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Fair Trade Marijuana Project Ended in Costa Rica
By The Boss on Mar 14, 2008 | In Business | 3 feedbacks »
It looks like a great idea to us, something that could work in the Dariën for example. Have local villages take care of your weed plantations in exchange for food. But in Costa Rica, such a project was frustrated by the police, reports AM Costa Rica:
One by one. That's how agents pulled up 800,000 marijuana plants under the burning jungle sun in Talamanca, said the minister of security Thursday.
The native Costa Rican people of the area were caring for the plants in exchange for food given by narcotraffickers, according to the Fuerza Pública. “Rice and beans for marijuana” was how one spokesman put it. Native peoples also received pistols for 40 pounds of chopped marijuana, among other items, said the security ministry.
Well, that ends that. And the villagers? Did anyone think of them in this great victory in the war on super-dangerous drugs?
Now that 800,000 of the plants are destroyed, it may be difficult for the people in the area to eat, admitted a spokesman.
Well done, drug warriors!
