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Mother Nature Implicated in Massive Marijuana Grow-Op

Your tax dollars at work: From the The Norman TranscriptA call from a concerned farmer in southeast Norman led Cleveland County Sheriff's Department deputies and Norman police officers to a field of...

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Drug Trade Hurting Mexican Environmental Efforts -- Prohibition to Blame

A piece in Mexico's El Universal called illegal drugs the "root of evil for conservationists." From deforestation in Chihuahua's Copper Canyon by marijuana and opium growers to make way for their...

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Latin America: New Report Says Colombian Cocaine Production Seriously...

"For a long time, the statistics on eradication of illicit crops have been mistaken. It's incredible that nobody has realized that Colombia produces much more cocaine than the reports say," said...

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Bogota Targets Europe in Cocaine-Awareness Drive

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The Coveted ONDCP Hiking Award

Any police officer who's ever risked life and limb in the line of duty should be enraged. The Drug Czar is giving out awards to officers who hike around California forests pulling up marijuana plants....

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New species of hummingbird discovered in Colombia, endangered by drugs industry

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Save the Rainforest From the Drug War

U.S.-sponsored efforts to fumigate Colombian coca crops have utterly failed to prevent cocaine production. But they have been very effective at destroying Colombia's national parks:Leftist rebels,...

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Are Cocaine Users Killing the Rainforest?

The argument that cocaine users are destroying the environment is rapidly leading its proponents into a spiraling abyss of irony and incoherence: If you're into charlie, snow, or a few lines of snort,...

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How Can We Stop Drug Gangs From Growing Pot in the Woods? Legalize Pot

One of the most embarrassingly mindless trends in the mainstream media's marijuana reporting is that of publishing one redundant story after another about the explosion of illegal outdoor cultivation...

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How to Get Away with Growing 100,000 Marijuana Plants

Just plant them in the woods:Nearly 100,000 marijuana plants were found growing at four illegal farms in the San Bernardino National Forest, authorities said Tuesday.…No arrests have been made, said...

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U.S. House Passes Bill on Drug Cartels Growing Marijuana in National Parks,...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 7, 2010CONTACT: Tom Angell at (202) 557-4979 or media@leap.ccU.S. House Passes Bill on Drug Cartels Growing Marijuana in National ParksCops and Border Patrol Agents Say...

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If Pot Were Legal, No One Would Grow it in the Woods

Can you even think of anything besides marijuana that is grown secretly in the woods? Of course not, because hiking over mountains through dense underbrush with pounds of fertilizer on your back is so...

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Chronicle AM -- January 30, 2014

Big news on a couple of fronts regarding federal sentencing and federal prisoners, the DC council is set to approve decriminalization, Minnesota's welfare drug testing law gets some pushback, and more....

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Mother Nature Implicated in Massive Marijuana Grow-Op

Your tax dollars at work: From the The Norman TranscriptA call from a concerned farmer in southeast Norman led Cleveland County Sheriff's Department deputies and Norman police officers to a field of...

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Drug Trade Hurting Mexican Environmental Efforts -- Prohibition to Blame

A piece in Mexico's El Universal called illegal drugs the "root of evil for conservationists." From deforestation in Chihuahua's Copper Canyon by marijuana and opium growers to make way for their...

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Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Latin America: New Report Says Colombian Cocaine Production Seriously...

"For a long time, the statistics on eradication of illicit crops have been mistaken. It's incredible that nobody has realized that Colombia produces much more cocaine than the reports say," said...

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Bogota Targets Europe in Cocaine-Awareness Drive

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The Coveted ONDCP Hiking Award

Any police officer who's ever risked life and limb in the line of duty should be enraged. The Drug Czar is giving out awards to officers who hike around California forests pulling up marijuana plants....

View Article

New species of hummingbird discovered in Colombia, endangered by drugs industry

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Save the Rainforest From the Drug War

U.S.-sponsored efforts to fumigate Colombian coca crops have utterly failed to prevent cocaine production. But they have been very effective at destroying Colombia's national parks:Leftist rebels,...

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