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Political Challenges Posed by the Failure of Prohibition
Drugs in Colombia and the Andean-Amazonian region Ricardo VargasAfter a slight dip in coca production during 2003 and 2004, the Andean region has returned to the historical average of 200,000 hectares...
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The Sierra de la Macarena
Drugs and armed conflict in Colombia Drugs and DemocracyRe-establishing fumigation is not going to legitimise or win acceptance of the State's activities in the territory of the Park. It is not going...
View ArticleLiefde voor een plant
Authors Author(s): TNI External author(s): Pien Metaal Pien Metaal bespreekt een boek over cocaïneVoordat ik Mama Coca las, had ik er al veel over gehoord; het boek was toen al een inspiratiebron voor...
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Colombia coca cultivation survey results
A question of methods Drugs and DemocracyDespite 2006 witnessing the most intensive use of fumigation in the country’s history, some 157,200 hectares of cultivation areas were detected, 13,200...
View ArticleAbolishing Coca Leaf Consumption?
TNIThe Transnational Institute condemns the decision by the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) in their 2007 annual report released today, which calls on countries to ‘abolish or prohibit...
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TNI Pien Metaal When we think of people like Pope Paul VI, the Queen of Spain or Britain’s Princess Anne, most of us do not think of them as criminals. But that is what they are, under the current...
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Coca Myths
Pien Metaal Anthony Henman The present issue of Drugs & Conflict intends to debunk and disentangle the most prominent myths surrounding the coca leaf. It aims to clear the air and help steer the...
View ArticleThe WHO cocaine project
TNI publishes banned study TNIIn 1995 the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) announced in a press release the...
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Bolivia wins a rightful victory on the coca leaf
Subtitle: Creates a positive example for modernizing the UN drug conventions Today the Plurinational State of Bolivia can celebrate a rightful victory, as the country can become formally a party...
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Between Reality and Abstraction
Guiding Principles and developing alternatives for illicit crop producing regions in Peru Hugo CabiesesPien Metaal Mirella van Dun At the International Conference on Alternative Development (ICAD),...
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Super Coca?
Reports of the discovery of a coca plant in Colombia's Sierra Nevada that have a high cocaine content and a higher level of purity, and also resistant to the effects of aerial spraying is based on...
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Broken Promises and Coca Eradication in Peru
The forced crop eradication policy implemented by the Peruvian government over the past 25 years has failed. The official strategy has exacerbated social conflicts; contributed to various types of...
View ArticleBolivia Drugs Overview
TNIBolivia has lived through more than two decades of supply reduction policies, but still figures as the world's third cocaine-producing country.read more
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