Posted on 03/10/2017 10:07:35 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
On Wednesday, President Evo Morales, a former coca grower, signed the bill into law allowing farmers to plant up to 54,000 acres in coca — up from 29,000 under the previous legislation.
Bolivia is the world’s third largest cocaine producer after Colombia and Peru.
Once the new law goes in effect, Morales’ government has said it wants to “industrialize” the added production, but analysts and critics fear it will be diverted to cocaine production.
Opposition lawmakers are planning to sue to block the law, calling it unconstitutional because it breaches international treaties. They said it would turn Bolivia into a free-for-all for drug dealers.
“The new law will probably lead to increased drug trafficking,” said Omar Barrientos, a lawyer who was involved in drafting the existing 1998 legislation, which had the backing of the U.S.
Eliminating restrictions on coca production has been a long-standing goal for Bolivia's coca growers, who were organized into a powerful union by President Morales and became his core constituency. But the law never materialized due to infighting among the different unions. . .
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Which is why nobody does it. We are FAR from sufficient knowledge of molecular bioengineering to design such a beast with sufficient safeguards.
Unfortunately, terrorists and deep green fanatic don't much care if it happens. For terrorists, they believe that "Allah will protect his own", and for the deep green fanatics, human virulence is a feature, not a bug.
DDT would take care of it.
This is how the deep state makes its money. A rogue state produces the coke and deep state banks line up to handle the transactions.
Then get CIA and DEA involved, add in arms sales and sex trafficking and you’ve got enough money to bribe congress, the courts, department heads, state government many times over. Mena, AR and DEA protecting drug cartels in decades long stings is old news.
I think we mean different things by "bug". I am (and assumed that exPBRrat was) referring to a biowarfare agent like a plant disease, while you apparently mean an insect. I am not aware of successful bioengineering of insects for such a purpose.
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