Coca Eradication

Shooting Ourselves in the Foot: Paying Twice in Colombia to Grow and Kill Legal Crops

Jim Fruchterman | Posted 08.15.2011

Read More: Cacao, Gis, Skoll, Google Earth, Conservation, Roundup Herbicide, Coca Eradication, Organic, Usaid, State Department, Amazon, Avina, US Foreign Policy, Technology, World News
Jim Fruchterman

The US government pays one group of people to help convince people to switch to growing legal crops, and then while paying another group of people to kill illegal crops, they accidentally kill the legal plantings.

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UN Drug Policy in the Dark Ages

David Borden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Coca-Eradication, Antonio Maria Costa, Human Rights, Drug War, United Nations, Global Drug Policy, International Law, Death Penalty, Coca Eradication, Coca, International Relations, China Human Rights, Cocaine, Drug Policy, World News
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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