"The War On Drugs Has Failed": Colombia Looks To Decriminalize Cocaine
By regulating the sale of cocaine, Tascón argued, the government would wrest the market from armed groups and cartels...
Could make Colombia the Amsterdam of The Americas, increase tourism to Colombia where cocaine is about $1 per gram (a significantly lower cost than in many other countries).
Note, the State of Oregon has already “de-criminalized” (effectively legalized) cocaine AND all other hard drugs (heroin for example, LSD as another example, Oxycontin as yet another example, methamphetamine etc. etc.).
"The War On Drugs Has Failed": Colombia Looks To Decriminalize Cocaine
BY TYLER DURDEN
MONDAY, AUG 22, 2022 - 04:40 PM
Colombia, the world's largest producer of cocaine, and the origin of more than 90% seized in the United States - is considering decriminalizing the drug in an experiment to end Washington DC's never-ending "war on drugs," according to the Washington Post.
After just two weeks in office, the country's first leftist government has proposed an end to "prohibition" - in what would become the first government-regulated market for cocaine. Officials would work with other leftist governments in the region via legislation and alliances in order to "turn their country into a laboratory for drug decriminalization."
"It is time for a new international convention that accepts that the war on drugs has failed," said President Gustavo Petro in his inaugural address this month.
Colombian President Petro
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