I pretty much keep track of all the news coming from our troops in Afghanistan, and I thought some of you guys might get a kick out of this:


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Canadian troops... in Afghanistan have stumbled across an unexpected and potent enemy -- almost impenetrable forests of 10-feet-high marijuana plants...

"We tried burning them... it didn't work... "

Even successful incineration had its drawbacks.

"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,"