Got Milk; get the munchies

[Weird Harold]

Stone the cows? Russia uses pot as animal feed
Tue Aug 16, 2005 9:36 AM BST

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 burnt.

The possiblities for humor about this are almost endless -- talk about your contented cows.

 

[Lord DragonsWing]

Can we just start ordering our gallons of milk for Russia now?

 

[Weird Harold]

Can we just start ordering our gallons of milk for Russia now?

I'm betting Ricky Williams wishes this had happened last year so he could pss off his drug test as being caused by drinking White Russians made with imported milk.

 

[Lord DragonsWing]

lmao, well if he starts drinking those this year he's going to be added to my fantasy team for the season. Hell, he did great when he was high before.

 

[Weird Harold]

Moscow News has this picture (with the same text as I posted above.)

http://www.mosnews.com/files/10168/mari.jpg
http://www.mosnews.com/files/10168/mari.jpg

 

[R. Richard]

Weird Harold:

So far so good. However, if this is the prelude to a "Those cows got so high that they jumped over the moon" joke, you are in real trouble here.

 

[Weird Harold]

Weird Harold:

So far so good. However, if this is the prelude to a "Those cows got so high that they jumped over the moon" joke, you are in real trouble here.

I figured someone else would come up with a joke about the new Russian Space project.

 

[McKenna]

Dude, I need me some of that moo-juice. Completely organic --what could be wrong with that?!

 

[Colleen Thomas]

LOL,

That's what I need. A little of that in my coffee and I'll be a happy camper

 

[R. Richard]

Actually, cattle are sometimes fed hemp with good results. Hemp is a non-drug marijuana type plant. Thus, the cattle should do well on the marijuana.

However, I see an evil plot here. The Russian police will no doubt feed the marijuana to the cows and then bust them for possession to "beef up" their arrest records [sorry, couldn't resist the temptation!].

 

[Lauren Hynde]

It's all been done before. A Clockwork Orange, anyone?

 

[Liar]

It's all been done before. A Clockwork Orange, anyone?

The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence.