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The Doobie Underground

By Sarah Souli*

Alberto Sciolari keeps offering me cheese. It’s a small wheel of Brie, sharing table space with rolling papers, loose tobacco, and several plastic vials of marijuana. Of all the things on the table, a ripened dairy product is not what I thought I’d first be offered.

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‘The Route of the coca leaf’

The Friends of the Coca Leaf are implementing a visit to Bolivia and Peru in June 2015.

The Coca Leaf Route is an initiative of people living in Europe who want to promote a legal market for the coca leaf and its derivates. The purpose is to meet with people with whom we can formulate a common strategy to obtain this. Always in respect of the initial values promoting healthy products in a context of fair trade.

From Europe, as Friends of the Coca Leaf, we want to establish a green bridge to all those who are willing to engage themselves (producers and consumers) in this strategy towards a worthy and souvereign future for the coca leaf and its derivates.

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The Great American paradox: the Drug War Industrial Complex

By Sean Jamadar

America’s domestic stance on drugs and its foreign policy contradict one another. The government targets small time dealers but never attempts to go after the king pins, and in summary, the war never ends. While the people who should be targeted: are paid informants, allies in foreign countries, or criminals who have paid off the oval office. These entities escape justice because their objectives align with America’s national security.