When the War on Drugs gets Desperate

You start fighting those who simply point out how futile it is:

The Afghan government has ordered the closure of all offices of a group that wants to promote new ways of dealing with the global drugs problem.

The Interior Ministry said the Senlis Council, had been "confusing farmers" and had been a factor in the increase in poppy cultivation.

Senlis has suggested the legal use of Afghan opium for medical purposes.

In other news from Afghanistan (nod to Libby):

Taleban fighters using giant Afghan marijuana forests for cover are proving a tough foe to smoke out, the head of Canada's armed forces has revealed.

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Burning them is not an option as they are laden with water, the general said.

He was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency that the crew of at least one armoured car had responded by camouflaging their vehicle with marijuana.

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"We tried burning [the marijuana forests] with white phosphorous - it didn't work," said Gen Hillier.

"We tried burning them with diesel - it didn't work. The plants are so full of water right now... that we simply couldn't burn them."

He noted that a couple of brown plants on the edges of some of the forests had caught fire but this had posed yet another problem.

"A section of soldiers that was downwind from that had some ill effects and decided that was probably not the right course of action," he said, speaking dryly, according to Reuters.

When the effort in Afghanistan starts to sound like the plot to the next Police Academy movie, things aren't going well.