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🇨🇴💊 — Colombia's new Left Wing Populist President Gustavo Petro, in his first major act, is set to decriminalize Cocaine countrywide!
Worth remembering:
— Colombia is the producer of 43% of World's Cocaine production & the largest Cocaine supplier to United States
🇺🇸🌹 Washington Post | Colombia, largest cocaine supplier to U.S., considers decriminalizing | 20-08-22
— "Colombia is the largest producer of cocaine in the world, the source of more than 90 percent of the drug seized in the United States. It’s home to the largest Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) office overseas. And for decades, it’s been a key partner in Washington’s never-ending “war on drugs.”
Now, Colombia is calling for an end to that war. It wants instead to lead a global experiment: decriminalizing cocaine.
Two weeks after taking office, the country’s first leftist government is proposing an end to “prohibition” and the start of a government-regulated cocaine market. Through legislation and alliances with other leftist governments in the region, officials in this South American nation hope to turn their country into a laboratory for drug decriminalization.
“It is time for a new international convention that accepts that the war on drugs has failed,” President Gustavo Petro said in his inaugural address this month.
It’s a radical turn in this historically conservative country, one that could upend its long-standing — and lucrative — counternarcotics relationship with the United States. U.S. officials past and present are signaling concern; the drug was responsible for an estimated 25,000 overdose deaths in the United States last year"
https://archive.is/nAB8t
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🇨🇴💊 — Colombia's new Left Wing Populist President Gustavo Petro, in his first major act, is set to decriminalize Cocaine countrywide!
Worth remembering:
— Colombia is the producer of 43% of World's Cocaine production & the largest Cocaine supplier to United States
🇺🇸🌹 Washington Post | Colombia, largest cocaine supplier to U.S., considers decriminalizing | 20-08-22
— "Colombia is the largest producer of cocaine in the world, the source of more than 90 percent of the drug seized in the United States. It’s home to the largest Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) office overseas. And for decades, it’s been a key partner in Washington’s never-ending “war on drugs.”
Now, Colombia is calling for an end to that war. It wants instead to lead a global experiment: decriminalizing cocaine.
Two weeks after taking office, the country’s first leftist government is proposing an end to “prohibition” and the start of a government-regulated cocaine market. Through legislation and alliances with other leftist governments in the region, officials in this South American nation hope to turn their country into a laboratory for drug decriminalization.
“It is time for a new international convention that accepts that the war on drugs has failed,” President Gustavo Petro said in his inaugural address this month.
It’s a radical turn in this historically conservative country, one that could upend its long-standing — and lucrative — counternarcotics relationship with the United States. U.S. officials past and present are signaling concern; the drug was responsible for an estimated 25,000 overdose deaths in the United States last year"
https://archive.is/nAB8t
Link
Forwarded from Dschlopes
Obama: “Few people have taken more lives than Dr. Fauci – and I’m glad he’s not done yet.”
I fixed your obvious typo, Obama.
@Dschlopes
I fixed your obvious typo, Obama.
@Dschlopes