government urged the international community to openly debate the results obtained during the 50 years of the war on drugs (in the ...

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    peace | eradication | coca | colombia
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  • As rebels move out of Colombia drug trade, corporations look to move in

    Thursday, 09 March 2017
    As rebels move out of Colombia drug trade, corporations look to move in

    Colombia has received billions of dollars in American aid to eradicate the drug trade. But in the coming weeks, the government says, it will begin processing licenses for a small number of companies, ...

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    medical cannabis | regulation | cannabis | colombia
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  • People in Latin America are starting to turn against outlawing marijuana

    Monday, 27 February 2017
    People in Latin America are starting to turn against outlawing marijuana

    Sentiments in Latin America in favor of outlawing marijuana appear to be undergoing shifts in some countries, according to a study published the International Journal of Drug Policy. In some parts of ...

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    latin american debate | legalization | cannabis | decriminalization | uruguay | peru | mexico | colombia | chile | bolivia | argentina
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  • How Santos’ new peace deal aggravated Colombia’s drug war

    Wednesday, 25 January 2017
    How Santos’ new peace deal aggravated Colombia’s drug war

    The chapter devoted to “solving the drug problem” in the first version of President Santos’ peace agreement was far from perfect. But it was the first time that a peace accord had included a section ...

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  • Colombian leader: "It makes no sense" to jail peasant over marijuana

    Saturday, 10 December 2016
    Colombian leader: "It makes no sense" to jail peasant over marijuana

    Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos used the Nobel podium in Norway to reiterate his call to "rethink" the war on drugs. "It makes no sense to imprison a peasant who grows marijuana, when nowadays ...

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  • The Global Forum of Producers of Prohibited Plants (GFPPP)

    Thursday, 27 October 2016
    The Global Forum of Producers of Prohibited Plants (GFPPP)

    The voices of affected communities involved in the cultivation of coca leaf, opium poppy and cannabis plants are lacking in the global debate on drug policy reform in general and were at risk of bein ...

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    jamaica | morocco | opium | burma | producers | cannabis | coca | peru | colombia | bolivia
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  • Colombia's clandestine cannabis growers keen to come out of the shadows

    Thursday, 15 September 2016
    Colombia's clandestine cannabis growers keen to come out of the shadows

    Half of Colombia’s cannabis production is concentrated in the northern part of Cauca province, and 50% of that is grown in Corinto alone. Police estimate 100 hectares of land in the municipality are ...

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  • Cannabis in Latin America and the Caribbean

    Thursday, 15 September 2016
    Cannabis in Latin America and the Caribbean

    Cannabis (or marihuana) is one of the most widely consumed psychoactive substances in the world. According to the United Nations World Drug Report, 183 million people, or 3.8% of the world’s populati ...

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    puerto rico | costa rica | jamaica | latin american debate | medical cannabis | cannabis clubs | legalization | regulation | cannabis | decriminalization | uruguay | peru | mexico | ecuador | colombia | chile | brazil | argentina
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  • Colombia’s new, legal drug barons focus on medical marijuana

    Wednesday, 03 August 2016
    Colombia’s new, legal drug barons focus on medical marijuana

    Last year, President Juan Manuel Santos spearheaded an overhaul of Colombia’s 30-year-old drug laws, which formally legalized medical marijuana for domestic use. Crucially, the new law also allowed t ...

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In 2011 the 1961 UN Single Convention on drugs will be in place for 50 years. In 2012 the international drug control system will exist 100 years since the International Opium Convention was signed in 1912 in The Hague. Does it still serve its purpose or is a reform of the UN Drug Conventions needed? This site provides critical background.

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