Newsbriefing – Week of 14 January

Caribbean, Cocaine, Colombia, Corruption, Decriminalisation, Drug policy, Ghana, Mali, Mexico, Newsbriefings, Security context, Trafficking, West Africa

The authorities of Trinidad and Tobago are considering the legalisation of cannabis. In late December, the government announced that the drug will be decriminalised in May or June 2019. To this, some groups of the society responded that only legal cultivation could prevent the violence linked to organised crime. In Colombia, criminal groups are taking…