[CTRL] Fungus Eyed As Drug Crop Killer
-Caveat Lector- Fungus Eyed As Drug Crop Killer By George Gedda WASHINGTON (AP) -- Government researchers are testing a fungus they believe will kill narcotics plants without harming other crops or animal life, a potential breakthrough aimed at cutting foreign production of illegal drugs headed for the United States. Congress has approved $23 million for further research into what are known as "mycoherbicides," soil-borne fungi capable of eradicating plants that provide the raw material for cocaine, heroin and marijuana. The Clinton administration is far from unanimous about the innovation. Skeptics say more testing must be done to prove the effectiveness and safety of the technology and winning the support of governments of drug- producing South American countries -- Colombia, Peru and Bolivia -- won't be easy. None has been briefed extensively, and none has taken a public position. The administration will get to sound out Colombian President Andres Pastrana next week when he comes on a state visit to Washington. The three South American countries are the only ones anywhere that produce the base plant for cocaine. The legislation was guided through Congress by Sen. Mike DeWine, R- Ohio, and Rep. Bill McCollum, R-Fla. In addition to mycoherbicide research, the legislation provides for promotion of alternative crops to narcotics plants for South American farmers. "These micro-organisms have the potential to cripple drug crops before they are even harvested," DeWine said. McCollum said the new crop eradication technology is much safer than traditional strategies. "All of the indications are that this has the potential for making a big difference in the drug war," he said. "This could be the silver bullet." House Foreign Relations Committee chairman Benjamin Gilman, R-N.Y., said the technology is "extremely effective, not costly, doesn't affect the environment and is a good way of eradicating coca." The United States has spent billions of dollars over the years with little success in trying the slay the drug dragon. The "just say no" campaign of the 1980s has been followed up by a government-sponsored media ad blitz warning people of the dangers of drugs. Chemical sprays and interdiction efforts have been used to cut supply. Still, an estimated 6.7 million addicts live in the country, and experts estimate that 13 million Americans have used drugs in the last month. U.S. officials believe South American countries can be persuaded to go along with the program only if farmers have plausible alternatives to narcotics plants. As one promising alternative, officials are touting chocolate, derived from cacao trees, because it is a suitable alternative for South American small farmers and the global market in the coming years is expected to be tight. Experiments by Agriculture Department scientists focus on isolating the mycoherbicides that narcotics plants produce naturally. If, for example, a coca plant is doused with the fungi, it wilts, and decades must pass before the area is again suitable for growing coca. In addition, beans, corn or other crops grown nearby are unaffected. Environmental Protection Agency scientists believe no harm would come to humans or animals as well. The same technologies can be applied to eradicate plants used for marijuana and heroin. Advocates and skeptics agree that the program will go nowhere without the support of the drug-producing countries. Unless the political groundwork is properly laid, farmers' unions or environmental groups in the coca-growing countries could come out in opposition, nullifying the possibility of cooperation, officials say. They also are bracing themselves for allegations that Washington is planning biological warfare against these countries. The costs of drug addiction are obvious: 14,218 drug-related deaths in 1995, and the price to society each year is $67 billion, according to the Office of National Drug Control Policy. President Clinton has set a goal of a 50 percent decrease in drug addiction in 10 years, but advocates of the new crop eradication technologies believe that goal is too modest. AP-NY-10-22-98 1436EDT Copyright 1998 The Associated Press DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html
Re: [CTRL] Fungus Eyed As Drug Crop Killer
-Caveat Lector- On 26 Jan 99, at 22:06, AP wrote: Environmental Protection Agency scientists believe no harm would come to humans or animals as well. That makes me feel soo much better while they spray us with these fungi as a test. I guess this has nothing to do with the mold-induce sinus infections being reported lately. Steve Steve Wingate California Director SKYWATCH INTERNATIONAL Today's Midi http://www.anomalous-images.com/sash-mysterious_times.mid Anomalous Images Bulletin Board http://www.anomalous-images.com/wwwboard.html Anomalous Images and UFO Files http://www.anomalous-images.com DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Fungus Eyed As Drug Crop Killer
-Caveat Lector- On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Steve Wingate wrote: Environmental Protection Agency scientists believe no harm would come to humans or animals as well. That makes me feel soo much better while they spray us with these fungi as a test. The same thought crossed my mind as well... I guess this has nothing to do with the mold-induce sinus infections being reported lately. Or those mysterious contrails? And I notice they don't address the issue of what happenes when one breathes in fungii/molds, and they become lodged in the lungs...leads to a type of pneumonia... June === The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds and naked woods, and meadows brown and sear. -- Wm. Cullen Bryant: The Death of the Flowers === *---* revcoal AT connix DOT com *---* It is UNLAWFUL to send unsolicited commercial email to this email address per United States Code Title 47 Sec. 227. I assess a fee of $500.00 US currency for reading and deleting such unsolicited commercial email. Sending such email to this address denotes acceptance of these terms. My posting messages to Usenet neither grants consent to receive unsolicited commercial email nor is intended to solicit commercial email. ** DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Fungus Eyed As Drug Crop Killer
-Caveat Lector- Some one had this on here recently and I will attempt to find it. Marijuana is related to some major agricultural plants that we use for food. On the side - """"check out Acidophilus"""" - it is a bacteria that if you do not have you will DIE! If we pasteurize, irradiate, and use antibiotics in all our food then there will be no enzymes or anything to help you digest that food. Nothing to help kick start you gut after your next antibiotic shot. That shot can kill you at that time. Pesticided, Irradiated, or antibioticly cell dead - fruit and vegetables, meat, and biologically dead earth from herbicides, pesticides, etc. This is a whole lot closer than we realize. There have to be some people because of their junk diets that are already walking dead and it will not take much to tip their scales or to at least tip them into cancer. Biological agents from another country? No way - whole scale genocide at home. They are trying to say this is the will of the people and anyone large enough that has cued in Banks etc. Have been told that there will still be some alive. They need to re-write history for this to happen and if there are too many people will that be allowed to happen? No one will be reproductively viable - if you want a child you will have to pay to have one cloned, if they allow that. All they will need is a few brains in bottles that are hooked up to holograms so that those personalities do not realized that everything has been taken. They want to say that it is the will of the people that the people think that there are too many of them. What would the leaders say - well they agreed - they just did not realize that they would have to go too for this to happen. I say that if there is any other Galactic Cultures would they want us out there if we can not even take care of our own playpen EARTH and the planets around it? On that basis do you think that Bush and Clinton and the rest see any future for them out in the stars? They and their kind would not be wanted so they are going to control the Earth right here and keep us here or else try to re-write history and hide behind everyone else again. They thought that they could rule in the open and realize that they can not - if they ever want us to be allowed out of our area of the Solar System. Will add this to the new essay as soon as I catch up on my work. Ah, I am watching my food and trying to not need a shot... Laura AKA The Pied Piper http://members.xoom.com/ThePiedPiper/Intro2.htm -Original Message- From: Steve Wingate [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, January 27, 1999 12:21 AM Subject: Re: [CTRL] Fungus Eyed As Drug Crop Killer -Caveat Lector- On 26 Jan 99, at 22:06, AP wrote: Environmental Protection Agency scientists believe no harm would come to humans or animals as well. That makes me feel soo much better while they spray us with these fungi as a test. I guess this has nothing to do with the mold-induce sinus infections being reported lately. Steve Steve Wingate California Director SKYWATCH INTERNATIONAL Today's Midi http://www.anomalous-images.com/sash-mysterious_times.mid Anomalous Images Bulletin Board http://www.anomalous-images.com/wwwboard.html Anomalous Images and UFO Files http://www.anomalous-images.com DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives
