{"id":405465,"date":"2010-03-08T18:13:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T23:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-03-08-cocaine-addicts-are-snorting-their-way-to-a-warmer-world\/"},"modified":"2010-03-08T18:13:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T23:13:11","slug":"cocaine-addicts-are-snorting-their-way-to-a-warmer-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/405465","title":{"rendered":"Cocaine addicts are snorting their way to a warmer world"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tby Ashley Braun <\/p>\n

<\/a>Passetti via Flickr<\/p>\n

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You may snort at the news, but it’s the real snuff: Cocaine is hard on your sinuses, but it’s not crazy fun for the planet either. Celebs’<\/a> favorite nose candy is knocking down rainforest in party favor of coca plants, thus speeding up climate change<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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In fact, “for every few lines of cocaine snorted in a London club, four square meters of rainforest is destroyed.” That’s hard to take. Why don’t users drop the bad habit and drink cocaine<\/a> or hit up some killer cheese<\/a> instead?<\/p>\n

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by Ashley Braun Passetti via Flickr You may snort at the news, but it’s the real snuff: Cocaine is hard on your sinuses, but it’s not crazy fun for the planet either. Celebs’ favorite nose candy is knocking down rainforest in party favor of coca plants, thus speeding up climate change. In fact, “for every […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":765,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/765"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}