Coke-heads now responsible for Global Warming

[derspiess]

Garbon, j'accuse!!

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/03/03/cocaine-users-making-global-warming-worse-115875-22081755/

Cocaine users 'making global warming worse'

By Bob Roberts 3/03/2010

Cocaine users were last night accused of helping to make global warming worse.

MPs on the home affairs select committee said the drug was devastating Colombian rainforests because trees are knocked down to grow coca plants.

Group chairman Keith Vaz said: "We were horrified to learn for every few lines of cocaine snorted in a London club, four square metres of rainforest is destroyed."

Un Office on Drugs and Crime chief Antonio Maria Costa added: "Europeans know they shouldn't buy blood diamonds or clothes made by slaves in sweatshops.

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"Yet with cocaine the opposite occurs. Worse still, models who wouldn't dare to wear a tiger fur coat show no qualms about flaunting their cocaine use."

The MPs also warned that more people in Britain were dying from the drug - cocaine caused 235 sudden deaths in 2008. The committee said that it led to heart disease, the erosion of brain function and could be "extremely toxic" when mixed with alcohol.

Members called for police to get tougher on users with more hand-held drug tracing machines in public.

And they said the operation against drugs bosses was "woefully inadequate" with only about 12% of coke coming to the UK being confiscated. Mr Vaz added that the perception of the white powder as safe was a "myth".

[KRonn]

So then would be farms, homes, and other development that removed forested areas. The MPs should just try and stick to the point of drug use being a problem, if that's what their main issue is. Can't stop development, but need to try and do it responsibly, no matter what's being grown or built.

[garbon]

While I drink Coke...I don't use coke.

[derspiess]

While I drink Coke...I don't use coke.

Got it 

[garbon]

If anything, you should bash on those here who are at least known to have used coke in the past.

[grumbler]

The MPs should just try and stick to the point of drug use being a problem, if that's what their main issue is.

That is the problem, of course - certain kinds of drug use are celebrated and even encouraged, while other kinds (less destructive and often less dangerous to others) are considered evil.  Since illegal drugs cannot be evil for logical reasons, hysterical reasons must be employed to make the point.

[Razgovory]

If anything, you should bash on those here who are at least known to have used coke in the past.

Who's that?

[Richard Hakluyt]

Keith Vaz is a time-serving silly-arse New-Labour apparatchik btw. With him as chair there is little chance of the committee achieving anything at all useful.

[Agelastus]

Keith Vaz is a time-serving silly-arse New-Labour apparatchik btw. With him as chair there is little chance of the committee achieving anything at all useful.

Unless you pay him, of course.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Oh yeah that's the only reason the rain forests are being cleared, and the coral in the seas also, all of it going up Colin Farrell's nose.

[Barrister]

If anything, you should bash on those here who are at least known to have used coke in the past.

Who's that?

Yi and Gups?

I once had an intern jam some medicinal cocaine up my nose when I was 13.  I hated it.