OK you Dopers, who can tell what the glaring error is in this story from the Daily Mail
I, and several others, have tried to post comments on their website about that article but for some reason they will not print them. Perhaps the paper doesn’t want to admit it’s made a mistake.
This is not a the first time the Mail has made this sort of cock-up. A few weeks ago they printed an image supposedly showing an "al-Qaeda terrifying vision of a devastated America - a picture showing the wreckage of Washington DC after a nuclear attack. This image was actually created as an early piece of concept art for Bethesda Softwork’s Fallout 3 video game . Even when this mistake was pointed out to the Mail they would not print a correction and have refused to allow any comments about this blunder on their website.
It then adds that troops set fire to the drugs using petrol.
How much were those drugs worth, in the UK, snipped into little plastic bags and cut half a dozen times, maybe a lot of money, but cannabis in Afghanistan ? Hardly worth anything.
All I actually learned is that a double decker bus weighs around 7 tons, would that be loaded or unloaded then?
This is only the beginning of Afghanistan’s alchemical road to economic mastery. Next, they’ll earn millions by turning rocks into gold and licensing their cellulosic ethanol process.
A few years back when I was immensely bored, I wrote to the Daily Mail to let them know that they were repeating articles twice in the same paper. They sent me vouchers for more Daily Mails
You don’t have to be a junkie to know the difference between cannabis and heroin you big doofus! It’s a fundamental part of common knowledge. It’s like saying “how am I supposed to know lambs don’t turn into cows - I’m not a farmer.”
ETA: why would they bother with the harrier and gigantic bombs when they’ve got petrol? Was it just a publicity stunt?
They found opium and cannabis, which proved that heroin comes from cannabis :dubious:
The Daily Mail also reports finding maggots on moulding food left in a cupboard. Since there are no flies to be seen, they suggest these maggots were generated spontaneously.
Heroin comes from morphine, which comes from the pods of the common poppy flower. Pot comes from pot plants. This is really common knowledge. Even people who don’t use drugs generally already know this from drug education classes, not to mention history classes that mentioned the Opium Wars between England and China.
You have to give him this much - he’s probably right about the record. Dealers don’t manage to turn weed into heroin very often, so this is probably the largest amount of magic weed-heroin they’ve ever blown up.
