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Coca is not Cocaine!
The coca leaf has been chewed and brewed for tea for centuries in the Andean region without causing harm and is probably beneficial to human health. Yet the leaf is treated by UN drug conventions like cocaine or heroin. Bolivia's recent withdrawal from the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs over coca's classification is just the latest signal that we need radical reform of the current international drugs regime.
Treaty guardians in distress
Martin Jelsma
The guardian of the UN drug control treaties has proved unable to respond in a rational manner to the need for radical reform of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs.
Bolivia’s legal reconciliation with the UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drug
IDPC Advocacy Note
On 29 June 2011, the Bolivian government denounced the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs as amended by the 1972 Protocol, indicating its intention to re-accede with a reservation allowing for the traditional use of the coca leaf.
Coca Leaf: Myths and Reality
A primer
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.
Coca is not Cocaine
Thomas Grisaffi
Bolivian congress' vote to withdraw from the most important international legal framework for drug control created great unease in international government and policy circles. Claims were made that Bolivia had caved into pressure from drug traffickers. Meanwhile the UN Office on Drugs and Crime classified it as ‘worrying'. But there are very good reasons to abandon the convention.
Mixed thoughts about the INCB's latest report
Martin Jelsma
In March this year The International Narcotics Control Board released its annual report. It seems to persist in a negative stance towards harm reduction and decriminalization, and questions are rising about the Board's tendency to overstep its mandate.
Read more about the Coca Leaf on our Drug Law Reform website
Books & Reports
Euro-crisis exposes flaws of corporate-led European project
Two years after the world's biggest financial crisis in decades, the Euro-crisis has revealed that little has been learnt about the need to regulate and control the financial sector.
End financial control of European governance
Interview with Susan George
The Euro crisis is clear evidence that we need to break out of the economic straight-jacket imposed by the Lisbon Treaty, the European Central Bank and the over-powerful financial sector.
Greece’s Woes: So Goes the Euro
Howard Wachtel
The Greek crisis has exposed the fundamental flaws in the Euro project: it stripped countries control over the price of money and allowed political elites to undermine Europe's post-war social contract.
Time for the EU to shut down the casino
Myriam vander Stichele
Until the European Commission shows it has learnt the lessons of the 2008 financial crisis and demonstrates the political will to re-regulate the financial sector, it will be unable to resolve the crises in Greece, Ireland and Portugal
Read more about the Euro crisis on our website
En español
Coca no es Cocaina
El carácter inquisidor de la respuesta de la JIFE a Bolivia
Martin Jelsma
La respuesta de la JIFE a Bolivia es un claro indicio de que las grietas en el consenso de Viena se acercan a un punto de ruptura y que sus principales guardianes están en apuros y ya no son capaces de responder a los retos y las presiones de forma racional
Hoja de coca: mitos y realidad
Son muchos los mitos en torno a la coca. Día tras día, los titulares de prensa de todo el mundo utilizan la palabra coca cuando se refieren, en realidad, a la cocaína. El equipo de Drogas y Democracia del TNI desvela los principales mitos y realidades sobre la hoja de coca.
Los mitos de la coca
Este número de Drogas y Conflicto pretende desmontar y esclarecer los mitos más prominentes en torno a la hoja de coca con el objetivo de ayudar a conducir el debate hacia juicios que se basen en evidencias empíricas.
La reconciliación jurídica de Bolivia con la Convención Única sobre Estupefacientes
Nota para la incidencia política del IDPC
El retiro de la prohibición de la masticación de la coca
Martin Jelsma
Serie reforma legislativa en materia de drogas No. 11
Leer mas sobre la hoja de coca en nuestra pagina de Desclasificación de la hoja de coca
Acabemos con el control financiero en la gobernanza europea
Susan George
La crisis europea es señal evidente de que hay que librarse de la camisa de fuerza económica impuesta por el Tratado de Lisboa, el Banco Central Europeo y el poderoso sector financiero.
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Sus crisis, nuestras soluciones
Susan George
El libro analiza el régimen de globalización neoliberal e intenta explicar que las finanzas y la economía determinan un mundo enormemente desigual y que el planeta está viéndose reducido a la categoría de cantera y vertedero.
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El mayor problema en España y en la Eurozona no es ni el déficit, ni la deuda pública
Vicenç Navarro – Consejo Científico de ATTAC.
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Getting Out of the Crisis Together
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Leaving Oil in the Soil
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Marica Frangakis
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