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| All Eyes on California | Registered voters in California will be the ones voting next Tuesday on whether to legalize marijuana under state law. But the ballot initiative in qu... |
| Colombia | Summary overview of drug-laws and legislation trends in Colombia Trend Colombia is caught in the paradox of two opposing tendencies: one, led by p... |
| Colombia Takes Step Towards Drug Decriminalization | Colombia's Supreme Court ruled against harsh punishments for small-time drug offenders, in a move towards easing up Colombia's zero-tolera... |
| Colombian president calls for legalisation of marijuana | Juan Manuel Santos, the Colombian president, has called for the global legalisation of marijuana to help combat the trafficking of harder drugs and... |
| Colombia’s new president should call for a dialogue on drugs | 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 h... |
| Drug Laws and Prisons in Colombia | During the 20th century, drug policies in Colombia were increasingly repressive, largely ineffective, and heavily influenced by the international lega... |
| Drug Policy in the Andes | 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,... |
| Global Illicit Drug Markets 1998-2007 | This report commissioned by the European Commission, found no evidence that the global drug problem has been reduced during the period from 1998 to 20... |
| How California's Pot Proposition Is Agitating Latin America | 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 ... |
| INCB: controversial statements on coca leaf | Read here the full text of the controversial statements on coca leaf included in this year's Annual Report of the INCB. Some highlights: "... |
| Juan Manuel Santos: 'It is time to think again about the war on drugs' | 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 ... |
| Prohibition, a backwards step | In December 2009, the Congress in Colombia passed a reform to the 1991 Constitution, which considered the possession and consumption of certain quanti... |
| The Case of Colombia | In Colombia, most of the people incarcerated for drug-related crime are merely small-scale participants in the drug trafficking networks, reveals the ... |
| The drug legalization debate | Foreign minister Maria Angela Holguín’s statement of last Sunday 10 October is of great importance. According to this statement, Colombia should take ... |
| War Without End | 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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