Colombia pulls police powers to persecute drug consumers
Colombia’s government revoked a decree that allowed police to fine consumers of illicit...
Tag: drug use
Colombia’s countercultures: the Beat Generation’s bad trip
Counterculture icon William S. Burroughs traveled to Colombia in 1953 to try ayahuasca, a drug...
Colombia to kick off congressional year with cocaine decriminalization bill
Colombia’s opposition decided to make politics interesting by introducing a bill that seeks...
Duque signs off on Colombia’s ‘intelligent’ drug ban
Colombia’s President Ivan Duque signed off on a law that allows mayors to determine where...
Colombia’s ruling party cornered after Santos’ allegedly backs marijuana reform
Colombia’s far-right ruling party on Tuesday fiercely rejected a proposal of the leftist...
Colombia’s Congress to debate regulating recreational marijuana
Colombia’s leftist opposition sponsored a bill to regulate marijuana as part of a package of...
Local elections in Colombia: candidates giving away drugs for votes
Politicians in Colombia’s coffee region are giving away drugs to sway consumers to vote for...
Colombia’s congress strikes back at Duque with bills to end war on drugs
Colombia’s opposition and center-right voting block on Tuesday presented a number of bills...
Uribe’s “great protest” against drinking beer in public draws dozens
Former president Alvaro Uribe convoked his followers to a “great protest” across...
Opposition leader upsets Colombia’s plantation owners with stats: sugar kills more people than cocaine
Leading opposition Senator Gustavo Petro upset Colombia’s sugar plantation owners on Monday...
How a simple law school exercise pretty much destroyed Duque’s drug policy
In a further embarrassment to President Ivan Duque, his repressive drug policy was unravelled and...
Court squashes Colombia’s ban on smoking pot and drinking beer in public
Colombia’s Constitutional Court overruled a ban on the consumption of drugs and alcohol in...
