>wow, I can't imagine any former drug grower winning the Presidential nomination here in the U.S. Guilty of running a bordello, maybe, but drugs, no. Could you imagine Bush's ranch once being used primarily to grow marihuana?
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4549802.stm>>
>>Here are some people who don't mind risking an international incident, just to make a so-called joke.
Drugs? Not exactly. He is the leader of the people who grow coca leaves. Some of those leaves are used to produce illegal drugs, some are chewed directly. Neither the coca-growing nor chewing the leaves are illegal in Bolivia and some neighboring countries, but the government has put some restrictions - mainly as a result of pressure from the U.S. - on the amount that can be grown.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
