Bras And Thongs Are New Anti-Drug Weapon

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BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - They have tried aerial assaults and stiff jail sentences. Now Colombian officials have a new and unlikely weapon to combat the cocaine trade: push-up bras and thongs.

Some 900 peasant women in Colombia are set to make racy lingerie and sell it to French supermarket chain Carrefour under a U.N.-backed program aimed at encouraging impoverished farmers and their families to stop growing drug crops.

"We thought it was a very original idea. These are regions where there are drug crops and people need legal jobs," said Thierry Rostan of the U.N. Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention in Bogota.

Despite a fierce U.S.-backed campaign to spray drug crops with herbicide and impose longer jail terms, Colombia remains the world's No 1. producer of cocaine. Poor farmers, many of them coffee growers gone broke, have turned to drug crops to make a living.

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In Thailand, the most successful heroin eradication programs are the ones that have encouraged the farmers to grow coffee or tobacco instead. So clearly, the only profitable alternatives to drug crops are the ones that feed some other vice!

I was gonna say that sex is one they haven't tried in Thailand, but that's obviously false. See Neil Bush for corroborating testimony.

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