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Bridgeburner
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Afghans say they uncover 236 tons of marijuana
#8511839 - 06/11/08 03:42 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Officials say they have uncovered 236 tons of marijuana in a massive drug bust in southern Afghanistan.
Deputy Interior Minister Lt. Gen. Abdul Hadi Khalid says the marijuana was found by Afghan counternarcotics officers in Kandahar province Monday. The drugs are estimated to be worth more than $400 million and were burned on site.
British Capt. Mike Finney, a NATO spokesman, confirms that amount was found and says a trench some 6 feet deep had been dug out by a bulldozer and filled with bags of marijuana. The trench was covered by foliage to camouflage it.
The top spokesman for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, Garrison Courtney, says he can't think of any other bust that has netted that many tons of drugs.
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Re: Afghans say they uncover 236 tons of marijuana [Re: Bridgeburner]
#8512329 - 06/11/08 06:03 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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damn, this sucks but its weird how i am always hearing of such big marijuana busts yet there is always plenty of bud around...YOUR EFFORTS ARE IN VAIN GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS
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johnm214



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Re: Afghans say they uncover 236 tons of marijuana [Re: NastyDHL]
#8512568 - 06/11/08 07:07 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Well, the drug war is over, government won.
No more marijuana for anyone.
That was a rough thirty years, but it looks like we finally won the war, and peace will return at last, with no drugs anywhere.,
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Re: Afghans say they uncover 236 tons of marijuana [Re: Bridgeburner]
#8512678 - 06/11/08 07:45 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Edited by EntheogenicPeace (03/10/21 05:05 PM)
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elbisivni
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Re: Afghans say they uncover 236 tons of marijuana [Re: Bridgeburner]
#8512713 - 06/11/08 07:56 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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b0red5tiff said: link
Officials say they have uncovered 236 tons of marijuana in a massive drug bust in southern Afghanistan.
Deputy Interior Minister Lt. Gen. Abdul Hadi Khalid says the marijuana was found by Afghan counternarcotics officers in Kandahar province Monday. The drugs are estimated to be worth more than $400 million and were burned on site.
British Capt. Mike Finney, a NATO spokesman, confirms that amount was found and says a trench some 6 feet deep had been dug out by a bulldozer and filled with bags of marijuana. The trench was covered by foliage to camouflage it.
wait a second..
from BBC:
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Afghan police working with British special forces have uncovered a drugs stash of 237 tonnes of hashish.
Afghan and British officials say they believe it to be the world's biggest seizure of drugs in terms of weight.
The drugs were found hidden in trenches in Kandahar province on Monday. The haul was so large that British jets bombed it to destroy the hashish.
Burned, bombed, whatever.. sounds like bunk to me anyway - largest seizure ever (in weight) and they incinerated the evidence immediately? Hopefully some more details arise, because I'm not buying that.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7449532.stm
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Re: Afghans say they uncover 236 tons of marijuana [Re: elbisivni]
#8512811 - 06/11/08 08:20 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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I'm not buying that.
I have bought and will buy that...Wait, do you mean hash or their story? 
but damn, that's about half a million pounds of hash! (figuring 250 tonnes before the finders fees)
*And they set it on fire? I'm going outside to take some deep breaths...
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Edited by funkyjunky (06/11/08 08:23 PM)
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Re: Afghans say they uncover 236 tons of marijuana [Re: funkyjunky]
#8513465 - 06/11/08 11:09 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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By my calculations, if that trench were 6 feet deep and 6 feet wide, it'd need to be 3 miles long to fit that much pot at moderate / slightly compacted density.
edit -- or it could fill a cube roughly 80 x 80 x 80 feet (imagine an eight story building that covers one full city block).
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Re: Afghans say they uncover 236 tons of marijuana [Re: astronaut]
#8516629 - 06/12/08 06:25 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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astronaut said: By my calculations, if that trench were 6 feet deep and 6 feet wide, it'd need to be 3 miles long to fit that much pot at moderate / slightly compacted density.
edit -- or it could fill a cube roughly 80 x 80 x 80 feet (imagine an eight story building that covers one full city block).
RAF Top Guns Have Blown Up The World’s Biggest Drug Haul

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Edit: Sad faces for the poor cannabis....but its probably for the best as a lot of that would have ended up as fundie money. Support your local growers.
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Edited by toastandjam (06/12/08 06:31 PM)
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Le_Canard
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Re: Afghans say they uncover 236 tons of marijuana [Re: Bridgeburner]
#8516712 - 06/12/08 06:47 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Geeze, that's alot of weed!
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Re: Afghans say they uncover 236 tons of marijuana [Re: Le_Canard]
#8517701 - 06/12/08 11:01 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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All my weed is locally grown so no matter what these huge bust are not going to effect me.. I can find a thousand ways to grow crops... Do these people honestly think they can stop mankind from doing what they want? Humans are built to get whatever they want at any cost... you can't stop a biological imperitive like that....
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