Latin America https://undrugcontrol.info/en/country-information/latin-america Wed, 11 Jun 2025 12:15:23 +0000 Joomla! - Open Source Content Management en-gb Cannabis in Latin America and the Caribbean https://undrugcontrol.info/en/publications/item/7444-cannabis-in-latin-america-and-the-caribbean https://undrugcontrol.info/en/publications/item/7444-cannabis-in-latin-america-and-the-caribbean Cannabis in Latin America and the Caribbean

Cannabis (or marihuana) is one of the most widely consumed psychoactive substances in the world. According to the United Nations World Drug Report, 183 million people, or 3.8% of the world’s populati ...

]]> Latin America Fri, 10 Mar 2017 13:11:14 +0000 People deprived of their liberty for drug offenses: The social costs of drug policy https://undrugcontrol.info/en/issues/proportionality-of-sentences/item/6617-people-deprived-of-their-liberty-for-drug-offenses-the-social-costs-of-drug-policy https://undrugcontrol.info/en/issues/proportionality-of-sentences/item/6617-people-deprived-of-their-liberty-for-drug-offenses-the-social-costs-of-drug-policy People deprived of their liberty for drug offenses: The social costs of drug policy

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 current debate in Latin America on the need to re ...

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