Bolivia denounces UN convention on Narcotic Drugs

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Bolivia is pushing to legalise Coca Leaf after 40 odd years of being misled by the US and UN.

 

Finally, some logic.

 

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Bolivia denounces UN Convention on Narcotic Drugs

The Associated Press

 

LA PAZ - The Bolivian government announced on Wednesday to denounce the 1961 Vienna Convention that criminalizes the traditional uses of coca, including chewing, whose practice is common among the natives of the country.

 

Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca said on Wednesday that Bolivia will withdraw from this international treaty having found no support for the efforts undertaken by President Evo Morales for the UN to remove the penalty.

 

Choquehuanca participated in Wednesday's meeting of the deputies in which the resolution was adopted to withdraw Bolivia to the Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961, which gave this country 25 years later to eradicate coca chewing.

 

This treaty defines the coca as a narcotic.

 

In Bolivia, large segments of the population chew coca to combat fatigue, the effects of living at altitude and for other medicinal uses.

 

Choquehuanca said Bolivia will not leave the 1988 Convention, which "says that is not prohibited in places where historical experience shows, and in Bolivia can be shown that there are thousands of cases of this experience."

 

"We have requested the amendment so that we can practice acullico (chewing coca leaves) and has not been treated favorably, but the same convention are ways for a country to leave," said Bolivian Foreign Minister.

 

Bolivia hopes to return to the 1961 when they recognize the ancestral use of chewing coca leaves, he said.