$100,000,000 coke incinerated

[mzalendo]

the kenyan government decided to please her developmen partners by burning cocaine worth 6.4 billion kenyan shillings while millions of her people are dying of hunger....i mean is it really worth it...the problems still persist in this nation n they have to go back to these very donors to beg for cash to feed her people....to me the bottom line is money is money whether donor funded or drug money[QUOTE]Some $90 million worth of cocaine went up in smoke in Nairobi, Kenya, today in a United-Nations back incineration that underlined the world body's major role in combating the global illicit drug trade.

More than a ton of cocaine, seized in December, 2004, in a resort town along the coast, was placed inside furnaces located at the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) in an exercise designed to dispel rumours that part of the haul had been illegally diverted.

It was witnessed by UN and Government officials, senior police officers, members of the diplomatic community and scores of international and local journalists. Also present were the suspects charged with trafficking.

The UN, through UN Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) regional representative Carsten Hyttel, played a significant role in ensuring that the narcotics were destroyed. UNODC was part of the team that planned the verification, testing and destruction, while providing legal assistance in drafting regulations on the seizure, analysis and disposal of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances.

UNODC also provided technical guidance aimed at ensuring that the testing and destruction of the seizures were carried out in line with international standards.

[Commie Rat]

the kenyan government decided to please her developmen partners by burning cocaine worth 6.4 billion kenyan shillings while millions of her people are dying of hunger

Are you suggesting that the sell the cocain?
That has to be one of the most vile idears I have ever heard.

[Comrade_Ryan]

So you are pro-starvation? Figures.

[Comrada J]

the kenyan government decided to please her developmen partners by burning cocaine worth 6.4 billion kenyan shillings while millions of her people are dying of hunger

Are you suggesting that the sell the cocain?
That has to be one of the most vile idears I have ever heard.

No, he was suggesting they eat it... ;)

[RedRevolution]

Are you suggesting that the sell the cocain?
That has to be one of the most vile idears I have ever heard.

If they sold it I'd buy some of it...so no I don't think it's vile, I think it'd be good for me and good for them.

[Eleutherios]

They shouldn't have confiscated it in the first place. They should be channeling the money they're currently wasting in the War On Drugs And Personal Freedom towards feeding the hungry.

[mzalendo]

y'all dont seem to get ma argument...look did two wrongs ever make a right?the first was the trafficking of the haul by whoever did it,the second was destroying it.this cocaine haul has been under guard 24/7 for the past year n a half by an elite squad of very high earning cops,in a nation where the police to citizen ratio is 1:1100 many people were left vulnerable,loss of revenue n much mo.the fucking government in the name of teaching the traffickers a lesson n under intense pressure from the west destroyed the coke while her people were dying of hunger,call me whatever y"all wan call me but i could a swallowed ma pride n gotten that money....now that its been destroyed what do they stand to gain..

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

y'all dont seem to get ma argument...look did two wrongs ever make a right?the first was the trafficking of the haul by whoever did it,

What's wrong with selling cocaine?


this cocaine haul has been under guard 24/7 for the past year n a half by an elite squad of very high earning cops,in a nation where the police to citizen ratio is 1:1100 many people were left vulnerable,loss of revenue n much mo.

Then maybe they should have sold it and kept the money rather than wasting money and resources on gaurding it.

[atlanticche]

though selling it or eating it would have been great ideas,
its not really gonna work, cause like most cocaine in the world it will end up in a country with a big army like america and none of these countries like drugs so they will most likely nuke(or maybe just invade) kenya

[Cheung Mo]

While I have hard time lamenting the destruction of coke, Kenya's government had handled this situation disgustingly.

Wouldn't it be nice if we could enable under-developed nations to harvest and sell cannabis? The stuff's less dangerous than alcohol as a whole, it's extremely easy to grow and harvest, and they can sell it for a fortune...Oh wait...The fucking Americans, Chinese, and UN will probably flood their crops with pesticide and bomb their country to kingdom come.

[Commie Rat]

If they sold it I'd buy some of it...so no I don't think it's vile, I think it'd be good for me and good for them.

becasue coke is good for you. . . <_<

One of the biggest problems in the ghettos and slums of the world is drug abuse caused by addiction and fuelling the cycle of poverty and domestic violence.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

becasue coke is good for you. . . <_<

Can&#39;t be any worse than tobacco or alcohol.

Coke ain&#39;t much of a "ghetto drug" as far as I remember. Freebase cocaine probably is though.

[Cheung Mo]

Crack is ghetto, coke isn&#39;t.

As I don&#39;t use anything harder than cannabis and the vast majority of my friends who are into drugs don&#39;t touch anything harder than shrooms, I don&#39;t really know the finer distinctions between the different types of cocaine and crack-cocaine except with regards to the class and race-based double-standards in American drug laws.

[mzalendo]

as much as i appreciate ur contribution,i don really care about any morals when it comes to dope....legal or illegal smokers gon smoke crack,weed or whatever so the war on drugs is a battle in vain,a battle lost before it even started....no one is forced to sniff or smoke anything n so people gon use any means possible to get em drugs...here the biggest question was,was the kenyan government justified in burning "drug money" at the expense of her dying populace?HELL NO&#33;period