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The fine line between coca and cocaine
A decision by the country's first indigenous president to rehabilitate coca and distinguish it from its chemical derivative, cocaine, was hugely popular – but it has also resulted in cocaine laboratories springing up across the country, writes Rory Carroll
Guardian Weekly (UK)
November 25, 2009


Editorials / Éditoriaux

The art and science of evidence about drugs
It is very difficult to study the relative harms of individual drugs – and there are lots of vested interests
By Jonathan Wolff
The Guardian (UK)
December 1, 2009