After decades of fighting the war on drugs and receiving discouraging results, the US government is searching for a new solution that would attack the drug industry at its source. But how does one eradicate plants that can grow anywhere without destroying their surrounding ecosystems? It’s not like we can carpet-bomb all of Columbia’s farms and forests. The architects of the drug war have responded with a scalpel-like answer: Engineer custom fungi to wage a biowar on drug-producing plants.The Committee on Mycoherbicides for Eradicating Illicit Drug Crops, a subset of the National Research Council formed at the direction of the Office of National Drug Control Policy and Congress, just released an exhaustive 168-page study looking at the potential for using fungi as targeted herbicides to destroy drugs before their parent plants mature.Read the rest at Motherboard.
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