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...latest net of allegations, however, has some large holes. As described by NBC, Vesco's base on Norman's Cay sounds like an operation actually run on the same tiny island by Carlos Enrique Lehder-Rivas, a Colombian drug trafficker. The DEA, which began investigating Lehder a decade ago, has told TIME that he shipped at least 500 kilos of cocaine a month from Norman's Cay between 1976 and 1982. "Vesco hangs out with some of those people," says a Caribbean drug authority, "but he's not the kingpin." Finally, Caribbean drug dealers rarely trade...
...week's end the Reagan Administration's latest anti-drug campaign was coming under siege, with both its motives and its methods being questioned by elected officials and citizens' groups. Charging that the DEA was conducting "chemical warfare" against them, a coalition of 400 area residents won a temporary order in U.S. district court barring further paraquat spraying in Georgia's White County, which includes the Chattahoochee. A motion for a similar order was denied in London, Ky., near the Daniel Boone National Forest, where the DEA began spraying Friday. Republican Congressman Harold Rogers, in whose...
...charge that the airborne spraying is not an effective way to wipe out the estimated $10 billion U.S. marijuana crop. Because it is grown surreptitiously, most pot "fields" in the U.S. are actually small plots that are most efficiently cleared by simple uprooting or by ground spraying. For the DEA's first raid, the point seemed true enough. The take from seven small Georgia patches totaling less than an acre was about 60 plants, though the Feds managed to destroy larger amounts in Kentucky...
...real purpose of the operation, DEA's detractors claim, was to encourage countries like Colombia, where marijuana is grown in large fields, to follow suit. Mullen maintained that was not the main goal and insisted that helicopter spraying is useful even on small plots of marijuana in rough terrain...
...marijuana smokers, who may number as many as 30 million, the DEA program raises an old dilemma: the possibility of smoking tainted weed. Farming marijuana domestically, in fact, became a growth industry only when the U.S. provided funds for Mexico to use paraquat on its fields from 1975 to 1979, and contaminated samples began showing up in smuggled pot. Though not a single case of lung poisoning has so far been traced to marijuana use from that era, U.S. health officials estimate that nearly 10,000 users annually inhaled enough paraquat to be still considered at risk...