If you care about the climate crisis, fight to legalize drugs
[07.07.2023]
On June 26, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime released its annual report on the illicit drug trade. The headline is that despite millions ...
Cattle, not coca, drive deforestation of the Amazon in Colombia – report
[19.02.2023]
Cattle-ranching, not cocaine, has driven the destruction of the Colombian Amazon over the last four decades, a new study has found. Successive recent ...
Prohibited Plants
[18.08.2022]
Across the world, the state of environmental stress is unprecedented. As scholarship and activism on ‘environmental justice’ points out, poorer and m ...
Coca leaf: Myths and Reality
[16.06.2020]
Many myths surround coca. Every day press accounts around the world use the word coca in their headlines, when they refer in fact to cocaine. TNI's D ...
Colombia, more than three decades of toxic sprayings. Enough!
[26.09.2014]
It is unfortunate that 35 years after the first chemical spraying in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, we are still writing about aerial sprayings in ...
Full scope on the War on Drugs
[30.04.1998]
An elderly cleaning lady enters the huge empty UN aula in New York with her polishing cart, to get the venue spic-and-span for an important upcoming ...
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