Dealing coke? Make sure it’s fair trade

AN ORGANISATION that has headquarters in Camden Town has called on the borough's street-based drug dealers to make sure they only sell fair trade drugs.

Drugs And Fair Trade (DAFT) is campaigning on behalf of impoverished farm workers in South America who are responsible for extracting the cocaine from coca leaves before it is sent around the world.

Staff at the voluntary organisation fear that hard-pressed workers in countries such as Columbia, Peru and Bolivia are not being paid a fair wage for producing the drugs that are transported for consumption in the UK.

Joe Kerr, spokesman for DAFT, said: "OK, so crack cocaine and cocaine are illegal drugs but that doesn't mean the people who produce it should suffer too. Some of these people are subjected to really poor working conditions and pay by the drug barons. And they don't even get a pension scheme.

"There are at least 500,000 people who regularly take cocaine in the UK and we don't think it's too much for the smaller time dealers to ask suppliers if the workers got an honest day's pay for, all right, a dishonest day's work.

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its a true story,,,but

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I think it has more to do with it being April 1st...

funny though :D