Coca leaf

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Πριν από δύο χρόνια, η βολιβιανή κυβέρνηση υπό την ηγεσία του Έβο Μοράλες, του πρώτου ιθαγενή ηγέτη της χώρας, ξεκίνησε την προ&

    United States plans to continue ban on Bolivian cultural expression

    Two years ago the Bolivian Government, under the leadership of Evo Morales Bolivia’s first indigenous leader, started the process of trying to change the racist 1961 UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs that explicitly banned the centuries old practise of chewing coca leaf. The proposed amendment would remove the ban and bring the 1961 Convention in line with the 2007 UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

      Bolivian Government seeks to amend United Nations coca legislation

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      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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