Chief prosecutor wants to disconnect parts of Colombia from energy grid to curb pot production

by Adriaan Alsema November 2, 2018

Colombia’s chief prosecutor has asked President Ivan Duque to disconnect parts of the country from the national energy grid in order to curb marijuana production, according to newspaper El Tiempo.

The newspaper reported that controversial Prosecutor General Humberto Martinez asked the president to turn off electricity in regions where the illicit drug is grown.

He and Duque have vowed to double down on repressive efforts to curb the cultivation of illegal crops like marijuana, coca and poppy despite widespread consensus this strategy is ineffective.

Disregarding the fact that this could affect hundreds of thousands of people not involved in the production of the world’s most popular drug, Martinez argued that “if there’s no energy for the greenhouses, this will end the hydroponic cultivation of marijuana.”

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