Daring to regulate coca and cocaine: Lessons from Colombia's drug war trenches

This essay is from a Beckley Foundation Report, commissioned and convened by Amanda Feilding for the Beckley Foundation¿s Global Initiative for Drug Policy Reform, called The Cocaine Papers. This Report is the latest in the Beckley Foundation's "Roadmaps to Regulation" series, and wil...

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Autores:
Restrepo Díaz, David Alfonso
Tipo de recurso:
Work document
Fecha de publicación:
2022
Institución:
Universidad de los Andes
Repositorio:
Séneca: repositorio Uniandes
Idioma:
eng
OAI Identifier:
oai:repositorio.uniandes.edu.co:1992/69575
Acceso en línea:
http://hdl.handle.net/1992/69575
Palabra clave:
Coca
Cocaine
Regulation
Legalisation
Drug
Policy
Economía
Rights
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Summary:This essay is from a Beckley Foundation Report, commissioned and convened by Amanda Feilding for the Beckley Foundation¿s Global Initiative for Drug Policy Reform, called The Cocaine Papers. This Report is the latest in the Beckley Foundation's "Roadmaps to Regulation" series, and will be published later this year. It is a critical review of Colombia¿s 2020 legislative proposal (law project 236) to regulate the coca leaf and cocaine markets, authored by Senator Iván Marulanda and co-sponsored with Senator Feliciano Valencia. The essay provides a qualitative analysis of the regulatory regime proposed, its effects across the supply system, and the associated benefit and cost outcomes for Colombia. The essay concludes with a reflection on the challenges surrounding the adoption of coca leaf and cocaine regulation and offers lessons to overcome the political barriers to policy change