Correction.An article about the drug war in Colombia ("Legalization LEGALIZATION. The act of making lawful. 2. By legalization, is also understood the act by which a judge or competent officer authenticates a record, or other matter, in order that the same may be lawfully read in evidence. Vide Authentication. Now!," June) quoted Sandro Calvani of the United Nations office on Drugs and Crime The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) is a United Nations agency that was originally founded in 1997 as the Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention, then renamed as UNODC in October 2002. as saying "we're spending around $5,000 per hectare hectare (hĕk`târ, –tär), abbr. ha, unit of area in the metric system, equal to 10,000 sq m, or about 2.47 acres. fumigated." The figure refers to spending by the international community (not the U.N.) per hectare eliminated from coca production, not merely fumigated. |
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