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Topic: drug-policy

Coca leaves

Monday, 7/20, 02:31 AM

He pulled up his coca and planted cassava. Then the money never came.

Colombia has spent a decade paying farmers to leave the cocaine economy.
A grower in Meta province did what was asked, waited for support that did not arrive, and planted coca again.
His case explains a policy failure better than the cultivation statistics do.

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