Cocaine

TNI Series on Legislative Reform of Drug Policies No. 7 - A matter of substance: Fighting drug trafficking with a substance-oriented approach

This paper discusses the “substance-oriented approach” Dutch authorities implemented to to scare off potential small-scale cocaine smugglers. The focus was on the drugs, rather than the couriers, and on incapacitating the smuggling route, rather than deterrence by incarceration.
Added on 29 July 2010

New webpage on cocaine production and trafficking in the Andes Region

The Centro de Investigación 'Drogas y Derechos Humanos' (CIDDH) has developed a webpage in which it intends to provide a virtual analytical, graphical and cartographic tour of the various locations involving cocaine trafficing in the Andes Region.

The Centro de Investigación 'Drogas y Derechos Humanos' (CIDDH) has developed a webpage in which it intends to provide a virtual analytical, graphical and cartographic tour of the various locations involving cocaine trafficing in the Andes Region.
Added on 27 July 2010

How to end the war on drugs: building peace in Latin America

09/06/2010
London, UK

This interactive event with Danny Kushlick, founder of the UK’s leading drug policy think tank Transform Drug Policy Foundation, will describe how the drug war has become an orthodoxy, through securitising cocaine. Danny will show how applying an evidence-based approach built upon humanity, effectiveness and justice, would lead to a system such as that outlined in Transform’s new book: ‘After the War on Drugs – Blueprint for Regulation’.

The event will take place on Wednesday 9 June 2010, at 7:30pm, at:

Danny Kushlick, founder of the UK’s leading drug policy think tank Transform, will describe how the drug war has become an orthodoxy, through securitising cocaine. He will show how applying an evidence-based approach built upon humanity, effectiveness and justice, would lead to a system such as that outlined in Transform’s new book: ‘After the War on Drugs – Blueprint for Regulation’.

TNI Briefing Paper - The security approach to the drugs problem: perpetuating drugs and conflict in Colombia

This briefing paper from TNI explores how the drugs problem in Colombia is intertwined with structural factors at the social, economic, institutional and cultural levels that have contributed to its consolidation over the past three decades. In addition, the drug problem has taken on even more complex connotations because of its relationship to the armed conflict, particularly over the past 20 years.

This briefing paper from TNI explores how the drugs problem in Colombia is intertwined with structural factors at the social, economic, institutional and cultural levels that have contributed to its consolidation over the past three decades.
Added on 25 January 2010

Transform submission to Home Affairs Select Committee on the cocaine trade - Criminalisation creates the problems

In May 2009, the Home Affairs Select Committee on the cocaine trade announced their intention to investigate the trends in cocaine use in the UK, and progress in tackling the cocaine trade, in terms of reducing both supply and demand in the UK.

Several IDPC members submitted memorandums to the Home Affairs Select Committee on this issue.

Transform's submission highlights that numerous reports have shown that the criminalisation of drugs including cocaine largely creates the ‘drug problem’.
Added on 15 July 2009

IDPC submission to Home Affairs Select Committee on the cocaine trade - A focus on negative consequences of policy

In May 2009, the Home Affairs Select Committee on the cocaine trade announced their intention to investigate the trends in cocaine use in the UK, and progress in tackling the cocaine trade, in terms of reducing both supply and demand in the UK.

Several IDPC members submitted memorandums to the Home Affairs Select Committee on this issue.

IDPC's submission focuses on the policy harms created by strategies to reduce the the supply of and demand for cocaine in the UK.
Added on 15 July 2009

Release submission to Home Affairs Select Committee on the cocaine trade

In May 2009, the Home Affairs Select Committee on the cocaine trade announced their intention to investigate the trends in cocaine use in the UK, and progress in tackling the cocaine trade, in terms of reducing both supply and demand in the UK.

Several IDPC members submitted memorandums to the Home Affairs Select Committee on this issue.

In their submission, Release, argues that celebrity culture of using drugs does not affect the use of drugs by young people as implied by UNODC. They also advise that looking at absolute numbers of users is not an adequate way to address the harms caused and also that a increase in price and fall in purity of cocaine in the UK cannot be considered an indicator of successful policy.
Added on 15 July 2009

TNI submission to the UK Home Affairs Select Committee on the Cocaine Trade - Coca leaf should be allowed in the UK

In May 2009, the Home Affairs Select Committee on the cocaine trade announced their intention to investigate the trends in cocaine use in the UK, and progress in tackling the cocaine trade, in terms of reducing both supply and demand in the UK.

Several IDPC members submitted memorandums to the Home Affairs Select Committee on this issue.

TNI's submission to the Home Affairs Select Committee on the cocaine trade addresses the myths surrounding the use of the coca left and calls for an evidence-based judgement on its legal status.
Added on 15 July 2009

TNI Drug Policy Briefing Number 28 - Crops for Illicit Use and Ecocide

According to the Colombian government, cocaine consumers are unaware of the ecological disaster caused by production of the alkaloid. If they knew that cocaine is perpetrating ecocide in the country they would stop consuming it. Based on this premise, the government has organised an information campaign called Shared Responsibility, to tell people about the destruction caused by coca and cocaine production in the country. This briefing shows that although coca production has contributed to the ecological damage, the main culprit is the anti-drugs policy of the government itself.

According to the Colombian government, cocaine consumers are unaware of the ecological disaster caused by production of the alkaloid. If they knew that cocaine is perpetrating ecocide in the country they would stop consuming it.
Added on 29 January 2009

Beckley Briefing Paper Number 16: Ten Years of Plan Colombia: An Analytic Assessment

This Beckley Foundation Drug Policy Programme briefing paper presents a critical assessment of Plan Colombia. Originally proposed as a peace programme, this soon became a military strategy aimed at weakening the link between illicit drugs and insurgency. The results of this approach in terms of the decline of illegal armies, particularly guerrilla groups, may be considered as a success. In relation to coca cultivation and cocaine trafficking, however, the results show otherwise.

This Beckley Foundation Drug Policy Programme briefing paper presents a critical assessment of Plan Colombia. Originally proposed as a peace programme, this soon became a military strategy aimed at weakening the link between illicit drugs and insurgency.
Added on 25 September 2008
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