[QUOTE=Bango Cheito]Gringos get treated better by police than locals here. Speaking from personal experience. They will fine Colombians for things they let pass with gringos, one time they stopped a bunch of us and searched everybody EXCEPT me.
You are just absolutely wrong on this issue. And YES you DO have rights in Colombia, in fact there are more civil liberties here than the US. The Constitution here is taken VERY seriously. Stop posting misinformation.
I do recommend smoking or snorting or whatever you want to do in private, but that's neither here nor there. The fact is, unless the cops have something else to charge you with they HAVE to let you go after 24 hours, just like in the US. And it has happened to a couple friends, and they DID let them go after 24 hours, they had NO CHOICE.[/QUOTE]I wouldn't risk spending 24 MINUTES let alone 24 hours in a Colombian jail just to smoke a little weed but thats just me, to each his own I guess.