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Octavius Hite
Joined: 28 Jan 2004
Location: Househunting, looking for a new bunker from which to convert the world to homosexuality.
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 Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 8:42 pm Post subject: Canada troops battle 10-ft Afghan marijuana plant |
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Canadians will be leaving Korea and flooding Afghanistan now!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061012/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_canada_marijuana
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TTAWA (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.
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.
"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'." |
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JeJuJitsu
Joined: 11 Sep 2005
Location: McDonald's
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| Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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"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.
A platoon of Canadians that couldn't figure out how to burn marijuana?! I call BS on this article. |
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Moldy Rutabaga
Joined: 01 Jul 2003
Location: Ansan, Korea
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| Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 9:41 pm Post subject: |
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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. |
Who's cheering for the plants!
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| "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. |
Ask us.. we have a better way... 
Ken:> |
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JeJuJitsu
Joined: 11 Sep 2005
Location: McDonald's
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| Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 9:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Moldy Rutabaga wrote: |
Ask us.. we have a better way...
Ken:> |
Ya, hey! Unleash 10,000 Canadian ESL teachers that have been forced to be without weed for a year on those plant. See how long they stay standing, then!  |
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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 10:01 pm Post subject: |
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Field of dreams...
I do wonder if any of it will make its way back to Canada in the bags of the soldiers. Would be hard to fight that temptation. |
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JeJuJitsu
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| Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 11:01 pm Post subject: |
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Field of dreams...
I do wonder if any of it will make its way back to Canada in the bags of the soldiers. Would be hard to fight that temptation. |
May have to rethink my vacation plans! |
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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 11:03 pm Post subject: |
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| I guess in a more sane world that would be possible. A hemp holiday in Afganistan! If only the potheads were in charge... |
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coolsage
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: The overcast afternoon of the soul
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| Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 6:29 am Post subject: |
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| I'd say it's time for all Canadians to support the military in a joint effort . |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 7:07 am Post subject: |
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| coolsage wrote: |
| I'd say it's time for all Canadians to support the military in a joint effort . |
How about a joint American and Canadian study on the effects of cannibis in Afghanistan versus the one found in North America?
What about putting so much cannibis into caves where Taliban hide out?
I think they would come out laughing and surrender. It would like that moive with Mel Brooks where those Romans are laughing in some marijuana field that catches fire. By the way, did you know marijuana grows all over the place in the Himalayas? I remember watching a documentary where this Indian believed it was part of his religious philosophy to smoke it. |
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uberscheisse
Joined: 02 Dec 2003
Location: japan is better than korea.
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| Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 9:45 am Post subject: |
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| interesting how the weed fields haven't made the taliban complacent, docile hippies who don't like to fight |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 4:31 pm Post subject: |
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I guess pot really is a 'gateway' drug.
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