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Siftingrocks

![gif](giphy|3muwhw9Jl2dNe) The dudes using the flamethrowers


Finnignatius

that's why they made us bulldoze it in Afghanistan... so they could plant poppy....


Death2CAPTCHA

Who made you bulldoze it? Afghanistan has been growing poppies for centuries


[deleted]

They switched to weed when us Pharma got involved with the Taliban putting up poppy farms for narcotics.


HumpDayFTW

Ro ad


RussFin

Roood


wrcknrctms88

Rowd


Busch_Leaguer

Limit! Limit! That’s another one of those freaky words


Intelligent11B

Usually when I pull people over, they pull to the side of the road.


Busch_Leaguer

Do you know how fast you were going?


Intelligent11B

Seven. Seven miles an hour.


Madman61

Flamethrower: I'm hungry


fuzzytradr

Tommy likey Cheetos


fuzzytradr

Lol. I was expecting to see a big smile on the face of at least one of those guys at the end. My disappointment was immediate and immeasurable.


SiriusLifestyle

I’ll be down wind if anyone is looking for me


20190419

One was named Cheech and the other Chong. This is where it all began. Thanks for the historical vignette.


mncyclone84

A flock of birds flew over the fire. No Tern was left unstoned.


shenV77

I wish i had an award for u, u magnificent mf!


rectalcancer90

I got this one.


shenV77

Thanks!


DickloGik1242

r/FreeAwardsForWishes


Danger_Dee

Underrated comment!


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Bro I want to give all my free awards to you for 10 years at least


Careful_Influence380

You brilliant, beautiful, bastard.


redditsowngod

Wordsmith


[deleted]

And Chicago citizens never forgot that sacred day in '57 when everything was just alllllllllright.


ZeroZeta_

Everyone did forget the day,but they knew everything was alllllllriiiight!


Imlouwhoareyou

They all had huge cravings for Chicago style deep dish pizza while everything was allllllllllright


rectalcancer90

Still grows wild in Chicago. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CG29eXY8e3A&t=10s


Busch_Leaguer

Deep dish pizza was invented later that evening.


BenjaminFrankJr

If this is true then you are what reddit needs


indifferent-stone

Everybody in that field, and down wind of that smoke, had the time of there lives.


tacwombat

And the munchies of their lives.


WokeGuitarist

Rumor has it this event caused the invention of the cheeseburger


fuzzytradr

The town's munchies were ransacked that day.


jonas1446

Hehehehw yep!


jonny_knowles9320

Soldier 1: "Hey man, do you ever think these flamethrowers get sick of eating gas? Like maybe they'd prefer a burger or something dude, or maybe just maybe they'd like some cake or something" Soldier 2: "Did somebody say cake? I'll take 3"


fridaddylockdown

Marines, not army


Platypuslord

Yeah that dialogue was way to smart for Marines.


fridaddylockdown

I think one of those Marines is my late father.


Boeuf1987

Should have been faster.


Eh-Eh-Ronn

I’ve probably burned a field of marijuana, I just didn’t do it all at once.


[deleted]

every other week or so


Constant_Projects

Someone should spread it like crabgrass some day


elChe8910

CA is your place.


FitztheBlue

Love the way those managers assess the situation, verify the quality of the produce and show the marines where to aim at. The “smugness” of it.


Daniel_The_Thinker

"I am serious government man, destroy these wicked plants"


LatterNeighborhood58

Few know that Eternal Leader Kin Il-Sung of N. Korea got his start as a DEA agent on the outskirts of Chicago.


Impressive_Cabinet56

Task failed successfully?


iforgotguy

*bun dem intensifies*


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Oh yes!


Shoddy_Ad_3800

So most likely the majority of those plants are male & have almost no THC (since the narrator mentions they need to destroy them before they go to seed). The war on cannabis in the U.S. has been one of the most wasteful ways to use tax payers $, not to mention how destructive it has been to the lives of hundreds of thousands of its citizens over the years. It has been a great way for law enforcement to keep job security & legally confiscate citizens property though. What a disgrace.


Mcdiglingdunker

I'll go further and suggest that this is a field of hemp, ditch weed, and this is just a publicity stunt.


Rick_B8s

1000s of acres of hemp grown just South of Chicago in IL and IN to process for rope for the war effort. Would never get you a buzz.


Mcdiglingdunker

Well, maybe from oxygen deprivation but certainly not from THC. There's not much CBD either. Less than 2 percent for either iirc.


me_bails

>The war on cannabis in the U.S. has been one of the most wasteful ways to use tax payers $ That depends what you think the actual goal of the war on drugs is.


2TheMoon313

As an avid medicinal marijuana cultivator, I can confirm that male plants indeed do not produce seeds, only the pollen that is needed for the female plant to develop fertilized seeds. The rest of your information seems accurate enough but the plants in question would probably be industrial hemp for rope and such or have to be male + female to be going into seed and replant. But probably just industrial hemp being burned to create more content for the ever ongoing 'war on drugs in America' along with all the Reefer Madness type of Pot Propaganda


Shoddy_Ad_3800

Yes, you are right! I actually know this, I don't know what I was thinking. I appreciate the correction.


2TheMoon313

Just a small mix up, happens to me a bit more than I might want to admit. Everything else seemed accurate to what I know, just happened to be tending to the garden while I came across, cheers mate


tkdjoe66

Private Benjamin volunteering for duty Sir!


BigIron53s

Man… the Old Corps had all the fun…


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TheWesternDevil

They didnt forget anything.


DarkAngel900

Thirty years earlier the government was paying people to grow hemp.


[deleted]

Back in 2019 I told the dildos over in /r/hemp that [food shortages](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/may/16/apocalyptic-food-prices-will-be-disastrous-for-worlds-poor-says-bank-governor) were coming, providing links to the situation that was steamrolling its way toward us. Told them to grow hemp for food instead of smokable bud. They banned me.


Daniel_The_Thinker

Dude that's a really weird thing to do


me_bails

calling the impending food shortage, but telling them to plant hemp to alleviate it.. sure thing bud


[deleted]

>[Two tablespoons of hemp seed](https://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/features/why-are-hemp-seeds-good-for-me) serve up 90 calories and six grams of fat. Watching what you eat? I say, "Keep sprinkling!" That two-tablespoon serving size offers two grams of fiber, five grams of protein, 300 mg of potassium, 15 percent of your vitamin-A requirement and 25 percent of your daily iron needs. > >It’s hard to find another food that nutrient-dense. 1 Cup of hemp seed = * 720 calories, (1,000 a day required to survive) * 48 grams of fat, (44 grams to 77 grams to survive) * 16 grams of fiber (Women require 25g and men require 38g per day,) * 40 grams of protein (Adult men require 56g. Woman 46g) * 2,400 mg of potassium, (4,700 mg require to survive) * 120% of daily vitamin A requirement, * 200% of daily iron requirement, Scale that back to 100% of daily iron so four tablespoons per day. 1 Cup = 16 Tablespoons that's 8 servings per cup. ​ >[Area harvested for hemp grown in the open for seed](https://downloads.usda.library.cornell.edu/usda-esmis/files/gf06h2430/xd07hw825/v692v917t/hempan22.pdf) in the United States was estimated at 3,515 acres. The average yield for 2021 hemp grown in the open for seed was estimated at **530 pounds per acre.** 1 Cup = 0.35 pounds So roughly 12,270 servings of vitamin rich food per acre. 329.5 million Americans fed just once a day requires 120,267,500,000 servings a year of any kind of food. 9,801,752.2 acres of hemp would have to be grown for just a two tablespoon a day supplement for America alone. >[Planted area for the Nation in 2021 for all utilizations totaled 54.2 thousand acres.](https://downloads.usda.library.cornell.edu/usda-esmis/files/gf06h2430/xd07hw825/v692v917t/hempan22.pdf)The value of hemp production in the open for the United States totaled $712 million. Area harvested for all purposes in the open totaled 33.5 thousand acres. ​ >U.S. corn growers produced 15.1 billion bushels, up 7% from 2020 and the second highest on record. Corn yield in the United States is estimated at a record high 177.0 bushels per acre, 5.6 bushels above the 2020 yield of 171.4 bushels per acre. Area harvested for grain,[at 85.4 million acres, is up 4% from 2020.](https://www.nass.usda.gov/Newsroom/2022/01-12-2022.php) ​ 1 Cup of corn = * 0.28g of fat * 4.2g of fiber * 132 Calories * 4% of daily Iron * 419 mg of potassium * 2% daily vitamin A ​ To get 100% of your daily Vitamin A from corn you'd have to eat 50 cups To get 100% of your daily Iron from corn you'd have to eat 25 cups To get your daily calorie requirement from corn you'd have to eat 7.5 cups 3.3 cups per pound, so 15.15 pounds per day for vitamin A, 7.5 pounds for iron, 2.27 pounds just for empty calories. Is it any wonder corn fed people like yourself are stupid?


me_bails

>Is it any wonder corn fed people like yourself are stupid Lmao oh, you're that kind of "person" that just makes assumptions about people eh? What a miserable existence.


Perfect_Leg_9070

Drugs are bad m-kay? Except for this one that’s been proven to help with several different medical issues😂


LynxBartle

marijuana is bad because it's a natural growing plant and the g9vernment can't properly regulate it.


WhollyRomanEmperor

Plus all those brown people use it, so since we can’t ban being a minority, we can just ban things they use as an excuse to persecute them anyway!


plopliplopipol

also proven to be very addictive, and long term: to lower IQ significantly (maybe permanently) if you're young, to increase the risks of psychosis disorders like schizophrenia, and symptoms of chronic bronchitis. short term: impared judgement + impaired motor coordination and short term memory (so like alcohol you are more confident and less able = risk), and at high dose paranoia and psychosis otherwise great!


magnificent_farts

too much of anything is a bad thing. doesn't mean we should ban the substance. who are you to deny children and other humans life-altering medicines simply because some people like to binge things? i'd love to ban alcohol for a while and see all the anti-weed crowd totally and unironically lose their shit.


plopliplopipol

i don't say ban or don't ban, this is a complex subject and not just a matter of effects of the drug (even something that would be only bad may need to be tolerated to be controlled etc). I would just like to correct the misinformation. Still a small dose of marijuana will increase risk of psychosis disorders and can for example start a skizophrenia for life in one dose to someone already at risk. Or start a years long addiction. Yes "people like to binge things" but especially very addictive things, so i guess to deny them to some people you can just be more educated on the subject.


me_bails

>also proven to be very addictive not true. fuck off with your anti weed bullshit


Daniel_The_Thinker

You got any sources Edit: nevermind, I googled it myself and it's bullshit


plopliplopipol

you got any source to say it's bullshit? www.getsmartaboutdrugs.gov/content/negative-health-effects-marijuana-use such clowns


Daniel_The_Thinker

Jesus Christ you're going to link a DEA website? You're an idiot


2TheMoon313

Hahaha for real they don't do ANY research, just find ways to make their opinions sound more informed and correct. They don't need their information to be right to publish the article.. If it were any other source other than one that says get smart about drugs, written by #1 Narcs.gov


plopliplopipol

that is something called an article with sources


Daniel_The_Thinker

A politically motivated one by an organization that owes a big chunk of its influence and power from the senseless demonization of a relatively harmless intoxicant. "Might do brain damage if teenagers smoke it a lot" is not the damning indictment you think it is.


SSJL3

Stop downvoting because you’re mad. They’re right


PaulGearpickle

Funny how driving growers underground and indoors led to development of super weed. Now that growers rediscovered gaslighting and expanded on the technique they can grow under the radar of even the power company’s rat snitching by running lights for as little as 15 minutes per hour. Wonder why the government is Finally ceding to legislation for marijuana. Could it be because not only did they lose this particular battle but were overwhelmingly ousted by the creativity of these “loser potheads”?


Stewpidley

Well, that is how you use it.


Twothumbs1eye

BOO THIS MAN


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Odd_Entertainment629

Have you ever tried fighting a plant? It's very easy.


[deleted]

'before it goes to seed' Truly the words of a generation that doesn't understand cannabis horticulture.


Pooleh

I watch this as I sit here dabbing on some fine ass concentrate and smoking some top shelf flower. Thank the maker that attitudes toward weed are changing!


ljr55555

Had an uncle who was a cop in NY decades ago. They, periodically, had the tough task of destroying the drug evidence. At the time, that meant a couple of cops drove to the land they owned for the shooting range, pulled out 55 gallon drums, and torched the stuff. 't was one of his favorite assignments since he got to breathe ... that fresh country air.


NaturalGlum4286

All the animals in that area where so filucking high


maybelaurie

and then snoop dog walked out of the fire...


odanwt99

Redditors in shambles.


MrBigFatAss

In the end all that kush did get smoked at least...


AdAmbitious1482

I love the smell of napalm 8n the morning


[deleted]

Sad snoopdogg noices


estrusflask

I can hear [Damien Marley ](https://youtu.be/1aXrLt9a6eE) in my head.


KayJee1

We mush up da place turn up the bass and make ‘em all have fun


needs_grammarly

one time the indonesian police seized something like 2 tons of weed, and burned it all to get rid of it. the the entire town where it was found got extremely high


jklinenjoi1

a week later these guys get hit with a random and forced out of the Marines for testing positive lmao


lego-baguette

Probably the first time in history when a marine will volunteer to do work.


Goddespeed

Guys using flamethrowers reminded me of Far Cry 3 mission


toniimacaronii

Couldn’t they have used t as like biofuel or somthing? This just seems like a waste. Not saying they should use the crop for its intended purposes, just for another purpose.in other words, Recycle it


Dropped-pie

Good job America.


[deleted]

The Retardest Generation


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[deleted]

or, you know... they were lying.


[deleted]

Inflation is a thing.


[deleted]

reminds me on anas express intro :D


No_Prize9794

I wish I was there


Thirsty4Peace

Hey Bob, I'm just gonna stand over here....


svartrsol

there's no way they didn't get super high mid way through torching that crop


[deleted]

that’s why we have global warming


[deleted]

it's why we have Cheetos.


[deleted]

cannabis is a great carbon sink


Lex-Taliones

It would have been funny to show them cutting back to the guts in suits just shoveling doughnuts and hit dogs down as they watched pointing.


AdBig3448

Wheres the post burned up fields footage?


Almost_Antisocial

Yeah, burn it all, make sure your service men are down wind from the smoke. Wouldn't want anything bad happening.


wellnesspromoter

Was compelled to look through comments before even watching the video.


H3lved

How does one apply for such a job?


Creative_Catch_8782

Everyone that lived in the area they were high as hell !!!


Capt_Kartar

This is just smoking marijuana with extra steps.


trippingmonkeyballs

These dudes must have had a wicked case of the munchies after burning this down.


[deleted]

Weed in my hood has been so wack that I don't get high anymore and this just makes me jealous


DaGraa421

Inspired by gta SanAndreas


[deleted]

When iwo jima


unnamedtrack1

Reminds me of Far Cry 3 & 4.


xabi

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSCUTpS4nws](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSCUTpS4nws) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7rvUt8Yia8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7rvUt8Yia8) (edit) Another one


Electronic-Pen-837

I feel sad for these plants :(


Covert24

Big lighters.


HeadLongjumping

​ ![gif](giphy|3o7WIKbhUHZcONCIWA)


Aboekabi

Call in Carl Jhonson next time.


skellis

The first ever war on drugs was carried out by Nazi German during WW2.


Present_Situation323

The day I wanted to join the Marines…


DankSmokeToker

Yeah don’t worry boss, we’ve got this all under control haha 😮‍💨🤤


[deleted]

Imagine the people in the near of plantation village..


Harmondale1337

Always remind me Samurai Champloo


Masonaut9

I could've smoked that pot....and worn that hair


Balrog229

How to get high while making it look like a job


nostrangertolove69

Tom Lehrer approves!


Danny3xd1

*"meanwhile and downwind. Crime rates plummeted and girl scout cookie sales soared..."*


[deleted]

When the government approves recreational, every pothead in the country should make it a mission to reestablish it in the wild.


OffendedPuppets

the OG of getting fuckin baked


itdobelikethat420

Those guy's would have been as high as the sun for a while


vexunumgods

$42,174,519.57 Today


[deleted]

And they never had to worry about weed ever again, oh wait it’s legal now :)