Emblem of the United Nations. Source: Wikipedia
6 April 2021
Americas & the Caribbean
Mexico, Mexico City, September 12, 2020, there is a march in front of the old city hall that requires the regulation of cannabis in Mexico, for the cultivation and free recreational consumption. Source: Alfredo Hernandez Rios
30 March 2021
Heavily-armed policemen conducting an operation in the Favela da Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro, in 2017. Source: Wikimedia Commons; author: Fernando Frasão/Agência Brasil.
22 February 2021
Peruvian farmers admire a newly planted coca field. Thomas Grisaffi, Author provided
9 February 2021
Jair Bolsonaro visits the Special Police Operations Battalion in Rio de Janeiro, August 2020. Source: Wikimedia Commons
27 January 2021
Photograph of graffiti in Minneapolis in June 2020 by iamrenny via Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain
11 January 2021
According to Oregon law, possessing a small amount of drugs for personal consumption is now a civil – rather than criminal – offense. Image via Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain
14 December 2020
Opium poppy. Source: Pixabay
8 December 2020
26 November 2020
Soldiers uproot coca shrubs as part of a manual eradication operation in San Jose del Guaviare, Colombia, in March 2019. The amount of Colombian land where peasants and drug traffickers harvest the plant used to make cocaine has been steadily rising since 2013. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
3 November 2020