On AlterNet: coca

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Colombian Congress Debates New Bill That Decriminalizes Cocaine and Marijuana Cultivation

Phillip Smith, Drug War Chronicle. March 31, 2012.

The United States have spent billions on coca plant busts; if passed, the bill would eliminate the threat of prison for illicit crop production in Colombia.

U.S. Rejects Indigenous Rights in Favor of Failed War on Drugs; Strong-arms Other Countries to Follow Suit

Daniel Robelo, AlterNet. January 24, 2011.

Why is the United States formally objecting to Bolivia's request to the UN to allow its ancestral practice of coca leaf chewing?

When Cocaine and Monsanto's Pesticide Collide, the War on Drugs Becomes a Genetically-Modified War on Science

Meg White, BuzzFlash. September 8, 2009.

Monsanto and the U.S. government are dealing with unanticipated hazards of the pesticide Roundup in the South American drug war.

How a White Powder from the Bolivian Andes Became a Global Phenomenon

Phillip S. Smith, DRCNet. May 22, 2009.

A new book traces the history of how just under 150 years, cocaine went from unknown to the multi-billion dollar illicit commodity it is today.

The Coca Wars Are Futile, But Drug Legalization Is Win-Win

David Borden, Drug War Chronicle. August 19, 2008.

Will Bolivia's increased drug control achievements actually reduce the global supply of cocaine?