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Round-Up Ready Coca Plants
goneutt writes "Wired reports that an herbicide resistant breed of the coca plant has been found in Columbia after years of government spraying. It also appears that the process happend via selective breeding rather than gene manipulation, but it's an outside possibility that it was engineered. What does this mean about drug control policy and the extensive use of one herbicide repeatedly. Does this point the way of the future for other weeds?"
It means the U.S. government would be better off nuking Columbia or dropping the agent orange.
High prices and having to deal with sketchy dealers?
Actually, you can thank your government for that. By making drugs highly illegal, they create a dangerous black market. Alcohol and tobacco are as physically dangerous as most illegal drugs, and much more harmful than marijuana, but there aren't high prices and sketchy dealers because they're legal. As soon as the US gets its head of it's ass (that'll take at least 4 years), and gets rid of all of its stupid drug laws, maybe we'll have a nice, safe market for currently illegal drugs.
I don't respond to AC's.