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Cocaine Destroying Rainforest


Environment  (tags: RAINFORESTS, endangered, climate, trees, forests, world, habitatdestruction )

Cal
- 227 days ago - news.nabou.com
Four square metres of rainforest are destroyed for every gram of cocaine snorted, a conference of senior British police officers has been to
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Marion Y. (264)
Wednesday November 19, 2008, 6:08 pm
Unable to access the link. But cocaine is bad all the way around. Thanks Cal.
 

Kim stands for PEACE (118)
Thursday November 20, 2008, 2:25 am
BELFAST: Four square metres of rainforest are destroyed for every gram of cocaine snorted, a conference of senior British police officers has been told.


Francisco Santos Calderon, the Vice-President of Colombia, appealed to users of the drug to consider the impact on the environment. He said that while the green agenda would not persuade addicts to give up, middle-class social users who drove hybrid cars and were concerned about the environment might not take the drug if they knew its impact.


Mr Santos said 300,000 hectares of rainforest were destroyed each year in Colombia to clear land for coca plant cultivation. The land is mainly controlled by illegal groups, including the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as FARC.


Mr Santos outlined to the Association of Chief Police Officers how lives were lost in the cocaine trade in Colombia. He said landmines used to protect crops and processing labs had killed almost 900 civilians this year.


FARC and other groups funded by narcotics production were also involved in kidnapping. Mr Santos himself was kidnapped and held by a cocaine gang for 18 months in the 1990s.


He told the conference that the money used to buy the cocaine "goes into the hands of FARC, of illegal groups that plant mines, that kidnap, that kill, that use terrorism to protect their business".


He said Europe was experiencing a boom in cocaine use among more affluent people.
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So every time someone snorts a line, another piece of the rain forest disappears! StOOpid, selfish people! All for a buzz... :(
 

Cal Mendelsohn (393)
Thursday November 20, 2008, 2:27 am
Thanks Kim!
 

Carol W. (130)
Thursday November 20, 2008, 6:21 am
Thanks Kim and Cal.
 

Mari Basque (1287)
Thursday November 20, 2008, 2:46 pm

Something seriously needs to be done to keep this out of our country:(

This is so nasty... it takes your soul! It turns you! I have lost I dunno how many people I loved over this drug!

When they cook it up now that is even worse "Crack" addiction beyond!!!

 

Sir Walk F. (61)
Thursday November 20, 2008, 3:58 pm
Coca no es cocaine
 

Past Member (0)
Thursday November 20, 2008, 4:36 pm
OH I GOT IT.....COKE IS NASTY, BUT ALL YOU STUPID TURDS ALL SMOKE DOPE. YEA, I GOT IT, YOU'RE ALL RETARDED.
 

Ann Sumpter (26)
Thursday November 20, 2008, 9:14 pm
Unable to access the link
Thanks Kim and Cal.
Mari...Bad News its already here in Our Small Town in TN, Just plain Sick
 

Ann Sumpter (26)
Thursday November 20, 2008, 9:21 pm
Many people I love sells/snorts this drug.Now They don't want nothing of me,because I don't agree.
It has changed them to very lowlifes.
 

Michael Angel (63)
Sunday November 23, 2008, 11:18 pm
What was Ms C Rice doing their recently?
buying the CIA's stash?
 
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