Coca supply control, territorial transformation policy and new indicators for drug policy success
Coca supply control, territorial transformation policy and new indicators for drug policy success
Authors: María Alejandra Vélez, Lucan Marín Llanes, Luis Felipe Cruz
There are three main types of intervention to control the supply of illicit crops, as part of the war on drugs: forced aerial eradication, forced manual eradication, and alternative development. This document briefly presents the academic evaluations of each of these interventions, the elements that the Center for Studies on Security and Drugs (CESED) and the Center for the Study of Law, Justice, and Society (Dejusticia) consider...
Legal Coca: Colombia’s Drug Policy Insurrection
Legal Coca: Colombia’s Drug Policy Insurrection
Author: David Restrepo
After suffering through decades of the Andean region’s most repressive, expensive, and fruitless drug war, designed and funded by the USA, Colombia is finally revolting against its historical drug policy subservience and choosing to lead the global debate on the legal regulation of drugs. On July 20,2022, Colombian Independence Day, members of the newly elected, progressive Congressional majority announced they will legalize not just adult-use cannabis, psilocybin mushrooms, and opium poppy, but also tackle perhaps the...
El boom de la marihuana
El boom de la marihuana
Lina Britto
Antes que Colombia se convirtiera en uno de los principales productores de cocaína del mundo en los años ochenta, una generación temprana de traficantes inundó de marihuana el mercado de la contracultura hippie de los Estados Unidos durante las décadas del sesenta y el setenta.
Conocidos popularmente como marimberos, estos pioneros del tráfico de drogas se convirtieron en los principales proveedores de la droga de moda del momento y luego se volvieron el primer objetivo de la «guerra contra las drogas» en Suramérica.
Sin embargo, la llamada bonanza marimbera...