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Drug Use Legalized in Columbia

Loaded on July 15, 1994 published in Prison Legal News July, 1994, page 17
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Crime, Prisoners-International. Location: Colombia.
On May 5, 1994, Columbia's Constitutional Court (the equivalent of the US Supreme Court) voted five to four that a 1986 law permitting the arrest of someone for carrying a "personal dose" of drugs was a violation of the country's new constitution. Court president Jorge Arango explained that the penalty ...

 

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