No, this is not what you think. Studies based on a new methodology that compares the downstream and upstream concentrations of a compound resulting from the digestion of cocaine from the human body around major metropolitan centres show that cocaine consumption is much higher than previously thought in major cities in the West. Certainly,
For example in New York, IBMP teams searched the Hudson River and found the by-products of a projected cocaine consumption totaling 16.4 tons per year. There are approximately 3.4 million people aged 15 to 65 living in the Hudson's watershed. According to the United Nations "World Drug Report," 2.8 percent of Americans in this age group use cocaine at least once a year . That would mean that about 95,000 people are responsible for an annual consumption of 16.4 tons of pure cocaine -- a per capita rate of 172 grams per year.
The real question is, should we have to bear the social costs associated with this habit? Why should Colombian children be born with horrible mutations following the cropdusting of large swathes of jungle territory using insane quantities of Round-Up? Why should the Colombian government have to dedicate significant amounts of its limited resources to the fight against drug trafficking, when the demand for the cocaine and heroin produced in the country is so unbelievably high and tremendously inelastic?
I don't think we should be footing the bill for the West's cocaine habit, I'm sorry. Legalize this shit now .
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