It was a joint operation.

Like it or not, sometimes the blunt approach works.

Drug trafficking has been a chronic problem for US / NATO forces.

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Expectations are high for success.

hahhahah I'm so stoned right now lulz!

And in an unrelated story, three tons of weed recently went missing in Afghanistan.

I jsut did my first wake and bake since college. On vacation in Fla. just got out of dodge in the nick of time. AAAAAahhhhhhh. Sunny day.

Bang a gong.

Why can't they work on getting mexican weed off the streets?

Not as infallible as we thought, hmmm?

chicagogasman: I jsut did my first wake and bake since college last week. On vacation in FlaIn my garage. just got out of dodge in the nick of time. AAAAAahhhhhhh. Sunny day. my balls!!

FTFY, duuuuude.

after it was destroyed there was a uncontrolable hunger that faced on-lookers... and a sence of relaxation fell over the troops....

FTFA: KABUL (AFP) - US and Afghan troops destroyed 2.5 tons of marijuana they found in an abandoned school in volatile southern Afghanistan, the US military said Sunday.

Huh-huh, that must have been high school (yeah that was weak, but im drunk)

FTFA: "Afghan and coalition troops found and destroyed two-and-a-half tons of marijuana in a school in southern Afghanistan," Julian said.

Thats as far as I got before I started weeping like a little girl. fark this war.

Tr0mBoNe: chicagogasman: I jsut did my first wake and bake since college last week. On vacation in FlaIn my garage. just got out of dodge in the nick of time. AAAAAahhhhhhh. Sunny day. my balls!!

FTFY, duuuuude.

Funny. I gotta get a handle on the snark in here. Getting kicked in teh nuts almost every time I come on....Still sunny as hell here and way better than being at work in Chicago.

FTFA: In June, Afghan anti-narcotics police seized and destroyed 237 tons of hashish in Kandahar province

This is where I began weeping.

/Do they burn it? It'll take a decade for that to finish burning

Police estimate its street value at $9158342846348546488w445637843.42

Oh, there you go. I came in here to say, that's ALL they found? I used to drive my humvee through acres and acres of marijuana plants that were 6 to 8 feet high. Once we stayed at an intersection in the middle of the fields for about 3 hours, and the truck smelled like weed for about 3 more days.

But then I see that since June, in Kandahar (which is where I was stationed), they've destroyed over 230 tons. That is much more believable.

That country had weed EVERYWHERE. There were people growing marijuana within 3 miles of our base. Out near the canadian bases Moshem Gar and Sperwhen Gar, there were fields and fields of marijuana. I might even have some pictures at cib4me.blogspot.com, I can't remember.

jekakahn: FTFA: In June, Afghan anti-narcotics police seized and destroyed 237 tons of hashish in Kandahar province

This is where I began weeping.

/Do they burn it? It'll take a decade for that to finish burning


237 tons?!! Fark!

I've got a quarter ounce of hash and that'll do me for the holidays. Imagine...

chicagogasman: Funny. I gotta get a handle on the snark in here. Getting kicked in teh nuts almost every time I come on....Still sunny as hell here and way better than being at work in Chicago.

It's sunny and -10 out here today... damn winter.

At least it should be a White Christmas.

Eliminating the competition.

I don't get why it's within our rights to do that.

Dadx6: That country had weed EVERYWHERE.

Pardon me, but why were they growing weed? Wouldn't opium bring in more money?

/honestly curious

Srories like this bring back memorys. Many years ago I was a member on a VFD in a small town. We got a call from the sheriffs office to help them burn a Large weed crop they found. It was a very nice day to be alive. The funnest part (and everything that day was funny) was all the Cops and Troopers were standing in the smoke. And when I asked why (like DUH) they said that they did not have to worry about drug test for a month.

The sad tag is so proper. 237 tons of hash destroyed. Good God, the happiness that is now lost. There will be no victory in Afghanistan. Ever. It's not my fault that we forget history.

jekakahn: FTFA: In June, Afghan anti-narcotics police seized and destroyed 237 tons of hashish in Kandahar province

This is where I began weeping.

/Do they burn it? It'll take a decade for that to finish burning

Ugh, I didn't even read that far at first, sad tag all the way.

Wish I was there to help them "destroy" it, burn baby burn! *inhale*

Buzzkill!!

All of that weed would have been for sale in america, gaining funds to go to war with america. I am all for freedom, people should be able to do just about anything they want to themselves, but you should at least think your recreation threw. is the cash you spent on your good time going to buy AK-47's and explosives so your deployed army neighbor can die?

I'm so glad that we found this. Drug crops like this are used as a source of money for the insurgents. By destroying these crops, we have eliminated one of their few sources of funding.

It's just like in Columbia, by keeping drugs illegal in the United States, we have cut off the major source of income for these scumbags. Because with drugs illegal here in the US, the high penalties and cost have just kept people form buying them. So literally billions of dollars aren't flowing into the hands of tyrants who oppress rape and murder the populations of these countries.

Could you imagine how much of a profit these people would be making if the United States didn't keep up its vigilance in the War on Drugs?

Please, they barely make any money off this bunk Afghani shwag. Stop hitting the small fish and go after the people in the H business.

The war on weed doesn't get anywhere, world round.

5 months later...

UN and Afghan officials say the drugs trade is supporting a Taliban-led insurgency, with rebels "taxing" farmers and also protecting trafficking routes and crops.

The Taliban strikes me as being the same as the thugs inside the third Reich. Mentally twisted. I am sure Allah is so very proud of them.

submitter: U.S. troops find and destroy 2.5 tons of Afghani weed. Can't we all just hit a bong?

Or, as we call it on Fark, Saturday.

TheWizard:
It's just like in Columbia, by keeping drugs illegal in the United States, we have cut off the major source of income for these scumbags. Because with drugs illegal here in the US, the high penalties and cost have just kept people form buying them.

By keeping these drugs illegal, the price of the drug has skyrocketed, and gives much more profit to these "scumbags" you speak of.

People will buy coke, no matter the legal status. Since we can't grow and process it domestically, guess where all the money is going...

TheWizard: Could you imagine how much of a profit these people would be making if the United States didn't keep up its vigilance in the War on Drugs?

7/10

Afghani Schwag? Sure they might not be up on the latest and best growing techniques, but even just 10 years ago Afghani strains were once among the most potent out there.

TheWizard: I'm so glad that we found this. Drug crops like this are used as a source of money for the insurgents. By destroying these crops, we have eliminated one of their few sources of funding.

It's just like in Columbia, by keeping drugs illegal in the United States, we have cut off the major source of income for these scumbags. Because with drugs illegal here in the US, the high penalties and cost have just kept people form buying them. So literally billions of dollars aren't flowing into the hands of tyrants who oppress rape and murder the populations of these countries.

Could you imagine how much of a profit these people would be making if the United States didn't keep up its vigilance in the War on Drugs?

THIS IS NOT A TROLL. Even scarier, this is a member of the United States Armed Forces.

Still brainwashing you, I see.

rthanu: Afghani Schwag? Sure they might not be up on the latest and best growing techniques, but even just 10 years ago Afghani strains were once among the most potent out there.

Hey, before there was a farking war going on I'm sure there was all sorts of crazy shiat happening.

billyboyxoxox: Good God, the happiness that is now lost.

Let not mankind bogart love (new window)

LOL @ atomicmask and the wizard - solid troll material

I'm not sure why some regions prefer to grow marijuana rather than poppies. I have some photos of poppy fields, too, but those fields were on the route into the inner part of Afghanistan, where coalition troops didn't often stray. The marijuana fields I photographed were down in Kandahar province, closer to the effective bits of the Afghan government.

If you pressed me, I'd say that probably the populace can get away with growing and selling marijuana easier than they can get away with growing and selling poppies. Plus, treating the poppies and making opium is a nasty process, so maybe they want to avoid that aspect of the business.

In truth, though, I can't say with any authority. The few Afghans I got to know personally were the guys who ran the ISP on our base, and the interpreters, and pretty much nobody else. Well, I did get to know one of the manual labor supervisors, but that's it.

About 15 years ago, a friend of mine was trekking across Afganistan, and said at times, he was literally hiking ON weed. The plants were so big, the plants fell over. You just walk over it.

TheWizard: I'm so glad that we found this. Drug crops like this are used as a source of money for the insurgents. By destroying these crops, we have eliminated one of their few sources of funding.

It's just like in Columbia, by keeping drugs illegal in the United States, we have cut off the major source of income for these scumbags. Because with drugs illegal here in the US, the high penalties and cost have just kept people form buying them. So literally billions of dollars aren't flowing into the hands of tyrants who oppress rape and murder the populations of these countries.

Could you imagine how much of a profit these people would be making if the United States didn't keep up its vigilance in the War on Drugs?



That's the stupidest thing I've read today. But it's still early.

Awesome headline, subby: well-played! I LOL'd.

+1, golf clap

TheWizard: I'm so glad that we found this. Drug crops like this are used as a source of money for the insurgents. By destroying these crops, we have eliminated one of their few sources of funding.

It's just like in Columbia, by keeping drugs illegal in the United States, we have cut off the major source of income for these scumbags. Because with drugs illegal here in the US, the high penalties and cost have just kept people form buying them. So literally billions of dollars aren't flowing into the hands of tyrants who oppress rape and murder the populations of these countries.

Could you imagine how much of a profit these people would be making if the United States didn't keep up its vigilance in the War on Drugs?

We'd be better off if we could do two more things:

1) punish possession and use more severely in the states. Use of these substances is having a massive negative effect on the innocent populace of the country of origin. Afghanistan is just the best example we have right now.

2) stop getting in bed with the higher level drug dealers. In Afghanistan, probably most of the distributors have bought the local ANP (Afghan National Police) district chiefs, and possibly even the regional chiefs. If we could figure out who the major distributors were, and hit them instead of just burning the crops, we could really set the Afghans free.

And before you worry about it, we've been working for at least 3 years on helping the afghan people come up with better cash crops to grow in their region that'll net them as much (or more) money for their labor. Saffron is one good candidate, and there are others, but the problem for the Afghan people is that the drug dealers have the infrastructure already in place to collect the drugs and pay the growers. Any other crop would require some capitalist (or government) to establish the infrastructure for picking up the crops and delivering them to a distribution point elsewhere.

If that doesn't make sense, let me try to put it this way: The afghans grow the weed, dry it, and sell it to the dealers, who smuggle it out and get it into the states on their own.

If the Afghans were to switch to growing saffron, they would probably have to harvest it and pay the shipping cost to get it to a pickup point for the buyer, who would then ship it to the destination, thereby putting a lot more of the after-growing cost on the afghan population. I would guess that's why marijuana and opium are such popular crops right now. If you can't afford to ship your wheat to Kandahar to sell it, or if no one in your town buys wheat to ship it to Kandahar, you're better off growing weed, because after you dry it, you sell it straight to the drug lord.

Its a situation that will still take a decade or two to fix, or more. I doubt we'll have the patience for it, sadly, so expect to get out of Afghanistan while BHO is in office, and to go back within 20 years.

bubbaprog: TheWizard: I'm so glad that we found this. Drug crops like this are used as a source of money for the insurgents. By destroying these crops, we have eliminated one of their few sources of funding.

It's just like in Columbia, by keeping drugs illegal in the United States, we have cut off the major source of income for these scumbags. Because with drugs illegal here in the US, the high penalties and cost have just kept people form buying them. So literally billions of dollars aren't flowing into the hands of tyrants who oppress rape and murder the populations of these countries.

Could you imagine how much of a profit these people would be making if the United States didn't keep up its vigilance in the War on Drugs?

THIS IS NOT A TROLL. Even scarier, this is a member of the United States Armed Forces.

Still brainwashing you, I see.

Oh, come on, that has to be a troll. Everyone knows that prohibition doesn't work. Even the people who enforce the laws know that. They also know that there is massive profit to be made on both sides, and they are collecting their share.

Follow the money. The profit from keeping drugs illegal that accrues to the so-called "good guys" is as addictive as any drug.

TheWizard: I'm so glad that we found this. Drug crops like this are used as a source of money for the insurgents. By destroying these crops, we have eliminated one of their few sources of funding.

It's just like in Columbia, by keeping drugs illegal in the United States, we have cut off the major source of income for these scumbags. Because with drugs illegal here in the US, the high penalties and cost have just kept people form buying them. So literally billions of dollars aren't flowing into the hands of tyrants who oppress rape and murder the populations of these countries.

Could you imagine how much of a profit these people would be making if the United States didn't keep up its vigilance in the War on Drugs?

Everything you said is completely false.

Mugato: I don't get why it's within our rights to do that.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure destroying the locals' pot supply runs against the Geneva Convention.
Unless they burned down the school they found it in, too. Then it is probably OK.

The War on Drugs has worked about as well as the War on Pimps.

atomicmask: All of that weed would have been for sale in america, gaining funds to go to war with america. I am all for freedom, people should be able to do just about anything they want to themselves, but you should at least think your recreation threw. is the cash you spent on your good time going to buy AK-47's and explosives so your deployed army neighbor can die?

The thought doesn't give me warm fuzzies, but at the same time the US government is the one who decided to essentially declare war on most of the world, drugs in particular, in some misguided attempt to make everyone be "good." They and their agents deserve most everything they get if they're going to insist on turning an industry worth billions of dollars over to violent criminals by refusing to let people get legally farked up.

They might win the drug war someday, but it will probably only be by burning the entire world down around our ears with nukes. Otherwise the laws supply and demand are going to continue to make prohibition laws look like chumps.

Prohibition doesn't seem to work out all that well for anyone but the people set up to make money enforcing it.

/The money's probably all going to MS-13 and bikers anyway around here...