April 19, 2024
BANGOR DAILY NEWS (BANGOR, MAINE

The government wants to spend $1.6 billion to spray opium (poppy) crops in Colobmia. That’s $1.6 billion to spray a country twice the size of Texas.

And yet after 10 years of spraying, the crops are producing a bigger yield (20 to 30 percent), and they are more potent. Sounds like they have Miracle Gro in their sprayers instead of herbicide. John McCready Houlton


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