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Round-Up Ready Coca Plants

Posted by michael on from the double-edged-gene dept.

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?"

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  1. The country in question is ColOmbia by sczimme · · Score: 0, Redundant


    It's spelled correctly in the article; what happened on the way to the summary?

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  2. Please spell it correctly by Angry+Black+Man · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Its Colombia, not Columbia. And, check my post history, I have never cared about misspellings before but everytime Americans takl about Colombia they always mispell it, and it is the kind of pure American ignorance that makes the rest of the world anti-American. Little symbols like spelling a country's name wrong DO matter.

    Its not like Colombia is a tiny third world eastern european country (like I wouldn't be care about misspelling Kazahkstan or any of those).. Colombia and the US have extremely close relations, they are practically our neighbors, and they have an EXTREMELY intelligent and techno-driven society (moreso than the US i would say). Come on, USians, lets show some respect to our neighbors.

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  3. s/Columbia/Colombia by TheKubrix · · Score: 0, Redundant

    sheesh....

  4. Re:Here's what it means by homerito · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I searched in wikipedia for Columbia to find where it is and I found these:

    # Columbia River
    # British Columbia
    # District of Columbia
    # Columbia, Connecticut
    # Columbia, Illinois
    # Columbia, Maryland
    # Columbia, Mississippi
    # Columbia, Missouri
    # Columbia, New Jersey
    # Columbia, New York
    # Columbia, North Carolina
    # Columbia, Pennsylvania
    # Columbia, South Carolina
    # Columbia, Tennessee
    # Columbia City, Indiana
    # Columbia County, Arkansas
    # Columbia County, New York
    # Columbia Heights, Minnesota
    # Columbia Station, Ohio
    # Columbia Township, Jackson County, Michigan
    # Columbia Township, Tuscola County, Michigan
    # Columbia Township, Van Buren County, Michigan

    hmm
    maybe Columbia University?

    So which one of those are you refering to by Columbia? Please be more specific!

    OOOHHH You are talking about: (also from wikipedia)

    # Republic of Colombia

    And from the wired article:
    "hotel room in the southern Colombian jungle."
    So its Colombia!

    At least RTFA before posting so you know how to spell correctly!