....is to FEED COWS POT!
And of course, here is me going "?" at this:
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's long winter will just fly by for a herd of Russian cows which, a newspaper reported on Tuesday, will be fed confiscated marijuana over the cold months.
Drug workers said they adopted the unusual form of animal husbandry after they were forced to destroy the sunflowers and maize crops that the 40 tonnes of marijuana had been planted among, Novye Izvestia daily reported.
"There is simply no other way out. You see, the fields are planted with feed crops and if we remove it all the cows will have nothing to eat," a Federal Drugs Control Service spokeswoman for the Urals region of Sverdlovsk told the paper.
"I don't know what the milk will be like after this."
Drug use in Russia took off with the decline of the Soviet Union and police have been fighting drug smugglers -- often shipping heroin from Afghanistan -- for years.
Such large hauls are relatively common, although they are normally burned.
Poor bovines. First we tip them, then we milk them. Now we're giving them cannibis.
What's next? o___o;
Wow that's...special.
First marijuana lollipops and hemphogs and now...marijuana flavored milk.
And why exactly were they feeding the cows these drugs anyway? And what is animal husbandry?
I can see the "you have two cows" jokes now...
That's...well...something. What a unique...diet.
~Neo
Not really news in my book, hemp has been used as cattle feed before with no ill effects, the higher THC content of marijuana shouldn't pose too much of a problem if it is only mixed in with regular feed as the article noted. However, a Swiss study found that dairy cows fed hemp gave milk with traces of THC, so the practice is banned in Switzerland, but since hemp itself won't get anyone high, the milk probably wouldn't either.
I don't think this will really be an issue, but it gives new life to the old saying....
"Drink Milk, Get High, our Cows eat Grass."
Jimro
I bet you money people in the US are going to start doing this too, hoping you can get high off the milk to fufill their drug cravings...XD
Oh yeah, It'll be the newest craze, Drugged Milk.