For over 50 years the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) fought a brutal civil war that displaced millions and killed 200,000, mostly civilians. Finally a peace agreement was finalized in November 2016.
But not everyone welcomed peace. Right-wing extremists opposed the negotiations, and the agreement itself. Those extremists happen to be former president Alvaro Uribe and current President Iván Duque.

Well, one good thing out of this set of elections is that medical and recreational drugs did very, very well.

Cannabis

Four additional states legalized recreational cannabis yesterday, bringing the total number of states to 15, plus Washington DC and a number of island territories. The four new states are:

South Dakota
Montana
New Jersey
Arizona

This is flabbergasting to me. Maybe I've lost touch with what's happening around the country at our schools. I know the pigs don't do this where I live. I've got kids and grandkids, I'd know about it.

Most people know that 23 states have legal medical marijuana and four states have legal recreational marijuana (Ohio will vote on legal pot this November).
What most people don't know is that Central and South American countries, the ones who have suffered the most violence from drug prohibition, are moving far ahead of us in the fight to end this costly and losing war.

Afghanistan has cornered the global market in opium production, producing 90% of the world's opium on 780 square miles of opium fields.