Items tagged with colombia
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| Colombia looks to become the world’s supplier of legal pot [10.03.2018] | 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 ... |
| Poppies, opium, and heroin [01.03.2018] | Poppy cultivation in Mexico and Colombia is part of a local economy geared almost exclusively toward the illegal market abroad: it is driven by deman ... |
| Colombia’s two anti-coca strategies are at war with each other [20.02.2018] | The government’s “comprehensive programme for illicit crop substitution” (PNIS) aims to replace the coca with a profitable legal crop. The crop-subst ... |
| Canadian cannabis companies set their sights on South America [31.01.2018] | 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 CanniMe ... |
| Blowing up: Britain’s cocaine glut [07.12.2017] | “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 ... |
| Colombian farmers keep growing coca despite government crackdown and U.S. pressure [27.10.2017] | 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 te ... |
| Trump delivers shock rebuke to Colombia over cocaine surge [14.09.2017] | 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 reve ... |
| What does departure of top US anti-drug diplomat mean for LatAm policy? [30.08.2017] | The planned resignation of the US State Department's top anti-drug official raises further questions about the future of US counternarcotics efforts ... |
| Coca and the Colombian Peace Accords [11.08.2017] | 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 ... |
| What LatAm cities can learn from the failures of Brazil's UPP policing model [01.08.2017] | 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 ... |
| Uruguay’s marijuana law turns pharmacists into dealers [19.07.2017] | 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 ... |
| After decades of war, Colombian farmers face a new test: Peace [18.07.2017] | 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 ... |
| U.K. tobacco giant gets medicinal cannabis expertise [13.06.2017] | 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 ... |
| Is Colombia sacrificing coca farmers' trust for US Aid dollars? [17.05.2017] | Colombia's defense minister divulged new coca eradication figures ahead of a meeting between Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and his US counte ... |
| Were peasant farmers poisoned by the U.S. war on drugs? [19.04.2017] | 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 farmer ... |
| Confronting Colombia’s coca boom requires patience and a commitment to the peace accords [13.03.2017] | 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 ... |
| Joint statement [13.03.2017] | Exactly one year ago, in the 59th session of the CND, the Colombian government urged the international community to openly debate the results obtaine ... |
| As rebels move out of Colombia drug trade, corporations look to move in [09.03.2017] | 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 pr ... |
| People in Latin America are starting to turn against outlawing marijuana [27.02.2017] | Sentiments in Latin America in favor of outlawing marijuana appear to be undergoing shifts in some countries, according to a study published the Inte ... |
| How Santos’ new peace deal aggravated Colombia’s drug war [25.01.2017] | 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 firs ... |
| Colombian leader: "It makes no sense" to jail peasant over marijuana [10.12.2016] | 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 imp ... |
| The Global Forum of Producers of Prohibited Plants (GFPPP) [27.10.2016] | 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 ... |
| Colombia's clandestine cannabis growers keen to come out of the shadows [15.09.2016] | 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 esti ... |
| Cannabis in Latin America and the Caribbean [15.09.2016] | Cannabis (or marihuana) is one of the most widely consumed psychoactive substances in the world. According to the United Nations World Drug Report, 1 ... |
| Colombia’s new, legal drug barons focus on medical marijuana [03.08.2016] | Last year, President Juan Manuel Santos spearheaded an overhaul of Colombia’s 30-year-old drug laws, which formally legalized medical marijuana for d ... |
| Is the global cocaine trade in decline? [23.06.2016] | The latest United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) 2016 World Drug Report presents a long-term analysis of cocaine production, seizures and ... |
| Colombian president: persisting with prohibitionist drug policies is 'insane' [19.04.2016] | Colombia’s president, Juan Manuel Santos, has said it is "insane" to keep approaching the global narcotics problem with the same failed policies of t ... |
| UN backs prohibitionist drug policies despite call for more 'humane solution' [19.04.2016] | The 2016 UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) has approved an agreement that leaves in place the prohibitionist policies banning narcotics us ... |
| ‘Addicted to punishment' [13.04.2016] | Latin American leaders may be patting themselves on the back for engineering next week’s Special Session of the UN General Assembly in New York to re ... |
| The old global consensus on the war on drugs is crumbling [09.04.2016] | Once a decade, the United Nations organizes a meeting where every country in the world comes together to figure out what to do about drugs — and up t ... |
| Colombia’s "lost city of marijuana" [07.04.2016] | The jungle around Toribío in southwestern Colombia is filled with vast pot plantations that stretch as far as the eye can see. At night, the greenhou ... |
| The world's most powerful drug lord has been linked to the Panama Papers [06.04.2016] | Documents from global law firm Mossack Fonseca leaked to journalists have linked the firm to two alleged money launderers and drug traffickers tied t ... |
| Colombia’s Supreme Court removes cap on legal amount of drugs [14.03.2016] | Colombia’s Supreme Court has overruled a previous ruling in which it had set a maximum amount of marijuana a person can carry. The latest sentence ma ... |
| Colombian president signs decree to legalise medical marijuana [21.12.2015] | Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos has signed a decree legalizing the growing and sale of marijuana for medical purposes, a dramatic shift in a ... |
| Latin America’s crackdown on drugs defies its progressive rhetoric [12.11.2015] | “We were having dinner—my daughter, grandchild, and me,” says Ramona, a 67-year-old Mexican woman who is serving a sentence of four-and-a-half years ... |
| Colombia to legalize commercial sale of medical marijuana [11.11.2015] | Colombia's government plans to legalize the cultivation and sale of marijuana for medicinal and scientific purposes, officials said in a surprise shi ... |
| Surge in imprisonment for drug offenses raises questions over decriminalization law [11.11.2015] | A report by the Research Consortium on Drugs and the Law (Colectivo de Estudios Drogas y Derecho - CEDD), reveals that the number of people imprisone ... |
| Colombia is again the world’s top coca producer [09.11.2015] | Illegal coca cultivation is surging in Colombia, erasing one of the showcase achievements of U.S. counternarcotics policy. Just two years after it ce ... |
| People deprived of their liberty for drug offenses: The social costs of drug policy [02.11.2015] | The Research Consortium on Drugs and the Law (Colectivo de Estudios Drogas y Derecho, CEDD) released a series of new studies showing that despite the ... |
| Colombia decriminalizes marijuana cultivation up to 20 plants [11.08.2015] | Colombia’s Supreme Court ruled that growing up to 20 plants of marijuana is not a crime. The possession of small amounts of the drug had already been ... |
| With marijuana price down 70%, Colombia growers are bailing [13.07.2015] | On a farm in the central Andean mountains of Colombia, workers are digging up marijuana bushes and replacing them with avocados. They’ll get no subsi ... |
| Colombia says rise in coca cultivation shows why it was right to stop spraying [01.07.2015] | A new UN study showing a steep rise in the cultivation of the leaf used to make cocaine offers fresh support to Colombia’s recent decision to end the ... |
| Latin America rethinks drug policies [26.05.2015] | During the 1980s and 1990s, as the United States battled the scourge of cocaine throughout the hemisphere, Washington did most of the talking. Latin ... |
| Defying U.S., Colombia halts aerial spraying of crops used to make cocaine [13.05.2015] | The government of Colombia rejected a major tool in the American-backed antidrug campaign — ordering a halt to the aerial spraying of the country’s v ... |
| Colombia to ban coca spraying herbicide glyphosate [09.05.2015] | Colombia has announced it will stop using a controversial herbicide to destroy illegal plantations of coca, the raw ingredient for cocaine. The decis ... |
| Last flight looms for US-funded air war on drugs as Colombia counts health cost [05.05.2015] | For more than two decades crop dusters have buzzed the skies of Colombia showering bright green fields of coca with chemical defoliant as part of a U ... |
| The problem of glyphosate spraying [13.04.2015] | An article published recently in El Espectador commented on the two issues that underpin the Colombian discourse on the subject of drugs. To be preci ... |
| Report illustrates dynamics of Colombia's domestic drug trade [25.02.2015] | A recent analysis on the relationship between local drug markets and violence and crime in Colombia illustrates the dynamics driving the domestic dru ... |
| Urban drug markets and zones of impunity in Colombia [25.02.2015] | The retail drug trade has been identified by the authorities as a strategic priority, under the hypothesis that it is one of the main triggers of vio ... |
| Fixing a broken system [28.12.2014] | Despite efforts by governments in Latin America, illicit drugs continue to provide one of the largest incomes for criminal organizations, enabling th ... |
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