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| ’Cannabis switch hits food crop’ |
| 2004-03-03 |
| The UN drugs watchdog has warned that food shortages in Africa are becoming more serious because of a shift from growing crops to cultivating cannabis. In its annual report, the International Narcotics Control Board says the main producers of the drug are southern countries like South Africa and Malawi. But, it says, farmers in east Africa and Sudan have also switched. It also explains the crazed killers running around, they’re stoned out of their minds. The report says profits from cannabis and other illegal drugs have been used to finance some of Africa’s conflicts. The UN says drug money was used to buy weapons for wars in Ivory Coast, Liberia and the Central African Republic. Hard drug use was also increasing, but cannabis remained the most widely grown, traded and consumed drug on the continent, the report said. Although farmers earn more money from growing cannabis than traditional food crops, the switch means there is less food available in local markets, the INCB’s Beate Hammond told BBC News Online. Plus, all those stoned dudes have the munchies. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #11 There is no food shortage. They know that they can get free food from us. They had a chronic shortage of the chronic that they have now solved. The market works again. Why grow food when it will be delivered to the house. Should work out for all concerned. At least none of them want to live in my garage or basement. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-3-3 10:23:19 PM |
| #10 Still LOL, I'm working with M4D and HalfEmpty on a quest... actually I'm working with the idea of M4D and HalfEmpty on an airplane. I know... peshwar, bad,bad. Still a funny thought. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-3-3 7:28:52 PM |
| #9 LOL Evert! Don't encourage 'em. Quest for the Bongs indeed. Now ROFLMAO. This will be trouble. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-3-3 5:09:52 PM |
| #8 There's not really a food shortage, its just that Ed gets stoned and eats everything in sight... HEY! I may eat everything in sight, but I'm NOT stoned! ^_^ Ed Becerra. (Hmm.. somehow I'm reminded of the Harvard Lampoon's Bored of the Rings, with Frito and Spam getting seriously demented on mushrooms...) |
| Posted by: Ed Becerra 2004-3-3 4:32:37 PM |
| #7 #4 me and halfull going to have plabn trip over their. And with these mortal words,the Quest for the bong of bongs, royalty among bongs,the bong god and Allah battled over for possesion, in the proces creating the universe (by accident), sets of to-wards new challenges, exciting adventures and mentally unhealthy sexual encounters. |
| Posted by: Evert Visser 2004-3-3 3:57:07 PM |
| #6 There's not really a food shortage, its just that Ed gets stoned and eats everything in sight... |
| Posted by: flash91 2004-3-3 2:20:22 PM |
| #5 me and halfull going to have plabn trip over their. By the looks of things, you don't need any narcotics in your system. It's already toasted as it is. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-3-3 2:02:16 PM |
| #4 me and halfull going to have plabn trip over their. |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2004-3-3 1:36:17 PM |
| #3 It also explains the crazed killers running around, they’re stoned out of their minds. The only thing they're gonna kill is a bag of Fritos. |
| Posted by: KerryIsSoVery 2004-3-3 12:24:23 PM |
| #2 how amusing, can't say i blame them for growin it :) |
| Posted by: Jon Shep U.K 2004-3-3 12:10:36 PM |
| #1 Jeez this is basically selling your Cheetos to buy grass... a death spiral for sure. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-3-3 12:05:36 PM |