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Across Latin America, women who grow coca and opium poppy often play a major role in fighting for social change…
On February 10, the Colombian government said it planned to eradicate 130,000 hectares of coca this year, using techniques that…
A new study by the Research Consortium on Drugs and the Law (Colectivo de Estudios Drogas y Derecho, CEDD) analyzes…
For decades, a prohibitionist approach to drug policy has been a key driver of social strife and human rights abuses,…
Colombia’s Constitutional Court met today to discuss the government’s plans to reinstate aerial spraying of coca, the plant used to…
The UN drug treaties expressly limit cannabis use to medical and scientific purposes, and cannabis is placed under the strictest…
Uruguay is the first country to legalize and regulate its domestic non-medical cannabis market. In light of this pioneering role,…
On September 12, the U.S. Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control held a hearing on Colombia’s counternarcotics efforts. Here’s a…
In the vast areas of Colombia’s countryside where evidence of government is scarce, you can see the bright green bushes…
The people in the videos are featured because they represent the rarely revealed human side of the war on drugs.
Over three years after its passage, the final element of Uruguay’s historic cannabis law is set to be implemented on…
Across Latin America, the effects of disproportionate punishment for low-level, non-violent drug offenses are particularly severe for women. The following women were convicted and imprisoned for drug offenses in Colombia and Costa Rica. These are their stories.
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