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Coca-Cola Forced to Abandon $25 Million Project in India

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August 25, 2014

The enterprise that managed to prohibit the coca leaf internationally now has to try to save its face by “withdrawing” its application after denial by agency in India

“Coca-Cola is a shameless and unethical company that has consistently placed its pursuit of profits over the well-being of communities that live around its facilities. It is absolutely reprehensible for a globally recognized company like Coca-Cola to seek further groundwater allowances from an area that has become acutely water-stressed, and that too in large part due to Coca-Cola’s mining of groundwater alone, ” said Amit Srivastava of the India Resource Center which has led the campaign to challenge the new plant.

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British ex-ambassador in Afghanistan: legalise the heroin trade

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By William Patey, British ambassador to Afghanistan from 2010-2012

25 June 2014

When Tony Blair deployed British troops in Afghanistan, ending the illicit production and supply of opium was cited as a key objective. In 2001 the prime minister linked heroin use in the UK with opium cultivation in Afghanistan: “The arms the Taliban buy are paid for by the lives of young British people buying their drugs. This is another part of the regime we should destroy.”

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A day at the Colorado marijuana black market

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By Tina Griego

30 July 2014

In these, the curious, infant days of the state’s legalization of recreational marijuana, of shiny dispensaries and touch-screen ordering and suburban parties where joints are passed like appetizers over granite countertops, no one would notice the duplex. Plain brick, patchy grass behind chain link, it appears weary, resigned to what the tenant calls “the ‘hood” and others might call left-behind Denver, untouched by the frenzy of investment that has returned to downtown.