The debate about regulation and legalization of drug use in Colombia has been reactivated in recent days. President Petro highlighted, through his Twitter, a publication regarding the legalization of cocaine in the United States.
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Before his pronouncement, Luis Carlos Reyes, director of Diansupported his position and said that in Colombia cocaine should be legalized and taxed.
The official also said that should penalize VIP dodgers “That year after year they cost the State between 40 and 80 billion pesos that should go to education, health, infrastructure and public goods. As things are, in Colombia we would not have caught Al Capone neither for traqueto nor for evasion”, Reyes wrote on his Twitter.
In a previous interview for RCN Radio, the director of Dian had stated that one of the misfortunes of drug trafficking is related to its illegality.
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“The drug problem, which is a terrible problem and affects not only consumers but also their families, must be treated as public health“, he said at the time.
Likewise, regarding consumers, he indicated that it is a factor that would be resolved with public health measures.
In the article shared by Petro, from The Economist newspaper, criticizes the shyness of President Joe Biden regarding the legalization of cocaine.
“Legal cocaine would be less dangerous, since legitimate producers would not adulterate it with other white powders, and the dose would be clearly labeled, as it is on whiskey bottles. Cocaine-related deaths have increased fivefold in the United States since 2010.” , mainly because the gangs are reducing them with fentanyl, a cheaper and more deadly drug,” the editorial said.
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