Okay all you liberal elitist, environmentally conscious cokeheads. If you really care about the environment, it’s time to take the money from your nose and put it where your mouth is. [No wonder our high school English teachers warned us about mixed metaphors – Ed.] According to this article on CSMonitor.com, Shared Responsibility, the Colombian government’s eco-conscious cocaine awareness campaign, is convinced that if you only knew how your cocaine usage affected Colombia’s environment, you’d stop using it. Nice concept, but I have a hard time imagining wealthy cocaine-snorting Americans caring about much more than the next line. For the record though, 43 square feet of forest are cleared to produce just one gram of cocaine, and coca growers have cleared nearly five million acres (an area the size of New Jersey) within Colombia over the past 20 years. You can visit the Shared Responsibility web site or view some of their PSA’s at AdsOfTheWorld.com for more info. By the way, that picture at left is not actually green cocaine, it’s Meryl Streep snorting the mysterious green powder in the film Adaptation.