From CNN.com
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This sounds like a job for my college buddies. If the problem persists, Iâd be willing to assemble a tactical unit with experience disposing of surplus cannabis.
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.
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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.
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.
This sounds like a job for my college buddies. If the problem persists, Iâd be willing to assemble a tactical unit with experience disposing of surplus cannabis.
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