<html> <p>Columbia is one of the most notorious producers of cocaine in the world, despite the fact that the country has gone to great lengths in hopes of diminishing the trade of the drug trade within its borders.</p> <p>Now, some members of the Columbian government are proposing a new approach. They are calling for the drug to be legalized and for the government to take control of the industry for themselves.</p> <p>In a new bill first proposed earlier this year, senators Iván Marulanda and Feliciano Valencia call for the Colombian government to take total control of the cocaine industry to bolster public funds and cut violent cartels out of the trade.</p> <p>In a recent interview with VICE, Marulanda explained that the government would purchase coca at market price from the 200,000 farming families that are believed to be involved in the trade.</p> <p>The senators argued that it would actually be cheaper for authorities to buy the crop from the farmers than it would for them to destroy their crops. It costs the government roughly $1 billion every year to destroy coca crops, while it would only cost about $680 million to buy it.</p> <p>“<em>The thing is, we have to recover control over the state. We’re losing control of the state to corruption, narcos in politics. They’re in municipalities, in departments and in congress. All the way to the highest echelons of government,”</em> Marulanda explained.</p> <p>From here, the state would supply cocaine to users and research groups looking to study its use for painkillers, but it would not be sold recreationally. However, cocaine use is already legal in Columbia, after a court ruled that personal consumption was a human right.</p> <p>Marulanda is not sure if his bill will make an impact, or how long it will take to gain traction, but he is hoping to make it a major election issue in 2022.</p> <p><em>‘The first big obstacle is to open up the conversation among public opinion. This has been a giant taboo. Colombians are born and raised under this assumption that drug-trafficking is a war. There’s no information about coca and cocaine. So, with this bill we hope to open the conversation,</em>” he explained.</p> <p><img src="https://anewspost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/gettyimages-137954859.jpg" alt=""/></p> <p>In recent years, the government has stepped up their military-police-style enforcement of the industry, and yet cocaine production continues to grow in the country.</p> <p>Coca cultivation reached 212,000 hectares last year, a rise of nearly 2% from 208,000 hectares the year before, according to figures released by the White House in March. Potential pure cocaine production, meanwhile, rose to 951 metric tons, an 8% increase, according to the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/0aa6474b944f4ff8eb9e7e9cffffce87">Associated Press</a>.</p> <p><em>“It’s pretty remarkable that they manually eradicated 100,000 hectares last year and didn’t move the needle,”</em> Adam Isacson of the Washington Office on Latin America think tank said earlier this year. <em>“I guess it means replanting has at least kept pace.”</em></p> <p>It seems that no matter what the government does, the cocaine keeps on coming, so politicians are willing to try things that may drastic. However, as Marulanda pointed out in his interview with Vice, cutting out the criminal middlemen will reduce the violence seen in the country’s drug war, and also make the drug safer for the people who use it.</p> </html>
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|---|---|
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after how many ppl they murdered over it...🤡
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|---|---|
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| root_title | "Columbian Govt Wants To Legalize Cocaine And Then Sell It" |
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