MOSCOW - 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 ton 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.
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Oh wow! That's incredible!!! 
I remember in High School we were learning about pollution and how chemicals became more concentrated the higher up the food chain they travelled.
For instance if that old chemical DDT was sprayed on plants it had, let's say, a "5" but when a cow ate it, it then became a "10" and if we ate the beef of a cow who ate grass-sprayed DDT it would be like a "15" or "20" (I forget the scale) and if a baby drank breast milk from the mother who ate the beef of the cow that ate the grass that was sprayed with DDT it was like a "40" and that is why pesticides were so dangerous to us.
I wonder if that concept works with the THC?
On thing's fer sher, the old phrase, "tip them over like a cow" may now be true!
I remember in High School we were learning about pollution and how chemicals became more concentrated the higher up the food chain they travelled.
For instance if that old chemical DDT was sprayed on plants it had, let's say, a "5" but when a cow ate it, it then became a "10" and if we ate the beef of a cow who ate grass-sprayed DDT it would be like a "15" or "20" (I forget the scale) and if a baby drank breast milk from the mother who ate the beef of the cow that ate the grass that was sprayed with DDT it was like a "40" and that is why pesticides were so dangerous to us.
I wonder if that concept works with the THC?
On thing's fer sher, the old phrase, "tip them over like a cow" may now be true!
Freeze this moment a little bit longer...
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