‘No worse than whiskey’…President of drug capital Colombia calls for cocaine to be LEGAL after being humiliated by Trump THE President of the world’s cocaine capital Colombia said the drug was “no worse than whiskey” amid a fiery feud with Donald Trump.
Colombia – the world’s biggest producer and exporter of cocaine – has spent years attempting to curb its drug issue but the President claimed the illegal powder was being scapegoated by US politicians.
Cocaine is a deadly and illegal drug responsible for over 27,000 US deaths in 2022, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
The average prison sentence in the US, where most Colombian cocaine is sent, for possession is on average five years behind bars, according to the United States Sentencing Commission.
The US President threatened to impose an eye-watering 25 per cent tariff on Colombian imports and immediate visa revocation for government officials in the US.
