Yes, you read it right.


Pictured: RAF blow up world's biggest drugs haul worth £225 MILLION in
Afghanistan desert

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 1:48 PM on 12th June 2008

RAF Harrier jump jets have blown up the world's biggest drug haul in
Afghanistan by dropping three 1,000lb bombs on a 237-ton stash of
cannabis.

The haul - worth £225million and weighing more than 30 double-decker
buses - was unearthed by the Special Boat Service and local commandos.

The drugs were first stuffed into grain sacks and buried in six trenches
covering an area the size of two football pitches.

Harriers then flew over the site near Kandahar and dropped their deadly
payload.

Officials believe the area - near to the Taliban stronghold of Quetta in
Pakistan - was turning dried cannabis leaves into heroin.

After the attack from Kandahar airfield, troops set fire to the remains
with petrol.

Five tons of opium, worth £2million, was also found and destroyed.

Three people were arrested.

The previous record haul was 80 tons of cocaine in Columbia in 1998.

Afghanistan's deputy Interior Minister, Lieutenant General Abdul Hadi
Khalid, said yesterday: 'This is a new world record in the global war on
drugs.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1025763/Pictured-RAF-blow-worlds-biggest-drugs-haul-worth-225-MILLION-Afghanistan-desert.html

-- 
Dr John Watson
Baker Street

Dr John Watson wrote:
> Yes, you read it right.
>
>
> Pictured: RAF blow up world's biggest drugs haul worth £225 MILLION in
> Afghanistan desert
>
> By Daily Mail Reporter
> Last updated at 1:48 PM on 12th June 2008
>
> RAF Harrier jump jets have blown up the world's biggest drug haul in
> Afghanistan by dropping three 1,000lb bombs on a 237-ton stash of
> cannabis.
>
> The haul - worth £225million and weighing more than 30 double-decker
> buses - was unearthed by the Special Boat Service and local commandos.
>
> The drugs were first stuffed into grain sacks and buried in six trenches
> covering an area the size of two football pitches.
>
> Harriers then flew over the site near Kandahar and dropped their deadly
> payload.
>
> Officials believe the area - near to the Taliban stronghold of Quetta in
> Pakistan - was turning dried cannabis leaves into heroin.
>
> After the attack from Kandahar airfield, troops set fire to the remains
> with petrol.
>
> Five tons of opium, worth £2million, was also found and destroyed.
>
> Three people were arrested.
>
> The previous record haul was 80 tons of cocaine in Columbia in 1998.
>
> Afghanistan's deputy Interior Minister, Lieutenant General Abdul Hadi
> Khalid, said yesterday: 'This is a new world record in the global war on
> drugs.'
>
> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1025763/Pictured-RAF-blow-worlds-biggest-drugs-haul-worth-225-MILLION-Afghanistan-desert.html
>
>   

    A full demonstration of the prohibitionists' depth of ignorance.

    Dried cannabis leaves cannot be transmuted into heroin.

    Dried cannabis leaves are nearly worthless except to the ignorant
who might as well buy paper.

    Opium can be refined to heroin.

    Coca leaves are refined to cocaine because the drug laws keep
us from importing the leaves.

    Cocao beans are processed into chocolate which is evidence
of the value of processed foods.  NOT!!  but  it comes close.

	later
	bliss -- C  O C O A  Powered... (at california dot com)

-- 
  bobbie sellers - a retired nurse in San Francisco

"It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.
 It is by the beans of cocao that the thoughts acquire speed,
 the thighs acquire girth, the girth become a warning.
 It is by theobromine alone I set my mind in motion."
	--from Someone else's Dune spoof ripped to my taste.

On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:47:29 +0100, Dr John Watson
 wrote:


>Officials believe the area - near to the Taliban stronghold of Quetta in
>Pakistan - was turning dried cannabis leaves into heroin.

Would the heroin be 349 times stronger than the heroin of the 1960's?

Svenne

Dr John Watson wrote:

> Officials believe the area - near to the Taliban stronghold of Quetta in
> Pakistan - was turning dried cannabis leaves into heroin.
> 
Anyone know the synthesis route and yields?  ISTM they'd be better off 
growing opium and converting that to heroin.

-- 
Mike

On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:33:41 +0000, Mike 
wrote:

>Dr John Watson wrote:
>
>> Officials believe the area - near to the Taliban stronghold of Quetta in
>> Pakistan - was turning dried cannabis leaves into heroin.

>Anyone know the synthesis route and yields?  ISTM they'd be better off 
>growing opium and converting that to heroin.

What can the dried pages of the Daily Mail be turned into?

Svenne

On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:46:52 GMT, Svenne  wrote:
>On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:33:41 +0000, Mike 
>wrote:
>
>>Dr John Watson wrote:
>>
>>> Officials believe the area - near to the Taliban stronghold of Quetta in
>>> Pakistan - was turning dried cannabis leaves into heroin.
>
>>Anyone know the synthesis route and yields?  ISTM they'd be better off 
>>growing opium and converting that to heroin.
>
>What can the dried pages of the Daily Mail be turned into?

If you don't dry them out they make a scratchy alternative to Andrex
:-)

Regards
Tom

Tom wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:46:52 GMT, Svenne  wrote:
>> On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:33:41 +0000, Mike 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dr John Watson wrote:
>>>
>>>> Officials believe the area - near to the Taliban stronghold of
>>>> Quetta in Pakistan - was turning dried cannabis leaves into heroin.
>>
>>> Anyone know the synthesis route and yields?  ISTM they'd be better
>>> off growing opium and converting that to heroin.
>>
>> What can the dried pages of the Daily Mail be turned into?
>
> If you don't dry them out they make a scratchy alternative to Andrex
> :-)

LOL

On Jun 12, 2:47 pm, Dr John Watson 
wrote:
> Yes, you read it right.
>

> Officials believe the area - near to the Taliban stronghold of Quetta in
> Pakistan - was turning dried cannabis leaves into heroin.
>

If they had that sort of chemical ability, they should be turning lead
into gold, or at least water into oil.

Noticed at Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:50:40 +0000: Svenne informed us:

> On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:47:29 +0100, Dr John Watson
>  wrote:
> 
> 
>>Officials believe the area - near to the Taliban stronghold of Quetta in
>>Pakistan - was turning dried cannabis leaves into heroin.
> 
> Would the heroin be 349 times stronger than the heroin of the 1960's?

LOL!

> 
> Svenne
-- 
Dr John Watson
Baker Street

In message <485141d6$0$651$5a6aecb4@news.aaisp.net.uk>, Mike 
 writes
>Dr John Watson wrote:
>
>> Officials believe the area - near to the Taliban stronghold of Quetta in
>> Pakistan - was turning dried cannabis leaves into heroin.
>>
>Anyone know the synthesis route and yields?  ISTM they'd be better off 
>growing opium and converting that to heroin.
>

Presumably this was happening next door to the factory in which the 
Taliban were turning scrap metal into gold in order to buy nuclear 
weapons to bomb us with.
-- 
Richard Miller

On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:27:21 +0100, Richard Miller
 wrote:

>Presumably this was happening next door to the factory in which the 
>Taliban were turning scrap metal into gold in order to buy nuclear 
>weapons to bomb us with.

George Bush will probably be using that as an excuse to nuke them any
day now. It's about as credible as any of his other excuses for
attacking countries.

Svenne

On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:21:13 GMT, Tom  wrote:

>On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:46:52 GMT, Svenne  wrote:
>>On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:33:41 +0000, Mike 
>>wrote:
>>
>>>Dr John Watson wrote:
>>>
>>>> Officials believe the area - near to the Taliban stronghold of Quetta in
>>>> Pakistan - was turning dried cannabis leaves into heroin.
>>
>>>Anyone know the synthesis route and yields?  ISTM they'd be better off 
>>>growing opium and converting that to heroin.
>>
>>What can the dried pages of the Daily Mail be turned into?
>
>If you don't dry them out they make a scratchy alternative to Andrex
>:-)
>
>Regards
>Tom

Conversion to Izalam?

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I do not think my comment will show up either:

'Turning dried cannabis leaves into heroin ? Wow, those pesky taliban ! 
I heard they also are capable of turning sand in to diamonds to fund 
their activities.

Typical mail, some one fed you a story based on a pile of rubbish and 
you reported it !'

Pre moderated = newspaper speak meaning if it does not conform it will 
not be allowed.

I would not try to use this paper for wiping ones bottom as one would be 
wiping on more crap than one hoped to wipe off

Tally ho, am off to turn chipboard back in to trees in a bid to save the 
world.........

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> I do not think my comment will show up either:
> 
> 'Turning dried cannabis leaves into heroin ? Wow, those pesky taliban ! 
> I heard they also are capable of turning sand in to diamonds to fund 
> their activities.
> 
> Typical mail, some one fed you a story based on a pile of rubbish and 
> you reported it !'
> 
> Pre moderated = newspaper speak meaning if it does not conform it will 
> not be allowed.
> 
> I would not try to use this paper for wiping ones bottom as one would be 
> wiping on more crap than one hoped to wipe off
> 
> Tally ho, am off to turn chipboard back in to trees in a bid to save the 
> world.........


Yes, my response was very uncomplimentary towards the IRL trolls that 
write that nonsense.  I hope we make someone cry, they really do deserve it.

Maybe a newspaper should do an article, front page for sensationalism of 
course, about how stupid this article is.  Shaming the Maily Dail into a 
flame war in which they will ultimately lose because they do not have 
the intelligence to realise that cannabis does not equal heroin (this is 
STILL making me chuckle).

But alas, that's just me wishful thinking.  I'm sure Big Brother will be 
on the front page for whatever reason.  Maybe someone said a rude word!

Noticed at Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:16:50 +0100: martop informed us:

> I do not think my comment will show up either:

Nor has mine. Mind you, I simply informed them how funny I thought it was
and that I've alerted Ben Goldacre about it.

Try this: post 2 comments to a story under different names. Make one a
shoot all druggies/single mums/asylum seekers and the other a
legalise/increased payments/let them stay and see which gets published.

I've done it.

-- 
Dr John Watson
Baker Street

Dr John Watson wrote:
> Officials believe the area - near to the Taliban stronghold of Quetta in
> Pakistan - was turning dried cannabis leaves into heroin.

My comment:

"Officials believe the area - near to the Taliban stronghold of Quetta in Pakistan - was turning dried cannabis leaves into heroin."

If this is the case I think the government should launch an immediate
investigation into this new and highly dangerous process. Most of the
UK's heroin is imported from Afghanistan so we can keep the levels down
by being tough on drug traffikers but with the prevelance of cannabis
factories in this country and now this new way of making heroin, our
streets will soon be flooded with home grown heroin. Not only that but
with it being hydroponically grown it will be skunk heroin similar to
the skunk cannabis which is causing a schizophrenia epidemic amongst our
children.

Not sure if I've got the hysteria level quite right to get it published.
:-)

Noticed at Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:33:49 +0000: Ollie Clark informed us:

> My comment:
> 
> "Officials believe the area - near to the Taliban stronghold of Quetta
> in Pakistan - was turning dried cannabis leaves into heroin."
> 
> If this is the case I think the government should launch an immediate
> investigation into this new and highly dangerous process. Most of the
> UK's heroin is imported from Afghanistan so we can keep the levels down
> by being tough on drug traffikers but with the prevelance of cannabis
> factories in this country and now this new way of making heroin, our
> streets will soon be flooded with home grown heroin. Not only that but
> with it being hydroponically grown it will be skunk heroin similar to
> the skunk cannabis which is causing a schizophrenia epidemic amongst our
> children.
> 
> Not sure if I've got the hysteria level quite right to get it published.
> :-)

Not bad. It would be more convincing all in capitals, with more
grammatical errors and misspellings. It just reads too intelligent for a
genuine Dourly Moral reader :-).

-- 
Dr John Watson
Baker Street

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On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:27:21 +0100, Richard Miller
 wrote:

>>> Officials believe the area - near to the Taliban stronghold of Quetta in
>>> Pakistan - was turning dried cannabis leaves into heroin.

>>Anyone know the synthesis route and yields?  ISTM they'd be better off 
>>growing opium and converting that to heroin.

>Presumably this was happening next door to the factory in which the 
>Taliban were turning scrap metal into gold in order to buy nuclear 
>weapons to bomb us with.

Instead of bombing the clever people who were making heroin from
canabis *leaves*, why not offer them a job making oil from tabloid
newspapers?

-- 
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Precisely!

In article ,
 Cynic  wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:27:21 +0100, Richard Miller
>  wrote:
> 
> >>> Officials believe the area - near to the Taliban stronghold of Quetta in
> >>> Pakistan - was turning dried cannabis leaves into heroin.
> 
> >>Anyone know the synthesis route and yields?  ISTM they'd be better off 
> >>growing opium and converting that to heroin.
> 
> >Presumably this was happening next door to the factory in which the 
> >Taliban were turning scrap metal into gold in order to buy nuclear 
> >weapons to bomb us with.
> 
> Instead of bombing the clever people who were making heroin from
> canabis *leaves*, why not offer them a job making oil from tabloid
> newspapers?

Oil from sewage, landfills and politicians would also be useful.

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by different standards than what is leisurely planned in
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