Forty years of dogged adherence to drug crop eradication and drug interdiction policies have been instrumental in hounding drug farmers and traffickers into increasingly fragile landscapes.
New research—much of it using newly available real-time satellite imagery of forest loss—is bringing into sharp focus the devastating ecological costs of conventional drug policies, and how these can profoundly undermine international policies designed to protect forests, mitigate climate change, and promote rural development. The international drug control system must share the blame for this devastation. Forty years of dogged adherence to drug crop eradication and drug interdiction policies have been instrumental in hounding drug farmers and traffickers into increasingly fragile landscapes. Although these policies have arguably done little to stem the cultivation and traffic of illicit drugs, it has done much to amplify the environmental devastation and degradation that accompanies them. From the Article: The impact of drug policy on the environment Published by: Open Society Foundation Original Link: https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/reports/impact-drug-policy-environment Art by: By U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Patrick J. McMahon/ Released (https://www.dvidshub.net/image/977965) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons 12/1/2015
0 Comments
Your comment will be posted after it is approved.
Leave a Reply. |
ECfESIn addition to our extensive lending library located in Eugene/Springfield, we aim to direct our community to the recent news related to ethnobotanicals and other plant-based/inspired derivatives. Please support the work of these journals, publishers, and writers in their attempts to translate the ethnobotanical phenomenon for a worldwide audience. Archives
April 2018
|
Eugene Center for Ethnobotanical Studies (ECfES)
Developing & promoting ethnobotanical education opportunities.
Downtown Office / Laboratory Studies : 44 West 7th Ave. Eugene, OR 97401
Public Outreach Office / Lending Library : 108 Main Street, Springfield, OR 97477
E-mail: info@ecfes.org Phone: 541-654-7033
Developing & promoting ethnobotanical education opportunities.
Downtown Office / Laboratory Studies : 44 West 7th Ave. Eugene, OR 97401
Public Outreach Office / Lending Library : 108 Main Street, Springfield, OR 97477
E-mail: info@ecfes.org Phone: 541-654-7033
Disclaimer: ECfES.org does not encourage illegal activity. We encourage harm-reduction, education, & integration.
(c) 2015-2018
(c) 2015-2018