Colombia to ban coca spraying herbicide glyphosate
The Colombian drug eradication programme began in 1994
BBC News (UK)
Sunday, May 10, 2015
Sunday, May 10, 2015
Colombia has announced it will stop using a controversial herbicide to destroy illegal plantations of coca, the raw ingredient for cocaine. The decision follows a warning by the World Health Organization (WHO) that glyphosate is "probably carcinogenic". The product has been used in US-sponsored crop-spraying anti-narcotics programmes in South America. President Juan Manuel Santos has said Colombia will need to find other mechanisms to combat coca production. (But South Africa continues to spray cannabis fields)
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