Colombia’s decades-long fight against illicit drugs is to be solved with a two-year voluntary program of crop substitution, according to a preliminary agreement between the government and the FARC released on Wednesday.…
A group of protesters peacefully sat and smoked marijuana in front of Colombia’s Congress on Thursday to demand the legalization of personal doses of the banned drug.
The Global Commission on Drug Policy (GCDP) has produced a report in which it is critical of anti-drug strategies pursued by Colombia, declaring punitive and prohibitionist policies a failure and suggesting a move…
Colombia’s Health Ministry has announced pending restrictions on a number of widely used natural health products, which are not restricted in any other country in the world.
Colombia’s Conservative Party has voiced its support for a pending Liberal Party bill that seeks to legalize the use of marijuana for medical purposes. The bill had already received support from…
President Juan Manuel Santos expressed his support for a proposal to legalize marijuana for medical use in Colombia. According to the country’s president, “the war on drugs has failed.”
Illicit drug consumption in Colombia has increased by 38% over the past five years, with the largest demographic increase coming among 18-24 year-olds, according to a recent survey on drug…
Colombia is a multi-faceted country with some very surprising features. The country has a number of things you wouldn’t expect to find in this part of the tropics.
Health professionals began distributing clean needles to heroin addicts in five Colombian cities on Wednesday, after the launch of a new program to reduce the spread of HIV and Hepatitis, local media…