OMG! Glyphosate is killing the ERF!
Posted on 05/09/2015 7:21:42 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Colombia has announced it will stop using a controversial herbicide to destroy illegal plantations of coca, the raw ingredient for cocaine.
The decision follows a warning by the World Health Organisation (WHO) that glyphosate is "probably carcinogenic".
The product has been used in US-sponsored crop-spraying anti-narcotics programmes in South America.
President Juan Manuel Santos has said Colombia will need to find other mechanisms to combat coca production.
Anti-narcotics officials in Colombia will have until October to prepare an alternative plan.
"I am going to ask the government officials in the National Drug Council at their next meeting to suspend glyphosate spraying of illicit cultivations," Mr Santos announced.
"The recommendations and studies reviewed by the Ministry of Health show clearly that yes, this risk exists," he added, making reference to the WHO warning on cancer.
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glyphosate was first invented by Monsanto under the brand name “round up.”
Cocaine isn’t “probably carcinogenic?”
Glyphosate is sold in the US as Round-Up.
“Probably carcinogenic”?
More junk science from the greenie weenies.
“I didn’t use the cocaine to get high
I just liked the way it smelled”
Ray Wylie Hubbard
Probably just about as carcinogenic as Liberia is Ebola free.
Too bad. As if the Barnard girls needed more wacked-out detumescent Film Studies girly-boys.
OMG! Glyphosate is killing the ERF!
Are we to understand that the girly-boys failed to tumesce on cue?
Agent Orange, perhaps.
Might as well bring back Paraquat, too.
I think not.
Yet another milestone along the path to futility in our war on drugs.
Glyphosates also increase the girly-boy refractory period (limp as a cooked angel hairnoodle) to 6 months, or as Serbian sexpert Slobodon Milovovich coined the term, “Is ‘married man syndrome’. Cocoa, be advised.
“Cocaine isn’t “probably carcinogenic?” “
No, it isn’t.
There is not enough research to draw strong conclusions, but predictive models call it “possible carcinogenic” for what it’s worth.
Interesting. Thanks for posting.
Columbia should nationalize the crop and assign the drug dealers to that department... tell the US to keep out. When it becomes legal there they will limit production to increase the price and it’ll do more good than the spraying anyway... not to mention it should decrease the violence.
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