Trends Peru sees cocaine making a comeback

[Benga]

i was just refering to the latest UN / INCB annual report which stipulates

" The Board requests the Government of Bolivia and Peru to take measures to prohibit the sale, use and
attempts to export coca leaf for purposes which are not in line with the international drug control
treaties. The Board is concerned by the negative impact of increased coca leaf production and cocaine
manufacture in the region."

quite unsurprinsigly quite a few articles are coming out echoing the guidelines given in this report...
INCB is also pressuring Bolivian president and coca producer Evo Morales. Quite some tension at the moment. from another thread "The Bolivian government issued a statement by President Evo Morales, protesting the INCB call for his country to end the use of coca leaves. Morales made clear he has no intention to comply."
http://www.drugs-forum.com/forum/sho...475#post389475

end the use of coca leaves....could sound "logical" if they're only seen as a source of cocaine, as such articles seem to point out, pnly bringing about violence and misery..

yet articles such as this one stress only the downside of coca being used for illicit cocaine production, totally ignoring to the political efforts made by coca producing countries to clearly differenciate coca from cocaine, o have coca removed from the 1961 singe convention list, to develop legal coca production and sideproducts and exports, with collectivised structures to cut out narco-traffickers...and fit the UN agenda for renewed pressure on coca producing countries like a glove...

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Very informative - thanks