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Marijuana Growers Use Wild Bears to Guard Pot

Posted by samzenpus on from the stuck-in-the-honey-pot dept.

Two Canadian marijuana growers were using at least 14 wild black bears to guard their crops. The pair had lured the bears onto their property with dog food in an attempt to deter thieves. Fortunately for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police pot bears turn out to be pretty chill. "They were tame, they just sat around watching... at one point one of the bears climbed onto the hood of a police car, sat there for a bit and then jumped off," said RCMP Sergeant Fred Mansveld.

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  1. Ah, nice. by GNUALMAFUERTE · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So, a few guys are just growing pot, smoking and selling all day, they take animals for their protection, the animals are treated well, they are well fed, and neither the animals nor the people are a danger to anyone.

    So, the cops come in, put the guys in jail, burn the crops, and murder the animals. And we are somehow supposed to think that the cops are the good guys?

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    1. Re:Ah, nice. by boxwood · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Nah they don't often put the pot growers in jail here. Unless the grower happens to be in the field when the cops come around or there is a clear path to the growers house (or in one case the grower has a water hose going from his house to the field, lol) they can't really prove who planted the pot. Unless its obvious, they make little effort to track down grower, though if rumours are to believed, this may change soon.

      In canada they mostly just put the gps coordinates of the pot fields in a database, then raid them all just before harvest time. This way the grower spent all season tending the plants but has nothing to show for it at the end.

      This is why these guys got the bears there. They can protect their fields without actually being there in person very often.

      Really the whole thing is stupid. How much canadian taxpayer money is being spent to destroy pot fields, when the majority of canadians want it legalised? And why don't we legalise it? Blame AMERICA.

    2. Re:Ah, nice. by DirtyCanuck · · Score: 4, Informative

      Are you lost sir?

      The United States has the DEA enforcing it's domestic drug policy throughout the world.

      Here in Canada:
      http://www.cannabisculture.com/v2/articles/3261.html

      Abroad, Cocaine is tolerated and seen as a great resource in South America yet America is killing civilians to thwart a domestic problem?????? A problem that stems from lack of Education, Health care and Poverty

      Missionary plane shot down in Peru: collateral damage in US "drug war
      http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/apr2001/peru-a24.shtml
      http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ciadrugs/peru_coverup.html
      http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/04/video-of-missionaries-bei_n_449074.html

      DEA agents shoot innocent 14-year-old girl in the head, but deny any wrongdoing.
      http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/2998.html

      http://www.isil.org/resources/lit/license-to-kill.html

      DEA GO AWAY!!!
      http://www.drugwarrant.com/articles/drug-war-victim/

      Lets not forget Marc Emery a Canadian politician extradited because of his influence on the pro marijuana movement. He was extradited for selling seeds (which is legal in Canada) via mail to the U.S. unprecedented enforcement of American pollution on Canadian Sovereignty.