{"id":27118,"date":"2010-10-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-17T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dejusticia.org\/the-debate-on-legalizing-drugs\/"},"modified":"2017-04-11T07:42:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T12:42:42","slug":"the-debate-on-legalizing-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/the-debate-on-legalizing-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"The debate on legalizing drugs."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>La canciller tiene toda la raz\u00f3n en destacar esa contradicci\u00f3n. Pero su planteamiento, que es semejante al que hizo el Presidente Santos en M\u00e9xico hace unas semanas, es insuficiente y podr\u00eda incluso ser un boomerang.<\/p>\n<p>Si el problema es \u00fanicamente que existe una contradicci\u00f3n entre el hecho de que en Colombia sigamos estrategias punitivas frente a la producci\u00f3n y la distribuci\u00f3n de sustancias sicoactivas, mientras que en ciertos pa\u00edses europeos o en ciertas partes de Estados Unidos avanza la despenalizaci\u00f3n del consumo, entonces la soluci\u00f3n puede tomar dos formas radicalmente opuestas: puede uno defender la repenalizaci\u00f3n del consumo o, por el contrario, avanzar hacia la legalizaci\u00f3n y regularizaci\u00f3n de la producci\u00f3n y la distribuci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<p>Precisamente uno de los argumentos del Gobierno Uribe para reformar la Constituci\u00f3n y oponerse a la sentencia C-221 de 1994 de la Corte Constitucional que hab\u00eda despenalizado el consumo de drogas fue que era contradictorio que Colombia defendiera la prohibici\u00f3n a nivel internacional mientras que despenalizaba el consumo a nivel interno.<\/p>\n<p>Por eso no basta con se\u00f1alar esa posible contradicci\u00f3n: es necesario que Colombia lleve el planteamiento m\u00e1s lejos y entre a cuestionar el r\u00e9gimen prohibicionista existente a nivel internacional. Este ha fracasado estruendosamente en evitar el crecimiento de la oferta de drogas il\u00edcitas, como lo muestra cualquier evaluaci\u00f3n del mercado de estas sustancias; pero adem\u00e1s el prohibicionismo ha producido grav\u00edsimos efectos, como el crecimiento de las mafias del narcotr\u00e1fico y de la violencia y corrupci\u00f3n que le est\u00e1n asociadas, que ha afectado gravemente a casi todos los pa\u00edses latinoamericanos.<\/p>\n<p>El gobierno Santos no debe entonces limitarse a se\u00f1alar la contradicci\u00f3n que con acierto resalta la Canciller Holgu\u00edn sino que debe llevar de frente a nivel internacional el debate sobre la legitimidad del r\u00e9gimen prohibicionista; debe incluso plantearlo en el Consejo de Seguridad de Naciones Unidas, por los efectos que sobre la seguridad internacional tiene el narcotrafico. <\/p>\n<p>Colombia tiene la autoridad moral para plantear dicho debate precisamente por haber sido una de las v\u00edctimas de la violencia y corrupci\u00f3n del narcotr\u00e1fico (aunque no debemos negar que nos hemos tambi\u00e9n \u201cbeneficiado\u201d de esos dineros il\u00edcitos).  Y hay muy buenos argumentos para defender el abandono del r\u00e9gimen prohibicionista y su sustituci\u00f3n por una pol\u00edtica de regularizaci\u00f3n o legalizaci\u00f3n regulada de la producci\u00f3n, distribuci\u00f3n y consumo de las drogas, que varios estudiosos hemos defendido infructuosamente desde hace muchos a\u00f1os.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chancellor&#8217;s declaration last Sunday October 10th is very important.  In her opinion, it is absurd that while some developed nations decriminalize and legalize certain consumption, we continue &#8220;incarcerating the farmer who has half a hectare of coca.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1022],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","subcategory-drug-policy","medium-la-silla-vacia-en","post-scope-aaa-not-blog"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The debate on legalizing drugs. - Dejusticia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/the-debate-on-legalizing-drugs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The debate on legalizing drugs.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Chancellor&#039;s declaration last Sunday October 10th is very important. In her opinion, it is absurd that while some developed nations decriminalize and legalize certain consumption, we continue &quot;incarcerating the farmer who has half a hectare of coca.&quot;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/the-debate-on-legalizing-drugs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Dejusticia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Dejusticia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-10-17T05:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-04-11T12:42:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@RodrigoUprimny\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@dejusticia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/the-debate-on-legalizing-drugs\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/the-debate-on-legalizing-drugs\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/#\/schema\/person\/b5883c031ca9e824512c122f092fff07\"},\"headline\":\"The debate on legalizing drugs.\",\"datePublished\":\"2010-10-17T05:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-04-11T12:42:42+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/the-debate-on-legalizing-drugs\/\"},\"wordCount\":441,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/#organization\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en\",\"copyrightYear\":\"2010\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/the-debate-on-legalizing-drugs\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/the-debate-on-legalizing-drugs\/\",\"name\":\"The debate on legalizing drugs. - Dejusticia\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2010-10-17T05:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-04-11T12:42:42+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/the-debate-on-legalizing-drugs\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/the-debate-on-legalizing-drugs\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/the-debate-on-legalizing-drugs\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"The debate on legalizing drugs.\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/\",\"name\":\"Dejusticia\",\"description\":\"Centro de Estudios de Derecho, Justicia y Sociedad\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en\"},{\"@type\":[\"NGO\",\"ResearchOrganization\"],\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Dejusticia\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/logo-v1-dejusticia-MC.svg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/logo-v1-dejusticia-MC.svg\",\"width\":1,\"height\":1,\"caption\":\"Dejusticia\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Dejusticia\/\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/dejusticia\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCbwnwY8oIpHCug4R3KhjewQ\/feed\"],\"knowsAbout\":[\"Anti-Discrimination\",\"Rule of Law\",\"Environmental Justice\",\"Economic Justice\",\"Transitional Justice\",\"Drug Policy\",\"Judicial System\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/#\/schema\/person\/b5883c031ca9e824512c122f092fff07\",\"name\":\"Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3fea3dc68a3e2767b80381b19e23ab785beb1a335e22353e36654c7d6e6a15e5?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3fea3dc68a3e2767b80381b19e23ab785beb1a335e22353e36654c7d6e6a15e5?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes\"},\"description\":\"Rodrigo es abogado, con maestr\u00eda (DEA) en sociolog\u00eda del desarrollo de la Universidad Paris I (IEDES) y doctorado en Econom\u00eda de la Universidad Amiens. Profesor y catedr\u00e1tico em\u00e9rito Universidad Nacional de Colombia y profesor visitante de varias universidades. Fue magistrado auxiliar y encargado de la Corte Constitucional y es conjuez de esa Corte y del Consejo de Estado. Es miembro de la Comisi\u00f3n Internacional de Juristas y del Comit\u00e9 DESC de Naciones Unidas 2015-2018. Es columnista de El Espectador. Fue Director de Dejusticia y es actualmente el director de la pol\u00edtica de drogas. Sus \u00e1reas de inter\u00e9s son especialmente DESC, justicia transicional, sistema judicial y pol\u00edtica de drogas, temas en los cuales ha publicado varios art\u00edculos y libros, como autor o coautor.\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/x.com\/RodrigoUprimny\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/responsible\/rodrigo-uprimny-yepes\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"The debate on legalizing drugs. - Dejusticia","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/the-debate-on-legalizing-drugs\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"The debate on legalizing drugs.","og_description":"The Chancellor's declaration last Sunday October 10th is very important. In her opinion, it is absurd that while some developed nations decriminalize and legalize certain consumption, we continue \"incarcerating the farmer who has half a hectare of coca.\"","og_url":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/the-debate-on-legalizing-drugs\/","og_site_name":"Dejusticia","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Dejusticia\/","article_published_time":"2010-10-17T05:00:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2017-04-11T12:42:42+00:00","author":"Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@RodrigoUprimny","twitter_site":"@dejusticia","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/the-debate-on-legalizing-drugs\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/the-debate-on-legalizing-drugs\/"},"author":{"name":"Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes","@id":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/#\/schema\/person\/b5883c031ca9e824512c122f092fff07"},"headline":"The debate on legalizing drugs.","datePublished":"2010-10-17T05:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2017-04-11T12:42:42+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/the-debate-on-legalizing-drugs\/"},"wordCount":441,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/#organization"},"inLanguage":"en","copyrightYear":"2010","copyrightHolder":{"@id":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/#organization"}},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/the-debate-on-legalizing-drugs\/","url":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/the-debate-on-legalizing-drugs\/","name":"The debate on legalizing drugs. - Dejusticia","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/#website"},"datePublished":"2010-10-17T05:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2017-04-11T12:42:42+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/the-debate-on-legalizing-drugs\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/the-debate-on-legalizing-drugs\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/the-debate-on-legalizing-drugs\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The debate on legalizing drugs."}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/#website","url":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/","name":"Dejusticia","description":"Centro de Estudios de Derecho, Justicia y Sociedad","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en"},{"@type":["NGO","ResearchOrganization"],"@id":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/#organization","name":"Dejusticia","url":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en","@id":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/logo-v1-dejusticia-MC.svg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/logo-v1-dejusticia-MC.svg","width":1,"height":1,"caption":"Dejusticia"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Dejusticia\/","https:\/\/x.com\/dejusticia","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCbwnwY8oIpHCug4R3KhjewQ\/feed"],"knowsAbout":["Anti-Discrimination","Rule of Law","Environmental Justice","Economic Justice","Transitional Justice","Drug Policy","Judicial System"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/#\/schema\/person\/b5883c031ca9e824512c122f092fff07","name":"Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en","@id":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3fea3dc68a3e2767b80381b19e23ab785beb1a335e22353e36654c7d6e6a15e5?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3fea3dc68a3e2767b80381b19e23ab785beb1a335e22353e36654c7d6e6a15e5?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Rodrigo Uprimny Yepes"},"description":"Rodrigo es abogado, con maestr\u00eda (DEA) en sociolog\u00eda del desarrollo de la Universidad Paris I (IEDES) y doctorado en Econom\u00eda de la Universidad Amiens. Profesor y catedr\u00e1tico em\u00e9rito Universidad Nacional de Colombia y profesor visitante de varias universidades. Fue magistrado auxiliar y encargado de la Corte Constitucional y es conjuez de esa Corte y del Consejo de Estado. Es miembro de la Comisi\u00f3n Internacional de Juristas y del Comit\u00e9 DESC de Naciones Unidas 2015-2018. Es columnista de El Espectador. Fue Director de Dejusticia y es actualmente el director de la pol\u00edtica de drogas. Sus \u00e1reas de inter\u00e9s son especialmente DESC, justicia transicional, sistema judicial y pol\u00edtica de drogas, temas en los cuales ha publicado varios art\u00edculos y libros, como autor o coautor.","sameAs":["https:\/\/x.com\/RodrigoUprimny"],"url":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/responsible\/rodrigo-uprimny-yepes\/"}]}},"views":149,"translations":[{"en":{"translation_id":"10686","language_code":"en","element_id":"27118","source_language_code":"es","element_type":"post_post","original":"0","post_title":"The debate on legalizing drugs.","post_status":"publish"},"es":{"translation_id":"10685","language_code":"es","element_id":"27117","source_language_code":null,"element_type":"post_post","original":"1","post_title":"El debate sobre la legalizaci\u00f3n de las drogas","post_status":"publish"}}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}