Moscow News (Russia)
August 24, 2005
Cattle-breeders in Russia's Urals will feed cows with confiscated marijuana over the cold winter 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 tones of marijuana had been planted among. "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 Drug Control Service spokeswoman for the Urals region of Sverdlovsk told the paper. But he stressed that he does not know what the milk will be like after such unusual fodder. Cows in Russia are traditionally fed with clover and sunflower.
While the latter is true, it is also true that hemp has been used as a livestock fodder for ages, which makes the immediately surfacing jokes somewhat lame. What is more interesting albeit hardly funny is the high chances that this latest plan will eventually put some of the happy cattle-breeders behind bars, as Russia's overstaffed and omnipresent Federal Drug Control Service has been known for its sly tactics and the frequent use of agent provocateurs and entrapments, as well as its penchant for instigating scandalous criminal cases, such as against a number of veterinarians, arrested last year for the use of ketamine for anesthesia, or raiding bookstores for dangerous "drug propaganda", i.e. books by Carlos Castaneda and Tom Wolfe. Whether or not this latest initiative on the Service's part is but another cunning plan aimed at busting more "drug dealers" remains to be seen; it would certainly correspond with their usual style - crude, dumb, and altogether ineffective. Cattle-breeders, be warned.
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