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Packs of cocaine seized as they were being smuggled into the US. Image: US Federal DEA, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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Having a cocaine habit is bad for your health – and for the planet’s too, as it turns out that the growing use of the drug is also contributing to global warming. A series of recent reports examining the cocaine trade in Central America say traffickers seeking out new smuggling routes are destroying large areas of tropical forest in order to build roads and landing strips to transport supplies of cocaine bound for an ever-expanding market in the US.

 

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