Marijuana actually does support terrorists!

[Archaic]

CNN

OTTAWA, Canada (Reuters) -- Canadian troops fighting Taliban militants in Afghanistan have stumbled across an unexpected and potent enemy -- almost impenetrable forests of marijuana plants 10 feet tall.

General Rick Hillier, chief of the Canadian defense staff, said Thursday that Taliban fighters were using the forests as cover. In response, the crew of at least one armored car had camouflaged their vehicle with marijuana.

"The challenge is that marijuana plants absorb energy, heat very readily. It's very difficult to penetrate with thermal devices. ... And as a result you really have to be careful that the Taliban don't dodge in and out of those marijuana forests," he said in a speech in Ottawa, Canada.

"We tried burning them with white phosphorous -- it didn't work. We tried burning them with diesel -- it didn't work. The plants are so full of water right now ... that we simply couldn't burn them," he said.

Even successful incineration had its drawbacks.

"A couple of brown plants on the edges of some of those [forests] did catch on fire. But a section of soldiers that was downwind from that had some ill effects and decided that was probably not the right course of action," Hiller said dryly.

One soldier told him later: "Sir, three years ago before I joined the army, I never thought I'd say 'That damn marijuana'."

 

[Fig]

Just cut the stuff and send it home. I know any number of Canadians 15-30 who will gladly take care of disposing of it.

Like, the entire 15-30 population in Canada :-D

 

[Argy]

No, not Canada! Give it to me!!

Of course, that is given that the plants are female and have any sort of potency. Plain old hemp plants usually don't have as much THC as ones specifically bred for their psychoactive qualities. Although it did say some soldiers downwind of the burning had "ill effects." Pussies.

(Damian, were you including yourself in that figure? ;O)

 

[The Big Al]

He was.

Why don't they use it to camouflage their own vehicles?

Aren't the male plants poisonous? The plants that burned could have been male.

 

[Argy]

No, they aren't poisonous. They just don't have the flower buds that contain the high levels of THC.

 

[Fig]

Technically, I'd be part of it.

Officiously, tried the stuff once, didn't like it. Smoke of any sort and I don't get along.

 

[Charmander1428]

....Yeah, they burned it to GET RID OF IT! Canada makes me laugh at times.