Oddity Central:
The 25,000 residents of Lice, a town in Turkey’s Diyarbakır province, involuntarily got high after police burned tens of tons of seized cannabis in the town center.
On April 18, Turkish authorities conducted an operation to burn over 20 tons of confiscated cannabis in Lice, which caused the air in the settlement to become thick with weed smoke. For at least five days, people couldn’t leave their windows open and avoided going out, for fear of becoming intoxicated and experiencing symptoms like dizziness, nausea, and hallucinations. The destroyed cannabis, valued at 10 billion Turkish Lira ($261,433,808), weighed 20 tons 766 kilos 679 grams and had been seized from all over Diyarbakır province during 2023 and 2024. more here
Taco Bells hardest hit.
Demand for Diyarbakır Kush has skyrocketed.
They must not have seen this educational movie:
https://youtu.be/dtouY8izCdA?si=LYKVb4M1BNDMuEPM&t=4245
Note: the agitated guy with a gun was my church counselor. Also, this is a classic T&A movie, but the YouTube version appears to have removed all of the T and all of the A. 🙂
https://youtu.be/NfthYLvxVwk?si=LN8s5z3oDh8U86PI
https://youtu.be/WeYsTmIzjkw?si=MUZQy_k_TF5iboM3
https://youtu.be/X6YPcefN1rI?si=zDxb_dfHeK5UrG01
Quran
[5:90] O you who believe, intoxicants, and gambling, and the altars of idols, and the games of chance are abominations of the devil; you shall avoid them, that you may succeed.
[5:91] The devil wants to provoke animosity and hatred among you through intoxicants and gambling, and to distract you from remembering GOD, and from observing the Contact Prayers (Salat). Will you then refrain?
https://qurantalkblog.com/2020/06/13/prohibition-of-intoxicants-in-the-quran/
TommyBoy, and Jack in the box as well. Wasn’t this or something similar in a Cheech and Chong stoner movie. As Bob Dylan sang, “Everybody must get stoned.”
unintended consequences.New product ideas – Bonomo Turkish Daffy…
I might mention the great British comedy Saving Grace where the whole town gets stoned when the local authorities burn all the weed at the end of the movie. Great movie, one of my wife’s favorites, she loved British humor. And the two older ladies getting a buzz thinking that they’re drinking tea that they’ve brewed with the googly eyes acting goofy, priceless.
At what point does it become hash? Asking for a friend.
Also, the scene where Grace’s greenhouse where she’s growing pot lights up suddenly in the dark and all the stoners are outside totally amazed while Norman Greenbaum’s classic song Spirit in the sky is being played loudly in the background.
guess they will not be singing that immortal fugs song – “i couldn’t get high”
Big deal! A quarter million hippies got high that way at Woodstock.
A town named “Lice” getting high because the cops burned TWO TONS of reefer IN THE MIDDLE OF THE TOWN.
Ya can’t make this stuff up.
That’s a lousey thing to do to a town named Lice.
burning all that weed, now that’s drug abuse
yes, but the baklava and kunafa cafe was all sold out after the event.
😵🔥🤯
Around 1975 or 6 out local authorities made a large Marijuana bust. (I live near a large International Border crossing)
They decided to have the local fire department do a burn of the contriband.
There were no reports of the local populace becoming stoned.
That day.
They did the burn on the other side of the canal behind our High School.
A few kids heard about it and decided to forage through the ashen pile.
I’ll end this by saying it was amazing that so many graduations took place that summer.
People had bricks of that stuff.
Nothing like smoked smoke.
What a waste. Could have been used for… mulch.
https://youtu.be/AtWmU0AMo5A?si=YZBPOHZrXxi0rMNX
Up in smoke
That’s where I wanna be
‘Cause when I’m high
The world below
Don’t bother me
When life begins
To be one long
and dangerous road
I take a toke
and all my cares
Go up in smoke
@ Dr.Tar Feed it to a camel and wait.