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!

Tags: campesinos, costa rica, fair trade, marijuana
Comment from: John Migra [Visitor]
If this was done in Darien, government let villagers grow weed, even smoke it, when the natives start eating out the profits, then the goverment goons prohibit it and even arrest the villagers, and take over business and save some for personal consumption...
03/16/08 @ 13:05
Comment from: Guillermo Endara [Visitor]
legalize it...don't critize it...yeah in Panama yeahhhhhhh......
03/23/08 @ 01:30
Comment from: Guillermo Endara [Visitor]
vote for me and I will legalize it, right Ana Mae??? yeahh baby yeahhhhhh!!!!!
03/23/08 @ 01:32

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