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The Statistics Bazaar
Ricardo Vargas

The drugs scene in Colombia is characterized by the fact that it is dominated by a confusion of insufficiently supported statistics and speculative diagnoses which produce policies that reflect this chaos.

The WHO cocaine project
TNI

In 1995 the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) announced in a press release the publication of the results of the largest global study on cocaine use ever undertaken.

Coca leaf: Myths and Reality
Tom Blickman

Many myths surround coca. Every day press accounts around the world use the word coca in their headlines, when they refer in fact to cocaine. TNI's Drugs and Democracy Team expose the myths and reality surrounding the coca leaf.

Get real about coca: debunking the myths surrounding the ‘sacred’ leaf

The Coca Myths report destroys a wide range of myths which to this day surround the coca leaf, illegal under the current international law.

Coca Myths
Pien Metaal
 Anthony Henman

The present issue of Drugs & Conflict intends to debunk and disentangle the most prominent myths surrounding the coca leaf. It aims to clear the air and help steer the debate towards a more evidence-based judgement of the issues.

'Paco' Under Scrutiny
Tom Blickman
 Equipo Intercambios, Giorgina Garibotto et al.

Based on two studies carried out in the cities of Buenos Aires and Montevideo, this report examines the origin, characteristics and impact of the explosive increase in cocaine base paste in urban areas.

Coca Yes, Cocaine No?
Martin Jelsma
Pien Metaal
Ricardo Soberon
 Mario Argandoña, Anthony Henman, Ximena Echeverría

This issue of Drugs and Conflict explains the motives, context and range of the demand to remove the coca leaf from strict international drugs controls, as well as the procedures that need to be followed to reach this objective.

Super Coca?

Apparently a coca plant was found in Colombia's Sierra Nevada that had a high cocaine content and a higher level of purity, and which was also resistant to the effects of aerial spraying. The content of the report is so absurd that it appears to be a bad joke. Or is there something more behind...

Coca, Cocaine and the International Conventions

It is no understatement to claim that there are few plants subject to such tensions as the coca leaf, either in legal and political circuits, or in the medical and anthropological academic world. Before, during and after its inclusion in the number 1 list of the Single Convention on Narcotic...

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