Four square metres of rainforest are destroyed for every gram of cocaine snorted in the UK, a conference of senior police officers was told yesterday. And that's not to mention the kidnappings, murder and other criminal mayhem. Maybe they should legalise the suff?
Francisco Santos Calderón, the vice-president of Colombia, appealed to British users of the class A drug to consider the impact on the environment. He said that while the green agenda would not persuade addicts to give up, the middle-class social user who drove a hybrid car and was concerned about the environment might not take the drug if they knew its impact. Read more about this in the Guardian.
