A group of 16 Colombian congressmen, led by the left-wing coalition Historical Pact, will present a bill to regulate the use of drugs and the plants from which they come, announced the senator of that coalition, Gustavo Bolívar.
"Today (Wednesday) we presented the Bill that regulates recreational marijuana and in the next two weeks the rest of the substances. The objective is to decriminalize nature and regulate its misuse. Prohibitionism failed, regulation is the way to stop the war," he said via Twitter.
The project will be presented together with the intersectoral joint commission on drug policy, indigenous, Afro and peasant associations in the next two weeks, according to Boívar.
The bill, he said, is to "regulate the use of coca leaves, poppies, mushrooms and their derivatives for adult and medicinal use." In addition, "an institutional reform for drug policy" will be presented.
Bolívar shared a document where the signatory congressmen who support the project appear. It is a total of 16 and another 18 people from the joint commission and communities.
"Great peace is not possible without ending drug trafficking. The signatories propose the regulation of drugs, including cocaine," he added.
Bolívar invited several countries to put an end to drug trafficking through drug regularization.
"Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Brazil, if Lula wins, as progressive countries affected by drug trafficking, can propose him as a block," he added.
In February, the outgoing president, Iván Duque, announced the Regularization of the industrial use of cannabis for food, beverages and textiles, a decision he described as a "big step" for his country.
Colombia is the largest producer of cocaine in the world. Last year it produced 972 tons of cocaine and 234.000 hectares of crops, according to information from the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.
Last June, Italian agents confiscated 4,3 tons of cocaine in the port city of Trieste, in the northeast of the country, belonging to the Colombian cartel Clan del Golfo, in what was one of the largest seizures in history.
