"Cocaine is also endangering the wildlife"

[phillylocal]

From the Daily Record: http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk...6908-20344110/

Mar 8 2008COCAINE users were yesterday warned their habit is killing the planet.
Police heard using just two grammes of the Class A drug is the equivalent to devastating an area of tropical forest the size of a club dancefloor.
Cutting down the rainforest to grow coca for cocaine is also endangering wildlife and devastating the environment, Colombian Government spokeswoman Ana Maria Caballero reported.
She warned: "It is a silent environmental catastrophe ... about 2.2million hectares up in flames."
The Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland's drugs conference at Turnberry, Ayrshire, heard evidence of the environmental catastrophe.
Miss Caballero told users: "If you are driving a hybrid electric vehicle and doing cocaine at a party once a month, you might as well be driving a Hummer."

[Benga]

same old, same old...
http://www.drugs-forum.com/forum/sho...016#post392016

again, the use of ethical / political concerns as a call for some kind of "civic boycott" of an illegal drug, what a farce...

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[entheogensmurf]

They could write many articles that explain how an action from humans are "endangering the wildlife." And yea, the article is bunk.

"Not adopting hemp in place of the common tree fibers currently used is endangering the wildlife"

or

"Humans are endangering wildlife just by existing in such numbers"

[chinpokomaster]

Coca farmers are destroying the rainforest!!!!

[HomerK]

Just like corn farmers, wheat farmers, etc.

That article is daft.

[cra$h]

technically, they're kind of right, but i doubt there's coke heads out there that are willing to stop having fun for a stupid plant. good work dea, billions of dollars and you can't think of anything better?