http://www.drug-aware.com/articles Drug and Alcohol Information, Awareness and Testing Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:53:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.drug-aware.com/articles/4/cocaine-and-the-destruction-of-the-rainforests/comment-page-1/#comment-184 Alice Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:41:12 +0000 http://www.drug-aware.com/articles/?p=4#comment-184 This is just horrific. It's one thing to destroy the rainforest for things we actually need, paper, for instance (although I do understand that we need to start finding new ways of getting our neccessities and do not condone deforestation) but it's another thing to destroy it simply to fuel our own selfish ways. Cocaine is not NEEDED by anyone. It's just so selfish and heartless to keep buying it when there are much bigger and more important things to deal with. Is there anything we can do to help this situation? I just think that whatever anyone tries to do, no one is big enough to reach the whole of Europe and the US. This is just horrific. It’s one thing to destroy the rainforest for things we actually need, paper, for instance (although I do understand that we need to start finding new ways of getting our neccessities and do not condone deforestation) but it’s another thing to destroy it simply to fuel our own selfish ways. Cocaine is not NEEDED by anyone. It’s just so selfish and heartless to keep buying it when there are much bigger and more important things to deal with. Is there anything we can do to help this situation? I just think that whatever anyone tries to do, no one is big enough to reach the whole of Europe and the US.

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