260 tons of marijuana uncovered in Afghanistan

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"Subject:
Can we imagine a Britain where all drugs are legal?

Posting:
Terrorists, like gangsters, (e.g. Al Capone, after the ill considered Volstead Act) trade drugs, because they are illegal. The only answer is to legalise them, even if it means giving the likes of British American Tobacco a licence to do so.

To focus on Afghanistan, I was shocked, last year, when our buoys bombed (or so they claimed) two hundred and seventy tons of prime hashish. Are they mad? Afghani's hate smack as much as we do, hate that they now have junkies, just like us, but they love their hash.

It was the Brits who introduced opium, like tea, to Northern "India" and fought two wars (which will come back to haunt us again and again in dealings with China) to protect our opium dealers. Now decent, but bonkers Brits are advising them to grow pomegranates, or wheat.

Best advice for our brave buoys in Afghanistan is to stop drinking the hooch and sit down with a local farmer, smoke a pipe, or ten, of his best black, and show your appreciation...
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Its just weed it will be smoked again...

I thought we were after binLaden ???

i cant wait to see how sorry americans are when they have completely destroyed the planet, which is why i hope im alive when we run out of oil, and all the Iraqis are dead because of stubborn america.

this was the story that made me register and all i have to say is...DAMN i wish i were there for the 'supposed' burning of all that green.

Leave the people and the crops alone ..they do not belong to us!!
..and the one thing some of these fanatics did get right, was that the end is is near my friend!
..so come on everybody , give it all a rest and lets get high on whatever your into!

Enjoy Coca Cola!

This is so annoying, what a waste. Let's just make it legal. You should be able to grow your own and if you want to buy it from a dispensary, it should be taxed. I'm so tired of law makers and police officers who don't know me, and will never know me, telling me what to do with my life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I like to smoke, it keeps me from losing it, if you know what I mean. I hate this whole off balanced, time wasting,war mongering system. They will never win the war on drugs!!

dont worry everyone they didnt burn all of it, the cia will bring some back to america to sell.

this was obviously a political ploy to earn brownie points with the conservative right who are anti everything

Legalize it and tax it. we could pay down the debt of the country in one transaction. Dont know about you all but no god forsaken fake jesus claiming gov officials going to tell me i can and cant put in my body. Eat shit and go to the hell you claim to believe in...

They burned it huh. Bullshit. Drugs are used to rig elections and trade for arms and political favors around the globe. Anybody who really thinks that they burned it is retarded. If the gov burned all the pot and only the pot every year they say they do the entire planet would be high as a kite

what a waste! All of Gods natural medicine burned.

War on terrorist or War on drugs...which is it? (both are not winnable)

$780,000 worth of heroin isn't even a pinch of what is distributed throughout the World from Afghanistan.....

Heroin is a derivative of Opium Poppy
Opium Poppies prefer a cool climate over hot weather. In hot areas, they will do well in the mountains or places where it stays cool. They grow best in loose, well drained soil and don't do well in dense soil like clay.

A night time drop in temperature of 20 degrees F or more is much better than a steady temperature through the day and night. This night time temperature drop is most important the first eight weeks of the plants life (during and after germination).

So Afghanistan has ideal terrain and weather conditions for opium growth.

So what? It's in Afghanistan, who cares? We really need to end this paranoid and myopic view of Pot, really!

Yea. They burned it. Right.

Ugh, mixing the two worst crusades in US history. The war on drugs and the "war on terror".

It doesn't matter how much they find and destroy it's a plant and people will always make it grow.

Is it illeagal to have hash and canibus products in afghanistan it looks like another case of more powerful nations pushing thier beliefs and laws on others
really if was worth that much why not sell it and return the money to the people of afghanistan

yea, why don't they bust the hard dope instead of just some probably field grown, not even friggin hydroponic bud, thats not even strong. wow rediculous. i can't even begin to realize how much that is.

This is nothing, you should see the poppy crops. Much larger cash flow in Afganistan than MJ.

can somebody in the government kick start a radish extermination project, cuz thats another growing thing this world can do without.

I don't really care who did it, the point is if pot were legal far less people would die, be injured, and loose all they have for it. If it was regulated it would be a way better world. I'm not saying this for all drugs because not all drugs are safe, but this one is. Human beings are idiots and that's all there is to it.

is it even illegal there? or do our senseless laws follow our senseless troops around, imposing themselves on everyone all willy-nilly? america! F*CK YEA!

Well...alot of people got high that day. What a better to treat yourself for finding alot of pot then to burn it.

Grow up people

It wasnt us, it was NATO and the UK

That's such a waste of good plant. First off the oxygen that the cannabis plant releases, second all those poor people who couldn't get high, third you can you use it for paper, fourth medical, and lastly but certainly not least, why the hell are we over there even worrying about it? We should be worrying about getting it legalized here, not getting it out of other countries. All I can say is that this is pure bullshit.

It hurts just a little to read. Where do they get the right?....oh wait...I forgot, they don't care.

oops! 420 huh?

How does this drop in supply affect the price I pay here? Not that I buy pot or anything like that. I'm just asking ...

time to go burn some of my own in honor :)

Well, theres a reason they call it afghan !

WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO MY ONLY FRIEND?!

that's so ridiculous
BURNED on site!
craziness!

i hope this was an attempt at creating an alternative fuel...otherwise SHAME ON THEM!

Officials huh? First off, it's not American property so they can't do that. Second, it's weed!

priorities = wack

god created marijuana and big gov. wants to destroy it. i wonder if the devil created governments.

They killed Killer , B!

Wow, that definitely created a few more anti-Americans to worry about. I never knew we were in Afghanistan on behalf of the War on Drugs.

We have no legal leg to stand on, and in fact not be involved persecuting Afghani drugs offenders at all.

What a waste of time. Did they think bin Laudin was hiding in that field?

Wow, what a friggin waste. I hope someday we'll once again have at least some sort of legal status for marijuana (as far as recreational use, I know medical use is legal, to an extent). Depressing... that's like seeing a Warsteiner or Budweiser plant go up in flames.

We're jammin', jammin, jammin'. I hope you like jammin' too!

So many plant lives wasted. That weed could have saved or helped so many people with their medical conditions. This is definitely sad news.

No wonder no one's in a real hurry to get things done over there. Someone should open a Dominos franchise there.

There goes the Amsterdam connection.

could've used some of that money to go towards the iraq debt. $400 million less in debt

They were probably so hungry after that burning.

what a waste!!!