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Items tagged with coca

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Coca leaf: Myths and Reality [16-06-20] Many myths surround coca. Every day press accounts around the world use the word coca in their headlines, when they refer in fact to cocaine. TNI'...
The illicit drugs market in the Colombian agrarian context [01-02-13] The distribution of land and its unjust use are the major causes of violence in Colombia. For this reason land issues are the starting point of curren...
Why we took cocaine out of soda [31-01-13] When cocaine and alcohol meet inside a person, they create a third unique drug called cocaethylene. Cocaethylene works like cocaine, but with more eup...
Coca and Snus: Sweden's self-defeating hypocrisy on drugs [15-01-13] Tradition is disposable. Evidence is marginal. Economic arguments are not important. This, in a nutshell, is what Sweden said to the UN to oppose trad...
Major victory for President Morales: UN accepts “coca leaf chewing” in Bolivia [14-01-13] Bolivia will again belong to the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs after its bid to rejoin with a reservation that it does not accept the treat...
Bolivians demand the right to chew coca leaves [13-01-13] A major international row with wide-ranging implications for global drugs policy has erupted over the right of Bolivia's indigenous Indian tribes...
The condemned coca leaf [13-01-13] Last week, the United Nations voted on an appeal by Bolivia to amend the international treaty that prohibits the chewing of coca leaf. Bolivia won a p...
Schijnheilig bezwaar van Nederland tegen het kauwen van coca bladeren [11-01-13] De Nederlandse regering heeft bij de Verenigde Naties bezwaar aangetekend tegen de herintreding van Bolivia in het Enkelvoudig Verdrag inzake verdoven...
Bolivia wins a rightful victory on the coca leaf [11-01-13] Today the Plurinational State of Bolivia can celebrate a rightful victory, as the country can become formally a party again to the 1961 Single Convent...
Partial, symbolic victory for Bolivia in battle to legalize coca leaf [11-01-13] Evo Morales’ global crusade to decriminalize the coca leaf, launched in 2006 after the coca growers’ union leader was first elected president of Boli...
To look tough on drugs, and please the US, the UK is willing to trample on indigenous rights [06-01-13] The UK says in its objection to Bolivia's reaccession to the 1961 UN Single Convention with a reservation that allows for the traditional chewing...
Objections to Bolivia's reservation to allow coca chewing in the UN conventions [04-01-13] Sweden joined the United States and the United Kingdom in objecting to the re-accession of Bolivia to the 1961 UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs ...
Has Bolivia's coca-growing scheme worked? [04-01-13] Bolivian president Evo Morales, a former coca-leaf farmer, came to power promising to defend the right of Bolivians to produce coca for traditional u...
European Union discussion on response to Bolivia's denunciation of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs [28-11-12] The following notes are summaries of the EU Horizontal Working Party on Drugs discussions about Bolivia’s coca amendment and denunciation of the 1961...
An opportunity lost [19-11-12] At the International Conference on Alternative Development (ICAD), held in Lima from 14 to 16 November, the Peruvian Government supported by the UNODC...
U.S. marijuana vote may have snowball effect in Latin America [07-11-12] Voters in Colorado and Washington state who approved the recreational use of marijuana Tuesday sent a salvo from the ballot box that will ricochet aro...
Fact Sheet: Coca leaf and the UN Drugs Conventions [09-10-12] Version in PDF 1. An ECOSOC mandated study published in 1950 as the Report of the Commission of Enquiry on the Coca Leaf, recommends to suppress “the...
The International Drug Control Treaties [01-08-12] The way the world looks at drug control is changing. There has been a growing awareness of the issue for the past decade, as well as increasing public...
How Latin America is reinventing the war on drugs [30-07-12] Like thousands of other Bolivians, Marcela Lopez Vasquez's parents migrated to the Chapare region, in the Andean tropics, desperate to make a liv...
Bolivia defends coca consumption at U.N. meeting [12-03-12] Bolivian President Evo Morales defended Bolivians' right to chew coca leaves, the main ingredient of cocaine, on Monday, saying it was an ancie...
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