Need another reason not to do cocaine?

According to a report in the Guardian, four square metres of rainforest are destroyed for every gram of cocaine snorted in the UK alone.

Francisco Santos Calderón, the vice-president of Colombia, recognizes the popularity of the green movement in Britain and is appealing to eco-conscious partiers there to combat deforestation by asking them to stop using cocaine.

Calderón claims that 300,000 hectares of rainforest are destroyed each year in Colombia to clear land for coca plant cultivation.

According to the Guardian, he told the Belfast conference:

“If you snort a gram of cocaine, you are destroying 4m square of rainforest and that rainforest is not just Colombian – it belongs to all of us who live on this planet, so we should all be worried about it. Not only that, the money that you use to buy the cocaine goes into the hands of Farc, of illegal groups that plant mines, that kidnap, that kill, that use terrorism to protect their business.”

It looks like Lindsay Lohann is responsible for global warming after all…

[Via: Guardian]