There was an excellent article in the Observer today on an 18-month investigation of the cocaine trade- http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/stor...1385987,00.html That source will move into archives, so here is a more permanent one- http://www.uk420.com/boards/index.php?show...=0&#entry287731

The woman journalist set out with the belief that cannabis might be okay, but cocaine and heroin needed full armaments. She would change her mind and determine that the real evil was the prohibition. Here is the last paragraph from the article.

Yes, more people will try these drugs and there will be tragedies. But 30 years of the war on drugs have achieved almost nothing except to make a few people fantastically rich, to arm our inner cities, to criminalise a generation of users, and to leave tens of thousands of Latin Americans dead. As our cocaine maker in Peru happily told us: 'People want our cocaine because it is good and, for a while at least, makes them happy.'

NarcoNews. brings us stories from Latin America that we would never hear without their efforts. There are many good articles on cocaine and its ramifications in Latin America at NarcoNews. This article is important because it shows how certain facts are completely hidden when they should be well known facts. About a year ago I put up to another NarcoNews link that said coca was still used in Coca-cola and people just could not accept it. This fact would shatter a lot of people's sense of reality and could play a part in the Great Awakening that is coming. From http://www.narconews.com/Issue35/article1159.html

Peruvian Drug Control Agency: Coca Cola Buys Coca Leaves
Conflicts in Peru Over Coca Industrialization

By Luis A. Gómez
Special to The Narco News Bulletin

January 28, 2005

We’re not here to talk about the Peruvian coca growers, at least not right now. This is about our beloved Peruvian drug czar, Nils Ericsson, president of the National Commission for Development and Life Without Drugs (shortened to DEVIDA in Spanish). This man, who swears that narco-trafficking is “the financial arm of terrorism,” is still talking and writing aimlessly, as we reported last March, when the great coca growers’ march arrived in Lima. It seems that Ericsson has not learned his lesson, and keeps blabbering on. But he has said a few very interesting things lately, such as confirming that the Coca Cola company does indeed buy coca leaves to produce its beverage… but have patience, as this story deserves to be told in detail.

The sadistic persecutors who torment some people who use some plants hurt us all in many ways.

Heroin is denied to people in acute pain, because drug thugs think their misguided war on addicts will be harmed if there is any legal supply. If you're ever in pain so deep that even morphine won't suppress it, you will evaluate the drug warriors contributions to society in a more critical light.

I live in a town on a hill. I've often thought about how beneficial it would be to chew coca leaves for stamina. The perverse zeal of thugs who torment fellow citizens who use some plants has made this a criminal offence. The Inca Empire ran on coca leaf energy, and was the most egalitarian empire ever.

Let's put doctors back in control of substances we ingest. Let's get the police back to protecting citizens from violence and robbery.

Police efforts on drug control have created criminals for almost a century.

It's time for a change.

Coca Leaf tea would probably be better than coffee for both increased alertness and soothing vitality. Comparing natural coca leaf tea with cocaine powder is like comparing a super concentrated Caffeine Powder with a cup of coffee.

I think Americans would be better off if they could substitute coca leaf tea in place of coffee.


Cocaine powder creates a dependency and puts health at risk. But I agree, this should be a public health problem. Take the money out of the crime.

If I understand it correctly the reason cocaine is so addictive is because of the way it is generally used (it is inhaled or snorted). The drug is less metabolized than other stimulants (such as amphetamine and methylphenidate). If you ingest it I would suspect that it has different properties (but I don't know for sure). For instance, amphetamine can be snorted and it has different properties than if taken orally. I would suspect this is true since the body metabolizes the substance to a greater degree thus decreasing the 'shock' on the body of rapid elimination of the substance. This overall reduces the addiction (even though it by no means eliminates it).

Colombia shows us that the rule of law is meaningless when the drug war is pushed by Warshington. The Colombia Supreme Court ordered the spraying of Monsanto's improved Roundup to stop, but the planes keep on destroying the rain forest.

Bolivia is another lesson where the coca traditions of indigenous people that are a majority in the country are out to preserve their way of life. Coca is nutritition and medicine to them. In Bolivia person can be arrested and the law requires him to prove innocence before he can be released. They recently granted immunity to US personnel that could shoot anyone with impunity. They are raping the people letting valuable petro energy go out of the country for a sixth or seventh of what they could get on the open market, although the people want to use the energy to create an economy. The last president has recently resigned and this recent Zmag article is one of the few things you can find on what is happening in Bolivia as Michael Jackson and Martha Stewart are more newsworthy than an entire continent much less a country - http://tinyurl.com/4mt3h

The bottom line in all of this is that the criminals are in government.

Nazis are as nazis do.