Canada troops battle 10-ft Afghan marijuana plants

[Big Wooly Mammoth]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061012/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_canada_marijuana

General Rick Hillier, chief of the Canadian defence 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.

Even successful incineration had its drawbacks.

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

"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.

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

[StoneMtn]

"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,"

Is it time to send in a regiment of Skanks to show 'em how it's done?

[Kanada Kev]

Too funny! I love the picture too:

Edited October 13, 2006 by Guest

[The Chameleon]

You don't need to go to Afgahistan to battle 10ft high weed trees. You could simply hit any farmer's field in the London/Brantford area.

[bradm]

I read the subject for this topic, and immediately imagined a 1960s-style comic book cover, with a group of superheroes engaged in battle with huge walking, thinking, mutated marijuana plants, made that way by some kind of weird defoliant agent sprayed by the good guys that went horribly wrong...

Aloha,

Brad

[Kanada Kev]

imagined a 1960s-style comic book cover, with a group of superheroes engaged in battle with huge walking, thinking, mutated marijuana plants, made that way by some kind of weird defoliant agent sprayed by the good guys that went horribly wrong...

Now THAT would be a War on Drugs!

Kinda like the picture with the tank ... is it PROTECTING the pot, or is it getting ready to ATTACK it

[SmoothedShredder]

Is there anything that this plant can't do better than some awful cheezy synthetic? Free the Weed!

[bokonon]

You don't need to go to Afgahistan to battle 10ft high weed trees. You could simply hit any farmer's field in the London/Brantford area.

Haven't you all wondered why the fuck we stay here in Brantford?

[popo weenie]

hear lazlo was under one hiding, waiting for for them to dry out

[popo weenie]

right on ,here they found bigger one,s

and mama was behind it all, not my mama

[nattyMatty]

I Hate This War...... Wrecking Pot plants is just like taking perfectly Good food and Throwing it in the GarbAGE. iv always wanted to make hash with awood chipper tho.