That does it!!!! I'm joining the army

[Dr.Phool]

I'll show them how to burn that shit!

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/10/12/canada.troops.marijuana.reut/index.html

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.

(snip)

[Sabriel]

1. Sure is a lot of burnin' goin' on there....

"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.

I'll bet they ALL voted to try to burn it!

[Tace]

21. Hand Out A Few Bongs...

[niyad]

2. and here I thought their major cash crop was opium

[Warpy]

3. Oh, man, THINK of the resin!

If I had to run through those plants looking for Taliban, I'd be chewing my uniform as soon as I got back to base.

[alittlelark]

12. Think about all the hash accumulating on the Humvee

Those engines get HOT! Vaporization takes place at only 180 degrees or so.....

[TheBaldyMan]

4. careful that you don't go completely bong-kers out there

if the powers that be follow usual military logic, every stoner will be posted to a base somewhere in Antartica instead of Afghanistan. ( Ooh! that Afghan hash :9 )

[Subdivisions]

5. Hey Doc! Quit bogartin' that blunt!

[Dr.Phool]

7. Actually I haven't smoked a joint in 30 years.

But it does sound like a good place to retire!

[catnhatnh]

6. Someone's Fibbin'

Willy pete will burn human flesh, for christ sake,and diesel though slow, burns....So the British are facing magic plants??? I guess they really mean is that the troops misbehave when exposed to a forest of herb...

[Dr.Phool]

8. Any excuse will do.

Honest Captain, we really tried to burn that shit. And who are those 3 guys who look just like you. With the melty faces. Are you a quad?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

9. "We tried burning them... then we ordered 25,000 pizzas."

[alittlelark]

13. Halliburton charged the army 2.7 million for those pizzas

:smoke:

[calimary]

22. LOL!

[mmonk]

10. If they are having problems burning them

tell them to wrap them in paper and try it.

[Mnemosyne]

11. After it dries a bit more.

:evilgrin:

[eleny]

14. "marijuana forests" like a dream

[Downtown Hound]

15. Marijuana: the plant with a million uses,

just became even more useful. Hmm...let's see, you can

Smoke it recreationally
Smoke it medicinally
Make paper out of it
Make rope out of it
Make fuel out of it
Make furniture out of it
Wage a guerrilla war with it


Is there nothing this plant can't do? And yet it's illegal here. What a crying shame.

[sfwriter]

16. Wait a minute...

How the hell does any fighting occur in a burning forrest of pot?

[Downtown Hound]

18. I don't know

But I wouldn't want to be the only one with a bag of Cheetos in the midst of two heavily armed militaries.

[orleans]

17. well, they'll need you since i heard england is pulling out n/t

[JCMach1]

19. Pathans are well-known for smokin' and growing weed...

in this part of the world... The bud flows like water in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

[Keepontruking]

20. Mary quana burning

Sign me up I'll try and come up with a
solution...honest...Circus girl