236.8 tons of cannabis buried in vast trenches in the desert

[jakem]

A DRUGS haul unearthed by Afghan commandoes, working with their British counterparts in the Special Boat Service, was so large that RAF Harrier jump jets were called in to bomb it, it emerged yesterday.
The crack teams discovered 236.8 tons of cannabis buried in vast trenches in the desert. The drugs had a minimum street value of £225 million, and weighed more than 30 double-decker buses, officials said.

Lieutenant General Abdul Hadi Khalid, Afghanistan's deputy interior minister, said: "This is a new world record in the global war on drugs."

...

Hundreds of grain sacks, stuffed full of hashish, were hidden deep inside six trenches, spread over an area the size of two football pitches.

The trenches were covered with sand, making them almost impossible to spot from the air, with entrances concealed with dried twigs and brush.

British fighter jets were called in from nearby Kandahar Airfield to smash open the underground stores. A Nato spokesman said the planes dropped three 1,000lb bombs on the trenches, before troops from the commando unit known as 333 doused the wreckage with petrol and set them alight.

The Afghan commandos, who share a base with British special forces, discovered the drugs on 9 June, as part of an operation codenamed Albatross II.

Officials believe it was a massive cannabis factory where drug dealers were turning dried cannabis leaves into resin.

http://news.scotsman.com/world/RAF-jet-strike-on-world39s.4177039.jp

[skooooo]

1. ..

:shrug:
:cry::cry::cry::cry:






:smoke:

[jakem]

2. LOL..

sorry, hope you didnt go grab your shovel in hope!

[skooooo]

4. i was going to ask where exactly...

...it was buried until I saw they destroyed it.

:cry:

[Skidmore]

10. That destroying part is actually kinda funny.

They kinda created the world's biggest bong. Bet those guys all stood downwind when they executed that mission.

[peekaloo]

3. Why are crack teams wasting their time with weed?

:cry:

[Cooley Hurd]

16. Because it wasn't crack?

:silly:

[Libby2]

5. What a waste.

[panader0]

6. My buddies just found 260 lbs of weed

while they were out hunting near the Mexican border. Lucky guys.....

[jakem]

7. wow.

share?

[panader0]

12. Actually, they kept only a few pounds

and gave the rest to one of the hunting party who had huge medical bills for a heart procedure. He sold it in Phoenix.

[MikeNearMcChord]

8. Are we sure it was 236.8 tons of cannabis

Not 500 tons? That is a lot of pay for some enterprising Supply Sergeant. :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat:

[independentpiney]

13. Further down it says Hashish

Now that is a motherlode if that's the case. :wow: :smoke:
I had Afghani hash once several decades ago,wonderful stuff.

[Canuckistanian]

9. The stuff grows wild everywhere in Afghanistan

I remember pictures of our Canadian Forces walking a patrol through a FOREST of cannibis plants.

The only thing the Afghans did was pick it and stuff it into bags.

I'm guessing that this was just a big PR exercise for the folks back home.

[msedano]

14. Korea offered similar

1970. Sadly, inferior quality suitable only for weaving into traditional Korean garb. Not that we didn't give it the old GI try.

[Canuckistanian]

19. I hear the Tibetans use the oil for cooking

Apparently, "it makes the uninitiated dizzy", according to a National Geographic story I once read.

[bluerum]

11. Global war on drugs - now hundreds perhaps thousands of poor peasant farmers

are without income.

The war on drugs is really the war on the poor and disenfranchised. They have been forced underground by the police and military.

I have never been a big fan of legalizing all drugs - but legalizing pot and it's derivative products does make sense for many reasons.

Less strain on the law enforcement community.
Fewer 18 year old kids doing time for possession.
Greater access for medical purposes.
A legal and supported agricultural framework.
Cut off another channel for black market income.

I see no negatives.

[MidwestTransplant]

15. Of course the Heroin is left alone. That's how our allies in Afghanistan make their money.

[RC]

21. Cannabis is the competition, maybe?

The dominate animal species is so fucked up it's evolved into a weed species. We as a species have no clue as to what what is important and what is not. We are starting to pay the price. Mother Earth is has grown tired of us killing her children and destroying her paradise. We will pay. Oh, yes we will pay and pay heavly.

[madrchsod]

17. the stuff is to dam harsh

better stuff in around Nepal..

[CrispyQ]

18. ...

"A life spent searching for the perfect hashish brownie is a life well spent." ~Zonker Harris

My weed dealer moved out of state a few years back, so this story brings tears to my eyes!

:smoke:

[BearSquirrel2]

20. In unrelated news ...

In unrelated news, officials at camp Kahdahar are reporting an unexpected food shortage.