Afghans' 260-ton hashish bust could be record Worth tops $400 million, NATO says; some farmers switching from opium In this undated photo released by Afghan interior ministry shows seized hashish on fire after Afghan police found it hidden in the southern province of KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghan counternarcotics officials said Wednesday that they uncovered 260 tons of hashish hidden in 6-foot-deep trenches in southern Afghanistan in what one DEA official said appears to be the world's biggest drug bust. The hashish, found in the southern province of Kandahar on Monday, was worth more than $400 million and would have netted about $14 million in profits, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said. The hashish weighed as much as 30 double-decker London buses, ISAF said. The drugs were burned on site. Hashish is a concentrated form of marijuana. Story continues below ↓ advertisement "The Afghan National Police Special Task Force has made a huge step forward in proving its capability in curbing the tide of illegal drug trade in this country," U.S. Gen. David McKiernan, the commander of ISAF, said in a statement. "With this single find, they have seriously crippled the Taliban's ability to purchase weapons that threaten the safety and security of the Afghan people and the region." The spokesman for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, Garrison Courtney, said the drug bust appears to be the world's largest in terms of weight. He called the takedown "pretty huge." "I can't think of any other time I've ever heard of that large of an amount in one hit," he said. Afghanistan's biggest drug problem is not hashish but opium. The country produced 9,000 tons last year, enough to make over 880 tons of heroin — 93 percent of the world's supply. But officials have increased warnings that farmers who no longer grow opium poppies because of successful eradication programs have turned their fields to cannabis, the plant used to produce hashish and marijuana, giving the country a second drug problem to contend with. Deputy Interior Minister Lt. Gen. Abdul Hadi Khalid, who announced the bust Wednesday, said three men were arrested in the raid. He credited the international community for helping to train the Afghan special narcotics forces. He said that 21 of the country's 36 provinces are now opium-free, but that efforts to eradicate in Kandahar, Helmand, Farah and Uruzgan provinces did not go well this year because of continuing violence there. Forty-three members of the country's counternarcotics police were killed during eradication operations this spring, he said. In a separate recent counternarcotics operation in nearby Helmand province, the Interior Ministry said police seized 11,250 pounds of opium and arrested 13 drug dealers. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25101074/
Once I wrote for a small town newspaper. Whenever someone was arrested for possession of marijuana I would record as many details of how he/she was detected so that someone reading my news story would know what to avoid doing. A girl left a bag of marijuana on a school bus and went to the lost and found to see if someone had turned it in. Bad move.
This story has a spin that I just don't like. They talk about the Opium problem, NINETY-THREE percent of the world's heroin, and they decide to take out the hash. Not only that, but if this bust had happened in, say, Croatia, they wouldn't be able to draw the link between the Taliban and any kind of "illicit" drug. Now the media can spin that wherever they want.
Did you see the thickness of that black tornado of smoke? My god, I'd be afraid to take more than a couple deep breaths of it. I'd pay $50 for 10 seconds, just for the novelty of it though.
I just read this in the paper 3 minutes ago, and I come on the hip forums and here it is again lol. If you ask me, it seems kind of ridiculous to keep that ammont of hash in one place.
I don't understand how if you have 400 million dollars worth of hash, how would you only get 14 million profit if your mass producing it and growing it?
lol i like this line: " "I can't think of any other time I've ever heard of that large of an amount in one hit," he said." would be quite the hit
because theres 2 prices a what its worth price and a price after its all sold like a oz i can get a oz for 90 and sell it back for 160 making a $70 profit
I saw this video about life in afghanistan, and there was this guy who would walk around with Ice cream, and the little kids would pick the loose cannabis plants for him to make hash, and hed trade them the ice cream. It looked very harmless.. The Feds though, they love to control us all
obviously, but my point is the people that are mass producing it don't spend 400 million dollars on making the hash, so they should be able to make more profit than 14 million.
the dea is probably like yah we ae helping keep drugs out of america all the stoners are like , damn man we coulda been coulda been getting so fuckin high.
wtf why burn it. wat a waste i feel so bad and i didnt even do anything. fucking hell, why didnt they just use it for medical or like store it as evidence at least? lol
