01 Nov 2004
The Coca Plant That Wouldn't Die

It's Coca Farmers vs Monsanto and the Drug Warriors: at the end of the first inning, it's Farmers 1, Drug Warriors 0. The Farmers have taken control of the game based on their superior experience - they've been at this sort of thing for the last ten millennia or so, while the Monsanto and the Drug Warriors have less than a century of combined time in the race.

The war on Colombia's drug lords is losing ground to an herbicide-resistant supershrub. Is it a freak of nature -- or a genetically modified secret weapon? By Joshua Davis from Wired magazine.

(link) [Wired News]

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