Source: The Daily Beast
15 August 2009
By Paul Schrodt
COCA CHEWING OUT OF THE CONVENTIONS IN 18 MONTHS?
ECOSOC adopts procedure for Bolivia’s amendment
Source: Transnational Institute
21 August 2009
By: Martin Jelsma
LATIN AMERICA ON ITS WAY TO LEGALIZING DRUGS
Source: Latin American Herald-Tribune (Venezuela)
7 August 2009
A COCAINE EPIDEMIC?
Source: Financial Times
1 August 2009
People will tell you that the waste, destruction and misery caused by the prohibition of drugs pale into insignificance compared with the chaos that would follow a lifting of the ban, writes Tom Feiling. Making a substance as addictive as cocaine freely available would, according to Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, lead to a drug epidemic.
