pedro san pedro
14th January 2005, 08:19
From ABC australia
Colombian drug lords have reportedly developed a genetically modified "cocaine tree" that contains higher drug levels and is resistant to herbicides.
Citing a Columbian police intelligence dossier, the Financial Times newspaper says drug producers received help from foreign scientists to develop the leafier strain of plant, which grows to 2.7 metres, twice the height of the normal shrub.
"In their search for greater profits, drug-traffickers appear to have entered the world of genetically modified crops," the dossier was quoted as saying.
The tree yields eight times more cocaine than the normal shrub and due to its size and sturdiness is more resistant to herbicides - one of Colombia's main weapons in the war on drugs
not sure if the environmental grops will be taking this on as a new campaign :P
Colombian drug lords have reportedly developed a genetically modified "cocaine tree" that contains higher drug levels and is resistant to herbicides.
Citing a Columbian police intelligence dossier, the Financial Times newspaper says drug producers received help from foreign scientists to develop the leafier strain of plant, which grows to 2.7 metres, twice the height of the normal shrub.
"In their search for greater profits, drug-traffickers appear to have entered the world of genetically modified crops," the dossier was quoted as saying.
The tree yields eight times more cocaine than the normal shrub and due to its size and sturdiness is more resistant to herbicides - one of Colombia's main weapons in the war on drugs
not sure if the environmental grops will be taking this on as a new campaign :P