Reported in the news recently was the long-overdue intention of the USA to
start aerial spraying the opium poppies of Afghanistan with weed killer.

Of course a similar course of action against the coca plant has been under
way for many years in Columbia with some good results.

But what a waste of good weed killer, and how expensive an operation!

It's time for all botanists to rise up and contrive some new animal, insect
or fungal pest to mow down these evil errant plants for the greater good of
mankind.

Required is some agent to gnaw at the stems and roots, or some bug to infest
the leaves.

Medicinal morphine could be synthesized at a far lower cost than the money
now spent on drug policing.

Just think! The good botanists could 'disavow' any knowledge of the
established pest and so avoid any boring international politics about 'poor
people losing their livelihood' by pleading that a 'new bug / virus has just
evolved' and its all just bad luck.

What a wonderful way to clear American & European cities of drug-ingesting
pot-heads and hippies, the idle poor and the layabout, constantly-high
university students.

Yeah man!!!