Issue-Drug Policy
And the Patients Wait for the Plant…
The year ended and the Senate plenary did not advance the debate about medicinal marijuana. In the session Monday 15 December everything seemed favorable for Senator Galán’s bill.
Read MoreThe Crusade Against Medicinal Marihuana
Colombia is close to legalizing medicinal marihuana. The bill drafted by senator Juan Manuel Galán seeks to authorize, in the head of government, the growing, harvest and use of cannabis for scientific research or for the creation of therapeutic or medicinal products.
Read MoreGalán, Drugs, and Mafias
Juan Manuel Galán presented a bill to legalize the use of medicinal marijuana on the 25th year anniversary of his father’s assassination.
Read MoreSupport, Don’t Punish
The 26th of June, the United Nations celebrates the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.
Read MoreThe Doors that are Opening from Havana
The third agreement is of great importance for the country and for the construction of peace, because it substantially advances certain aspects that are key for Colombia.
Read MoreLess Jail, More Health
While in Colombia we remain immersed in the debate about the presidential elections and the second round, the agreement that they reached in Havana in the third point of the peace negotiations have passed unnoted.
Read More20 years since the Decriminalization of the Personal Dose
A little more than two decades ago you could be arrested and put in jail for up to 30 days if you were caught carrying or smoking marihuana. You could be jailed for up to a year if you were caught a second time.
Read MoreCrop spraying and the Precautionary Principle
A State Council decision issued on December 11, 2013, which is very important but that went unnoticed, leads one to conclude that we should suspend fumigations using glyphosate because it violates the precautionary principle.
Read MoreThe Electoral Debate on Drugs
Congressional candidates have broken the taboo. For the first time the debate about drugs and their regulation has taken hold of the campaigns in Colombia.
Read MoreIs Spraying Addictive?
Instead of once again spraying illegal crops, the government should rethink this issue and ask itself it has not fallen in to a very harmful addition. Pathological additions generate a growing need to consumer more substances that produce the desired effect less and less, and instead cause greater harm. But because of their dependence, the addict continues to consume at a great cost.
Read MoreCancer, Biotechnology Medicines and the Debate about Market Competition
Cancer rates are growing.
The International Agency for Research on Cancer of the World Health Organization (WHO), released it’s World Report on Cancer for 2014 last Monday, February 3, 2014.
Read MorePrison laws and Drugs: Any changes?
A few days ago, the new Prison Law came into force with the goal of reducing the structural problems of the prison system.
Read MoreDrug Policy and Human Rights
As the drug policy debate becomes more open and vigorous, especially in Latin America, there have been increasing calls to make respect for human rights the central concern in designing and implementing drug policies.
Read MoreThe Country of the Eternal Party
The long national hangover caused by the end of the singer Diomedes´ eternal party continues to elicit different opinions. Most people go along with the idea that the dead can never be bad, as the a verse of one of the Cacique’s songs says. Others, like Cecilia Orozco, remember the deceased as a condemned murder, a fugitive of justice and protected by the paramilitaries.
Read MoreWho is the Drug Pirate?
The president of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), Raymond Yans, accused Uruguay of piracy for approving home-grown marihuana and its legal, but highly regulated, commercial distribution.
Read MorePetro’s International Option
Since the day mayor Gustavo Petro´s legal team learned of the Inspector General’s Office’s decision to remove him from office and ban him from holding public office for 15 years, the team began to look North. They set their eyes on Washington, where the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights is located.
Read MoreThe Statue of Liberty… Chained
The Statue of Liberty has traditionally been a symbol for immigrants to the United States, representing their arrival to a free country. But considering how rapidly the prison population has grown, the Statue of Liberty should now be displayed in chains.
Read MoreThinking of the Issue of Drugs Alongside the Peace Process
Now that the different peaces and post-conflict scenarios in Colombia are being discussed, it is crucial to include the problem of illicit drug prosecutions in the debate. From what perspectives should we approach this problem so that we don’t make the same mistakes of the past?
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