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Sanho Tree speaks about US eradication policy in Colombia

TalkingDrugs: We are here with Mister Sancho Tree, director of the Drug Policy Studies at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC and we will ask him few questions about coca and cocaine production in South America, and US policies on those issues.

TD: Which countries are producing the most of coca and cocaine?

1st Conference of Dialogs between Medicines. Treatment of addictions with traditional medicines.

1st Conference of Dialogs between Medicines. Treatment of addictions with traditional medicines.

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This is the first Conference of medical experts, aimed at exchanging knowledge of different medicines practiced around the world. Traditional medicine exists in all cultures and must co-exist with Allopathic Medicine, which has been adopted by governments world-wide.

Bolivian Government seeks to amend United Nations coca legislation

On Thursday, the 30th July 2009 at the Substantive Session of the Economic and Social Council Bolivia began the formal process to amend legislation concerning coca leaf chewing.

The United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs that dates back to 1961 puts the coca leaf in the same category as Cocaine and states that ‘coca leaf chewing must be abolished within twenty-five years from the coming into force of this Convention’. The Convention was later signed by Bolivia in 1976 during the dictatorship of Colonel Hugo Banzer.

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19th Century Coca Cola advertisement

Nineteenth century America was witness to a host of psychoactive drugs sold as elements in proprietary medicines, pick-me-ups, tonics and so on.

President of Bolivia chews Coca leaf at UN in Vienna Pt 2

President of Bolivia, Evo Morales holds up a coca leaf, puts it in his mouth and chews. "Am I a drug Addict?

Shoveling Water: War on drugs, War on people

This short film is produced by Witness for Peace. It considers the human and environmental costs of the disastrous ongoing efforts to eradicate coca production in Colombia using aerial fumigation. The film features occasional Transform blogger Sanho Tree, a drug policy analyst from the Washington based Institute for Policy Studies

South America: Fumigation footage

This raw unedited footage shows fumigation planes flying low over farms near the Ecuadorian border. They were trailed by clouds of herbicide, which kills crops of coffee, yucca, peanuts and bananas.

The United States-financed spraying is supposed to kill illegal coca bushes, the base ingredient for making cocaine. But as one farmer said, "They fumigated the whole land, corn, rice, bananas, pineapples and forage...the three animals we had, cows and calves, died three weeks later."

President of Bolivia chews Coca leaf at UN in Vienna Pt 1

President of Bolivia, Evo Morales holds up a coca leaf, puts it in his mouth and chews. "Am I a drug Addict? Are you going to arrest me?".

During his address in Vienna, March 11 2009, he urged the CND to support the decriminalization of coca production and the removal of coca from the UN list of banned substances, because the raw ingredient for cocaine in itself is "not a drug" but a traditional medicine.

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Slideshow: War on Latin America

Slideshow: War on Latin America.

The biggest casualty of 'the war on drugs' is the source . . . Latin America

Interview with Rubem Cesar Fernandes, founder of the NGO Viva Rio

Rubem Cesar Fernandes, founder of the NGO Viva Rio is interviewed by Sebastian Saville, Director of Release at launch of the report of the Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy. Feb 2009

"Not everyone who takes drugs is sick - but there are risks. This should be left to mothers and fathers, friends, health and society but we must keep it away from the language of crime"

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