Colombia, according to estimates by the White House, has 212,000 hectares of coca leaf and produces 951 tons of cocaine per year.
This makes it the main (by far) exporter of this narcotic in the world (90% of the market, approximately).
Despite the very costly Coca eradication programs and the bloody war on drugs, declared since the Richard Nixon administration,
production reaches record levels and no close solution is in sight.
This semester, the senator for the Green Party, proposed a bill that seeks to give another approach to this fight against drugs to regulate the cultivation of the Coca leaf and its derivatives.