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Fiscal Policy in the Regulation of Adult-Use Cannabis in Colombia

By: Rodríguez Llach, Alejandro,Cruz Olivera, Luis Felipe,Pereira Arana, Isabel

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Fiscal Policy in the Regulation of Adult-Use Cannabis in Colombia

By: Rodríguez Llach, Alejandro,Cruz Olivera, Luis Felipe,Pereira Arana, Isabel

The debate about regulating cannabis for adult use is on the public agenda. In our view, the best policy on marijuana that a State can develop is the regulation of its cultivation, manufacture and use, focused on reducing marijuana’s comparative impact in illegal economies and drug trafficking networks; protecting public health; promoting rural development in prioritized areas; and promoting reparation measures financed with the resources arising from regulation. Drugs are not the devil, but nor are they child’s play. A drug policy that would be respectful of human rights and safeguard public health must lie at an intermediate point between full liberalization and the prohibition currently in place. In this document, based on a comparative analysis of the regulations issued in Uruguay, Canada and the United States and by applying the Principles and Guidelines for Human Rights in Fiscal Policy, we argue for the importance of a fiscal framework based on collecting taxes in the cannabis market and focused on mobilizing the maximum amount of available resources to finance the goals of reducing the illegal market, preserving public health and assisting the populations affected by drug policy, as set forth in the cannabis regulations.

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Voices from the Coca Fields

Women Building Rural Communities

By: Bautista, Ana Jimena,Capacho, Blanca,Cruz, Luis Felipe,Martínez, Margarita,Pereira, Isabel,Ramírez, Lucía

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Voices from the Coca Fields

Women Building Rural Communities

By: Bautista, Ana Jimena,Capacho, Blanca,Cruz, Luis Felipe,Martínez, Margarita,Pereira, Isabel,Ramírez, Lucía

Colombia’s response to the country’s drug problem has been based on the repression of the weakest links in the drug chain—namely consumers and small farmers—which has led to disproportionate rates of imprisonment and has involved a heavy focus on forced crop eradication. Not only has such an approach failed to effectively control the cocaine market, but it has also unleashed harmful side effects in terms of security, social development, and human rights as they concern communities in coca-growing areas. Moreover, although scholars and practitioners have analyzed Colombia’s drug problem from a variety of perspectives, these efforts have tended to overlook women’s experiences. This report explores the ways that rural norms, gender structures, the armed conflict, and illegal markets have played out in the lives of women coca growers in Colombia’s Andes-Amazon region, an area distinguished by the presence of illegal armed groups, violence, poverty, and weak state institutions. In this region of Colombia, coca cultivation has offered an important source of income for rural families, which in turn has affected women’s roles in society and has placed them in a vulnerable position vis- à-vis armed actors. The Andes-Amazon region is an area where the country’s war on drugs and its armed conflict converged and unmasked the gender structures dominating the countryside. These structures affected rural women in various ways: through everyday violence, the fumigation of illicit and licit crops alike, and women’s stigmatization due to their involvement in an illegal trade. But coca was also a source of livelihood that helped them attain economic independence and gave them the ability to improve their well-being and that of their families. The recent peace accord signed between the Colombian government and the country’s main guerrilla group represents a historic opportunity to learn from past mistakes in terms of the illicit crop problem and the social and political demands of coca-growing communities. Against this backdrop, it is time to recognize the contributions that women coca growers have made in both the public and the private spheres toward the construction of a peaceful countryside in the most remote and forgotten regions of the country.

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9585597586

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Fraught with Pain

Access to Palliative Care and Treatment for Heroin Use Disorder in Colombia

By: Pereira, Isabel,Ramírez, Lucía

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Access to Palliative Care and Treatment for Heroin Use Disorder in Colombia

By: Pereira, Isabel,Ramírez, Lucía

This books seeks to facilitate linkages between discussions on the right to health and discussions on drug policy reform. The populations we talk about here are the noes most in need of a change whereby drug culture measures cease to stand in the way of a life free from pain. The suffering and pain experienced by people with terminal illnesses and people with heroin use disorder can be alleviated through opioids. At the same time, the enforcement of international drug control treaties means that these medicines are subjected to strict controls that create excessive red tape and contribute to generalized fear among patients and health professionals concerning these medicines’ use. Although many opioids are included in the World Health Organization’s list of essential medicines, the fact that they are controlled substances means that in practice, the right to health of these two populations often is violated. Fraught with Pain offers a diagnosis of five Colombian cities with regard to the barrieres that both populations—patients at the end of life and individuals with heroin use disorder—face when trying to access opioids. The hurdles they encounter can be grouped into four categories: 1. Structural failings of the Colombian health system 2. A lack of institutional capacity to mantain sufficient opioid stocks in small and medium cities 3. A lack of specialized training among health professionals in small and medium cities on the issues of palliative care and psychoactive substance use disorders 4. Stigma surrounding opioids and the people who use them Analyzing the enjoyment of the right to health among these two groups of people would seem ill advised, for what could they and the health care they receive possibly have in common? However, this book argues that someone facing the end of life and someone with a heroin use disorder actually face similar challenges: they are both in need of the same controlled substances; they both require interdisciplinary treatment that extendes beyond opioids; they both seek health services during moments of extreme vulnerability; and they are both often treated negligently by health systems that are ill equipped to handle death and drug dependence. Fraught with Pain seeks to facilitate linkages between discussions on the right to health and discussions on drug policy reform. The populations we talk about here are the noes most in need of a change whereby drug culture measures cease to stand in the way of a life free from pain. Descripción tomada de: https://www.dejusticia.org/en/publication/fraught-with-pain-access-to-palliative-care-and-treatment-for-heroin-use-disorder-in-colombia/

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9585441969

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A balancing act

Drug policy in Colombia after UNGASS 2016

By: Pereira, Isabel,Cruz, Luis Felipe

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A balancing act

Drug policy in Colombia after UNGASS 2016

By: Pereira, Isabel,Cruz, Luis Felipe

This document is the result of a project developed by Dejusticia in cooperation with the Ministry of Justice and Law of Colombia and the British Embassy in Colombia, with funds from the United Kingdom through its embassy in Colombia. During 2016, two historic events were held to reflect about drug strategies in Colombia: the United Nations Special Session on the World Drug Problem (UNGASS 2016) and the signing of the Peace Agreement between the Government and the FARC-EP, which includes the agreement on the “Solution to the problem of illicit drugs”. In light of the commitments made by the Colombian State, there are challenges and possibilities for drug policy reform, particularly when hoping to achieve a better balance between a criminalization perspective and the recognition and guarantee of rights to populations affected by prohibition’s harmful effects. This balancing exercise calls for incorporating the lens of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda and its Objectives, as well as for integrating the sectors of defense, rural and agrarian development, protection and sustainable use of environmental resources, health and education, together with the efforts of peacebuilding in the territories most affected by war and drug trafficking. To achieve the goals proposed in these documents, the role of the international community in the coming years will be fundamental. The United Kingdom Embassy, concerned to broaden its horizons of cooperation, offers to share lessons learned and experiences hoping to improve institutional capacities to meet the challenges of organized crime, rural development, and the prevention and treatment of drug use. Thus, this document presents recommendations for cooperation between these two governments in the light of agreed obligations as well as opportunities to harmonize drug policy and peacebuilding.

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Fiscal Policy in the Regulation of Adult-Use Cannabis in Colombia

By: Rodríguez Llach, Alejandro,Cruz Olivera, Luis Felipe,Pereira Arana, Isabel

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By: Rodríguez Llach, Alejandro,Cruz Olivera, Luis Felipe,Pereira Arana, Isabel

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