Tag: cocaine
Brazil’s Massive Cocaine Bust Doesn’t Mean It’s Winning the Drug War
On June 21, Brazilian authorities conducted what may have been the country’s largest-ever cocaine ...
“We Are Doing It to Survive”—In Cape Town, the Drug Trade Feels Inevitable
Cape Town, South Africa, is a city renowned for its breathtaking landscapes and vibrant ...
“From Forest to Dust” Shows How Drug Prohibition Drives Climate Crisis
Drug prohibition is a driver of the climate crisis, outlines a major report by ...
“Moral Bankruptcy” as WHO Opts to Maintain Global Coca Prohibition
The World Health Organization had a historic opportunity to ease a strict global ban ...
Trump Brags of Lethal US Drug-War Strikes to the United Nations
On September 23, United States President Donald Trump delivered an unhinged diatribe at the ...
WHO Review: Coca Not Harmful, Prohibition Is
The consumption of the coca leaf in its raw form by millions daily across ...
Latest European Drug Survey Highlights Pleasure, Polysubstance Use
The latest edition of the European Web Survey on Drugs confirms that despite rampant ...
Coca Summit in Peru Focuses Push to End Global Prohibition
The United Nations must “decolonize” global drug laws and deschedule the coca leaf, which ...
Rooted in Colonialism, Coca Prohibition Could Be Nearing Its End
Calls to eradicate coca fields in the Peruvian Andes began a century ago as ...
Amid DEA War on Meth, Cocaine Is at Last a “Traditional Plant-Based Drug”
The 2020 National Drug Threat Assessment (NDTA) is such a widely cited document partly ...
