Colombia’s president says cocaine is ‘no worse than whiskey’ and should be legalised

Cocaine ‘is nary worse than whiskey’ – these are the words of Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro.

He said during a unrecorded broadcast of a government gathering that the cause is lone amerciable due to the fact that it comes from Latin America.

The president said: ‘Cocaine is amerciable due to the fact that it is made successful Latin America, not due to the fact that it is worse than whiskey.

‘Scientists person analysed this. Cocaine is nary worse than whiskey.

‘If you privation peace, you person to dismantle the concern (of cause trafficking).

‘It could easy beryllium dismantled if they legalise cocaine successful the world. It would beryllium sold similar wine.’

Petro besides referred to the fentanyl situation that has gripped the US that is not made successful Colombia.

He added: ‘Fentanyl was created arsenic a pharmacy cause by North American multinationals and those who consumed it became addicted.’

Colombia is the apical coca shaper successful the satellite – producing 60% of the world’s cocaine – followed by different South American nations including Peru and Bolivia.

An yearly UN study said that Colombia’s cocaine accumulation reached a grounds precocious and that accumulation had risen by 21% since 2021, contempt the state spending decades trying to tackle the blight.

The country’s largest exports are to the United States and Europe.

Petro has tried to marque bid with the equipped groups liable for the summation successful a bid to extremity conflict.

The state is inactive haunted successful galore ways by the ‘King of Cocaine’, Pablo Escobar.

He founded the notorious Medellín Cartel, which distributed pulverization cocaine, and established the archetypal smuggling routes from Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador, done Colombia and yet into the US.

But helium was besides seen arsenic a ‘Robin Hood’ benignant fig for helping locals with assemblage projects specified arsenic the operation of houses and shot fields.

Escobar was yet killed successful his hometown by constabulary a time aft his 44th birthday.

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