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sl8

(13,769 posts) Wed Apr 11, 2018, 04:25 PM Apr 2018

Argentinian officers fired after claiming mice ate half a ton of missing marijuana

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/11/argentinian-police-officers-dismissed-after-claiming-mice-ate-marijuana?CMP=twt_gu

Argentinian officers fired after claiming mice ate half a ton of missing marijuana

Eight police officers claimed mice ate the cannabis, but forensic experts explained that mice would not mistake the drug for food

Uki Goñi in Buenos Aires
Wed 11 Apr 2018 12.14 EDT

The cannabis had been in stored in a police warehouse for two years. But of the 6,000kg that had been registered, only 5,460kg were found. Photograph: Juan Mabromata/AFP/Getty Images

Eight Argentinian police officers have been dismissed after claiming that more than half a ton of marijuana which disappeared from a police warehouse had been eaten by mice.

The disappearance of the drugs was discovered during an inspection of a police warehouse for impounded drugs in the town of Pilar, 60km outside the capital city of Buenos Aires.

The cannabis had been in storage there for two years. But of the 6,000kg that had been registered, only 5,460kg were found.

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louis-t

(23,295 posts)

1. There would be a lot of dead mice laying around

Reply to sl8 (Original post)

Wed Apr 11, 2018, 04:29 PM

Apr 2018

if they had eaten a half ton of weed.

Major Nikon

(36,827 posts)

6. Probably not

Reply to louis-t (Reply #1)

Wed Apr 11, 2018, 04:38 PM

Apr 2018

The toxic dose of cannabis is basically non-existent because you can’t consume enough of it to kill you faster than your body can process it.

Turbineguy

(37,331 posts)

2. If they'd only been able

Reply to sl8 (Original post)

Wed Apr 11, 2018, 04:29 PM

Apr 2018

to come up with over a million stoned mice.

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)

3. Remember kids, only users lose drugs

Reply to sl8 (Original post)

Wed Apr 11, 2018, 04:29 PM

Apr 2018

You know, these could have been escaped mice from a chemical cancer testing lab, who were looking to use it for medicinal purposes.

yonder

(9,666 posts)

5. Remember? They can't remember a thing.

Reply to jberryhill (Reply #3)

Wed Apr 11, 2018, 04:33 PM

Apr 2018

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)

11. That's when you have to call the police to ask if you can walk their drug-sniffing dog

Reply to yonder (Reply #5)

Wed Apr 11, 2018, 06:09 PM

Apr 2018

Like, uh, I'm a concerned responsible law-abiding citizen and I'd like to, uh, do you guys a favor. If you have one of those drug-sniffing dogs, is there a way I can, uh, volunteer to take it for a walk today or tomorrow. I'll be happy to do that if you have one that, uh, knows how to find weed, I can, like, you know, come pick him up and take him for a walk for a little while. Does that work for you?

I mean it's crazy - you have this substance that can exacerbate paranoia and interfere with short term memory, so they make it illegal and (a) people end up wanting to hide it really well, and (b) forget where they put it.

It's just cruel.

exboyfil

(17,863 posts)

4. There has to be a comic strip

Reply to sl8 (Original post)

Wed Apr 11, 2018, 04:30 PM

Apr 2018

somewhere in here. The concept is just too delicious to pass up.

Coventina

(27,120 posts)

10. As I posted downthread: Seth Rogen needs to make this his next animated feature. n/t

Reply to exboyfil (Reply #4)

Wed Apr 11, 2018, 05:22 PM

Apr 2018

procon

(15,805 posts)

7. It's perfectly believable.

Reply to sl8 (Original post)

Wed Apr 11, 2018, 05:06 PM

Apr 2018

The more marijuana those happy little stoned mices ate, the hungrier they got, and therefore the more marijuana they wanted to eat. Everybody knows that a case of the munchies will not be ignored.