Canada troops battle 10-ft Afghan marijuana plants

[madokie]

I say send some over here and some of us will help them burn it up. We'll even make it into small packages first to ensure we don't burn the house down too.

http://today.reuters.com/News/newsArticle.aspx?type=wor...


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

General Rick Hillier, chief of the Canadian defense staff, said on 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.

"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.

[SpreadItAround]

1. Is there anything marijuana can't do?

[madokie]

15. make a pretty desktop I must say

back in the day I've had fox tails two feet long 10 inches or so in diameter

[Monk06]

27. Ask Danny ................. he knows everything..............

Danny:

"I don't advise a haircut, man. All hairdressers are in the employment of the government. Hairs are your aerials. They pick up signals from the cosmos, and transmit them directly into the brain. This is the reason bald-headed men are uptight."

[Stephanie]

39. post of the year!

[keta11]

2. Lucky bastards!!!!

Lucky bastards

[Kutjara]

3. "marijuana forests"

That has such a nice ring to it.

[OnionPatch]

37. Sure does!

Sounds like a magical place.

[razors edge]

4. Sounds like they need a 40MM bong.

Or a helo hooka.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

5. Sounds like a 50s science fiction flick.

[mike_c]

7. the DOPE THAT WOULD NOT DIE!

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

9. Ten Foot Buddhas from Planet Afghan!

[951-Riverside]

10. Message Eaten and Destroyed

[951-Riverside]

6. Seems like they are trying a little too hard to "burn" these plants

[keta11]

8. Any of dem soldiers defer their rotation back home??/

[scarletwoman]

11. Right on! I'll gladly do MY part to help burn these nefarious plants!

Anything to help the war effort!


sw

[madokie]

13. got'er lit now

[scarletwoman]

17. *sigh* I can only dream...

[guinivere]

12. Emergency shipment of papers and bongs. Support the troops!

Hell, emergency shipment of said plant to Guinivere.

[keta11]

14. One bong hit, Two bong hit, Three bong hit, Osama!

[guinivere]

22. It would be great if a stoned Canadian dude found Osama.

[keta11]

25. Exactly, That would really be something!!

[mark414]

28. whoaaa maaan

aren't you uh....that one guy....what's your name?....hey you wanna hit this?

[liberalmuse]

16. Troops weed out Taliban using blunt force.

Now all they have to do is trade in their desert storm bdu's for Bob Marley t's and they'll blend right in.

[scarletwoman]

18. "blunt" force!?!

sw

[htuttle]

23. Yes, I believe it was their Joint Task Force

[scarletwoman]

31. It was a hellacious hit! They totally rolled up the enemy! Smoked 'em out!

On FIRE, man! It was, like... uh, what were we talking about? I'm hungry...

sw

[Renew Deal]

35. Do you work for the NY Post?

[H2O Man]

19. Divine intervention .....

a clear message that love is more powerful than hatred.

[sakabatou]

20. How hard would it be to cut down the plants?

[Canadian Socialist]

21. And the money quote:

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

[smomfr]

24. ¨absorb energy, heat very readily !!!!!!

could this be one answer to global warming? This could be huge, vast forests of ¨mota¨ around the world fighting global warming and changing peoples attitudes at the same time.

[Renew Deal]

26. Drop some napalm, lean back, and relax

[keta11]

29. Hope none of those soldiers deployed without their

Bic lighters, ha ha ha!!!

[mark414]

30. time for me to join the canadian army

[boolean]

32. BOOYA!

They deserve a break.

[Berserker]

33. Only one thing

to do with marijuana forests

[slaveplanet]

34. Oh my

white phosphorous resistant collie weed?

Sounds like someone in the marketing department was having fun preparing for the next export shipment.

"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," Hillier said dryly.

get your ass to Afghanistan you stoner hippies, "be all that you can be".

[Oilwellian]

36. Wow! They look prehistoric!

Imagine the wonderful, wafting aroma!

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

38. I'd say the ones with the "ill effects" were the lucky ones.

Hell, I'd love to stand downwind of that mission.