The price of coca Living downstairs from a neighborhood drug dealer can disrupt your home life. They are the biggest partiers, the loudest drama queens, their "friends" are always ringing the front door bell to get in, and they never stay more than a few minutes. The constant human traffic often brings with it, lives and voices of loud desperation. You almost wish those guys would overdose and die, so someone quiet could move in. …
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…travelers are warned to avoid independent tour guides, due to incidents where tourists were drugged and raped while on jungle safari. This current tug-of-war over legalization is emblematic of the chaois that individual drug users experience in their lives. Like the hopeless addict who bounces in and out of jail and rehab, BOlivia's dependence on the coca trade predicts an unstable future. *"Bolivia may legalize coca," http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/americas/02/22/bolivia.cocaine.ap/