# A whole new meaning to "The War on Drugs" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 13, 2006, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-whole-new-meaning-to-the-war-on-drugs/376346 "2006-10-13T19:14:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2006, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-whole-new-meaning-to-the-war-on-drugs/376346/1 "2006-10-13T19:14:04Z")
Soldiers in Afganistan are fighting a ten foot tall [marijuana forest](http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061013/od_nm/marijuana_dc;_ylt=Aq1QEisLzx491J_g2KCmOrgSH9EA;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA--). The Taliban fighters hide in it. It’s too wet to burn, and absorbs so much energy the heat sensing equipment they use to find people doesn’t work. > [@](#): > > General Rick Hillier, chief of the Canadian defense staff, said on 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.” It’s even caused some _ill effects_ in some Canadian soldiers > [@](#): > > “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. > > One soldier told him later: “Sir, three years ago before I joined the army, I never thought I’d say ‘That damn marijuana’.” ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2006, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-whole-new-meaning-to-the-war-on-drugs/376346/2 "2006-10-13T20:24:10Z")
I’d joke that this will be cited as further reasoning to maintain the narcotic classification back here in the states, but with my comedic luck they’ll actually do so. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2006, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-whole-new-meaning-to-the-war-on-drugs/376346/3 "2006-10-13T20:57:21Z")
Sadly, among the 'Things Go Better With… " catagory is my department head. Personally, I Really wish she went better with 7-Up… ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2006, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-whole-new-meaning-to-the-war-on-drugs/376346/4 "2006-10-14T03:06:19Z")
[QUOTE=Count Blucher] Sadly, among the 'Things Go Better With… " catagory is my department head. Personally, I Really wish she went better with 7-Up… [/QUOTE] What? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Crescend](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Crescend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crescend)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2006, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-whole-new-meaning-to-the-war-on-drugs/376346/5 "2006-10-14T03:09:36Z")
Look out! The Taliban are armed with _Mighty Joint_! ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2006, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-whole-new-meaning-to-the-war-on-drugs/376346/6 "2006-10-14T04:12:18Z")
[QUOTE=picunurse] What? 😕 [/QUOTE] Here, smoke some of this, maybe it’ll help. … _squints at screen_ nope. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2006, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-whole-new-meaning-to-the-war-on-drugs/376346/7 "2006-10-14T04:42:32Z")
> [@](#): > > “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. Straight out of _History of the World, Part 1_, that is… ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2006, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-whole-new-meaning-to-the-war-on-drugs/376346/8 "2006-10-14T21:20:59Z")
Closed at the request of the OP.