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veggie

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Hunt for ecstasy drug ingredient destroying Cambodia's jungles
#8570296 - 06/27/08 08:36 AM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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Hunt for ecstasy drug ingredient destroying Cambodia's jungles June 27, 2008 - monstersandcritics.com
Phnom Penh - Clubbers may claim it is the ultimate love drug, but conservationists Friday warned every tablet of MDMA, known as ecstasy, helps destroy Cambodia's already dwindling rainforest.
In a highly publicized burn earlier this month, Cambodia destroyed enough confiscated sassafras oil, a key ingredient in the illegal drug, to produce 245 million ecstasy tablets with a street value of approximately 7 billion dollars.
But conservation group Flora and Fauna International (FFI), which has been a key instigator in cracking down on the trade, said in a press release received Friday the drug's users may still not understand the serious damage their habit did to the environment.
'Sassafras oil, produced by boiling the roots of rare Mreah Prew Phnom trees, is illegally distilled in (Cambodian) jungles ... for processing into a chemical used to make ecstasy,' the group said.
'To make matters worse, the distillation process itself uses enormous quantities of fuel wood from other rainforest trees.'
As well, FFI said, sassafras oil processing plants are typically located beside streams, polluting the pristine water sources of the protected Cardamom mountains in the country's south-west.
The Mreah Prew Phnom tree (cinnamomum parthenoxylon) is a rare tree rated as data deficient by the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List of Threatened Species.
FFI said it supports 49 wildlife officers to root out illegal factories and would continue its efforts to keep them from reopening.
It said the Cardamoms cover over 2-million hectares, and its destruction would potentially release 1.4 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide - a serious blow in the fight against climate change.
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Re: Hunt for ecstasy drug ingredient destroying Cambodia's jungles [Re: veggie]
#8570309 - 06/27/08 08:44 AM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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veggie said:
In a highly publicized burn earlier this month, Cambodia destroyed enough confiscated sassafras oil, a key ingredient in the illegal drug, to produce 245 million ecstasy tablets with a street value of approximately 7 billion dollars.
But conservation group Flora and Fauna International (FFI), which has been a key instigator in cracking down on the trade, said in a press release received Friday the drug's users may still not understand the serious damage their habit did to the environment.
So they themselves are responsible for destroying the plant used in production, rather than trying to stop the producers themselves? and then have the nerve to associate the users of the drug with the destruction?....whoever wrote this shit carries his balls around in a wheelbarrow....
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Re: Hunt for ecstasy drug ingredient destroying Cambodia's jungles [Re: Irdamage]
#8570530 - 06/27/08 10:15 AM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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If it were legal and regulated we wouldn't have this problem now would we?
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Re: Hunt for ecstasy drug ingredient destroying Cambodia's jungles [Re: veggie]
#8570559 - 06/27/08 10:26 AM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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In a highly publicized burn earlier this month, Cambodia destroyed enough confiscated sassafras oil,
Irdamage, notice where it says oil? That means its was the extract they destroyed, not the actual plants.
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Re: Hunt for ecstasy drug ingredient destroying Cambodia's jungles [Re: lil_demented]
#8570603 - 06/27/08 10:48 AM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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yeah but if they destroyed their supply, they are causing the "drug addicts" to search out more out by destroying more trees. if they left them be, they would still be using the oil they already had before searching out more trees. and hell if it was legal, we could make mdma out of just about anything, and leave the trees alone.
whoever wrote this article can go sit on a cactus.
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Re: Hunt for ecstasy drug ingredient destroying Cambodia's jungles [Re: lil_demented]
#8570610 - 06/27/08 10:50 AM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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hmm this is distressing. just goes to show everything we do has some kind of impact. I blow glass for a living, 1 propane + 1 oxygen = H20+CO2 and all the crazy metals gassing off into the atmosphere so hippies can smoke herb from glass pipes... fuckin depressing to think about how we really are "amusing ourselves to death"
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Re: Hunt for ecstasy drug ingredient destroying Cambodia's jungles [Re: Midnight Rider]
#8570692 - 06/27/08 11:24 AM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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It's even more depressing when you bring a child into this world..
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Re: Hunt for ecstasy drug ingredient destroying Cambodia's jungles [Re: Adamist]
#8570871 - 06/27/08 12:27 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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Adamist said: It's even more depressing when you bring a child into this world..
Amen
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Re: Hunt for ecstasy drug ingredient destroying Cambodia's jungles [Re: Thrax]
#8570897 - 06/27/08 12:34 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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But conservation group Flora and Fauna International (FFI), which has been a key instigator in cracking down on the trade, said in a press release received Friday the drug's users may still not understand the serious damage their habit did to the environment.
Ummm... if the drug weren't illegal, then other means of production would be available and the environment would be safe. Blame the war on drugs, not the people.
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Re: Hunt for ecstasy drug ingredient destroying Cambodia's jungles [Re: Seuss]
#8570977 - 06/27/08 12:58 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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Here we go with the bull shit again... Cambodian Phcuk hwo caers trees are not the only source of the oil, as discussed in the other thread. I realllllllly doubt the cambodian ingrediants make it into north american finished ecstacy pill supplies. There is safrole avalible both domestically and from south america. Not to mention i find it likely you can grow the shit just like any other plant.
pill poping does not equal
Rainforest distruction
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Re: Hunt for ecstasy drug ingredient destroying Cambodia's jungles [Re: rodfarva]
#8571361 - 06/27/08 03:03 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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Wow. This pisses me off in so many ways. I always see articles like this, where they skew the facts to make it look like the production of psychoactive chemicals is worse for the environment than the production of anything else. And the fact that it's illegal, makes it that much worse, by reducing efficiency, therefore creating more waste and destruction. Also, yes, I doubt very much MDMA in North America is derived from this Cambodian shit.
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