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The legal status of cocaine varies worldwide. Even though many countries have banned the sale of cocaine for recreational use, some have legalized it for possession, personal use, transportation, and cultivation, while some have decriminalized it for certain uses.
Backers outside the court house paraded signs declaring, "Cultivating freedom, Uruguay grows." In April 2014, Uruguay became the first country to have legal recreational cannabis. Consumers were given the ability to buy a maximum of 40 grams (1.4 ounces) each month from licensed pharmacies as long as they are Uruguayan residents over the age of 18.
The legal status of drugs and drug precursors varies substantially from country to country and is still changing in many of them. United Nations classify drugs internationally, it affects all its member states .
The cultivation, sale, and possession of unprocessed coca leaf (but not of any processed form of cocaine) is generally legal in the countries – such as Bolivia, Peru, Chile, and Argentine Northwest – where traditional use is established, although cultivation is often restricted in an attempt to control the production of cocaine. In the case ...
NEW YORK (PIX11) — Authorities in Argentina revealed pink cocaine was one of the drugs found in Liam Payne’s system. Pink cocaine was also named in a lawsuit against Sean “Diddy” Combs as ...
Around that same time, authorities in Paraguay announced the largest cocaine seizure in the country's history, after officials were surprised to find more than 4 tons of the drug stashed inside a ...
This is a list of states (and some territories) by the annual prevalence of cocaine use as percentage of the population aged 15–64 (unless otherwise indicated). [ 1 ] published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
A batch of cocaine that has killed at least 23 people in Argentina appears to have been laced with a synthetic opioid, and police are scrambling to get as much of it off the streets as they can.