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  Many Colombians Back Decriminalization
Posted by FoM on August 29, 2001 at 08:16:12 PT
By Tod Robberson, The Dallas Morning News 
Source: Dallas Morning News 

justice Long dismissed as the stuff of dope smokers' fantasies, the idea of decriminalizing the production and use of drugs is winning support across Colombia, prompted in part by a U.S.-backed attack on the nation's illicit drug crops.

The movement, favoring a reduction or elimination of criminal penalties for people involved in the drug trade, is rapidly gaining support from mainstream opinion-makers and high-powered Colombian politicians, although few are willing to predict whether it will produce any marked change in the war on drugs.

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