Super cocaine?
As a follow up to your article "The Drug War on the
Amazon," (Currents, November/December 2004), I would suggest Wired
magazine's "The Mystery of the Coca Plant Noun 1. coca plant - a South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes; a source of cocaine
coca, Erythroxylon coca
Erythroxylon, Erythroxylum, genus Erythroxylon, genus Erythroxylum - a large genus of South American shrubs and small That Wouldn't
Die" by Joshua Davis Joshua Davis can mean: - Joshua Davis (Photographer), Photographer and designer of joshuadavisagency.com
- Joshua Davis (DJ), DJ and turntablist also known as DJ Shadow
- Joshua Davis (web designer), web designer and founder of Praystation.
(www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.11/
columbia.html). It seems that the chemical spraying may have more
coil-sequences than human casualties. Now nature has adapted to the
chemicals by creating a super strain of coca plant that is not only
completely resistant to the herbicide herbicide (hr`bəsīd'), chemical compound that kills plants or inhibits their normal growth. A herbicide in a particular formulation and application can be described as selective or nonselective. but apparently is even more potent
than the original coca. The next escalation in this war may be the use
of Fusarium Oxysporum, a fungus that will likely prove even more
devastating dev·as·tate
tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates
1. To lay waste; destroy.
2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. to the farmers' economy.
Michael Kornell
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