West Africa's Cash Crop: Weed

http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=49269 ^ | Sunday, 04 January 2004 | G. Pascal Zachary

[Delta 21]

This is the War, On Drugs.

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[ServesURight]

BUMP for a later read.

[John Beresford Tipton]

"The country rarely sees any violence (a benefit of pot-smoking?), has a democratically elected government and boasts one of the freest societies in Africa."


Sounds like Ghana should be sending advisors to the U.S.

[Prodigal Son]

Sounds like an interesting place to visit.

[Bonaparte]

Advisors?

[A CA Guy]

They are on a road to extintion if they don't quit growing drugs for profit.

[A CA Guy]

Look what I found in that link you left us: “the country’s worsening economic situation”

Gee, they didn't talk about their economic position getting better there. You mean this is another lying drug article about the good things about drugs? I'm shocked, just shocked I tell you. These people seems so...so...so...FRENCH!

[AmericanVictory]

Thanks for the reality check. Ghana is a basket case. It is laughable to say that it has no violence. One can only say that because there is no way the violence is reported in Ghana's present state.

[A CA Guy]

I housed a priest by me for a time from there and it is a hell hole alright. The priest described it as hell on earth.

[NMFXSTC]

Hmmmmmmm? Six bucks a lid? I say we need to support these farming communities and kee the meddling DEA out of this...I mean, we wanna help these folks, don't we? OK...count me in! Sign me up for a few kilos (purely in the interest of foreign self sufficieny and ecomonic devlopment, of course...I just wanna help!)

[Vision]

Pathetic

[Wolfie]

What if a poor African country could grow a plant that would fetch healthy prices in the U.S? What if the plant could be grown on small farms, encouraging democracy in this poor African country by putting cash into the hands of its poorest and most powerless people? What if such a plant could reduce the poor African country's dependence on the U.S. for aid?

Ya gotta admit, they've taken a plant that can be easily grown in a closet with equipment you can buy down at Home Depot, and turned it into the lynch pin for progress in certain economies. Just amazing, when you think about it.

[headsonpikes]

They are on a road to extinction if they don't quit growing drugs for profit.

LOL!!!

They should grow at a loss and get subsidies, like civilized farmers!

You're a piece of work, you are.

[Wolfie]

Hey, headsy, I hear they're having a bit of a political scandal up there in BC, eh?

[headsonpikes]

Yup! Looks to be juicy!

We'll have to wait until the judge opens the warrant to the public - Jan. 19th at the earliest.

With any luck, the federal Liberals will receive most of the tar. ;^)

[gcruse]

Well, they're certainly taking the high road.

[jmc813]

WOD Ping

[A CA Guy]

No, the honest issue h-on-s is that they really need to grow food and learn to manufacture or provide a service to grow an actual economy.
They are in for long term hell without that. The Middle East is not far behind because drugs and selling raw materials like oil is all they have and some day we will replace that with another energy source.

It is in our interest to see some form of real economy come to these lands because if they are all starving to death some day, they will be waring with us and others.

I don't think we should give endless handouts though at all.