Heroin Crop Doomed! Genetically Created Fungus To Wipe Out Global Crop
 

The story below appeared two years ago. Word is on the wires the fungus is already in the re-launch stages. I can see the streets of the world with wandering junkies like 'Night of the Living Dead...

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/arti...6/150144.shtml

Code Name 'Lotus Eater'

Yet, there is another story about the Lotus Eaters. In the 1990s, a major U.S. university, working closely with an U.S. Army biological warfare lab, developed a genetically altered fungus code-named "Lotus Eater." The Lotus Eater fungus is specifically designed to attack the opium poppy plant and nothing else.

The Lotus Eater fungus is reported to be so effective that one potent strain could eliminate almost all the global opium crop within five years of its release. A second, less potent strain was also developed which could wipe out a single season of poppy crop exposed to the fungus, but it could not reproduce itself beyond a short lifetime.


It is here, after the two strains were developed, that the story of the Lotus Eater turns upside down. The Clinton administration suddenly withdrew all research monies, closed the university site and took the fungus strains away. No further research, or development has ever been recorded.

In 2002, the U.S. military reportedly offered to use the Lotus Eater fungus on Afghan opium crops. The plan was to use U.S. control of Afghan airspace to seed the fungus from highflying C-130 Hercules transports.

Yet the Bush administration reportedly turned down the idea. According to high-level intelligence sources, the plan to end opium production inside Afghanistan was nixed by the CIA. The reason given was quite simple.

Apparently, there are several large factions inside Afghanistan and Pakistan, friendly to the U.S., that directly depend on funding from opium. These factions threatened to overthrow the Afghan and Pakistani governments if they were not allowed to continue trafficking heroin and opium.

The specter of a nuclear-armed Pakistan being run by radical opium gangs put the Lotus Eater plan on hold. The CIA reportedly noted that if Lotus Eater was released into the poppy fields that several Southeast and Southwest Asian governments would fall.

The consequences of a Lotus Eater attack directly effected corrupt elements inside the Russian and Chinese armies as well as the intelligence service inside Pakistan. The disruption of trade could even start a world war in Asia.

It is here that our dark tale ends. The opium and heroin trade continue to flourish. The poppy fields continue to fuel the bank accounts of radical terrorists and addict millions in its wake.

The most powerful nation on earth is a helpless giant, unable to stop the devastating trade even when armed with the ultimate weapon. We have become the Lotus Eaters

Good...eat all that shit up...freakin junkies

Porn bad. Opium good. :thumbsup Bush says so.

If that's true, it's amazing.

Ya know though, there may be some unforseen side affect to it. It's like when there is an insect problem and you ship in certain types of animals to eat them, and then you wind up with too many of those animals.

Or we find out that their was some life saving properties in heroin that could be used for medicinal purposes but it's all gone.

Bingo. Why aren't there scientists thinking this is beyond me.

Something tells me this is bad, after all Love Bugs were genetically developed by the University of FL (I think it was them), in an attempt to control mosquitoes. Well everyone in FL knows how well that turned out.

They tried the same shit with a fungus that was supposed to kill weed, the good kind.

fuck that.
heroin is the best drug on earth. let the trafficing continue.

its no secret that the CIA controls the flow of narcotics within the United States

It's clear whats going to happen here. This Lotus Eater fungus is gonna pull a Resident Evil on our ass. Fucking zombies everywhere, goddamit.

such an interesting story. i tell it to my friend.

ummmm....isn't opium needed to make morphine and codeine?

Im sure they have some form of substitute but yea I do believe your right.

Idiot.

Yes, and a whole host of other things.

Heroin is Acetyl-morphine

The reason why that plan was stopped is a lot simpler than some faction overthrowing some Afghan or Pakistani government.

Drugs is a business any way you slice it.

I could be cynical and say that the US government is selling the dope. Well, that may be true. The CIA doesn't get all their funding from congress. But I'll keep it at that.

No drugs means less enforcement. Those cops and DEA folks are tax paying citizens just like much everybody else. If there's no dope, many are likely to be out of a job. Someone on welfare is not exactly a source of income like someone paying taxes is. From the government's standpoint, that angle alone is worth considering if you step back and look at the big picture.

The argument of needing the plants for legitimate research is valid as well. I would also hate not being able to buy those delicious lemon/poppy seed muffins at the corner bakery :mad:

But just in case it happens, someone please try to save some plants. I'm sure some BC bud grower will have the leadership to pick up the slack and start growing hydroponic poppy plants. :glugglug