Items tagged with colombia
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| The year in drug policy: Movement at a crossroads [26.12.2014] | The 43-year-old war on drugs had never seen such a barrage of opposition as it did in 2014, with successful marijuana legalization initiatives in sev ... |
| Nick Clegg and Juan Manuel Santos to lead global initiative on drugs reform [08.11.2014] | Nick Clegg wants the UK to take a lead role in forging an alliance between European and Latin American countries aiming to reform global drugs laws f ... |
| Colombia, more than three decades of toxic sprayings. Enough! [26.09.2014] | It is unfortunate that 35 years after the first chemical spraying in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, we are still writing about aerial sprayings in ... |
| Colombian President Santos backs medical marijuana use [13.08.2014] | Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has said he supports the legalisation of marijuana for medical use. He said the measure - which is due to be v ... |
| Liberal party looks to legalize medical marijuana in Colombia [22.07.2014] | Colombia’s Liberal Party will support a new bill to legalize medical marijuana in the country. The move was announced by Senator Juan Manuel Galan, w ... |
| Drugs, armed conflict and peace [14.07.2014] | This policy briefing analyses the results of the partial agreement on drugs reached at the talks being held in Havana between the Revolutionary Armed ... |
| In Search of Rights [09.07.2014] | The Research Consortium on Drugs and the Law (Colectivo de Estudios Drogas y Derecho, CEDD) has published a new study that assesses state responses t ... |
| Reimagining Drug Policy in the Americas [27.06.2014] | Latin America is now at the vanguard of international efforts to promote drug policy reform: Bolivia has rewritten its constitution to recognize the ... |
| Women of the Colombian Drug Wars [08.12.2013] | Between 1998 and 2008, approximately one million acres of Colombian land was used for the cultivation of coca leaves, the main ingredient used to pro ... |
| Open letter to Ministers Responsible for Public Security in the Americas [25.11.2013] | We, the undersigned human rights organizations, address you on this Fourth Meeting of Ministers Responsible for Public Security (MISPA) to follow up ... |
| Drugs as war economy and the peace process in Colombia: dilemmas and challenges [28.10.2013] | The fourth item on the agenda of talks “to end the conflict,” on the issue of drugs, seems to reflect rather a flat and simplistic view of the classi ... |
| Colombian president tells U.N. the drug war has not been won [24.09.2013] | The "war on drugs" has not been won, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos told the United Nations, exhorting the world body to add teeth to the Spe ... |
| Analysis: Colombia’s fight against the coca trade [05.09.2013] | EL TARRA, 28 August 2013 (IRIN) - The Colombian government believes people should just say no to growing coca: those that do not, risk aerial sprayin ... |
| Colombia’s capital banks on marijuana cure for hard drug addicts [07.05.2013] | Marijuana has long been accused of being a gateway to deadlier vices. But could cannabis be a swinging door that might also lead people away from har ... |
| Cannabis to substitute crack [22.04.2013] | The mayor of Bogota has recently proposed a pilot scheme with crack cocaine addicts to explore the substitution of crack made of cocaine base paste ( ... |
| Marijuana to fight drug addiction [01.04.2013] | BBC Mundo reports that Bogotá is planning a system of "controlled consumption centers," where addicts could be weaned off more hard-core drugs, such ... |
| HSBC gives Argentina prosecutors chance to correct US blunder [31.03.2013] | The accusations from Argentina's tax authority that London-based HSBC laundered over $100 million may pale in comparison to that of the bank's US - M ... |
| US drugs prosecutors switch sides to defend accused Colombian traffickers [27.02.2013] | US prosecutors and other senior officials who spearheaded the war against drug cartels have quit their jobs to defend Colombian cocaine traffickers, ... |
| FARC proposes drug legalization at peace talks [06.02.2013] | At peace talks in Cuba, Colombian guerrilla group the FARC outlined a proposal to legalize drug consumption and cultivation, complementing reforms th ... |
| The illicit drugs market in the Colombian agrarian context [31.01.2013] | The distribution of land and its unjust use are the major causes of violence in Colombia. For this reason land issues are the starting point of curre ... |
| New drug bill 'to decriminalise ecstasy' in Colombia [30.01.2013] | Colombia's Justice Minister, Ruth Stella Correa, has said a new drugs bill would decriminalise personal use of synthetic drugs, such as ecstasy. The ... |
| Narco-states grope for new strategy [04.11.2012] | Mexico, Colombia and Guatemala face the need to modify their approach to the fight against drug trafficking and are urging the world to do the same. ... |
| Bogotá’s medical care centres for drug addicts (CAMAD) [31.10.2012] | In September 2012, the mayor of Bogotá, Gustavo Petro, launched the first centre for drug addicts in the Bronx, a marginalised city-centre neighbourh ... |
| Governing The Global Drug Wars [23.10.2012] | Since 1909 the international community has worked to eradicate the abuse of narcotics. A century on, the efforts are widely acknowledged to have fail ... |
| Latin American nations push UN to drop zero tolerance on drugs [04.10.2012] | Colombia, Guatemala, and Mexico – hardly liberal bastions – have taken the matter a step further. The Latin American countries, each threatened by dr ... |
| Guatemala, Colombia, Mexico Urge UN to Review Global Drug Policy [03.10.2012] | Colombia, Mexico and Guatemala delivered a landmark declaration to the United Nations Secretary General calling on the organization to lead a debate ... |
| U.S.-led "war on drugs" questioned at U.N. [26.09.2012] | The presidents of Mexico, Colombia and Guatemala all called for a vigorous global debate of drug laws at the United Nations on Wednesday, raising new ... |
| Colombian prosecutor calls for drug legalisation referendum [20.08.2012] | Colombia's chief public prosecutor has called for a referendum on whether to legalise drug consumption, in response to plans to set up a network of p ... |
| Colombia Decriminalizes Cocaine and Marijuana [02.07.2012] | Colombia's Constitutional Court approved the government's proposal to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of cocaine and marijuana for pers ... |
| Colombia court upholds no jail time for drug use [28.06.2012] | Colombia's Constitutional Court has ruled that people cannot be jailed for possessing cocaine and marijuana for personal use. The decision ratifies a ... |
| A breakthrough in the making? [25.06.2012] | Remarkable drug policy developments are taking place in Latin America. This is not only at the level of political debate, but is also reflected in ac ... |
| Western banks 'reaping billions from Colombian cocaine trade' [01.06.2012] | While cocaine production ravages countries in Central America, consumers in the US and Europe are helping developed economies grow rich from the prof ... |
| Drug Policy in the Andes [15.12.2011] | Fifty years after signing the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and 40 years after the U.S. government declared a "war on drugs," ma ... |
| Juan Manuel Santos: 'It is time to think again about the war on drugs' [13.11.2011] | Santos spelled out the radical ideas which he hopes will create a fresh approach. He said: "A new approach should try and take away the violent profi ... |
| Colombian president calls for legalisation of marijuana [26.10.2011] | Juan Manuel Santos, the Colombian president, has called for the global legalisation of marijuana to help combat the trafficking of harder drugs and r ... |
| USAID's Alternative Development policy in Colombia [15.10.2011] | Alternative Development (AD) must not be part of a militarised security strategy, which is the predominant approach in Colombia. Instead of simply at ... |
| Colombia Takes Step Towards Drug Decriminalization [25.08.2011] | Colombia's Supreme Court ruled against harsh punishments for small-time drug offenders, in a move towards easing up Colombia's zero-tolerance drug la ... |
| Alternative development from the perspective of Colombian farmers [15.05.2011] | Alternative Development programmes have been widely discussed from the point of view of experts, technocrats, politicians and academics, with advocat ... |
| Diplomatic games to oppose lifting unjust ban on coca chewing [16.01.2011] | According to the government of Bolivia, the only three countries that did file a formal objection to the amendment of Bolivia to abolish the ban on c ... |
| The Case of Colombia [08.12.2010] | In Colombia, most of the people incarcerated for drug-related crime are merely small-scale participants in the drug trafficking networks, reveals the ... |
| Drug Laws and Prisons in Colombia [03.12.2010] | During the 20th century, drug policies in Colombia were increasingly repressive, largely ineffective, and heavily influenced by the international leg ... |
| How California's Pot Proposition Is Agitating Latin America [31.10.2010] | What was Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos smoking? Colombia has long been an obedient lieutenant in the U.S.-led war on drugs, yet there was Sa ... |
| All Eyes on California [29.10.2010] | Registered voters in California will be the ones voting next Tuesday on whether to legalize marijuana under state law. But the ballot initiative in q ... |
| The drug legalization debate [17.10.2010] | Foreign minister Maria Angela Holguín’s statement of last Sunday 10 October is of great importance. According to this statement, Colombia should take ... |
| Colombia’s new president should call for a dialogue on drugs [18.08.2010] | In June 1998, Juan Manuel Santos signed a letter delivered to Kofi Annan, then the Secretary General of the United Nations, calling for “a frank and ... |
| Marijuana Legalization [30.06.2010] | A number of other countries have implemented changes in law that significantly reduce the extent of criminalization of marijuana use. Only in Austral ... |
| Prohibition, a backwards step [01.01.2010] | In December 2009, the Congress in Colombia passed a reform to the 1991 Constitution, which considered the possession and consumption of certain quant ... |
| Global Illicit Drug Markets 1998-2007 [15.03.2009] | This report commissioned by the European Commission, found no evidence that the global drug problem has been reduced during the period from 1998 to 2 ... |
| Alternative Developments, Economic Interests and Paramilitaries in Uraba [01.09.2008] | The following document analyses how the Forest Warden Families Programme and the Productive Projects of the Presidential Programme Against Illegal Cr ... |
| War Without End [07.06.2008] | An extraordinary documentary marking a new level in broadcast journalism critiquing the international war on drugs was shown on Irish TV last on 3 Jun ... |
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