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Coca-Leaf Chewing To Be Legalized?

AP | GEORGE JAHN | Posted 05.12.2012

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VIENNA -- Bolivian President Evo Morales urged a 53-nation U.N. narcotics control meeting Monday to accept his push for legalization of coca-leaf chew...

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Bolivia's Flying Men

Posted 02.23.2012

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"People say we spun spider webs together across the valley. But that's not true. We're the flying men of the Yungas. On our ropes we're like birds. We...

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Police Whipped By Coca Growers In Bolivia

AP | CARLOS VALDEZ | Posted 04.08.2012

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LA PAZ, Bolivia — Bolivian officials on Tuesday threatened to prosecute leaders of coca growers who used whips to drive away four unarmed member...

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Time for Change

Amanda Feilding | Posted 05.25.2011

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Amanda Feilding

The War on Drugs has failed. According to all available indices, it is no longer defendable.

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UN Drug Policy in the Dark Ages

David Borden | Posted 05.25.2011

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David Borden

A program which merely moves production and trafficking of drugs from place to place is not a program that actually helps people. UN drug policy needs to move out from the dark ages.

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What Does Ecuador Have to Do With Seattle?

Ming Holden | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ming Holden

Kate Vrijmoet steps back from her spare, dripping portrait of a man standing with bloody stumps for arms, throws back her head, and cackles. "That's so funny!" she crows.

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Cochabamba Climate Conference: The Coca Contradiction

Nikolas Kozloff | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nikolas Kozloff

How effective is Morales's conference likely to be? And what do environmentalists make of the environmental downsides of Morales' coca nationalism?

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An Ounce of Gold and Ounce of Cocaine, a Trillion Dollar Deficit and a War in Vain

Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Daniel Bruno Sanz

What if I told you there is a way to reduce federal and state government spending, increase tax revenue, stabilize friendly foreign governments, fight terrorism and reduce the crime rate, all in one fell swoop?

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Peru's Guerrillas, Drugs Could Plunge The Country Back Into War

New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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First the soldiers came to Río Seco, a coca-growing village in the lush mountain jungles of southern Peru. "They called us subversives and they opene...

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Ryan Grim

Bolivian President Chews Coca During Speech At UN

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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Evo Morales isn't afraid to practice what he preaches. The Bolivian president, an outspoken proponent of coca, the leaf used to make cocaine, brought ...

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