The environmental case for drug legalisation

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Open Democracy

Stuart Rodger, 14 May 2012

With reader comments

The number of people in Colombia killed by US tobacco is way beyond the number of Americans killed by Colombian cocaine… Do they have a right to come to the United States and carry out chemical warfare on North Carolina and Kentucky because they have a tobacco problem and it’s coming from here?

For those of us who support the repeal of the drug prohibition laws – and for them to be replaced with a policy of strict regulation and legalisation – there are certain facts we are already fairly familiar with. We know, for instance, that the demand for drugs is so huge and so permanent that demand-side strategies are futile.

The strategy they used was a one of aerial fumigation, using the chemical Roundup Ultra ↑ , produced by Monsanto, the toxicity of which was enhanced by the addition of a surfactant and the concentration of which was significantly stronger than that permitted on US soil.

The result has been catastrophic for the Colombian environment.

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seems like every aspect of US intervention in Latin America is a windfall for some US corporation