Colombia Has an Alternative to the Drug War
There were high hopes that the new drug policy from Colombia’s leftist President Gustavo Petro would call for the legalization of cocaine. But while the ten-year strategy does not go that far, it moves in the right direction, with a focus on rural development and regulating the cannabis and coca-leaf markets.
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BOGOTÁ – When Colombia’s first leftist government came to power in August 2022, many hoped that the country’s drug strategy would shift dramatically. President Gustavo Petro campaigned on a promise to move away from the eradication of coca, the main ingredient in cocaine, and in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly shortly after taking office, he called on Latin American countries to join forces against the “irrational war on drugs.”