Drug info - small amounts of cocaine legal in Colombia??

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Swim wondered on the laws covering small lots of coke on ones person in Colombia and whether it was as a result of being legal in small personnel use amounts, the ideal destination for the holiday coke snorter (price and quality are the other main draw cards plus it is an incredibly beautiful country for the nature lover and admirer of the female form, perhaps male form too but that is not swims domain).

Well swim wonders if any of this boards community knows the real situation?

Swim remembers reading a small amount of coke and grass was legal in a past Lonely Planet Guide Book for Colombia but they still recommended being very discrete, if you were crazy enough to take drugs (seems a lot of their readers are crAZY), it was an unclear message on the legality in this guide and seemed to indicate that the police could be nasty or nice to tourists but didnt give a fuck about locals with 1 g for instance.

Within the recent news that Mexico almost crossed the line on allowing small quanities of coke (ie half g) and a whole cocktail of other drugs on ones person, swim noticed in the same news that Mexico was listed as the second country in Latin America to make a small quanity of coke and grass legal. Colombia was listed as first in recent history.

Swim has holidayed in Colombia in 2005 and had a ball in more ways than one and found the overwhelming media portrayal of the country to be not applicabe where swim visited (Carribean Coast), but at nightclubs where good coke (and probably some bad) was readily available, swims well meaning Colombian associates, whom he snorted with, said to keep the little coke bag handy so it gets tossed in a raid, though the nighclub staff will generally give you lots of warning! Well this didnt sit well with the supposed legal in small quanitiies status. Also in some small communities, that swim visited, the cops couldnt care less about a small quanitiy of grass or coca leaf but swims associates again warned him to take care with the Charlie and said it depended on the cops attitude in each place.

Anybody know the actual real situation legally? Swim doubts whether swim would ever face a court being always ready to bribe Latin American style, but in one town swim use to walk home from the local main dealer, a very respectable person with a nice bar, and with a few gs in his pocket swim use to walk past the local police depot on route to swims hotel (logistically only choice) and the police always said good night (it was a smaller town) and swim felt they knew where he had been and couldnt care less, as long as swim was behaving civilly and supporting local business etc.

However, it would be nice to know the actual legal situation, not that swim would be any less discrete, but further removing paranoia is a very good improvement to the coke snorter holiday experience dont you think!?