Turkish police destroy record amount of cannabis

[grace]

ANKARA, Turkey -- The gendarmerie destroyed a record 2 billion cannabis plants in eastern Turkey on Monday (August 10th). The drugs were seized last week near the town of Baskale in Van province, near the border with Iran. Several hundred soldiers helped authorities clear the area. The amount seized could have produced around 50 tonnes of hashish, worth an estimated $34m on the street. (Cumhurriyet - 11/08/09; Anadolu news agency, BTA - 10/08/09)

 

Date: 11 August 2009

Source: SETimes.com

http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtm...009/08/11/nb-10

[420 HELI]

2 Billion plants bit hard to keep that one stealth

[cone head]

fuckin ay must have been for personal

[Crunchy]

god damn... im weeping for all those poor buds

 

im dedicating my next cone to whoever lost that crop...

[mull]

Ok maybe I haven't got my math brain on properly tonight but that sounds like bs.

 

2 billion plants at say 1m2, is 2000 sq kms! or 20000 hectares!

 

Google reckons Baskale is only 2599 km sq..

[Thylacine]

sigh....

 

I bet the stupid pricks burnt it as well. I wish they would stop doing that and just bury/plough it into the ground.

 

Such a waste, to the market and the environment.

[willmarrindy]

fucking hell 2 billion who ever was growing that is a very very disappointed person thats for sure...

[ballsweat]

fuckin ay must have been for personal

 

can u imagine someone being cought with 2 billion plants and saying "nah i wasn't gonna sell it, its for personal use"

[mistyville]

Some of you silly buggers are real wags!

[boomstix]

whoever counted them must have been cheering... 1 999 999 999 ... 2 000 000 000 wow look at that, exactly 2 billion

 

ever get the feeling that journalists aren't even pretending to check their facts anymore?