Cocaína

George Monbiot, em Time to draw the line on cocaine, chama a atenção para aspectos do tráfico da cocaína, que usualmente são ignorados. Merece ser lido:

"But we are where we are, and right now people's enthusiasm for cocaine is a
humanitarian and environmental disaster. The cocaine business as currently
constituted is the most immoral trade on Earth. By participating in it, you
directly commission murder, torture, displacement and deforestation. According
to the Colombian government (not, admittedly, the most trustworthy source on
such matters) every gram of cocaine you take destroys four square metres of
rainforest. The trade gives that government the excuse to wage an unending war
against the peasantry, which is also caught between rightwing paramilitaries and
leftwing guerillas, both of which make their money from powder. You might think
it's daring and subversive to snort a line or two, but the real risk is run by
people thousands of miles from here. You can choose whether or not to
participate. They can't."