BOGOTA — Colombia and Bolivia will jointly ask the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs to remove coca leaves from its list of prohibited substances and…
The proposal, which the two countries will make at the commission’s session in Vienna in mid-March, is a bid to de-stigmatize conversations about the problem of drugs, Colombia’s vice-minister for multilateral affairs, Laura Gil, said in a statement.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
Colombia’s leftist President Gustavo Petro – who took office just over six months ago – has derided the U.S.-led war on drugs as a failure and called for a new international approach.Article content
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