Wednesday, 19. November 2008
Topic: DRUGS - on November 19, 2008 at 2:49:57 PM CET
Cocaine users are destroying the rainforest - at 4m squared a gram
Four square metres of rainforest are destroyed for every gram of cocaine snorted in the UK, a conference of senior police officers as told yesterday.
Francisco Santos Calderón, the vice-president of Colombia, appealed to British users of the class A drug to consider the impact on the environment. He said that while the green agenda would not persuade addicts to give up, the middle-class social user who drove a hybrid car and was concerned about the environment might not take the drug if they knew its impact.
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