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Prohibition of drugs in Colombia was based on the introduction of prohibition laws in the United States [citation needed] with the Harrison Narcotics Act of 1914 which prohibited the production and consumption of opiates and cocaine, in 1937 added marijuana, tobacco and alcohol and later on a variety of stimulant, depressant, and hallucinogenic ...
In 1994 the Constitutional Court of Colombia ruled that possession of cannabis and other drugs in amounts for personal use was legal. [4] In 2012 the Colombian government officially decriminalized the possession of up to 20 grams of cannabis. [5] In 2015 the Colombian Supreme Court ruled that cultivation of up to 20 cannabis plants was allowed. [6]
The Colombian parapolitics scandal revealed links between parts of the Colombian establishment and the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), a paramilitary group responsible for killing tens of thousands of Colombian civilians, which controls over 75% of the Colombian cocaine trade. The illegal drug trade in Peru was until 2000 shaped ...
Colombia's President Gustavo Petro on Tuesday launched a new national drug policy that will look to reduce the size of coca crops, cut potential cocaine output and prevent deforestation linked to ...
Rising use, low production costs and logistical advantages could eventually lead drug producers to focus on fentanyl instead of cocaine, a high-ranking Colombian police official said, but for now ...
A reputed Colombian drug trafficker designated by U.S. authorities as a “kingpin” pleaded not guilty in Miami federal court Thursday to a conspiracy charge accusing him of smuggling cocaine ...
Colombia has a high crime rate due to being a center for the cultivation and trafficking of cocaine.The Colombian conflict began in the mid-1960s and is a low-intensity conflict between Colombian governments, paramilitary groups, crime syndicates, and left-wing guerrillas such as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), and the National Liberation Army (ELN), fighting each other to ...
According to the new report from the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the area planted with coca bushes in Colombia rose by 13% last year to an all-time high of 230,000 hectares.