Let Me Chew My Coca Leaves
The New York Times (US)
March 14, 2009
March 14, 2009
In 1961, the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs placed the coca leaf in the same category with cocaine — thus promoting the false notion that the coca leaf is a narcotic — and ordered that “coca leaf chewing must be abolished within 25 years from the coming into force of this convention.” Bolivia signed the convention in 1976, during the brutal dictatorship of Col. Hugo Banzer, and the 25-year deadline expired in 2001. Mistakes are an unavoidable part of human history, but sometimes we have the opportunity to correct them. It is time for the international community to reverse its misguided policy toward the coca leaf.
- El articulo completo en el New York Times en inglés
- Morales pide en The New York Times que hoja de coca salga de lista de drogas, EFE, 14 de marzo de 2009
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