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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?"
Napalm.
that'll make those little plants vanish. *EG*
What does this mean about drug control policy and the extensive use of one herbicide repeatedly.
It means we must use napalm to destroy coca instead of herbiside.
an ill wind that blows no good
the war on some plants that some people take offense at for some reason remains as daft and unwinable as it ever was.
For some reason? Have you ever seen a crack baby? This isn't just some plant god gave us to smoke. It flat out kills people and ruins whole country's.
-- "of course thats just my opinion, I could be wrong." --Dennis Miller
Colombia they always mispell it, and it is the kind of pure American ignorance that makes the rest of the world anti-American.
Anyone who thinks a mis spelling is a reason to hate a whole country shows astounding ignorance. Anyone who thinks like that hated way before they heard us say 'columbia'. But thats fine, keep telling us Americans why everyone in the world hates us. I know I really care, no really... no really.
-- "of course thats just my opinion, I could be wrong." --Dennis Miller
Yes, YOURS must be correct.