420 with CNW – Support for Cannabis Legalization Bill Grows in Colombia
Colombia’s legislature will soon consider a bill to legalize recreational marijuana for adults. The proposed law is being filed by Gustavo Bolivar, a senator belonging to the Colombia Humana Party, one of the many opposition parties in the country. The mover of the bill sees the law as a way to curb crime and support a drug policy shift to a direction in which drugs are looked at as public health concerns rather than as matters of law enforcement. Bolivar has authored several books on drug trafficking and he sees the new bill as something that will facilitate “regularization and…