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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.
After decades of failed policies, the U.S. is finally reconsidering the mass incarceration model it promoted in Latin America. The paradigm shift opens up space for reforms in Latin America.
This guide presents public policies to address the harmful mass incarceration of women for drug offenses in Latin America and the Caribbean.
This joint report analyzes the effects of drug policy in the Americas, including the militarization of law enforcement, the criminalization of consumption, the weakening of due process guarantees, mass incarceration, disproportionate penalties, and restrictions on access to health care.
In a paper produced for a Brookings Institution policy brief series, John Walsh and Geoff Ramsey review Uruguay’s pioneering policies that legalize and regulate every level of the market for cannabis.
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